Public access
Yes
Tickets
Not required
Venue
Online – https://stegi.radio
Date & Time
30 April, 2023 at 16:00 (EET) 15:00 CET
Language
English & Greek
More info
Programme Details
A 1-hour radio special by the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum, for broadcast on Stegi Radio. The radio broadcast can be heard here.
An iteration of the project ‘Seawards’ – part of Ulysses: European Odyssey, in collaboration with the Onassis Stegi.
Description
‘Asyrmatos’ was a one-hour radio special by the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum. Taking its name from the old neighbourhood of Athens – Ασύρματος, literally meaning ‘wireless’ or ‘radio’ – the programme sounded out layers of history and Mediterranean relations. The neighbourhood is one of the 1922 settlements of Athens, a place made out of displacement. Our broadcast followed takes these movements as its jumping off point, gathering recordings from cities around the Eastern Mediterranean, and hearing Athens as a sound and idea in constant circulation. Cities layered over one another. Not as palimpsest (‘palimpsest is too archaeological’, writes geographer Doreen Massey, and stays too closely to the imagination of surfaces), but as counterpoint, written together as a fugue. The result was a sound-cycle, an intercity symphony, a feedback loop, a Mediterradio. Athens became both transmitter and receiver, generating sonic geographies and imaginations that brought past and future together.