Onassis Radiophonics - Episode 1
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What might radio drama sound like today? The works of “Radiophonics” are responses to this question and were selected via an open-call that took place in 2016, complemented with new commissions.
Episode 1
Can news become the prime matter of a radio play? This question is answered by the play "NEWS", which comprises the “re-editing” of the most important news of the weekly agenda. As we are found immersed into a mishmash of news (as well as fake news) on a daily basis, how much do we really absorb? How easy is it to direct our attention? Words are packed and smashed, and they leave with a bang. This trajectory of information is captured by the mechanism of the play "NEWS".
Dramaturg: Nikolas Hanakoulas
Text processing, sound design: Gavriil Kamaris
Puredata coding: Fotios Kontomichos
Production Management: Delta Pi
Produced by Onassis Stegi
Today’s radio show is about the week no 20 of 2020, that starts on May 11, and ends on Sunday, May 17, 2020.
Presented by: Vicky Volioti
Contains excerpts from the Heiner Müller’s poem “Ende der Handschrift” (“End of Handwriting”), translated into Greek by Eleni Varopoulou (Agra publications, 2001).
We would like to warmly thank Thanassis Valtinos, Alexandra Boussiou, Eleni Gioti, and Constanza Maniatopoulou for their support.
Part A’
People, known and unknown to each other, meet in city spaces, underground, at open-air, in crowded or private spaces. Their faces, when the meet, demonstrate a desire either to get away from their daily routine, or to retain what they regard as important. During the 1st Part of the “Meetings,” they are contained inside the subway’s spaces. Being underground is a part of their lives.
Created by Dora Tsogia, Nikos Vittis, Lambros Pigounis, Yorgos Glastras, Stephie Poulopoulou
Text: Dora Tsogia
Music and Sound Composition: Nikos Vittis, Lambros Pigounis
Text Reading: Yorgos Glastras, Stephie Poulopoulou
Recording: Stefan Konstantinidis / Studio Φabrika
Thanks to Marios Vittis and Agra publications for the permission to use parts of the book “20 Urban One-Acts” for the audio performance of the play as part of the "Radiophonics" program
Project Curators: Christos Carras & Theodoros Chiotis
