Valentina Traïanova
Apartment Residency in Yerevan
Use Knife – Peace Carnival
300ofu164637 – Adam Nickel
24 H PALESTINE – Reverbirating Resistances
indigoblue
Hayk Karoyi – Hybrid Live Set
T-noll – Abtin Golfam
Misha & Marianna, Hovsep, Lucia Younger Sibling, Heavy Angel MarymetaEEMITUMountain Republic // CCA TbilisiMajid NazarliJśaVictoria SarangovaBios Contrast Hadi BastaniPISITAKUN KUANTALAENGJuli Riot VelleityBint MbarehRosso PolareAikhal Ammosov (Ored, Temir, DJ Mana, TMWYWK)
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of instability and upheaval, whose activities include fight for their rights and statements.
Artists share their experiences, emotions or research using sonic practice. The main purpose of each episode is the dissemination
of important information, the share of the position and analysis
of current and past social and political disasters, as well as civil resistance in its various forms. Paola Lesina & Wissam Sader
Nasim Goli
Romance Relic
Thy Truong
Alena Koleso – Vol.2
Sainte Marina
P.Amir.Bescolour – Behrang NajafiGaagaatDirar Kalashsantebela6elaMi HoSaltyk0vaArnau Montserrat Cinna PeyghamyDJ Daddy YonquiStella LoretsyanEldar TagiAndriy KostyukovStefania(Steff) J MendoliaMenzurrrMaria KarpovichNystagmus
Use Knife 300ofu164637 24 H. for PALESTINE indigoblueHayk Karoyi T-noll Misha & MariannaLucia KagramanyanPlattfon fundraiserEEMITUMountain Republic Majid NazarliJśaVictoria SarangovaBios Contrast Hadi BastaniPisitakunJuli Riot VelleityBint MbarehRosso PolareAikhal Ammosov Thy TruongAlena Koleso – Vol.2Sainte MarinaP.Amir.Bescolour GaagaatDirar KalashHovsepsantebela6elaMi HoSaltyk0vaArnau Montserrat Cinna PeyghamyDJ Daddy YonquiStella LoretsyanEldar TagiAndriy KostyukovStefania J MendoliaMenzurrrMaria KarpovichNystagmus Program explores unstable situations, political and social problems, such as discrimination, armed conflicts, oppression, breaking into everyday life. This is an archive collected by artists, curators, activists, journalists, theorists, poets and researchers in situations of instability and upheaval, whose activities include fight for their rights and statements.
Artists share their experiences, emotions or research using sonic practice. The main purpose of each episode is the dissemination of important information, the share of the position and analysis of current and past social and political disasters, as well as civil resistance in its various forms. Electromagnetic Sound Of The End Of Humanity
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Karen(Kay)Khachatryan – sound artist and an experimental musician from Yerevan. Since 2002 active in different punk bands as a musician. Since 2010 he have been producing experimental music. As a base for his work he uses field recordings, as well as electromagnetic sounds that he record using devices he is builing by himself.
Dirar Kalash – Kefak Habibi + Tracks I've Shared With Odai Recently.
The 24th of August is Odai Masri's birthday. This man was a treasure. He left us on the 30th
of June this year, and so many in his community feel an immense sense of loss.
Dirar Kalash made this mix to commemorate conversations he has had with Odai.
One of Odai's legacies is Exist Festival, and his friends will commence the last Exist festival that he curated in London on the 8th of September this year. Listeners are welcome to join us in this celebration of his life and to share memories with him during Exist.
Dirar Kalash – Kefak Habibi + Tracks I've Shared With Odai Recently.
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The 24th of August is Odai Masri's birthday. This man was a treasure. He left us on the 30th
of June this year, and so many in his community feel an immense sense of loss.
Dirar Kalash made this mix to commemorate conversations he has had with Odai.
One of Odai's legacies is Exist Festival, and his friends will commence the last Exist festival that he curated in London on the 8th of September this year. Listeners are welcome to join us in this celebration of his life and to share memories with him during Exist.
Armenian-language music project with roots in Gyumri.
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Offline: 24 September 2023 /📍Yerevan __________________This is not a story to pass on…
Layers fragments of voices, memories, and dreams, the violent past and the haunted present seep into the colonial shit narrative in its multiplying psychic forms that haunts the listeners, the horror and haunting of today...read full discription
Acts by
Lucia Kagramanyan
Varoujan Cheterian
Stepan – Sk1nny Artist – Petrosyan
Hovsep
Hovhannes Gaagaat Chilingaryan
Bescolour hosts 1 hour music episode.
