Drone Day Armenia

Nikola Chen

A versatile live performer, composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist, Nikola Chen weaves avant-garde electronic narratives and creates a captivating sonic tapestry through broken rhythms and blended styles.

Nikola released several solo albums, participated in Resonance Moscow, M-Division and 3 Moscow Biennales of Contemporary Art, and joined the Hosq music laboratory in Armenia. His track Porosheq was played at Copenhagen Fashion Week and in a Broadway theater production.

As a composer he collaborated with Audi, McDonald’s, Mercedes-Benz, Spotify, Playtronica, Big Cartoons Festival, SkyEng and others.

Kai Khachatryan

Kai Khachatryan is a sound artist, relentless experimenter, and explorer of obscure sonic phenomena from Yerevan, known for using field recordings and self-built devices to capture and manipulate sounds.

His work focuses on preserving the authenticity of street and acoustic noises while exploring timbre and the psychological aspects of sound. A veteran of Yerevan’s underground, Kai has worked across raw punk-rock, metal, and futuristic deconstruction of club music.

Ambmozes

Ambmozes is a live electronic project exploring the space between drone ambient, experimental electronics, and hypnotic soundscapes.

For Drone Day, he will perform a special synth-only live set built from evolving drones, ambient textures, and analog improvisation. No playback, no pre-recorded arrangements, only a real-time flow of sound shaped in the moment.

Deep resonance, slow sonic movement, and immersive meditative atmospheres.

AV3RAK

From forgotten stone corridors and imagined medieval ruins emerges AV3RAK: an Armenian sound artist, former black metal musician, and dungeon synth composer whose work exists between fantasy, decay, and existential tension.

Having roots in black metal, AV3RAK now works across drone, dark ambient, noise, and ritualistic sound performance. Using dense low-frequency pressure, feedbacks, field recordings, and slowly evolving dissonance, he creates immersive sonic environments between meditation and psychological suffocation.

For International Drone Day, he presents the beginning of Subject Murder Justification: a live drone performance on the destruction of human subjectivity and the normalized erasure of individuality, emotional depth, and inner autonomy.

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Arthur Aurikeo

Arthur Aurikeo is a visual artist and live painter working at the intersection of improvisation and experimental sound.

In his performances, he creates paintings in real time, responding intuitively to the flows, textures, and images emerging from noise, drone, and electronic music, without any predefined composition or outcome.

His practice is rooted in immediacy and perception, translating sonic movement into spontaneous visual forms. Each performance is an open process, where the final image remains unknown even to the artist until it unfolds.