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Jam Discipline #2
Jam Discipline is a one-night community event where different artistic disciplines meet to create.
Instrumentalists, sound artists, music producers, and visual media artists are invited to join an open creative session guided by curators from hosq and the State Philharmonia.
Instrumentalists, sound artists, music producers, and visual media artists are invited to join an open creative session guided by curators from hosq and the State Philharmonia.
18:30 — Doors open
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Location: The State Philharmonia of Armenia (2 Abovyan St.)
Date: 28 November 19:00
Open Call: was via application
Deadline: 26 November
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Participation was free with registration
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Location: The State Philharmonia of Armenia (2 Abovyan St.)
Date: 28 November 19:00
Open Call: was via application
Deadline: 26 November
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Participation was free with registration
outcome
- 3 performancesA trilogy of contemplative music performances created specifically for the airport environment.
- 10 proposalsConcepts proposals submitted by artists and composers interested in exploring contemporary music in a public space.
- 12+ artistsInvolved students and alumni of the Yerevan State Conservatory performing newly composed works in dialogue with the airport environment.
- ~300 travelersPassengers, visitors, and airport staff encountering the performance within the everyday flow of the airport.
curators
- InstrumentalistsHamlet Grigoryan
- VisualsKaren Vardanyan
Misak Samokatian
Gevorg Grigoryan - Music ProductionAndriesh Gandrabur
Shahen Khandkaryan
- Dima UstinovMusic Curator, Keyboards & Synths
- Grigor KartashyanArmenian Woodwinds
- Ash GlazarKamancha
- Nadya XyxuInstallation
- Misak SamokatianInstallation
- Lusine MLKE-GalstyanCreative Producer
Over the course of five hours, participants used their own tools, linking through MIDI, OSC, DMX, and CV/Gate, and engaging with a shared setup of multichannel sound, projection surfaces, and lighting systems. The session unfolded as a continuous exchange of signals, shaping an evolving audiovisual composition.
- 3 performancesA trilogy of contemplative music performances created specifically for the airport environment.
- 10 proposalsConcepts proposals submitted by artists and composers interested in exploring contemporary music in a public space.
- 12+ artistsInvolved students and alumni of the Yerevan State Conservatory performing newly composed works in dialogue with the airport environment.
- ~300 travelersPassengers, visitors, and airport staff encountering the performance within the everyday flow of the airport.
The trilogy’s title refers to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, the work that helped define and consolidate ambient music as a genre, and affirmed the idea of music as an environment.
As we arrive and depart, passing through places familiar or unknown, we carry their memory with us. By creating a sonic and visual structure within a specific public place such as an airport, we seek to enrich this pattern of memory and the very sense of arrival not only as a physical event, but also as an inner, psychological moment of orientation.
The airport is a place of cycles: reunion and separation, waiting and circular movement, repeated routes and recurring procedures.
The sound in this project is based on rhythmic cycles found in nature and on temporal structures. The visual composition foregrounds the natural artefact, as it emerges through perception and experience, shaped by memory and time rather than fixed meaning.
The form of the performance is calm and extended.
It exists naturally within the flow of the arrivals area.
As we arrive and depart, passing through places familiar or unknown, we carry their memory with us. By creating a sonic and visual structure within a specific public place such as an airport, we seek to enrich this pattern of memory and the very sense of arrival not only as a physical event, but also as an inner, psychological moment of orientation.
The airport is a place of cycles: reunion and separation, waiting and circular movement, repeated routes and recurring procedures.
The sound in this project is based on rhythmic cycles found in nature and on temporal structures. The visual composition foregrounds the natural artefact, as it emerges through perception and experience, shaped by memory and time rather than fixed meaning.
The form of the performance is calm and extended.
It exists naturally within the flow of the arrivals area.
outcome
Instrumentalists, sound artists, music producers, and visual media artists are invited to join an open creative session guided by curators from hosq and the State Philharmonia.
participants
The performance featured students and alumni of the Yerevan State Conservatory, invited to explore contemporary musical practices outside traditional concert settings and engage with the public space of the airport.
- Vardan HarutyunyanPiano & Curator
- Lusine MLKE-GalstyanFlute & Creative Producer
- Andriesh GandraburBass guitar & Curator
- Mileta GhazanchyanPiano
- Vardui MirzoyanCello
- Arthur KnyazyanPiano
- Svetlana MikaelyanViolin
- Sona TurabyanViola
- Zepiur NazariansPiano
- LizbethNoise & Voice
- Misak SamokatianInstallation
- Nikita MaksinenkoTapes
community
This hosq Community Mapping is a living, interactive tool — a dynamic map of artists, curators, and collaborators engaged in the hosq ecosystem. You can explore practitioners across diverse disciplines, skill sets, and instruments, and discover unexpected connections between them.
partners
Zvartnots International Airport of Yerevan
Zvartnots International Airport of Yerevan is the main air gate of the Republic of Armenia, which has been operating since 1961.
Zvartnots International Airport of Yerevan is the main air gate of the Republic of Armenia, which has been operating since 1961.
Keron Foundation
Keron Foundation creates a vibrant environment by supporting infrastructure development projects and engaging passionate and proactive professionals from around the world to drive transformative changes in Armenia. By fostering Armenia’s global awareness and competitiveness they aim to drive sustainable prosperity and progress for the country.
https://keronfoundation.am/
Keron Foundation creates a vibrant environment by supporting infrastructure development projects and engaging passionate and proactive professionals from around the world to drive transformative changes in Armenia. By fostering Armenia’s global awareness and competitiveness they aim to drive sustainable prosperity and progress for the country.
https://keronfoundation.am/
Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC) after Komitas was founded in 1921 as a music studio and re-founded two years later as a higher musical education institution.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Armenian professional performing culture was shaped. It was represented by the graduates of Russian and European conservatories. Violinist Hovhanness Nalbandyan, (St. Petersburg Conservatory and Berlin Musikhochschule), singer M.Akimova (Leipzig Conservatory), musicologist M.Aghayan (St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories), singer A.Shahmuradyan (Conservatoire de Paris) etc.
The founder and first rector of conservatory was famous Armenian composer and widely educated musician and public figure Romanos Melikyan (Saints-Petersburg Conservatory graduate)
https://conservatory.am
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Armenian professional performing culture was shaped. It was represented by the graduates of Russian and European conservatories. Violinist Hovhanness Nalbandyan, (St. Petersburg Conservatory and Berlin Musikhochschule), singer M.Akimova (Leipzig Conservatory), musicologist M.Aghayan (St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories), singer A.Shahmuradyan (Conservatoire de Paris) etc.
The founder and first rector of conservatory was famous Armenian composer and widely educated musician and public figure Romanos Melikyan (Saints-Petersburg Conservatory graduate)
https://conservatory.am
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