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STEGI.RADIO Takeover returns in 24 & 25 January with an even more resonant lineup to unfurl its diverse character and transform the Onassis Stegi into a kaleidoscopic musical playground. With guests from the international and domestic scene and unpredictable and original selections, the online radio station of Onassis Stegi celebrates for another year the many different aspects of contemporary sound through a multi-dimensional curation that runs the gamut of the global electronic scene.

The Main Stage is once again ‘dressed’ as a club that fills with the electro outbursts of Kittin, who comes to Athens after her impressive performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, the impetuous rhythms of the ‘Pope’ of minimal techno Robert Hood, the politicized, insurgent jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, who released their latest album on Impulse, the playful mix of disco, acid, and techno of David Vunk, the unpredictable genre marriage of Crystallmess, the cheeky combination of trap and rebetiko of Black Morris, aka Negros tou Moria, and the uproarious garage psychedelia of Acid Baby Jesus.

Onassis Stegi -1 radiates the intensity and hedonism of an underground club in a metropolitan center where different communities and subcultures meet and mix, with the frenetic beats of De Schuurman, the Mediterranean new club blend of STILL and Deena Abdelwahed, and the Afroglobal energy of Catu Diosis, artist of the Nyege Nyege Tapes label.

The Upper Stage is dedicated to Greek artists, with live performances by the now-acclaimed The Boy, the introverted, idiosyncratic Larry Gus, the up-and-coming cabaret pop singer-songwriter Kristof, and Venus Volcanism, who mixes polyphonic and traditional singing with experimental electronic music. The Upper Stage also includes a performance by Grand River, an Italian cinematic ambient artist.

Meanwhile at Onassis Stegi +3, join us for two hours-long sets by Dimitri Papaioannou, with eclectic ambient selections, and A@H2O, with dub, calypso, and reggae sounds, as well as a listening session by Invernomuto and a conversation between Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou and Stoffel Debuysere, as part of the “Ways of Listening” program.

14 – 18 January, 2025
BOZARCINEMA, Brussels

Preemptive Listening
Aura Satz, UK, FI, 2024, DCP, 89′

On 14 January after the film, there will be a conversation with director Aura Satz led by Stoffel Debuysere, as part of the Echoes of Dissent project (KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Ghent).

In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, Preemptive Listening is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be. Siren compositions from over 20 collaborators form a resonant voice to ask; Does an alarm have to be alarming?

“At its most basic, beyond any learned sound signal, the siren is firstly a call to attention, secondly a call to action, and lastly, it faces the future.” Aura Satz

Featuring newly composed sirens by: Laurie Spiegel, Evelyn Glennie, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Anton Lukoszevieze, BJ Nilsen, Ilpo Väisänen, Rhodri Davies, Mazen Kerbaj, FUJ||||||||||TA, Sarah Davachi, David Toop, Christina Kubisch, Moor Mother.

Aura Satz (Barcelona, 1974) is a London based artist who works with film, sound, performance and sculpture. Satz has made several film portraits of listening and compositional practices as well as works centred on sound technology and unusual notation systems. Preemptive Listening is her first feature.