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🎙️✨ Tune in to “Urban Resonances” 🎙️✨

Join students from the Bauhaus University Weimar & the Athens School of Fine Arts as they explore the changing sounds and stories of cities! 🌆✨

🗓️ July 5th, live on the web at 19:00 CEST / 20:00 EEST

🌐July 12th, broadcast on web & FM (Weimar 106.6 MHz) at 19:00 CEST / 20:00 EEST

http://bauhaus.fm:8000/_a📲 or scan the QR code to listen 

Participating artists: Vasilia Georgiou, Thanasis Kafetzis, Nora Kemken, Martin Kolb, Georgia Mantalia, Giuliana Marmo, Anna Martinatti, Panos Mazarakis, Meritxell Riveiro Corres, Evangelia Raftopoulou, Radu Reinhardt, Wiebke Rollmann, Florian Rommel, Stratos Serafeimidis, Eirini Tampasouli, Jolien Vandoorne, Lida Zacharopoulou

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Urban Resonances.
A mini podcast series featuring audio pieces approaching tourism, gentrification and the sound of the cities of Weimar and Athens.

A collaboration between the course of “Art in the public sphere with digital media” of the MA in Digital Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts (Assist.Prof. Nikos Arvanitis) and a Fachmodule of the Experimental Radio Chair of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Artistic Associate Lefteris Krysalis).

Weimar and Athens, two cities with great differences, which share common characteristics, being both historical places that experience gentrification and touristification through different processes and faces.

In this course, through sonic related art practices we will explore the changes in the soundscapes of each city in search of the reverberations of the social and economic consequences and the transformation of the urban fabric.

If gentrification is audible, is the soundscape of gentrification in a city like Athens different from that of Weimar? Which are the main actors of this change in the sound of the city? What is the role of the hipster, the nowadays student and the freelance artist in this urban gentrification? Are touristification and gentrification part of a polyphonic urban soundscape or part of its homogenization? What is the connection between these changes and local traditions and the emerging tradition of a contemporary nomadic colonialism? Does the soundscape have class origins? Is the sound of a demonstration a dissonance in the gentrified environment of these cities?

These and many other questions are to be addressed by the participating students through the production of a 10-minute experimental podcast episodes which will be presented in a live radio broadcast between the two cities and will be available on demand for future listening.

Goal of the of course: The direct production of these audio pieces focusing on fragments and -or details of the given topic in order to create a mini series co-produced between Weimar and Athens.