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Soundmapping Yerevan
Installation at TUMO Center for Art and Technology.
With students, Karin Schomaker and myself:



You can spot mount Ararat at the background.

News Concertzender:

Tumo Centre for Creative Technologies

"In Electronic Frequencies on Wednesday 24th October at 23.00 Roland Kuit reports on a workshop with students at the Tumo Center for Art and Technology in Yerevan in Armenia. Subject: How to create a sound art installation?"



"In honour of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the First Armenian Republic, the “International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia 2018 “Soundlines of Contemporary Art” was held in Yerevan. Over 50 international artists exhibited across 7 different locations in the city.............."

https://www.concertzender.nl/tumo-centr ... 90gSQZOAvw

Wednesday 24th October 2018 23:00 C.E.T.

The Yerevan Metro Installation, a phenomenological approach.

Between 10th and 21th September ICAE2018 sonic artist Roland Kuit and Karin Schomaker held a workshop with the students at the TUMO Center for Art and Technology. How to create a sound art installation?



The students recorded the Yerevan metro system and edited these sounds with computers. F.i. to hear the emotion of, in the environmental sounds, the data was down pitched and the fundamentals (the frequencies we hear the objects of sounds) were filtered away. The residues were the upper harmonics, now in reach of our hearing, could be molded into a new language by these young students. All resulted into this installation at the top floor of the TUMO Center Yerevan, Armenia......

https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/ ... es_467863/

Sonic Artist Roland Emile Kuit at the Aram Khachaturian House-Museum Yerevan, Armenia

ICAE2018 - The making of THE EXHIBITION



"Between the 1st of September and the 28th of September all the team of ICAE2018 had a fantastic time cooperating closely with several artists that came to Armenia to produce their artworks, take part into workshops and be present at the opening ceremony of the International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia 2018. Sahand Hessamyan - Kevork Mourad - NeSpoon - Roland Emile Kuit - Roberto Pugliese - Walid Siti - Imran Qureshi - Jasmin Bilodeau - Aboudia - Victor Ehikhamenor - Shariar Ahmadi" - ICAE2018

ICAE 2018 Yerevan interview with Roland Kuit

FLAME

The Armenian Genocide memorial complex on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan, Armenia.
During my stay as sonic artist at the ICAE 2018 Soundlines of Contemporary Art Yerevan, I visited this monument.
People of Armenia, you are in my heart.



Roland Emile Kuit: Duduk & Kyma.

Hardly the same thing, but perhaps a distant relative, the memorial constructed at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing contains, among many other important elements, an inscription:

We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence. May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.

(emphasis added) These are places of great emotional power. Yet the world seemingly continues in this downward spiral of violence in many places. True enlightenment seems further away now than it has at any point during my ~60 years on this planet. Violence cannot be cured with more violence...

I very much agree with you Pablo Mastodon.
I hope art can be an answer to stupidity.
Or at least as a kindof wake up call.