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Musician and sound artist from Tehran, Iran,
embarked on his musical journey as a guitarist and drummer in local bands. In 2010, he transitioned into the realm of electronic experimentation, adopting the moniker Bescolour.
Mix for Sept
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6ela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin and Seoul.
Presenting: mix for sept was put together in the winter of 2018 for R22 Tout-monde radio show《sept, run by Victor Donati. It contains pieces of a 2 hour recording made in an airforce base on a smuggled phone. The mix unfolds inside and around a 10,000L diesel tanker and three soldiers fueling various locations.
"...but I'm in front of you right now, I'm no illusion"
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𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙩. 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝙎𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙄? 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙄?
AudioPaper – "Sonic Agencies in the Catalan Protests"
for the seminar “Music, Noise and Power” Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Summer Term 2022
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Content:
Introduction
Catalonia a cultural country
Noise and silence
Words and lyrics
Noise as weapon
Conclusion
List of references
Cinna Peyghamy is a composer and sound artist, born in France from Iranian parents.
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Born within the parisian experimental/noise scene, his live act gravited more and more towards full-on improvisations with self-made sound devices : true to his scientific and programming background, Cinna Peyghamy creates and designs unique instruments, from DIY synthesizers and soundboxes to motor-based mechanical structures that serves as tools for his compositions, performances and sound installations.
"I kiss the fragile feet of the cruel angel of life.
Ruthless, despicable, yet I'm completely humbled in her presence.
I feel precious before her eyes.
Nothing I wish more than to bleed gently into her arms, my last breath entering the pores of her skin.
I give myself to her completely as it shatters into the outside, my sweet egress,
becoming what's not need to be said".
‘’And the Grief is Carrying me…’’
based on actual events.
‘’And the Grief is Carrying me…’’ has been created within the framework of the ‘’What is Time, What is Place” Interdisciplinary, Site-Specific, Curatorial Festival implemented by Mihr Theatre in 2022.
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Stella Loretsyan (b. 1986) lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. She got her Bachelor’s Degree in Philology, Pedagogics of the English language, and her Master’s Degree in Philosophy with a specialization in Social Philosophy and Ethics
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Eldar Tagi is an independent composer of electronic music, sound artist, and improviser. Noise, chaos, and feedback are prominent elements in the Tagi’s compositional and installation works, often interweaving with soundscapes
of natural environments. He is a part of the cross-media duo the2vvo, which often explores the complicated dynamics between the objects, spaces and sound through recordings, acoustic sculptures, and live audio-visual performances.
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Read full text: urvakan.com/eldar_tagi/ "The war started almost a year ago, and that's how I feel. I'm drowning in water, freezing cold.
Pensively watching how life passes by.
Scared from how heavy the freedom can be.
Accepting, battling, accepting, fighting.
Everyday morning comes with the sunbeams of hope that are cutting the darkness, deathly sharp.
Highlighting the real, destroying the lies, and melting the propaganda."
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Andriy Kostyukov is a Kyiv-born and Prague-based electronic musician and dj.
He is a co-organizer of the Motsion UA.
PIECE: “Some Things Cannot Be Fixed” By Steff Juniper / QUIVERING
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Some things cannot be fixed for they have been shattered into too many small pieces to be glued back together.
There are not enough Good Samaritans, Foreign Aid, or Help that can resolve social issues like War, Poverty, and Climate Disaster. There are some things that are gone and lost forever, like people, and their spirits.
Entire Species Have Gone Extinct.
What do we do about that? Where do we go from here?
UA ear-catching overwrought
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"Russia reinforces its efforts to terrorise Ukrainians by launching missiles and drones on our energy system — more than ever before."
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Menzurrr, a Чернiвцi based selector, Gasoline Radio resident and host of a migrating weekly 2hrs show called
UA ear-catching overwrought which is focused on ukrainian dj's and musicians, is known for his "genreless" approach.
Ornithological notes of Yerevan
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Most powerful impression, probably, was a conversation with Tsovinar,
an ornithologist, her emphasized communication in English, “why everyone leaves when you need to resist”, and before that, Oksana Timofeeva’s foreword about how a bird crosses the border and philosopher’s envy for her.
There was also Armash (artificial ponds with carps for deliveries to the Russian Federation, formed by water forcibly removed from the lake), the border with Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. “There is Azerbaijan ... and there is Iran ...,
and Ararat itself is Turkey, and in this part, to the right of the top, Noah’s Ark was hooked,” Tsovinar said.
