It was like I have been out the window and come back after a long journey, taking up to play as if I had interrupted the day before. Because everything is connected and I knew I had to experiment on myself some truth (not all) before I can give something that made sense.
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Live events
2020
February 22, 2020 - TINY JAPAN VIBES by Duplex Ride
February 22, 2020 - Museo d'Arte Orientale Chiossone - Genova
TINY JAPAN VIBES by Duplex Ride Museo d'Arte Orientale Chiossone piazzale Giuseppe Mazzini 4 - 16122 Genova free entry MEMO ticket: https://armenia2020.eventbrite.it the exhibition of Armenia is at 16:30
Saturday, February 22 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual 2020
ARMENIA is an independent electronic musician, part of the Genoese underground scene for many years, combining an instinctive and intuitive approach with the meticulous care of an enveloping and emotional soundscape. Serial repetition and at the same time the search for difference are two dominant stylistic figures. Attention to the perception of the world and the interpretation of Essence transpires through individual compositions. He experiments with contemporary dance and the contamination between styles and disciplines. Within "TINY JAPAN VIBES", an exhibition curated by Duplex Ride.
Posted: December 31st, 2019
Author: Armenia
2019
May 11, 2019 - SEQUENCES by Duplex Ride - CONDIZIONA MENTI - PREMIÈRE
May 11, 2019 - Museo di Sant'Agostino - Sala Puget - Genova
SEQUENCES by Duplex Ride - CONDIZIONA MENTI - PREMIÈRE Museo di Sant'Agostino - Sala Puget piazza di Sarzano 35/R - 16128 Genova free entry MEMO ticket: https://armenia-condiziona-menti.eventbrite.it the exhibition of Armenia is at 17:00
Saturday, May 11 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Performance with the participation of ALMAKARMA GIORGIA PONTICELLO MATTIA MORO
"Condiziona Menti", work presented here for the first time, comes from a textual idea by Armenia that rotates around the concept of dogma. Once the idea has been transposed into music and action, an original suite of dance and performance whose style ranges between contemporary and contamination has been created by Giorgia Ponticello and Mattia Moro.
Syntax, constructivism, contrast, duality, symmetry and also alchemy are some key concepts useful for reading this multidisciplinary work that comes from a collaboration with multiple heads, hands and feet. The sound part is enriched by the participation of the dancer Giorgia Ponticello whose young voice reads the founding text several times as a doggerel:
"Conditionings They are these They are those They are yours They are mine Dogma Repeated association Repeated influence Confer properties To the substance Impress minds Unthinkable idea Radical idea Acceptable idea Rational idea Widespread idea Legalized idea Confer properties To the substance Conditionings They are these They are those They are mine They are yours Dogma"
Giorgia's voice, filtered and treated, accompanies the performance devised with the dancer Mattia Moro. This is their interpretative vision: "Each of us has its own identity that makes him feel unique. We all have the same frailties that make us feel as one human community. Social conventions stigmatize or emphasize uniqueness by using them to accentuate the superficial differences that lead to a common thought. We are so different but so alike. Shades of multiple personalities, we are influenced by what surrounds us for fear of not being accepted by others. We are afraid of diversity, when in reality this is our only escape's chance. In performance, shoes become a symbol of conditioning."
The overall show will be presented live in premiere by playing and interpreting the three tracks/movements of the suite: "Dogma", "Sintassi Della Lingua Madre" and "Divide Et Impera". "Condiziona Menti" EP will be published soon after on Bandcamp.
Giorgia Ponticello (27/04/1998), as well as student of "Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti", is dancer and teacher of hip hop and contemporary dance. She was dancer in the emerging Kseij Dance Company of Alekseij Canepa and she's currently member of "Cohesion Crew" directed by Laura Bergaglio and Federica Loredan of Studio Danza Alla Poilova. Mattia Moro (28/10/1994) is dancer and teacher of hip hop, electronic musician for Kseij Dance Company of Alekseij Canepa, deejay. He is currently member of "Cohesion Crew" directed by Laura Bergaglio and Federica Loredan of Studio Danza Alla Poilova.
