School of Social and Political Science

Description

This talk reflects on a spatial and sonic experiment produced collaboratively in Athens in 2023. Titled “Mediterradio”, this soundwork was made out of recordings from Alexandria, Nablus, Damascus, and Athens, and was conceived as a feedback loop – hearing Mediterranean relations and histories in circulation. The talk picks up on these movements. It hears the sea as a space of counterpoint, where sound constitutes a set of relations, building spatial imaginations that point beyond the bordering of both the sea and the cities that surround it. The talk is structured on four wavelengths – a quartet mapped onto the geographies of the Mediterradio and the forms and textures it invokes. In the face of numerous ongoing colonialities, the sea becomes a space of sonic creativity. And the talk attempts a kind of narration that is both ethnography and geopoetics, through which collective efforts to use sound as a form of spatial resistance come into earshot, turning the city into a sea, and the sea into a radio.