Notations Festival
August 1-2, 2026
Yerevan, Armenia
Notations is the two-week laboratory culminates in a two-day public showcase of all works created during the process. Alongside the works, the festival includes a curated public program of talks, workshops, and lectures.
  • Supporter — €70
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
  • Standard — €50
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
  • volunteer — €0
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
Notations 2025
  • 10 days
    Musicians, performers and artists from many different cultures lived and worked together to create projects
  • 22 curators
    Enough guidance to get lost productively.
  • 37 projects
    Big volume, tight timeline, real outcomes.
  • 1,000+ visitors
    A bold program with a serious crowd.
projects & curators
Participants apply through one primary project while also having the possibility to propose, develop, and bring their own independent project ideas, collaborating across disciplines throughout the laboratory.
  • Music Production
    Arman Peshtmaljyan
    Shahen Khandkaryan (Shhau)
    Inviting producers, composers, musicians, DJs, live performers, sound artists, songwriters, experimental musicians, and artists working with digital audio tools, sampling, synthesis, or hybrid music practices.
  • Ambisonic Installation
    Kai Khachatryan
    Inviting sound artists, spatial audio composers, installation artists, acoustic researchers, media artists, field recordists, experimental technologists, and practitioners interested in multichannel sound and immersive environments.
  • Installation
    Nadya Xyxu
    Misak Samokatian
    Inviting multimedia artists, new media practitioners, installation artists, audiovisual performers, interaction designers, creative coders, light artists, experimental technologists, and artists working with sound, projection, electronics, or hybrid spatial practices.
  • Video Art 
    Gevorg Grigoryan (Diii Studio)
    Inviting video artists, filmmakers, animators, motion designers, visual storytellers, VJs, experimental filmmakers, media artists, and practitioners working with moving image, montage, archives, CGI, or audiovisual narratives.
  • Somatic Practices
    Lead to be announced
    Inviting performers, dancers, choreographers, movement researchers, body practitioners, theater makers, interdisciplinary performers, sound-and-body practitioners, and artists interested in embodiment, ritual, presence, and collective practices.
  • Art To Wear
    Venera Kazarova
    Inviting designers, costume artists, textile artists, wearable art practitioners, jewelry designers, performance designers, stylists, craft-based artists, and interdisciplinary makers exploring the body as an artistic medium.
  • The Refrain
    Aram Hovhannisyan
    Sergey Umroyan
    Inviting classical musicians, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, electro-acoustic composers, experimental performers, contemporary music practitioners, and artists exploring intersections between acoustic instruments and electronics to explore the idea of rituals through classical instruments and other forms of expression that we will discover along the way.


  • Neo-Tribes
    Tigran Suchyan
    Mesrop Sarkisyan
    Inviting jazz musicians, improvisers, composers, instrumentalists, electronic performers, live-looping artists, and practitioners working between improvisation, groove, sound experimentation, and electronic music to explore the idea of rituals through jazz language and other forms of expression that we will discover along the way.


  • Communitas
    Hayk Karoyi
    Ben Wheeler
    Inviting traditional musicians, folk singers, ethnomusicologists, sound artists, producers, instrumentalists, experimental composers, and artists interested in transforming traditional music practices through contemporary technologies and electronic approaches to explore the idea of rituals through traditional instruments and other forms of expression that we will discover along the way.


  • Contemporary Art
    Inviting contemporary artists, curators, installation artists, sculptors, visual artists, interdisciplinary practitioners, spatial designers, and artists developing research-based or site-specific works for exhibition contexts.
  • Assembling Ritual
    Jeanne Kormina (YCIE)
    Sergei Shtyrkov (YCIE)
    Inviting researchers, scientists, theorists, anthropologists, philosophers, technologists, cultural researchers, writers, archivists, and interdisciplinary practitioners interested in the intersection of art, science, technology, society, and experimental research practices.
  • Curatorial facilitation
    Dima Ustinov

  • Reverse Tower Ritual
    Andriesh Gandrabur
    Reverse Tower is a ritual in which human signals become light and sound, creating an experience of cosmic perspective and temporarily dissolving the borders between people.
    Inviting artists, researchers, technologists and engineers.
  • Live Microscopy VJ Set
    Andronik Khachiian
    Rituals of Matter. During the concerts, microscopic rituals of matter become live visuals: dissolving crystals, spreading pigments, microorganisms, liquids, and organic particles are captured in real time and transformed through Resolume into a reactive visual environment that evolves together with the music.
  • Documental
    Art
    Danila Iakushov
    Evgeniy Sharakshane
    Artem Semenov
    The documentary film Notations #2 will capture the inner life of the laboratory, following its production process from the initial creative sparks to the final showcase. Instead of a traditional format, the narrative places a sharp focus on the unique personal stories of the participants, crew, and curators.
  • Supporter — €70
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
  • Standard — €50
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
  • volunteer — €0
    covers your place and funds a hosq scholarship for another participant.
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