Borderline Festival 11 | 2nd Day

16:00-23:00 | Back of House

Radio Crawler – a sound installation by MIZI

“Radio Crawler” is an ongoing, open-ended, experimental radio art project. It is a custom software framework and a multiform iterative piece that aims to explore and resurface the technology, concepts, and content of the declining medium of shortwave radio. The software algorithmically controls and mixes four instances of the online shortwave receiver located at the University of Twente. A meta-radio is generated live through the blending and mixing of the radio transmissions. The emergent radio is narrowcasted on four micro-FM transmitters and then received by an assortment of “wounded” analogue radios.

The combination of the analog shortwave with the newer technology of SDR (Software-Defined Radio) forms a unique, amalgamated medium with mixed properties. “Radio Crawler” probes the high frequency band revealing ham radio transmissions, Morse codes, NAVTEX, encrypted messages, commercial radio transmissions, jammers, and time-signals, among many other unique transmissions.

Free admission

16:00 | Galaxy Space

Multimodal Community Composition Project Athens (presentation & video screening preview) | ARTéfacts ensemble / Syrian & Greek Youth Forum / acte vide

In the spring of 2021, musicians from the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum, an international Athens-based active citizens collective, teamed up for a series of 12 open meetings with members of ARTéfacts contemporary music ensemble. Material that emerged during these meetings has been documented and compiled by acte vide in “Multimodal Sound Sketches”, an album with original audio recordings, and “Multimodal Community Scorebook”, a collection of text scores & graphic scores. The final meeting was a short informal performance of compositions developed during the project. The video from this final performance, documented on camera by Louizos Aslanidis, will receive its first screening during the project presentation at Borderline Festival.

Video: Louizos Aslanidis

Facilitators: acte vide (Ioannis Kotsonis, Danae Stefanou)

Participants: Louizos Aslanidis, Hussain Badran, Salman Duski, Guido de Flaviis, Kareem Al Kabbani, Costas Seremetis, Spyros Tzekos, Theo Vazakas, Becka Wolfe

Part of the program Sounds Now. Co-funded by Creative Europe Program of the European Union

Free admission | Reservation is required

19:00 | German Evangelical Church

APLOMB (Andria Nicodemou & Marina Tantanozi)

APLOMB is an improvisatory duo, the convergence of two unique voices, Marina Tantanozi on the flute and Andria Nicodemou on the vibraphone. Their story of music/life-making draws upon their shared love for improvisation and composition and is bolstered by diverse musical vocabularies, from classical to experimental and Eastern Mediterranean music. Their sound is vibrant, active, electric, taking unexpected turns. It is unfolding, cultivating, and taking shape with origins in the present moment. Flute and vibraphone both produce tones that closely resemble sine waves, the purest vibrations in sound. Every timbre is a construction of sine waves beating against each other to produce a new wave form. The music of the duo is a gesture of breathing together, far from any aesthetic idea.

Ellen Arkbro

Ellen Arkbro performs a new work for the organ at the German Evangelical Church. In Ellen's music, harmonic sound interacts with the acoustic architecture of the space, and changes in different ways when the listener is moving through the sound. Her chordal textures spread out like invisible sculptures — diamond formations for the listening mind.

Tickets 3 — 10 €

22:00 | Club night | Romantso

Cedrik Fermont & Elyse Tabet

This year’s Borderline club night opens with a special joint performance by Lebanese Elyse Tabet and Congo-born Cedrik Fermont. Hard edgy electronic sounds, deconstructed beats, digital but also analog textures make up an ever-evolving environment which balances between electroacoustic and dance music.

Evita Manji

Merging ethereal vocals with harsh synthetic sounds, Evita Manji’s music has already gained attention through her first releases due to her well-informed sound design. Having already performed in notable international festivals, such as Krakow’s Unsound, the talented musician presents at Borderline 2022 a much anticipated by the local scene live set.

MC Yallah & Debmaster

A key member of the astounding Kampala’s Nyege Nyege crew and with a 20-year-long career in the hip-hop scene, MC Yallah needs no introduction. One thing is for sure: that together with the French producer Debmaster they will ignite the festival’s audience.

Bill Kouligas

Bill Kouligas will bring a set of contemporary club sounds from across the globe forging bonds between genres, traditions and timelines.

Tickets 3 — 10 €