Συζητούν ο Χάρης Αθανασιάδης, ο Πολυμέρης Βόγλης και ο Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλου

Γιατί μας αφορούν οι εθνικές επέτειοι; Γιατί νιώθουμε κάθε χρόνο την ανάγκη να μιλήσουμε γι’ αυτές; Ο Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλου συζητά το θέμα με τους καθηγητές Χάρη Αθανασιάδη (Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο) και Πολυμέρη Βόγλη (Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας), επιμελητές του βιβλίου Εθνικές επέτειοι. Μορφές διαχείρισης της μνήμης και της ιστορίας (Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2023). Οι εθνικές επέτειοι αποτελούν ένα σημαντικό «βαρόμετρο» στην ιστορική κουλτούρα μιας κοινωνίας, συνδεδεμένες με ένα ολόκληρο οικοσύστημα θεσμών και πρακτικών που αφορούν τις συλλογικές αναπαραστάσεις του παρελθόντος, αλλάζοντας διαρκώς περιεχόμενο, επιβιώνοντας ή περνώντας στην αφάνεια. Το 1821 ως πράξη γέννησης του νεοελληνικού κράτους, ο εορτασμός του «Έπους του ‘40», η μνήμη των θυμάτων από τραγωδίες όπως η Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή ή το Ολοκαύτωμα, οι αντικρουόμενες ερμηνείες του Πολυτεχνείου και της Μεταπολίτευσης αποτελούν τις πιο ενδεικτικές περιπτώσεις για το πώς οι εθνικές επέτειοι μπορούν να λάβουν διαφορετικές μορφές και να αντικατοπτρίσουν τις διαρκείς διαμάχες για το περιεχόμενο της εθνικής ιστορίας.

5/11/2023 - Εθνικές επέτειοι: ένα βαρόμετρο της ιστορικής κουλτούρας

With division, wars, genocides, violence, and despair filling up so much of our lives, I need to nurture my inner sanctum with energy and frequencies that keep my spirit alive, so I made this mix. 

An hour of sounds dedicated to strengthening the spirit through emotional release and energetic care. 

Save it and get back to it if you need help reminding yourself of that place you breath from.

RELEASE TEXT:

"Collective Memory embodies an artistic testament amidst humanitarian turmoil, a resounding call for Life woven intricately with melodies and frequencies, steadfast in its reminder of music's most noble duty: to unveil truth.

In homage to the foundation of this radio and to preserve purpose within this endeavor, I'm inviting those who dared to raise their voices and unite to scream the truth.

While some seek to detach the human from the artist, I anchor intention as the essence of this concept, therefore empowering guests to express themselves in any form they choose." - Yassine Hammar

Track list:

1. birds by birds
2. Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - Oleo Strut
3. Command D & gi - Align
4. Lawrence - Haze
5. Material Things - How's Life (Vague Imaginaires Version)
6. Dark Sky - Lost & Found
7. Nala Sinephro - Space 8
8. Ganavya - El Kebda, Let It Go
9. Ranie Ribeiro - Morning Meditations
10. Andrew Chalk - Scene V
11. Orchid Mantis - The Sky Is Empty
12. Harmonia & Eno - Sometimes In Autumn
13. Priori - Segue
14. S.A.M. - Halo (Filtered For Meditation)(unreleased)
15. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Going
16. Laraaji - Koto
17. C - Low Set
18. S.A.M. - Ruth Appel (unreleased)
19. birds by birds

Collective Memory w/ S.A.M. (Radio AlHara 27.05.2024) - Ambient Music For Sundays

3rd Prize at Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition 2025

PROGRAM NOTES 
Everything you hear in this piece tonight is not real. Here’s a sonic kaleidoscope unfolds before your ears, made of synthetic reflections. Sound after sound is extracted from the human collective memory. Composed entirely of generative AI fragments—hundreds of them—this piece uses an algorithm that has hoovered up the music of every artist ever recorded, non-consensually incorporating it into an artificially constructed representation of collective memory. Feeding this algorithm with fragments of my own music spits out a conjured stream of sound drawn from the codified collective mind.
But do not be fooled. 
This is not Music.
This is Fake.

 
ADDITIONAL INFO
AI-Generated Fragments as Synthetic Reflections of Collective Memory

"Fake" (2024) is a multi-channel electroacoustic non-music piece created entirely using AI-generated fragments. By feeding a generative AI algorithm segments of the composer's electroacoustic composition “Cosmodemonia” (2022) the work explores artificial intelligence as a vessel for representing collective memory. 

The resulting composition presents a sonic kaleidoscope of synthetic reflections extracted from human collective memory, questioning notions of musical authenticity. 
The compositional methodology combines generation, collection and organization of AI-generated fragments and their spatial distribution.
The work reexamines the concept of what is “real” in music; it is an acousmatic narrative in which each element may be a fragment of the past or a simulacrum of the present.
The listener is invited to navigate—through perception—a constructed sonic kaleidoscope of synthetic reflections drawn from the human collective memory, composed entirely of over 300 generative AI fragments. All of them generative reflections on the composer’s work, 'Cosmodemonia'.
Whether or not it qualifies as music, it is a reflective commentary on the deep learning representation of collective memory, and the act of attributing musical meaning to organised sound.  
Spatial counterpoint is developed through spatialization of the generative layers. The structure creates multiple, simultaneous spatial trajectories—each representing a discrete fragment of collective memory, a distinct presence in the overall soundscape.
A sonic battle of ideas unfolds between structured, stable sections and bursts of chaotic energy—emerging from interconnected chains of thought within the latent space of AI memories—a reimagining of traditional counterpoint in a multidimensional synthetic sonic space. Spatial choreography guides, misdirects and then redirects the listener’s attention—up, down, across.

Μulti-channel Εlectroacoustic Νon-Μusic

Fake (2024)

Μια εκπομπή για το παρελθόν σε συνεργασία με τα Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας

Ιστορική επιμέλεια - παρουσίαση: Μάνος Αυγερίδης, Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, Γιώργος Νούσης, Χρήστος Τριανταφύλλου, Αναστασία Χαρτοματσίδη

Μουσική επιμέλεια: Νίκος Θεοδωρόπουλος, Θανάσης Μήνας, Ηρώ Κουμεντάκου, Γιάννης Παπακονδύλης

Audio editing: Alexey Arseny Fokurov

Οργάνωση παραγωγής: Ιωάννα Βόγλη, Πολίνα Ιορδανίδου

Παραγωγή: ΑΣΚΙ / 105,5 Στο Κόκκινο

Intro music: 1000 Handz - Raven

Interactive music composer / researcher / technologist, Phivos-Angelos Kollias is focusing his creative interest in applying innovative music technologies into music projects performed by musicians and algorithms for Interactive Music Performances, Virtual Reality Installations or Video Games. 

His music background is rooted in instrumental classical studies, including a PhD in interactive music composition (University Paris VIII), yet his music taste ranges from electronic music, rock/metal to noise and experimental music. He has studied composition in Cambridge (BA), London (MA) and Paris (PhD & DEA & MA) with the economic support of four foundations, and he currently lives and composes in Berlin. 

His music has received seven awards and nine nominations in international competitions, while the group projects he has participated in have won ten awards and distinctions.

Scandinavian producer and DJ based in Amsterdam

For bookings contact: Riccardo@meanwhile.nl

Producer and owner of the record labels Delaphine, Dahlia, and Co-owner of Oscillat Music.

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