https://hdl.handle.net/10442/7 Tue, 12 May 2026 23:01:58 GMT 2026-05-12T23:01:58Z https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19796 Title: Taxation and State during the Greek Revolution Comments on the Tax Registers (1822 and 1829) Creator: Σαράφης Βαγγέλης Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19796 2025-12-23T00:00:00Z Σαράφης Βαγγέλης https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19759 Title: Sounding Border Natures: An Aural Contact with the Greek-Albanian Border Creator: Levidis, Stefanos Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19759 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Levidis, Stefanos Short essay. The article develops an aural methodology for interrogating the historical and ongoing production of borders through the case of the Grammos mountain range along the Greek-Albanian frontier. Drawing on field recordings made in and around the Gistova glacial lake and the Sarantaporos watershed, it examines how hydrophones, environmental sound, and embodied listening can reveal the dynamic, more-than-human forces that unsettle conventional understandings of ‘natural borders’. The analysis situates contemporary sonic encounters within a century of territorial demarcation, militarisation, ecological transformation, and linguistic and ethnic regulation – from interwar boundary-making and civil war munitions to Metaxas-era surveillance regimes and present-day migratory constraints. To conceptualise these entanglements, the article proposes border natures: socio-material assemblages in which natural processes, state power, ecological change, and human and non-human agencies co-produce frontier environments. By listening to glacial lakes, melting snow, sediment-laden rivers, explosive residues, and local oral traditions, the study argues that sound offers access to forms of archival presence that exceed human testimony and disturb state-imposed silences. Ultimately, it shows how critical aural practice can sense, render audible, and contest the agentive geologic, political, and atmospheric forces through which borders are continually reconfigured – and through which they enact violence on those compelled to traverse them. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19758 Title: Disguised as a Recorder: Reflective Practices in Documenting Migrant Women’s Stories Creator: Matsigkou, Eva Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19758 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Matsigkou, Eva Short essay. This essay reflects on a collaborative project between ERC MUTE and the Melissa Network of Migrant Women in Athens, focusing on sound, music, and podcasting. Through the concepts of silent leaking, porous authorship and wet attunement, the author employs an intimate, autoethnographic language to discuss listening, documenting and researching as ethical practices requiring empathy and openness to diverse ways of understanding and storytelling. Disguised as a human(ish) recording device, the author poses questions regarding positionality, agency and authority issues. Finally, by examining the conjunction of sonic and temporal space in relation to knowledge production, the essay acknowledges the challenges of working with fragmented and evolving narratives and advocates for a slowed-down, reflective approach that values the process of listening and engagement. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19765 Title: Listening in Common: Sound, Migration, Gender, and the Buzzing of Translation Creator: Kambouri, Nelli Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19765 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Kambouri, Nelli In this article, I explore how we can understand migration and gender when our listening turns to the sounds of translation. The research for this article is based on a series of music and sound workshops organized by ERC CoG MUTE in collaboration with the migrant women’s network Melissa in Athens. During the workshops, we listened and discussed with migrant women narratives, music and sound about their trajectories. Our recordings were pervaded by a buzzing that could be easily dismissed as non sensical: the sound of simultaneous translations in the different languages of the workshop participants. Attentive listening, however. made it possible to reflect on the limits of audibility. The paper highlights how a politics of translation enables forms of listening and witnessing that bring to the forefront migrant women’s sonic agency. It also discusses how heterolingual translation becomes an everyday practice that makes possible resistances to gendered and racialized hierarchies and inequalities. Finally, it considers how making heard and listening to the buzzing of translation may enhance the sonic agency of migrant women, which is not limited to the project of 'giving voice' in public spaces but expands and opens pathways to think of political activism and resistances beyond the logic of gendered, racial and ethnic homogeneity. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19762 Title: Dangerous Listening: Warfare, Technology, and the Spectrum of Audibility Creator: Kyriakopoulos, Leandros Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19762 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Kyriakopoulos, Leandros This chapter examines the emergence of unsound as a techno-scientific and political object, focusing on frequencies beyond the audible spectrum and their effects on the body, perception, and strategies of power. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples –from the experiments of Tandy and Gavreau to CIA and DARPA research and cases such as the ‘Havana Syndrome’– it traces how acoustics become detached from hearing and transformed into a broader ecology of signals. The chapter situates these developments within the frameworks of ontopolitics and ontopower, showing how auditory experience and listening increasingly constitute fields of military and informational control. It highlights the shift from physical vibrations to derivative, mediatised forms of sonic information –from subsonic radars to algorithmic surveillance systems– that generate new conditions of sensory governance. Overall, the chapter argues that the study of unsound reveals a dangerous expansion of what counts as ‘sound’ and ‘listening’ in contemporary techno-military realities, where audition becomes a vulnerable point of access and modulation of the sensing subject. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19731 Title: Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts, Issue 01: Listening as Witnessing Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19731 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Inaugurating the journal Witnessing, this issue shares the notion of witnessing as a process that cannot be fully grasped by one discipline single-handedly but requires the methodological tools and practices of many. The articles, essays, and audio essays explore – critically and multimodally – listening as a process of witnessing with regard to traumatic, invisible or inaudible sounds, voices, (hi)stories. This special issue draws on a selection of papers given at two international symposia organized in the context of ERC MUTE – Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound, and the Ethics of Witnessing (Horizon 2020).1 The first one, ‘Listening as Witnessing’, took place in Athens (16 to 19 October 2023) and was co-organized by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHR / NHRF), The Listening Academy, and the Athens School of Fine Arts. The second symposium, ‘Ear Witness: Listening to Violence, Migration, Climate’ was co-organized by the IHR / NHRF and the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève, Haute école d’art et de design, Hes-so). It took place in Geneva (25 to 26 February 2025), a place where international advocacy and activism meet policy-making, aiming at sharing research and reflections, as well as creating the potential for future synergies and intra-sectoral collaborations. