SAYAT NOVA
For Santoor, tombak, Sarangui, electric guitar, chalumeau, percussions and electronics
Alternative soundtrack for Paradjanov’s masterpiece The Color of the Pomegranate.
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The movie depicts the spiritual transformation of an armenian poet, Sayat Nova who lived in the Caucasus in the 18th century. The images are like surrealist paintings, moving symbolic landscapes filled with armenian visual elements.
Working on this movie meant a lot for me. It adresses the relationship diasporas can have with their « motherland’s » culture while living in globalized societies. I gathered musicians playing traditional instruments like duduk, tombak or sarangi, processing and blending them with real-time software effects. A mix between abstract and traditional sounds and structures.
Commission for Sauce festival
Presented at Spoutnik Cinema
March 2019, Geneva
current
⩥ Le Passage – Soundwalk in Veyrier about the passage through which Jewish infants could escape Nazi occupation from France to Switzerland during the second world war. Commission by Antigel Festival, Geneva. Text by Emmanuelle Destremau, music in collaboration with Eric Linder
⩥ The Distance Between II – Second exhibition of the project based on the Herouni Space center in Armenia. Installed at Bethanien, as well as in the gallery FreiRaum, Berlin as part of “8ith” collective exhibition.
⩥ Time Parallax – Commission of a soundtrack for a 23’ audio-visual project from Severin Guelpa about mining and ecology in Chile’s Atacama desert.
⩥ Upcycled Acousmonium – Creation of a 22 channel/42 speakers acousmonium in the HayArt Museum, Yerevan, accompanied with a listening session in The Øffice for NOPA festival.
⩥ The Distance Between – Audio- visual installation with 4 speakers, one metal plates, video projection and archives from the Herouni Space Center in Armenia. Installed at
the Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
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Sonic Bridges – 6 channel performance with artist talks on the topic of voice, archive, memory and sound. At DOCKS11, Berlin
⩥ Chroniques Urbaines Soundwalks, trilogy. Collaboration with writers E. Destremau, A. Jacoud and O. Csiky Trnka @Antigel Festival
[CH] 03-16-17-18.02.24
⩥ Horizon Vert Soundwalk, with Fabrice Melquiot (text) and CFPNE Lullier @Antigel Festival
[CH] 09-10.02.24
⩥ Exhibition @Byurakan Bakery [AM] 12.10.23
⩥ Research trip residency @Byurakan [AM] sept-oct 23
⩥ fiber optics colletive exhibition @Akademie der Küste, Berlin [DE]
⩥ sound installation for Severin Guelpa’s exhibition Tremblement @Les Halles, Porrentruy [CH] 23.04 - 25.06
⩥ walking sonic fiction @HyperOuest Festival, Lausanne [CH] 27.04-07.05
⩥ soundwalk / performance @ANTIGEL festival, Geneva [CH] 8-9.02
⩥ workshop @ l’Abri with On Land Collective, Geneva [CH] / 14-16.12
⩥ residency and performance, ROTA festival (AADK)
Murcia [SP] /06.12-13.12
⩥ exhibition, Mapping festival
Geneva [CH] /3-13.11
⩥ nomination ARD german radiophonic creation prize
ZKM Karlsruhe [DE] /12.11
⩥ performance @Arkaoda
Berlin [DE] /22.10
⩥ creative radio performance, Cashmere radio
Berlin [DE] / 22.07
⩥ performance, Belluard Bollwerk
Fribourg [CH] /28.06
⩥ residency, Atlas
Brussel [BEL] /26.05-6.06
⩥ residency and performance, AADK
Blanca [SP] /07.03-06.04
⩥ residency, Paris Herouni telescope
Orgov [ARM] /29.01-28.02