Well, it was all at the same time and so obvious. Everything came together like a loop. And inside the bright sun and paintings by Saryan, the view from the balcony to Ararat, delicious food, a salt lake and arched vaults made of tuff.
Radio Fantsia offline showcase-fundraiser documentation:
Event dedicated to artistic research and sonic forms of protest and civil disobedience.
Offline: NOV 10 /📍Basel / Plattfon Records
Perfomances by: HMOT
______________Younger Sibling
______________Heavy Angel Marymeta
______________Mental Load
All the income goes to Tun.Foundation — house repairs for displaced people of Artsakh*.
(Fielding Hope - Cafe Oto)
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Cani Lenti is a collection of duels, some may say.
As the two minds of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi converge, a dichotomy of harmonious and contrasting sounds ebb, swirl and clatter in and amongst themselves. Using techniques from call and response improvisation, tape manipulation, experimental music and free-form folk, their approach to music making feels both atypical and familiar, organised and free-flowing, rooted and landless.
Support Yakutian Anti-war punk.
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Aikhal Ammosov is one of the most famous Yakut anti-war activists.
Since the beginning of the war, Ammosov has received five administrative and one criminal penalty:
for single pickets, anti-war graffiti and stickers.
Aikhal's trial was scheduled on November 23.
But in the half an hour before the trial, it was postponed to December 13.
Online documentation of the event.
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"At CCA Tbilisi, we will share our problems, ideas, projects, and visions. There will be a short documentary from Dagestan, a talk about social transformations and human rights activism, a lecture on folk revival in the Western Caucasus, and a musical program."
Offline: 22 July 2023 /📍CCA Tbilisi / GE
JRPJEJ
Temir
dj Mana
TMWYWK
thanks to Ored Recordings, Temir, dj Mana, TMWYWK and CCA Tbilisi
actually i m into rock...but all my friends turned on rap damn
"The piece that I sent was performed in Homayun's gam,
which is one of the seven known gams of Iranian music, each of which has its own moods and emotions.
This performance is including improvisation and 2 peaces from great master R.i.p Parviz Meshkatian."
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Majid Nazarli, 29 years old (1994).
Started learning music at the age of 9.
Graduated of Gilan Art University.
there will be no txtººººº music only
„Archaeology of Progress. Elista“
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Tthe third part of the series of the site specific sound works focusing on the ideas of progress and their colonial nature. This part of the project is the most personal as it is rooted in the site of Victoria's birthplace and involves affects, promises, memories, tensions and flips associated with spatiality and resonated in artist's body.
Nilotpal Das also known as Bios Contrast presents 20 minutes of released and upcoming music
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Nilotpal Das was born on 27th September 2001 in Kolkata, India. At the age of 16, he started listening to various records and got into learning electronic music production through Youtube tutorials and improvisation.
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These raw recordings were made in and around Belfast, for the purposes of a sound library that was compiled for
a soundscape intervention project commissioned by the Northern Ireland Hospice in the summer of 2015.
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Belfast is a city that still deals with ‘troubles’. Creating soundscapes that appeal to a mixed crowd of residents at the hospice posed various cultural and technical challenges. To overcome these, we organised several workshops
in order to explain the project to the residents, play them sounds, and gather detailed feedback.
The final installations were a fine-tuned response to the hospice residents' feedback, the majority of whom are
no longer with us.
Two detained monarchy reform activists have announced that they will be dry fasting to demand bail for every political prisoner, after there was no response to the demands they made when they revoked their own bail on
Monday (16 January)
They called for reform of judicial system so that human rights and freedom of expression take priority,
and so that courts are independent and protect people’s freedom,
as well as for judges to make decisions without intervention from their own executives
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They also called for all charges against those exercising their freedoms of expression and assembly to be dropped, and for every political party to back the repeal of the royal defamation law and sedition law to guarantee people’s right, freedom, and political participation.
Мої думки:
З повномасштабною війною мені здавалося, що зовсім закину займатися музикою.
Через цілодобові обстріли Миколаєва і щоб зберегти життя та ментальне здоров'я, вирішила тоді тимчасово переїхати до Одеси. Живучи там, у мене переважав різний емоційний стан, тому що сумуєш за своїм рідним домом, за своїми близькими і не знаєш, чого чекати далі з думками: "а чи повернусь я назад?".
