Performance, 2023 Audio tape loops destructing by blades; cassette players and reel to reel tape recorder During the performance, randomly selected, found and prepared purposely tape loops will undergo mechanical and electromagnetic manipulation to fade out and asound consequent destruction. This is a transformation from a dubious order to undeniable сhaos, through which the matter — magnetic tape — will go back to the dust from which it initially appeared. A set of atoms, which was born with the stars, spent billion years to become a medium for a sound lasting for only the blink of an eye. All in all, cosmos does not care about the content — atoms in, atoms out. Sergey Dmitriev aka Пурпурный Дядя is Experimental musician inspired by the whole range of sounds all around him. He is working with found sounds and field recordings, using micro sampling, granular synthesis, repetitive loops and rhythms; exploring architectural acoustics and its use in improvisational music.

September 15-17, 19:00 HayArt Cultural Center New media installation performance, 2022 Liquid crystal canvases, XYZ plotter system, Eurorack synthesizer Inherent to matter, as it reshapes itself into exquisite intricate patterns of infinite scales, is the perpetual entanglement of becoming. EJTECH proposes technologies for a new faith by raising an altarpiece of hardware cloaked in a mechanistic shell, driven by its entrails of flowing algorithmic logic. Traditionally diptychs were only unfolded during ceremonies as unifying gates between mundane and holy spaces. Miraculous thresholds serving as both an obstacle and vehicle. EJTECH’s techno-organic framework consists of two XREENS of extended hyper physicality, unfolding matter into a liquid-crystalline mesophase of intertwined meaning and materiality. The Acts of XENOPTYX weave themselves into nonlinear expressive proto-writing. Recursive and elusive thermoglyphs evoking incantations of prosodic verbal dialects, creating a space for contemplation of emergence. EJTECH [ˈeɪtɛk’] is Judit Eszter Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre, a polydisciplinary artist duo working with hyperphysical interfaces, programmable matter, and augmented textiles as media to investigate sensorial and conceptual relationships between subject and object. Sound, space, light and time as material building blocks are paramount elements in their practice, analyzing unfolding patterns between technology and the human body. Driven by material research, resulting in performative installations, multichannel sonic sculptures and dynamic surfaces. Influenced by the philosophy of New Materialism, Holonic Theory and Somaesthetics, EJTECH aims to provide tools for exploring liminality, thirdspace, and the elusive state of now.

September 6, 19:30 Yerevan Botanical Garden Performance, 2023 My performance consists of a single work featuring sounds collected over many years in South Florida, the place were I live and work. The emerging soundscape is presented in four channels of audio surrounding the audience. In contrast to my work with sound installations, which focus on exploring context, my performances often focus on two other aspects of information available to us as we experience sound. I am referring to gesture and character. Glass House — South Florida is a kind of sound portrait of the area where I live. The work is composed of audible gestures sometimes captured in field recordings, and other times performed by holding and manipulating objects close-at-hand. These sounds are presented as side-by-side events and as overlappings. The soundscape is performed and moved around in immediate response to their behavior in the room. — Gustavo Matamoros Gustavo Matamoros is North American composer born in Venezuela who creates experimental music and sound art. He is the founder of the Subtropics Festival in Miami and a core member of Frozen Music — a sound art collective with David Dunn and Rene Barge that has included Russell Frehling and David Behrman. He is best known for his work with small sounds, as well as for his sound portraits; the use of “gated” recorded sound as an interactive element in live electroacoustic performance; his “noise melodies”; and for his site-specific and public sound art installations.

September 2,19:30 HayArt Cultural Center September 6, 19:00 Yerevan Botanical Garden Acoustic sound performance, 2023 My performance is an abstract musical expression in a friendly street performance style, with a drum on my back. The music I create is a fusion of diverse music, including contemporary, pop, hardcore punk, and traditional music from around the world. The live acoustic sound and the space proves our existence and sensations. — Nao Nishihara Nao Nishihara is an artist and active practitioner of sound activities, sound art, performance, recording, and instrument production. An object or human body inevitably produce sound. Nao explores these sounds and attempts to show them through their activities, by using self-built machines and his own body.

September 10, 19:00 HayArt Cultural Center Audiovisual electro-acoustic performance, 2023 Audiovisual electro-acoustic performance based on random findings from the Hrazdan fleamarket Nikita Prudnikov (monekeer) is a musician, lecturer and technologist currently working in the field of applied machine learning in connection with sound art. Nikita is an author of “FLAKY”, a generative music framework which was used in live performances on various events including: Ars Electronica, Boiler Room, Gamma, Prepared Surroundings and others. Yulia Glukhova (holoherz) started her career as a sound designer for movies. Interested in time-based forms of art, she reflects on the sensory of time and perception processes. Her works received several international awards, including Phonurgia Nova Award. She composes music, creates sound design, makes installations and performances exploring sound and audiovisual relationships. For several years she runs field recording workshops in Russia and works as a sound supervisor for the podcast studio “Radio Arzamas”.

September 8, 19:00 HayArt Cultural Center Live music performance, 2023 Phill Niblock, Bag, 2015 Phill Niblock, Guitar 2 for 4, 2020 David Watson, Marfa Lines, 2022 David Watson, Improvisation, 2023 David Watson is an experimental musician, a guitarist and bagpiper. Originally from New Zealand, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1987. His guitar playing has been featured notably in John Zorn’s Cobra and in groups with Ikue Mori, Christian Marclay, Zeena Parkins and Chris Mann. In the early 90’s he added Highland bagpipes. He has created a new vocabulary for the instrument. In 2022 he became the Artistic Director of FourOneOne, an experimental platform in Williamsburg which has produced over one hundred concerts