Fragmented Distance

03rd Oct 2026 03rd Oct 2026 15:00 18:00

Homāyun, Loris

16:00

Maro Beriashvili, Jahan Xanlü

17:00

Iulia-Andreea Smeu *KITE, Nino Dava

18:00

Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art

Free entry

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On invitation of Nopa Festival, the Resynthesising the Traditional artistic lab will be held at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK) from 1 – 10 October 2026. This public session offers the chance to meet the lab fellows as they give short performances and speak about their work in dialogue with the lab’s co-hosts, as well as lab co-curators Stas Shärifullá, Taïca Replansky, and Jan Rohlf (CTM Festival).

Information coming soon.

Photo: Vittor Oliveira

The six lab fellows will work with co-hosts Cinna Peyghamy, Varder Baghdasaryan, and Varoujan Chetirian to engage critically and in-depth with aesthetic, discursive, and technological approaches when connecting to musical traditions. With the title Fragmented Distance, specific attention will be paid to themes of diaspora, memory, displacement, transmission, and hybridity.

The day begins with Homāyun, the live electronic project of Paris-based artist Homāyun Kheradmand, rooted in the mystical musical traditions of the Kurdish Ahle-e Haqq community in which he grew up. Mexican producer and DJ Loris’ sets travel through breakbeat, drum & bass, techno, IDM, and bass music, under which runs a deeper current of Palestinian diasporic memory, inherited rhythms, and cultural fragments entering into dialogue with the physical states they summon.

Tbilisi composer Maro Beriashvili’s work begins with an attentive ear toward the textures of the everyday and the natural world, and carries the flute’s breath-like voice into a broader language of texture and timbre. Through the remains of ancient forms, Jahan Xanlü searches through Central Asian language and mythology for fragments which might speak to the present.

Iulia-Andreea Smeu aka KITE explores free improvisation and sound as part of a practice in which electroacoustic sound and spoken word merges with elements of the visual to shape immersive and embodied forms. Ecological listening and feminist research converge in Nino Dava’s work, based in choral singing within Orthodox and folk traditions.

Resynthesising the Traditional is an initiative by CTM Festival with Stas Shärifullá. This artistic lab in Yerevan takes place in cooperation with Nopa Festival and is kindly supported by Goethe-Institut Armenia.