Prevod moje recenzije Muzika na audio kaseti u digitalnom dobu: Projekat ROD – The Sun, The Moon, The Eagle and The Dome
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Audiocassette music in the digital age: Projekat ROD – The Sun, The Moon, The Eagle and The Dome
On June 29, 2024, another music release from the space – ambient / modular – ambient vibe branch saw the light of day, the author of which is my fellow citizen and surnamed Ivan Ristić.
It is the Projekat ROD – The Sun, The Moon, The Eagle and The Dome, which was published by the publishing house Machine Tribe Recordings from New York. A few days ago, the author’s copies of the album arrived from America to our little Nitogen.
The Sun, The Moon, The Eagle and The Dome consists of only two tracks, “Transmissions from the Dome of Time” and “The Winged Sentinel of Selenites” and lasts 23 minutes. It is about dark, psychedelic and horrific ambient music, for which Ivan became recognizable through his projects Ivan Ivanhoerista, Ivan’s Tower, and Ris. It’s music that not everyone can listen to, and which can be used perfectly as background music in horror movies and video games, or for spoken word expressions of some dark and pessimistic poetry.
What you are about to hear is an auditory time travel experience which causes strange visions of a small and quiet old town corrupted by extraterrestrial forces…
Ivan Ristić Ris: Noises. Electronics. Visual Art.
Miljan Ristić experiment: Voice. The poem “Modern Hell”.
What is interesting about this project is the fact that in addition to the digital edition, the album was also released on audio cassettes. Questions inevitably arise here: Why would someone in this digital age and the triumph of technology release an album on audio cassette? Isn’t the CD-release much more practical, cheaper, more accessible? After all, who today owns a cassette player, deck or device that can listen to audio tapes? The answers to these questions hide the essence of publishing music on this type of media.
In fact, that is one of the basic concepts of the activity of this publisher and author, to publish their music on audio cassettes. As I said at the beginning, this is music that can be quite difficult and tiring to listen to. A dark ambient vibe that causes nervousness, chills, that can scare you and make you feel nervous and anxious… Music that affects the psyche and mood. That is why it is considered an underground sound. Well, here we come to the point related to audio cassettes. Just by choosing the audio cassette for the physical placement of music, it becomes even bigger underground and placement of music, it becomes an even bigger underground and, among other things, represents a kind of rebellion against this modern age in which the artificial increasingly takes precedence over the natural. In order to listen to this music, you need to have a cassette player, which is already a problem for many. Cassette devices from the last century and the last millennium have long since been put out of use. They are hard to come by. The question is whether they are still being produced. So how do you listen to an audio cassette? You have to go back in time, rummage through items from a past life that have already become part of memories, and find the necessary device to listen to music from the future. Even the name of the first track from this project perfectly fits this concept. Transmissions from the Dome of Time.
What is very important for me personally for this music release is the fact that I found my place in this project.
The mentioned track included my spoken word expression for the song Modern Hell, which I wrote especially for that occasion and which conceptually perfectly fit into the psychotic vibe of the Projekat ROD.
All in all, an unusual music release, released on a medium that has long been out of use, but which nevertheless flew halfway across the globe and arrived from big New York to little Nitogen. And that’s something, you’ll have to admit.
If you want, you can listen to Ivan’s music on his Bandcamp page.