Photo shoot by Roberta Fognani.
The first part of the live set will also see the participation of ALMAKARMA. ALMAKARMA is a music and video project. It was born from the meeting of the musician/singer Ivano Baldassarre with the photographer/videomaker Salvatore Mei and Enrico Scheri who takes care of the graphic image of the team. The songs, as well as the videos inspired by them, are permeated by a strong component of inner and spiritual research.
From the synchronicity of the meeting between ALMAKARMA and ARMENIA a fortunate collaboration has recently started with the re-elaboration in "song" format of some tracks by ARMENIA, including "Engage Me", now "Vita". The common ground that unites these artists has roots in a research that even before being musical is connected to the endless questions that the evolutionary path of awareness presents us. An EP in collaboration is in preparation.
Armenia is an electronic musician who combines a very instinctive and intuitive approach with the meticulous care of an enveloping and emotional soundscape. Musical structures are usually simple and strong. Serial repetition and search for difference at the same time are two dominant stylistic figures. Attention to the perception of the world and to interpretation of the Essence transpires from each composition.
Discography: 2011 - A New Beginning - Digital Album, CD, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2015 - Reboot (Live) - Digital Album, CD, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2017 - We Are Still Machines - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2018 - Echoes (Live) - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2018 - The Wedding Gig - by Andy Moor, Armenia, Valentina Campora - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp.
March 16, 2019 - RIDE by Duplex Ride - with ALMAKARMA
March 16, 2019 - Casa Della Musica - Genova
RIDE by Duplex Ride - with ALMAKARMA Casa Della Musica via M. Boccanegra 15 - Darsena - 16126 Genova free entry the exhibition of Almakarma and Armenia is at 21:00
Saturday, March 16 ARMENIA live with ALMAKARMA
From the synchronicity of the meeting between ALMAKARMA and ARMENIA, a fortunate collaboration has recently started with the re-elaboration in "song" format of some tracks by ARMENIA, including "Engage Me", now "Vita". Armenia will participate in the concert, contributing to part of the repertoire that will be presented. The common ground that unites these artists has roots in a research that even before being musical is connected to the endless questions that the evolutionary path of awareness presents us. Armenia recently released "The Wedding Gig", emotional and energetic, with the excellent Andy Moor (TheEx) playing the electric guitar.
Posted: March 10th, 2019
Author: Armenia
2018
December 30, 2018 - Kontamina & Duplex Ride
December 30, 2018 - Sala Dogana Palazzo Ducale - Genova
Kontamina & Duplex Ride Sala Dogana Palazzo Ducale piazza Giacomo Matteotti 16123 Genova free entry the exhibition of Armenia is at 19:00
Sunday, December 30 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set↔Visual↔Performance
The new projects involve: the professional photographer Eliana Maffei, the dancer Giorgia Ponticello and the singer Ivano Baldassarre who along with Angelica Baldassarre ("AlmaKarma") will participate in the live show.
“I realized: I'm an infiltrate in the world of machines and electronic music. Basic a subversive. I go towards man and everything is adjusted for this purpose in various ways and paths. I install a human virus and I go to the result. Then the machines, both software and hardware, begin to bend, to heat up and become alive. Sometimes it's surprising. Alchemical operation in my sight. The Wise commands. In the background the Child and the Doomsayer.”
Music is for me description of Essence. My dark tracks are dense, often restless and do not indulge in harmonic and melodic solutions which simultaneously outline. In 2013, after a very long absence from the scenes, I returned to a good solo live activity and expressive and experimental use of visuals.
