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The result compilation archives a selection of recordings by artists from Armenia, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, that are working with the concepts of timegs contributed by artists from Armenia, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, that are working with the concepts of time and memory in a vast range of styles — from musique concrète, tape-loops and sound collage to field recordings and loose dubs. The artists were asked to explore how ‘collective memories’ could be embodied in sound by using some of the aural techniques capable of evoking such memories in the subconscious of people from locations fairly different, but someway similar in their cultural codeby using some of the aural techniques capable of evoking such memories in the subconscious of people from locations fairly different, but someway similar in their cultural code. The submissions received were not only inspiring and diverse, but also accurately fell in line with Urvakan’s declared focus on “hauntological” music practices, referenced in the festival’s vision, and the name itself — ’urvakan’ is the Armenian word for ghost, phantom or spirithantom or spirit.

Sound representation for Hostile Terrain’94. Six channel installation run by a Max MSP patch using the data of 3,400 toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2022 and free course field recordings from different part of the area.
Made together with sal_vhs, _asl3a and lennartsaila
Shown in a group exhibition at Amare, Den Hague.