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REMARKABLE VOICES: An exploration of our voices in creative and documentary forms.
A semisilent.ro anniversary project

WATER. VOICE. Performance for 3 Rivers and 1 Voice.
10th October 2026 @goethe_institut_bucuresti

For the 10th anniversary of @semi_silent I united three rivers -- Weiße Elster in Leipzig, Vltava in Czech Republic, and Dâmbovița in Bucharest. All three rivers have their very own character, they reflect their environment, and tell a lot about the human approach to nature and its entities. Since any approach to any environment will necessarily always be biased, I use my body and voice consciously to explore and question the interdependency and relationship between human and river. How we shape that relationship is our choice.

The performance was part of Semi Silent's Remarkable Voices series and the anniversary event Rivers/Voices, co-organized and hosted by Goethe Institute Bucharest.

Thank you Semi Silent and @anamaria_pravicencu for the continuous support of sound and art and artists and artistic research. Towards another glorious 10 years! Congratulations! The world would be a lonelier, quieter, and sader place without you.

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$This morning at 9.30am Anamaria Pravicencu & Manja Ristić take us back to the ‘Gardens of Christiane. The Palestine from before’. In the shade of Palestinian gardens, memory once bloomed — fragrant with olive groves and the quiet gestures of care. These were spaces of closeness, of which Christiane Dabdoub Nasser recalls, inviting us into her childhood and Palestinian culture from another time, where the Mediterranean breathed through shared rituals of tending and living in harmony with the land. Rooted in practices of cultivation, refuge, and sensory proximity such intimacy has been systematically disrupted by the colonial project of the Israeli state, which reconfigured land into instruments of control and dispossession. Today, the relational fabric of Palestinian landscapes lies fractured — yet the soil remembers. Through powerful storytelling, family history, and enduring friendship, this piece gathers what remains: the rustle of leaves under siege, the echo of footsteps in forbidden groves, the persistence of tenderness in a terrain marked by erasure. It traces how ecological and cultural memory endure despite spatial fragmentation and political violence. Manja Ristić engages with sounds gathered from war-torn landscapes and towns across the former Yugoslavia, from WWII memorial sites to intoxicated rivers — bearing witness to how the land carries its wounds in silence, while the echoes of war still tremble through every pore of the heart. Concept and direction: Anamaria Pravicencu Storytelling by Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, with the support of Maya Nasser Sound design and composition: Manja Ristić https://semisilent.ro/ https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/$

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