Sonic Vilnius | sound walk at Žirmūnai
Meeting point: Rimi shop in Šiaurės miestelis, Žirmūnų str. 64. – https://goo.gl/maps/hAzBqoNHJBs6iSLg8
We will walk with Yiorgis Sakellariou
The soundwalk will be held in english.
The soundwalk will be an exploration of the soundscape and aural identity of Žirmūnai. With active listening and sound recording as the main tools, the micro-district will be approached through the qualities and characteristics of its sonic atmosphere. Sonic Vilnius invites the city’s residents and members of the local community to join in the soundwalk with the aim to create a communal activity, to expand their understanding of the location and to visit territories that otherwise might be unnoticed or ignored.
The concept of the soundwalk is primarily based on flânerie, a term used by philosopher Walter Benjamin to describe the unintentional and prolonged strolling in urban environments. Flânerie can be considered a resistance to the categorization, taxonomy and frenzy rhythm that industrialization imposed on urban life. In this spirit, flâneurs wander around the city in their own natural paste, thus creating their unique meanings and understandings of the surrounding environment. This soundwalk will develop as a sonic flânerie, an exploration of the urban soundscape of Žirmūnai. It will document a psychogeography of sound to examine the effect of the architecture and the environment on the emotional and psychological changes on people’s lives. The sonic flânerie will balance between engaging with the familiar and contemporary and discovering the hidden and forgotten atmospheres and impressions of Žirmūnai.
Author of the text – Yiorgis Sakellariou
Yiorgis Sakellariou is an electroacoustic music composer, recordist and researcher. Since 2003, he has been active internationally being responsible for solo and collaboration albums, having composed music for short films and theatrical performances, leading workshops and ceaselessly performing his music around the globe.
His practice focuses on the communal experience of listening and the communication between composer, audiences, performance spaces and the rest of the physical and supernatural world. His sonic material is founded on the digital manipulation of environmental recordings. The palette of sounds is all encompassing; from vibrating rail-tracks to refrigerators’ static, and from noisy waterfalls to the humming of insects.
He completed his PhD at Coventry University (April 2018). His research drew inspiration from ethnomusicological and anthropological contexts and explored the sonic symbolism and socio-aesthetic settings in ecstatic religious rituals in relation to field recording, electroacoustic composition and acousmatic performance.
Yiorgis Sakellariou is a member of the Athenian Contemporary Music Research Centre, the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association and the Lithuanian Composers Union. Since 2004 he has curated the label Echomusic. He is currently a lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University and an assistant lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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Event is free
Registration is required. Registration available soon.
Number of participants is limited – group up to 15 people.
If you have any questions, you can contact us by this email – projektai@kirtimukc.lt or tel.: +370 679 21040
The project is organized by Kirtimai Cultural Center
The project is partly supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality
Partners and friends: Palanga Street Radio, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Library for the Blind
Special thank you: Soundium, Skytech