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Artist: JOVANOVIC, ARSENIJE Title: ATHOS - MONTANA SACRA Article No.: 04603 Media type: download only Genre: Soundscapes Label: CCn'C RECORDS Year of release: 2006 |
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Athos – The Holy Mountain
In Ancient Greek Myth
According to Greek mythology, in the struggle between the Giants and the Olympians, the leader of the former was Athos and of the latter, Poseidon. Athos cast a massive rock at Poseidon from Thrace, but it missed him and fell into the sea, forming the pyramid-shaped mountain bearing his name. In a different version it was Poseidon who threw the rock against Athos. The rock crushed Athos and burried him underneath. This rock was called Mount Athos. According to another myth, the ancient god Apollon fell in love with Daphne, the daughter of the king of Arcadia. In order to keep her virginity, she took refuge in the main port of Mt. Athos, thus giving her name to it. From the latter myth it can be seen that since ancient times this area was associated with the struggle against the flesh.
Today Mount Athos (or Hagion Oros i.e. Holy Mountain) constitutes the heart of the Christian Orthodox ascetic life for more than one thousand years. As such, it could be said that it also serves as the guardian of what is referred to as the Christian Orthodox Art
http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr/athos/index.html
http://www.halkidiki.com/athos.htm
Photo von Manfred Burghardt
Antiquity
Up to the 3rd century BC, there where quite a few small Greek towns in the peninsula. Later, for unknown reasons, these towns fell into decay or were destroyed, resulting in a deserted area for many centuries.
Christianity
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary with John the Evangelist, or their way to visit Lazarus in Cyprus, encountered a stormy sea that forced them to temporarily seek refuge in the port which is now the Holy Monastery of Ivira. The Virgin Mary, admiring the wild beauty of the place, asked God to give her the mountain as a present. Then the voice of our Lord was heard saying: "Let this place be your lot, your garden and your paradise, as well as a salvation, a haven for those who seek salvation". Since then, Mount Athos is considered as "The Garden of the Virgin Mary".
In the 5th century AD, the first monks came to Mount Athos, who disappointed from the boredom of everyday communal life, found this beautiful and uninhabited place ideal for worship their God.
More detailed information about history and development you find here
http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr/athos/index.html
and
http://www.inathos.gr/athos/en/
http://www.lectus.gr/contents.htm
http://www.athos.gr/
Antiquity
Up to the 3rd century BC, there where quite a few small Greek towns in the peninsula. Later, for unknown reasons, these towns fell into decay or were destroyed, resulting in a deserted area for many centuries.
Christianity
According to tradition, the Virgin Mary with John the Evangelist, or their way to visit Lazarus in Cyprus, encountered a stormy sea that forced them to temporarily seek refuge in the port which is now the Holy Monastery of Ivira. The Virgin Mary, admiring the wild beauty of the place, asked God to give her the mountain as a present. Then the voice of our Lord was heard saying: "Let this place be your lot, your garden and your paradise, as well as a salvation, a haven for those who seek salvation". Since then, Mount Athos is considered as "The Garden of the Virgin Mary".
In the 5th century AD, the first monks came to Mount Athos, who disappointed from the boredom of everyday communal life, found this beautiful and uninhabited place ideal for worship their God.
More detailed information about history and development you find here
http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr/athos/index.html
and
http://www.inathos.gr/athos/en/
http://www.lectus.gr/contents.htm
http://www.athos.gr/
Photo von Manfred Burghardt
Athos – Montana Sacra
-A Sound Testament-
A Soundscape by ARSENIJE JOVANOVIC
"The Holy Mountain is a place of prayer, and of death. Here, in this unique symbiosis of monks and monastery, nobody was born for more than a thousand years. On the Holy Mountain, a human beeing can only die. It is the only place on this planet where only male skeletons are to be found. My memories are imbued with the days and nights spent on the Holy Mountain, with journeys from monastery to monastery, with walks through the woods and along the seashore where I watched the water and the waves. I breathed centuries rising from the wine casks in the cellar of the monastery, I bit into medieval cakes, and I waited before sunrise for the peal of bells announcing the coming of an important holiday."
(Arsenije Jovanovic)
Athos – Montana Sacra
-A Sound Testament-
A Soundscape by ARSENIJE JOVANOVIC
"The Holy Mountain is a place of prayer, and of death. Here, in this unique symbiosis of monks and monastery, nobody was born for more than a thousand years. On the Holy Mountain, a human beeing can only die. It is the only place on this planet where only male skeletons are to be found. My memories are imbued with the days and nights spent on the Holy Mountain, with journeys from monastery to monastery, with walks through the woods and along the seashore where I watched the water and the waves. I breathed centuries rising from the wine casks in the cellar of the monastery, I bit into medieval cakes, and I waited before sunrise for the peal of bells announcing the coming of an important holiday."
