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Asyrmatos (Mediterradio): A Sonic Exploration of Athens and its Mediterranean Relations

26 April 2023

Dr Western's radio show marks the centenary of James Joyce's Ulysses

Asyrmatos

Dr Tom Western聽(Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography) has produced a new collaborative radio show as part of a cross-European art project. The show is part of Tom's work in Athens with the聽, who are partners in the project '', inspired by the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's book of the same name, and聽funded by Creative Europe,

The radio programme聽鈥 to be broadcast at 2pm (BST)听辞苍听,听辞苍听聽鈥 is titled 'Asyrmatos (Mediterradio)'.聽Taking its name from an old neighbourhood of Athens 鈥 螒蟽蠉蟻渭伪蟿慰蟼, literally meaning 鈥榳ireless鈥 or 鈥榬adio鈥 鈥 the program sounds out layers of history and Mediterranean relations.

Asyrmatos is one of the refugee districts of Athens, a place made out of displacement.聽In 1922, the same year that聽Ulysses聽was published, the Asia Minor Catastrophe triggered a chain of events that saw mass displacements across the Aegean and the population of Athens more than doubling.

The programme takes the neighbourhood called 螒蟽蠉蟻渭伪蟿慰蟼聽(Radio) as its jumping off point, making a sonic choreography of Athens and its relations to the sea: a sound-cycle, an intercity symphony, a feedback loop. The programme turns the city into a sea and the sea into a radio.聽And the result is a set of sonic geographies and imaginations that bring past and future together.

The Ulysses project聽unfolds across 18 European cities in the chronological order of the novel鈥檚 18 episodes, and consists of聽events animating urban public spaces, civic cross-sectoral Arts & Society symposia to be held in each city, as weall 30 artist exchange residencies.


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