І щоб хоч якось абстрагуватися, я стала поступово повертатися у своє русло, прогулюючись набережною моря, шукала у всьому натхнення: написала пару треків, і, звичайно, слухати своїх улюблених українських електронних продюсерів та виконавців, які увійшли до цього міксу. І цей мікс характеризує досі мій стан під час війни. І зараз через свою творчість артисти розповідають про нашу війну, про те, як нам складно та як болить ця рана кожному українцю.
Archived live recording by Velleity.
He works with modular synthesis, amplified objects and creative feedback and—in this case (stolen) field recordings of endagered/extinct species.
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Also, a co-founder of the radio.syg.ma broadcasting dedicated to immersive listening and whatnot.
*having inclinations and desires but not acting upon them since 2017
Unstable Stable episode w/ Bint Mbareh. In this episode artist presents her in-progress and unreleased materials
Bint Mbareh (Dina Amro) is a sound researcher with a curiosity about the superpowers of communal singing.
Her initiation into music came through her research on rain-summoning in Palestine.
She conducted research initially to combat the myth of water scarcity pushed by Israeli settler colonialism.
She learned that the songs that helped communities summon and harness rain, at their core helped people build
a relationship with their environment, decide what time of year it is, communally determine how to share resources fairly, and that when used in current life, these uses could still be evoked, rather than remembered.
She now studies death and rebirth as analogies for necessary upheavals, still looking for these significations in Palestinian landscape, especially the shrine of Nabi-Musa (AS), the prophet Moses.
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Misha Kurilov is an artist researcher and curator of the music program of the translocal collective «Typography» CCA, radio "Fantasia" and Urvakan festival.
Marianna Kruchinski – curator of the translocal collective «Typography» CCA
and radio "Fantasia”.
Hovsep – Armenian artist working at the intersection
of art and technology, currently based in Glasgow.
Lucia Kagramanyan is Armenian artist and DJ.
Host of Panorama Yerevan on NTS Radio and Radio Alhara.
(b. 2003), AKA ‘T-Noll’ is an independent composer from Iran. This episode shares music of Iranian artists.
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Abtin Golfam employs creative {coding}, programming environments and generally the sound technology for making sounds, using Pure Data (A visual and interactive computer music development programming language).
Materials include Hayk personal collection of raw audio materials from Armenia, Georgia, Western Armenia region and contemporary electronic music from contemporary Tunusian and Syrian artists.
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Hayk, a multi-instrumentalist specializing in Armenian woodwinds, brings forth the entire range of his cultural identity from his subconsciousness through these instruments.
Most of the recordings were collected in the context of the preparation of festive events organized by a collective I’m a part of, 📍Le Comité des Fêtes. Other recordings are extracted from my personal archive.
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This year, carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards this so-called, one-sided 'peace'.
There can not be real peace without justice or freedom.
الأرض والحرية
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الأرض والحرية _____________________________________________ intro by Tansulpan Burakaeva
Land and freedom ________________________________ songs by Komitas performed by Gayane Ghazaryan
Tierra y Libertad ______________________________________ Sultan Kizlar poem
Terre et liberté ______________________________________ Çirlaq record on Crimean tatars resistance
Земля та Свобода ______________________________________ Sonic piece by Pavel Amir
Երկիր և Ազատությունը ______________________________________ Taras Gembik reading the poem
Жер және бостандық ________________________________ Statement and sonic piece by Anel Rakhmizhanova
________________________________________________________United Action statement
___________________________________________________Sonic piece by Medina Bazargal
....is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚔𝚎𝚢 w/ @obinr –––––––––
"Since this is my final year living in the country i was raised in-- the mix is mainly to highlight some Canadian lables and recordings, many of which are my own! My own field recordings come from places like Mission, Dewdney, Chilliwack, Vancouver, Abbotsford, and Kamloops." In June 2024, the residency project that the Typography collective has been managing since the closure of their physical space in Krasnodar will mark its two-year anniversary.
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In this mix, those who have lived in the apartment for a few days to three months, those who came for a while and stayed, those who left and went back, and those who moved further, share their sonic notes ✎ and memories 💭.
This year, carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards this so-called, one-sided 'peace'.
There can not be real peace without justice or freedom.
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Valentina Traïanova is an artist, performance artist and singer, born in Sofia (Bulgaria), living in Paris. She arrived in France in 1996, in the city of Nice, where she presented herself as a windsurfing champion in order to obtain a French visa before continuing her studies there.