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19764 Title: Broadcasting from a Deaf Planet: Deaf and Hearing Encounters through Sound and Radio Art at School Creator: Papachristou, Dana ; Samantas, Yorgos Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19764 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Papachristou, Dana Samantas, Yorgos In this paper, we explore the dynamic encounters with Deaf and hard-of-hearing students that occurred within a socially engaged sound-and-radio art project. ‘Audibility’, part of ‘B-AIR: Art Infinity Radio’ Creative Europe program, intended an inclusive approach on sonic arts, for a minority excluded from sound art and radio ventures. The artworks produced focus on vibro-tactility and the radiophonic medium, that, as we argue, compels us to critically rethink the relational aspects of sound and hearing, emphasizing on the tensions between the senses and identity. From our perspective as sound artists and theorists on aspects of identity, alterity, audibility and inclusion, we sought to find alternative ways of relating to and experiencing the sonic event, even in groups that are traditionally excluded from it. Drawing upon ethnographic research on creative encounters with Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents with sonic arts media and concepts, we observed that our relation with the sonic event is multidimensional and multisensory, a condition that can broaden the scope of auditory experience for Deaf, hard-of-hearing, hearing, as well as for sound and listening specialists. The potential of vibratory experience, wearable technology, sound sculpture and tactile media can create conditions of audibility that complement the ways in which we perceive sound, and thus the ways in which we experience it in all its manifestations. In this article, we reflect on our methods, questions, research results and the service they provided to the participating social groups and beyond. We will draw on the reflections of theorists and artists from the fields of Sound Studies and Disability Studies, with a focus on their convergence potential (such as Helmreich and Friedner). Moreover, we will explore philosophical concepts deriving from music, such as the deleuzian refrain-ritournelle, to explore the ways in which they can transcend the aural condition. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19757 Title: Listening to Aphonic Borderscapes in Western Thrace: A Self Reflective Audio Essay Creator: Krysalis, Lefteris Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19757 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Krysalis, Lefteris Audio essay. This self-reflective audio paper investigates the politics of listening in the borderlands of Western Thrace, Greece. Introducing the notion of ‘aphonic borderscapes’, it examines how listening, soundwalking, and long-durational field recording can attune us to forms of silence shaped by ecological destruction, militarization, and erasure. The work moves through three sites: the ‘emptied’ ecological silence of the burned Dadia Forest; the ‘arrhythmic’ militarized quiet of Mikro Dereio; and the ‘aphonic’ silence of unmarked loss outside Sidiro. By attending to these sonic territories, the essay explores how silence and arrhythmia operate as political forces. It asks how an artist-listener may ‘lend an ear’ to narratives rendered inaudible, proposing a methodology of situated listening that recognizes the interdependence between recordist, landscape, and the echoes of those who traverse these contested terrains. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19756 Title: Failed Recording: A Sonic Fiction Creator: Stefanou, Danae ; Kotsonis, Ioannis Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19756 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Stefanou, Danae Kotsonis, Ioannis Audio essay. Focusing on unexpected, unwarranted or undocumented encounters between listening and recording devices in the field, failed recording is a sound and text performance by research-creation unit acte vide (Danae Stefanou & Ioannis Kotsonis). The performance intertwined a fictional first-person narrative account with original field and home recordings, silent artefacts, and sound-producing objects gathered during fieldwork which we still find hard to present in a discursive manner. By conjuring an eerie, uneasy space between autoethnography, overidentification, irony and fiction, the performance considered witnessing as a resistant act of masking and self-silencing, to explore tacit questions of positionality, epistemic bias and symbolic violence in the domain of listening. https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19603 Title: Reassembling the Archive: Datafication and the Digital Afterlife of Early Public Officials in 19th-century Greece Creator: Chrysanthopoulos, Christos; Charamopoulos, Leonidas ; Koniali, Christina; Liagka, Margarita ; Sarafis, Vangelis; Δημητρόπουλος, Δημήτρης; Seirinidou, Vaso Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10442/19603 2025-07-17T00:00:00Z Chrysanthopoulos, Christos Charamopoulos, Leonidas Koniali, Christina Liagka, Margarita Sarafis, Vangelis Δημητρόπουλος, Δημήτρης Seirinidou, Vaso Purpose — This paper explores the epistemological implications of datafication in historical research through the case study of the BioState project, which digitally reconstructs the careers of early public officials in 19th-century Greece. The project demonstrates how archival traces are reassembled as structured data, creating an administrative archive that never existed in institutional form. Design/methodology/approach — The study is based on the implementation of a semantic relational database using the Heurist platform, which models historical records as interconnected entities. Methodologically, the project integrates ontology-driven data modeling, archival documentation, and interpretive strategies to convert fragmentary sources into a coherent digital prosopographical system. Findings — BioState highlights that datafication is not a neutral act of digitization but a performative reconstitution of historical meaning. The project reveals how archival traces, originally non-standardized and dispersed, are transformed into a queryable knowledge system. Originality/value — This work contributes to digital historiography by advancing a theoretical and practical model for reconstituting absent or fragmented archives. It proposes that the digital archive should be seen not as a repository of the past but as a performative apparatus that enacts new forms of historical visibility. The concept of the "digital afterlife" is introduced to describe how bureaucratic traces acquire renewed significance within computational environments.