Urvakan is back. It will take place on September 23–25 in Dilijan, Armenia. The festival is a music and art event that draws its inspiration from Armenia’s countless abandoned structures and locations. The inaugural Urvakan Festival in 2019 marked the birth of a new cultural hub on the world map. Through a range of open …
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When I started I was influenced by some directors who were mainly doing feature films, not documentaries. In the beginning, it was mostly Béla Tarr. He was a great influence on me. His picture and aesthetics. I tried to express his visual influence on me. That is how I started. I love Boris Mikaylov a …
Armenian-based digital artist and designer Razmik Gevorgyan goes with the moniker acid.coma. His eclectic aesthetics are vibrant and interesting. You can find sci-fi, acid graphics, brutalism, cyber art, and many other influences from art, literature, and more. Where do you get your inspiration from? Everything influences me. Be that art collective or designers like Marc …
I am Artur Tadevosyan aka Art Tendency. Composer, even though more sound designer during recent years. During my daily job, I write music for TV and films. The rest of the time it is electronic music, to balance it out. I am getting tired when I do a lot of commercial music. I need to …
Introduction For the last several years electronic music in Armenia is getting more and more recognized and Friday night clubbing in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia is something that many young people chose over other activities. There are beloved DJs and sound artists you follow and track their gigs. Undoubtedly Covid hit hard and the …
We’ve always had mediums of exchange. Some of them are physical and tangible (the most recent manifestation of which is good-old cash), some are digital and intangible (like the whole Crypto family, including NFT). Well… nowadays, mostly the second. China is busy testing digital yuan, Russia keeps pace testing its digital ruble, Visa/Master Card are …
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I met Raf back in 2013 in one of the clubs in Yerevan. He was in a lineup with french multi instrumentalist Gautier Serre a.k.a. Igorrr. Raf’s performance got me off guard, and I was pleasantly surprised to find such a gem. He was under the moniker Unit Visor and his subtle IDM got my …
Robert Lippok is a German Avant-garde visual artist and composer. For decades he has been an influential figure in the experimental music scene, who also is famous for his audiovisual installations, stage design for interdisciplinary performances. A well-known collaboration with his brother Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider in the mid-1990s resulted a famous “To Rococo …