Soundtrack for the spacewalk

Soundtrack for the spacewalk, a small offshoot of the Lisboa album, arises from the submerged acoustics of a barge on the Tagus River, joined by the layered calls of birds in the Jardim Botânico Tropical and the low, continuous vibration of the Ponte 25 de Abril. These sounds, collected at the edge of the city, seem to detach from their origins and drift outward, challenging the deep hums of orbit.

The score: listen to the sounds of Lisbon while delivering a spacewalk.

This spacewalk was recorded 250 miles above the Earth, aboard the International Space Station between 2020 and 2021. The footage follows astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Kate Rubins, and Soichi Noguchi as they move through the exposed station's architecture, suspended between the planet’s surface and the uninhabitable dark. A moment in which human presence appears fragile but strangely amplified.

The Lisboa album operates as a study of the city’s acoustic strata, treating sound as a repository of spatial, historical, and political memory. Its compositions draw from the micro‑ecologies of Lisbon, including riverine turbulence, botanical polyphonies, infrastructural drones, and the dispersed traces of collective movement, assembling them into a form of mnemosonic topography in which place is understood as a field of resonances shaped by bodies, materials, movements, and temporal sediment. Within this open, holofractal structure, Spacewalk functions as a conceptual quirk: Lisbon’s sonic residues, once bound to the city’s landscape, are reframed against the vacuum of orbit, becoming a transposition of memory that redefines documentary fragmentation by carrying the loops of the city’s vibratory logic into a domain where orientation dissolves and only the continuity of sound remains.

Lisboa > https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/lisboa