Music for Airport: Arrival
Collaboration with Keron Foundation
“Arrival” — the first in a trilogy of contemplative music performances by the hosq Foundation at Zvartnots International Airport.
Zvartnots International Airport
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“Arrival” — the first in a trilogy of contemplative music performances by the hosq Foundation at Zvartnots International Airport. This event is part of the Musical Airport project by Keron Foundation, Zvartnots International Airport and Sunday Towers.
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outcome
By bringing music to the terminal, we invited travelers to slow down and experience the space through a new lens. Performed with students of the Yerevan State Conservatory.
participants
"Notations is a place where all of us are humans"
"I used to fear sharing my ideas. What if no one would understand the way I see it in my mind? However, only after working together, I understood that this is the whole point"
"I used to fear sharing my ideas. What if no one would understand the way I see it in my mind? However, only after working together, I understood that this is the whole point"
"What surprised me the most was how different artistic perspectives could connect so naturally, and how ideas I wouldn’t have discovered alone emerged through the exchange between music, visuals, and movement."
"As an artist, I started to feel more open and confident when it comes to working with media and technologies. Each of my ideas now gets a more voluminous expression in space"
"I would love to see contemporary music and arts involving more people of all ages! The festival was full of people and artists from all over, all ages, all identities. An absolutely beautiful scene, I’ve never seen in Austria. The laboratory was able to do this, and we all learned from each other. This knowledge is going to stay with us for a while!"
"What I truly loved was the organic process of immersion. No one overloaded us with lectures or forced tours. Instead, the local guys shared their stories with such openness – random street conversations, talks with Philharmonic staff – it was a beautiful immersion into the context. It felt like living within the culture, not observing it from the outside."
"I am very grateful for the opportunity to work with musicians playing acoustic instruments, to record their masterful playing of national instruments: kamancha, duduk. This immediately gives authenticity to the composition and totally changes my approach and method of working on tracks"
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
Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar is an American composer and musician. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise, Sirens, and Cenizas. He has also released three albums as one half of his band Darkside and two further albums under the alias Against All Logic.
Nicolas Jaar is an American composer and musician. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise, Sirens, and Cenizas. He has also released three albums as one half of his band Darkside and two further albums under the alias Against All Logic.
Urvakan Festival
Founded in 2019 by a mixed group of local and international curators, Urvakan Festival quickly became one of the regional culture’s highlights. Rooted in traditions, but innovative in its core, Urvakan not only represents the new directions in constantly-evolving realms of contemporary music and arts, but also provides a greater understanding of local cultural, political, social and environmental issues. In Armenian, ‘urvakan’ means ghost. Originally catalysed by an in-depth research of Soviet modernist architecture in some of Yerevan’s lesser-known ‘haunted’ spaces and its uncertain future, Urvakan used this metaphor to examine a music festival’s experiential domain and explore the well-known format from a range of perspectives, including issues of cultural heritage, urbanism and sustainability.
Founded in 2019 by a mixed group of local and international curators, Urvakan Festival quickly became one of the regional culture’s highlights. Rooted in traditions, but innovative in its core, Urvakan not only represents the new directions in constantly-evolving realms of contemporary music and arts, but also provides a greater understanding of local cultural, political, social and environmental issues. In Armenian, ‘urvakan’ means ghost. Originally catalysed by an in-depth research of Soviet modernist architecture in some of Yerevan’s lesser-known ‘haunted’ spaces and its uncertain future, Urvakan used this metaphor to examine a music festival’s experiential domain and explore the well-known format from a range of perspectives, including issues of cultural heritage, urbanism and sustainability.
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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