Tune in to “Urban Resonances”
Join students from Bauhaus University Weimar & Athens School of Fine Arts as they explore the changing sounds and stories of cities!
Listen live 05th of July at 19:00 CEST
July 12th, live on web & FM (Weimar 106.6 MHz) at 19:00 CEST
bauhaus.fm:8000/_a or scan the QR code to listen
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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 and a Fachmodule of the Experimental Radio Chair of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
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.