Edited in English, French, and Grec, Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain
focuses on a highly fascinating (and somehow problematic) subject: the chants of Mount Athos. Indeed, the initiative shed the light on a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece, central to Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Its twenty monasteries house around 2,000 monks, dedicating their lives to prayer and worship. Their chants have echoed across the Aegean Sea for centuries, heard only by visiting pilgrims. FLEE, through this transdisciplinary project, attempts to document as well as artistically hybridise this music phenomenon, inviting conceptual and sound artists to reflect upon the subject.