(Arsenije Jovanovic)
Photo von Manfred Burghardt
Biography and more information on “mediaservice”
Arsenije Jovanovic
Theatre, radio and television director, born in Belgrade, Serbia 1932., writer, composer and audio-art author, university profesor - he was teaching acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade until the break of the war in ex-Yugoslavia - Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany, for eleven years theatre director in The National Theatre in Belgrade, later artistic director of The Bitef Theatre (Theatre in the Church), directing plays for theatres both in ex-Yugoslavia and abroad (Sheffield in England, Sofia in Bulgaria, Albany in USA), author of different sound installations - one was in Berlin as a part of SFB participation at Sonambiente event - initiator of a sound workshop at Kunstradio (ÖRF, Wien), initiator of a sound workshop at Media Arts Center at the University of Sydney 1999, participating sound workshops in Finland (Oulu and Helsinki), Denmark (Faeroe Islands), founder of the Adriatic Sound Factory, a moving sound laboratory settled for the time being in Rovinj in Istria, Croatia
Arsenije lives in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) and in Rovinj, Istria/Croatia. He is married and has one daughter.
http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/jovanovicbio.html
http://www.kunstradio.at/2001A/20_05_01.html
Biography and more information on “mediaservice”
Arsenije Jovanovic
Theatre, radio and television director, born in Belgrade, Serbia 1932., writer, composer and audio-art author, university profesor - he was teaching acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade until the break of the war in ex-Yugoslavia - Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany, for eleven years theatre director in The National Theatre in Belgrade, later artistic director of The Bitef Theatre (Theatre in the Church), directing plays for theatres both in ex-Yugoslavia and abroad (Sheffield in England, Sofia in Bulgaria, Albany in USA), author of different sound installations - one was in Berlin as a part of SFB participation at Sonambiente event - initiator of a sound workshop at Kunstradio (ÖRF, Wien), initiator of a sound workshop at Media Arts Center at the University of Sydney 1999, participating sound workshops in Finland (Oulu and Helsinki), Denmark (Faeroe Islands), founder of the Adriatic Sound Factory, a moving sound laboratory settled for the time being in Rovinj in Istria, Croatia
Arsenije lives in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) and in Rovinj, Istria/Croatia. He is married and has one daughter.
http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/jovanovicbio.html
http://www.kunstradio.at/2001A/20_05_01.html
AWARDS in radioart: Prix Italia "Tombstones along the Roadside", Venice. 1971., Prix Italia for the "Resava Cave", Venice, 1977., Premio Ondas for "Resava cave", Barcelona, 1978. Premio Ondas for "Along the Long Long Street, Barcelona, Acustica International (WDR) for "Faunophonia Balcanica", Köln, 1990., "Finalist award" for "Homo Politikus Vulgaris" at "New York radio art festival", NY, 1992., first prize for "Concerto Grosso Balcanico", International radio festival in Rust (Austria), together with Ilinka Colic Grand Prix Radio France International for "La parata" Palmares (France) 1997, Third prize for "Four winds"at Bienal Radio, Mexico City, 2004, for the same work got Belgrade City April Prize 2005., Second prize for "Trans DADA Belgrade Express"at Bienal Radio, Mexico City, 2006, His "Prophecy of the Serbian Village Kremna" was one of the sound tracks in the film "The Thin Red Line" by Terrence Malick, USA, 1998.
Coverphoto (©Arsenije Jovanovic)
Studenica is the monastery in Serbia from 12th century founded by the same Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja who founded monastery Hilandarios in Athos, Greece today. The hermit, Monk Gavrilo, on the album cover was living 60 years in a cave on the top of the mountain nearby the Serbian Monastery Studenica - as for me, it absolutely makes no difference where monk Gavrilo was living and died alive in a fire in the hermit place, in Athos or in Serbia since it was
Coverphoto (©Arsenije Jovanovic)
Studenica is the monastery in Serbia from 12th century founded by the same Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja who founded monastery Hilandarios in Athos, Greece today. The hermit, Monk Gavrilo, on the album cover was living 60 years in a cave on the top of the mountain nearby the Serbian Monastery Studenica - as for me, it absolutely makes no difference where monk Gavrilo was living and died alive in a fire in the hermit place, in Athos or in Serbia since it was