The Garden of Sound is a collection of sound and audio-visual installations that connect radiophonic art and botany, exploring the relationships between humans, plants, animals, and machines.

Using primarily the language of experimental sound and leaving verbal and rational elements aside, the works delve into spaces beyond human hearing, hidden or overlooked. Living organisms and inanimate nature are explored within the inaudible spectrum, with connections formed at the level of intuition, emotion, and imagination. In an attempt to momentarily shift humans from their dominant position in the Anthropocene and place them in an equal stance with the living world surrounding them, technology is used to bring them into a sonic symbiosis with other species.

Alley of the Radio

Using archival recordings from Radio Belgrade and experimental radio works predominantly created in the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade and as part of the radio series Radionica Zvuka this sound installation, across two points, presents fragments of memory from the history of Jevremovac, botanical curiosities, as well as insights into the everyday experiences of the garden's employees. In parallel, employing the free, non-verbal language of ars-acoustica works, the second point opens a space for the interpretation of nature and the urban environments that coexist with it, without the need for explanation, classification, or conclusion. The installation is inspired by the anniversaries of the Jevremovac Botanical Garden and Radio Belgrade, which are celebrated in 2024.

Radiophonic and electroacoustic works (in order of appearance):
Nokturno, author: Ludmila Frajt, 1975
Habitat, author: Svetlana Maraš, 2016
Košmar jednog drveta, author: Aleksandar Protić, 2001
Rituali u preobraženom vremenu, authors: Manja Ristić and Marko Paunović, 2024
Microhabitat, author: Paul Pignon, 1974

Voices from the Jevremovac Botanical Garden: Tomica Mišljenović, Olivera Popović, Maja Petrović, Mira Fiškalović, Bojana Jadranin

Thank you: Milan Nedić, Saša Kovačević, Ksenija Stevanović, Olivera Nušić, Ranko Stojilović, Ivana Neimarević, Đorđe Brkić, Hristina Medić

Biographies:

Marija Stojnić (Valjevo, 1986) is a film director who blends documentary and experimental artistic forms. Her award-winning film Speak So I Can See You has been screened at MoMA, as well as at the festivals in Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Melbourne, and Munich. Marija earned her master’s degree from The New School in 2014. She is a co-founder of the vocal group Rosa.

Jakov Munižaba (Belgrade, 1982) has designed sound for over one hundred films, many of which have been screened at festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance. He has directed radio dramas, composed film music, and is teaching sound as s professor in Belgrade and Podgorica. He earned his PhD at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, the University of Arts in Belgrade, in 2019. He is a regular collaborator of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio.

Technical support: Karkatag

Acknowledgments: Radio Belgrade, Jeveremovac Botanical Garden