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188 | Christos Kakalis www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 173–190 come of human engagement”.23 The emergence of a sacred place is, as Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman argue, “the outcome of actions, intentions and recollections – it is the result of past and present interactions among humans, material implements, architecture and landscape”.24 Through the reciprocal relationship between the ritual and the text, the physical context is trans- formed into a religious place. The environment for these actions plays an important role, re-defined through their performance, and hence re-designed in accordance with the choreographies taking place in it. The choreographies are phrases performed through voice and body movement. For Tonino Griffe- ro, atmospheric situations, such as the one described here, involve a vague- ness that is difficult to fully grasp and order. One might wonder […] what the criteria of identity and identifiability of at- mospheres are, […] whether they constitute a semantic or de dicto vagueness (the atmospheric description designates a given situation in a given way) or instead, as we like to think, a metaphysical or de re vagueness (the atmos- pheric description designates a vague entity in a precise way), analogous to that attributable to many other quasi-things, such as colours, shadows etc.25 This inherent vagueness of ambience is what has allowed the transforming of texts into sound to play a significant role in the resulting inclusive soundscape. Using mainly English, the services followed the normative choreographies and texts, but the soundscape cannot be fully connected to one of the two typika used or to a specific national or cultural tradition. People feel connected with parts of these acts through their own language, the type of liturgical music used back home, or the movements of the clergy that are common to all Or- thodox religious traditions. The whole of the service cannot be attributed to one of the established types of Orthodox Christian Liturgy. The liturgical atmos- phere always feels slightly incomplete, allowing for new voices to enter into it. Interestingly, the use of folders instead of books embodies this incompleteness and openness to new additions that are related to the needs of the parish. The clips are always waiting to be opened, allowing pages to be added or removed. The social aspect of the religious place is important to its constitution and the development of its meaning and character, as this case reveals. Kim Knott 23 Moser/Feldman 2014. 24 Moser/Feldman 2014, 1. 25 Griffero 2014, 12.