In 1977, the spacecraft Voyager was launched into outer space equipped with a golden data disk. In 55 languages, it sent out a message for extraterrestrial ears. This means that, among other things, 90 minutes of music have been drifting through space ever since. On an audio cassette, I recorded 212 minutes of the sounds of Sarajevo – the voices of children, the sounds of the tram, the arguments of people waiting in line for water, the laughter of the military police, the Miljacka River, a cat, pigeons, gunfire in the distance, radio static, water spilling out of a small pot, a crackling fire (I had difficulties trying to record the snow), the applause after a performance in Kamerni Teatar, father‘s snoring, the muezzin, the war siren, my voice… The Red Cross told me they could not accept donations like this.
Translated into English by Lynnette Polcyn
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