Refugee

Dates: 16/09/2022

Abstract:

Live coding performance with real-time processing of recordings invited to play at the Electric Nights 2023 Festival in Athens. Explores the relationships of narration and memory (collective and personal). The sound of the grandfather's baby's toy rattle, which traveled from Asia Minor in 1922 and remains active in sound even today as a family heirloom, served as the foundation for a fantastical sound journey. Additionally, audio fragments such as those heard from Greek media concerning refugees arriving in Greece in recent years are interwoven with the bell and processed in real-time during the set.

The aim is to create an auditory connection between the illusion of the concepts of 'then' and 'now,' as a continuity that fundamentally does not change, since refugee flows and uprooting are timeless phenomena. In an era where waves of refugees continue to arise and depart, the work has an additional goal: to remind us that on a collective level, we are all intimately linked to the notion of 'refuge'.

Source: Manual