Timur Allakhverdiev
Curator of educational programs, book series, online media, music platforms. Artist, researcher, teacher.
allerme64@gmail.com
t.me/allerme
soundcloud.com/ambientviolence
Dağlar
Dağlar is an EP consisting of two Compositions. They were based on the field recordings made in several Israeli cities and in the area near the Palestinian border. I also used media archaeology techniques, cutting audio from various footages scattered around the net. In both Compositions I played with the contrast of extreme aggression and ghostly everyday life, and constructed the composition in such a way as to evoke reflections on the inequalities of war and its representation in the media + peace in its impermanence and changeability.
In Composition I I mix the speech of the warring Armenians and Azerbaijanis with the voice of the singer Shovket Elekberova, singing about the mountains (Azerbaijani: dağlar), which became the contrapunct of the whole work. Composition II is more tranquil, its spatial character is characterized by more coherence, but not by a smaller number of voices (Ableton tracks), which indicates the complexity of mechanisms through which peace finds itself. It ends with the sounds of the Jewish harp kinnor and the Arabic instrument qanun. One instrument blends with the other. In doing so, both sounds deforming by a phase distortion. The DAW allows the pre-recorded sounds to be used in a philosophical way, opening up space for a long and heavy reflection on the limits of the Human, the information distortion, the polyphony of symbols and meanings.
Please see the detailed text about the project on Soundcloud ↓
In Composition I I mix the speech of the warring Armenians and Azerbaijanis with the voice of the singer Shovket Elekberova, singing about the mountains (Azerbaijani: dağlar), which became the contrapunct of the whole work. Composition II is more tranquil, its spatial character is characterized by more coherence, but not by a smaller number of voices (Ableton tracks), which indicates the complexity of mechanisms through which peace finds itself. It ends with the sounds of the Jewish harp kinnor and the Arabic instrument qanun. One instrument blends with the other. In doing so, both sounds deforming by a phase distortion. The DAW allows the pre-recorded sounds to be used in a philosophical way, opening up space for a long and heavy reflection on the limits of the Human, the information distortion, the polyphony of symbols and meanings.
Please see the detailed text about the project on Soundcloud ↓
EP. winter 2023
Substitution
In this project I have spent months photographing places from my childhood where, as an adult, I experience a strange feeling, which can be briefly described as a «substitution»: childhood perceptions have been erased, but in these places they are sometimes resurrected for a few seconds, making me realize how different the perception had been then. I combined the photographs with the text of my reflections on this subject and the sounds from the videotapes my parents recorded when I was little: in these sounds, among other things, we can hear Yeltsin's speech before he left office, news of Putin's coming to power, speech in Azerbaijani and in Russian.
The audio track also includes a recording of me calling the number on the wall of the house where there used to be a bakery where my mother used to send me to get bread when I was little. This is the place where I have the most complicated feelings right now. This call is like a call to the depths of time and my own subconscious.
The audio track also includes a recording of me calling the number on the wall of the house where there used to be a bakery where my mother used to send me to get bread when I was little. This is the place where I have the most complicated feelings right now. This call is like a call to the depths of time and my own subconscious.
audio-visual project. summer 2021
GES-2 Soundsystem
Together with my colleague we created a program of music lectures and workshops GES-2 Soundsystem including lectures about the typography of electronic music records, live performance of electronic musicians, listening practices in anthropological and sociological terms, lo-fi culture, Soviet manipulations with sound hardware, as well as workshops on turntablism, sampling and pad controllers, field recordings.
In the first picture I present Gleb Glonti, head of Kotä sound research laboratory, before his lecture on perceiving the world through the otic senses.
On YouTube you can see a short video from our lo-fi music making workshop, where each participant received an audio tape with the session recording.
In the first picture I present Gleb Glonti, head of Kotä sound research laboratory, before his lecture on perceiving the world through the otic senses.
On YouTube you can see a short video from our lo-fi music making workshop, where each participant received an audio tape with the session recording.
public education program. february / march 2023
GES-2 Soundsystem
Together with my colleague we created a program of music lectures and workshops GES-2 Soundsystem including lectures about the typography of electronic music records, live performance of electronic musicians, listening practices in anthropological and sociological terms, lo-fi culture, Soviet manipulations with sound hardware, as well as workshops on turntablism, sampling and pad controllers, field recordings.
In the first picture I present Gleb Glonti, head of Kotä sound research laboratory, before his lecture on perceiving the world through the otic senses.
On YouTube you can see a short video from our lo-fi music making workshop, where each participant received an audio tape with the session recording.
In the first picture I present Gleb Glonti, head of Kotä sound research laboratory, before his lecture on perceiving the world through the otic senses.
On YouTube you can see a short video from our lo-fi music making workshop, where each participant received an audio tape with the session recording.
public education program. february / march 2023
social and political contexts of the newest electronic music
In December 2022, I designed and taught a course on the social and political contexts of the newest electronic music with a particular focus on queer optics, at one of the best universities in the country (HSE Moscow).
academic course. winter 2022
V–A–C Sreda
In 2022, we published Simon Reynolds' famous book Energy Flash about electronic music and rave culture. In the summer of that year, I moderated a roundtable discussion about it, where I invited five experts with whom we discussed the book. The recording of the roundtable was the basis of the podcast for our V–A–C Sreda (a platform where we are also giving space for artists, authors, students to show their work).
online magazine
STAYHOMECAST©
During the covid lockdown, my colleagues and I launched the STAYHOMECAST© audiovisual broadcasting project with a chat room to make it easier for people to tolerate loneliness and isolation.
broadcasting platform. 2020