The projects developed within our laboratories are designed for life beyond the lab. Our mission is to foster their growth and ensure their presence in festivals, exhibitions, and cultural contexts both in Armenia and internationally.
laboratories
Notations is a .... foundation and platform — and soon, a shared physical space — dedicated to growing a creative ecosystem in Armenia. We connect artists, researchers, educators, and cultural workers into a living network that shares resources, skills, and ideas, with a permanent base and active presence in Armenia. Through laboratories, residencies, grants, and educational and public programs, we create conditions for collaboration across disciplines and geographies. Acting as both a meeting point and a catalyst, hosq fosters a cultural community where individual practices support one another, and where the arts can grow with care, sensibility, and vision.
Neumatic Roots by Napoleon Poghosyan
A reflection on Avet Terterian’s notation style, which explores aleatoric and repetitive techniques.
Intervisual Sonic No. 1,
Dissonant Mind by Mileta Gazanchyan
A performance with traditional music elements that features a striking contrast between three parts. Its complex symbolism remains open to viewer interpretation.
Intervisual Sonic No. 2
'maze(d) by Neunhas
A mosaic of tiny musical fragments from Part 2 of Avet Terterian’s Symphony No. 3. An attempt to give polyphonic texture to monody.
Post-visual Sonic No. 3
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Curators:
Aram Hovhannisyan
Vardan Harutyunyan
Performers:
Grigor Budaghyan (Clarinet)
Gohar Solkaryan (Qanon)
Varduhi Mirzoyan (Cello)
Thereza Markosyan (Piano)
Haig Gragian (Live electronics, saz, dispositive electronics)
Ariana Hernandez Vera (Prepared piano)
Gayane Aslanyan (Keyboard electronics, live electronics)
Animation:
Raf Tadevossian, Katerina Klitonchik, Yelena Nersesyan, Anna Kichigina, Aleksandra Deeva, Andrey Silvestrov, Blue Pencil
A reflection on Avet Terterian’s notation style, which explores aleatoric and repetitive techniques.
Intervisual Sonic No. 1,
Dissonant Mind by Mileta Gazanchyan
A performance with traditional music elements that features a striking contrast between three parts. Its complex symbolism remains open to viewer interpretation.
Intervisual Sonic No. 2
'maze(d) by Neunhas
A mosaic of tiny musical fragments from Part 2 of Avet Terterian’s Symphony No. 3. An attempt to give polyphonic texture to monody.
Post-visual Sonic No. 3
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Curators:
Aram Hovhannisyan
Vardan Harutyunyan
Performers:
Grigor Budaghyan (Clarinet)
Gohar Solkaryan (Qanon)
Varduhi Mirzoyan (Cello)
Thereza Markosyan (Piano)
Haig Gragian (Live electronics, saz, dispositive electronics)
Ariana Hernandez Vera (Prepared piano)
Gayane Aslanyan (Keyboard electronics, live electronics)
Animation:
Raf Tadevossian, Katerina Klitonchik, Yelena Nersesyan, Anna Kichigina, Aleksandra Deeva, Andrey Silvestrov, Blue Pencil
Jazz Orchestra
Concert | 45 minutes
Dedicated to Terterian
A jazz piece built from excerpts of Symphony No. 3: rhythmic patterns are transformed into polyrhythms, while melodic fragments are harmonized.
Fake Prince
By Arman Peshtmaljyan
An illustrative piece based on a reharmonized and reimagined jazz standard. A poor boy falls in love with a princess, dreams of being a prince, and then wakes to reality.
Nman chi / Unlike
By Nikola Chen
An impression of Armenian traditional scales, reinterpreted through sampled folk instruments performed by a jazz/electro collective.
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Curator:
Arman Peshtmaljyan
Tigran Suchyan / Toti
Performers:
Lilia Voskanyan (Violin)
Arman Mkrtchyan (Keyboard)
Larka Danielyan (Bass)
Hayk Simonyan (Drums)
Mika Bektashyan (Guitar)
Sam Avetisyan (Drums-percussion)
Tigran Suchyan (Trumpet)
Arman Peshtmaljyan (Keyboard)
Nikola Chen (Sound design electronics)
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (El. cello, electronics)
Ash Ghazar (Qamancha)
Visuals:
Taisiia Suvorova (Visual)
Romen Tsaturyan (Visual)
Andronik Khachiian (Visual)
Concert | 45 minutes
Dedicated to Terterian
A jazz piece built from excerpts of Symphony No. 3: rhythmic patterns are transformed into polyrhythms, while melodic fragments are harmonized.
Fake Prince
By Arman Peshtmaljyan
An illustrative piece based on a reharmonized and reimagined jazz standard. A poor boy falls in love with a princess, dreams of being a prince, and then wakes to reality.
Nman chi / Unlike
By Nikola Chen
An impression of Armenian traditional scales, reinterpreted through sampled folk instruments performed by a jazz/electro collective.
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Curator:
Arman Peshtmaljyan
Tigran Suchyan / Toti
Performers:
Lilia Voskanyan (Violin)
Arman Mkrtchyan (Keyboard)
Larka Danielyan (Bass)
Hayk Simonyan (Drums)
Mika Bektashyan (Guitar)
Sam Avetisyan (Drums-percussion)
Tigran Suchyan (Trumpet)
Arman Peshtmaljyan (Keyboard)
Nikola Chen (Sound design electronics)
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (El. cello, electronics)
Ash Ghazar (Qamancha)
Visuals:
Taisiia Suvorova (Visual)
Romen Tsaturyan (Visual)
Andronik Khachiian (Visual)
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