Situational-form quasi-algorithmic -maqam composition made in 2021 with an ensemble of adventurous musicians, members of the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera.  Commissioned by the Greek National Opera for ‘Miniatures for Revolution’. 

Orestis Gargoulakis - flute
Panagiota Xydi - ney
Anastasia Papageorgiou - lyra
Victoria Taskou - yayli tambur
Christos Syngelos - oud
Stathis Koutouzos - percussions
Sofia Zafeiriou - live electronics

Sound recording and mastering, Kostas Bokos – Studio 19

allochthono

Location recordings made in 2019 in Athens, Platy and Naousa.

Patinada

Piece for Platy train station signs and Vardaris

Open the city

Improvised piece for violin and electronics. 
Dimitris Mitropoulos @script_kitty - VCV rack, modular 
Sofia Zafeiriou - violin, VCV rack, supercollider 
Ivan Nikolic - visuals

recorded live in Athens with a Zoom H5, October 2019.

If I Was Your Electric Papagalaki

Sofia   Zafeiriou   (Khora,   Athens)   &   Thomas   Western   (Oxford University): Refugee Voices and the Right to Make Sound: Soundscapes of Citizenship in Athens

Presentation during the International Conference 'Soundscapes of Trauma; music, violince, therapy', Athens Conservatoire, May 2019

Athens,  Greece.  In  a  Europe  of  closed  borders,  the  city  attracts headlines of ‘refugee crisis’ –a ‘warehouse of souls’. A city of arrival; a place   of   stasis.   As   a   centre   of   protracted   displacement,   Athens develops  new  sound  cultures,  built  by  superdiverse  communities formed  in  transit  and  in  waiting.  The  city  becomes  a  living  sound archive –voicing   encounters,   solidarities,   tensions.   These   are soundscapes  of  trauma,  but  they  are  also  soundscapes  of  contested citizenships,  where  securitisation  has  a  soundtrack,  migrant  politics are audible, and noise complaints have high stakes. This paper reports on  a  collaborative  field  recording  project  in  Athens,  where  we  are building  a  sound  lab  at  the  community  centre  where  we  work.  We combine  academic  and  activist  perspectives,  following  three  ideas outwards  from  the  sound  lab.  First,  we  untangle  the  connections between   noise   complaints   and   ethnicity,   examining   how   urban soundscapes  are  also  borderscapes  which  playout  at  street  level. Second,  we  listen  to  uses  of  sound  as  assertions  of  belonging, exploring  citizenship  as  something  iterative  and  turbulent,  performed and  protested.  Third,  we  hear  how  people  affected  by  displacement analyse     and     articulate     their     own     situation,     problematising humanitarian  uses  of  ‘refugee  voices’  which  emphasise  victimhood  to stimulate  sympathy.  What  can  sound  tell  us  about  displacement?  How might  it  disrupt  dominant  narratives  of  ‘refugee  crisis’?  We  close  by reflecting  on  the  efficacy of  collaborative  recording  in  countering  the violent border logics of the current historical moment.

Refugee Voices and the Right to Make Sound: Soundscapes of Citizenship in Athens

Sound essay of location recordings made in Naousa, Imathia, Greece between 2018-2020. 
Credits for "To Vermio" to Christos Zalios personal archive.

Video version: https://vimeo.com/418936696

sound is ephemeral, Naousa

Three part electronic outing with SuperCollider and VCV Rack (work in progress)

of the recent past

raw recordings // messing with electronics, recordings and a violin.

sofia z.

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