I also collaborate from 2016 with dancer and choreographer Alekseij Canepa and his "Kseij Dance Company". In September 2017, after the previous "A New Beginning" and "Reboot (Live)", I published my latest studio album "We Are Still Machines". The "We Are Still Machines" closing bonus track is "Here I Am", the result of another great collaboration with Lisfrank. In June 2018 I published my second live album "Echoes", available on Bandcamp: live recorded @ Museo di Sant'Agostino, Genova (Italy) on March 17, 2018. In September 2018 I published "The Wedding Gig", live recorded in Montanesi (Italy). The emotional and energetic mix of an unreleased international trio that blends visceral electronics, experiments on electric guitar, noise with the bodily expression of the dance. A purifying ritual of the place and time. With the excellent Andy Moor (The Ex) (electric guitar, born in London, EN, from Amsterdam, NL), Armenia (electronics, from Genoa, IT), Valentina Campora (dance, born in Genoa, IT, from Amsterdam, NL).
Discography: 2011 - A New Beginning - Digital Album, CD, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2015 - Reboot (Live) - Digital Album, CD, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2017 - We Are Still Machines - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2018 - Echoes (Live) - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp. 2018 - The Wedding Gig - by Andy Moor, Armenia, Valentina Campora - Digital Album, self produced, on Bandcamp.
Echoes Museo di Sant'Agostino piazza di Sarzano 35/R - 16128 Genova free entry start h 16:00
Saturday, March 17 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual
Armenia brings the new restless studio album, WE ARE STILL MACHINES, preceded by LIKE A DERVISH and published on Bandcamp. "Our true conscience can be, and in fact it's almost always, completely absent from all that we do, think, want and imagine ..." In "ECHOES" by DUPLEX RIDE, Armenia also introduces the very fresh project of collaboration with the professional photographer ELIANA MAFFEI who has edited the visual part of two new tracks and which will be part of a new EP in process: I NEED TO GO UP and OUR MEMORIES. The context will be that of the Museum of Sant'Agostino, surrounded by the ancient artifacts preserved here. Not to be missed.
Posted: February 23rd, 2018
Author: Armenia
2017
November 25, 2017 - Sound Waves - Etherea
November 25, 2017 - Loggia degli Abati - Palazzo Ducale - Genova
Armenia and Mongiovì will perform either two different sets in the same evening: start h 19:00 and h 20:30 until h 22:00
Saturday, November 25 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual - ROOMS
Music for Armenia is a description of the Essence. His tracks are dark, dense, often restless and not indulgent with harmonic and melodic solutions which are simultaneously outlined. He combines an instinctive and intuitive approach with soundscape's meticulous care. He presents in two different parts "ROOMS", electronic set which begins from a rarefied pulsation that becomes more and more tangible and concrete and crosses various forms, namely, the "rooms", including some tracks from the latest album "We Are Still Machines" (https://armeniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-still-machines).
Posted: November 7th, 2017
Author: Armenia
September 23, 2017 - Esplorazioni.
September 23, 2017 - Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè - Genova
Esplorazioni. Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè piazza della Commenda - 16126 Genova free entry start h 17:00
Saturday, September 23 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual
Armenia, experimental electronic musician, so says about himself: "As above so below. I realized: I'm an infiltrate in the world of machines and electronic music. Basic a subversive. I go towards man and everything is adjusted for this purpose in various ways and paths. I install a human virus and I go to the result. Then the machines, both software and hardware, begin to bend, to heat up and become alive. Sometimes it's surprising. Alchemical operation in my sight. The Wise commands. In the background the Child and the Doomsayer." After traveling with the "IO È" show together with Kseij Dance Company, returning from Budapest, Armenia returns to Commenda in Genoa with his live accompanied by visuals. He brings the new restless studio album, WE ARE STILL MACHINES, preceded during spring by LIKE A DERVISH and published on Bandcamp (https://armeniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-still-machines). "Our true conscience can be, and in fact it's almost always, completely absent from all that we do, think, want and imagine ..." In "ESPLORAZIONI" by DUPLEX RIDE, Armenia also pays tribute to Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff, using frames of "Meetings with Remarkable Men", a movie released in 1979 written and directed by Peter Brook, taken from Gurdjieff's novel by the same name.
Posted: September 8th, 2017
Author: Armenia
May 26, 2017 - " IO È "
May 26, 2017 - Budapest Táncszínház / DEPO / Budapest Dance Theatre - Budapest, HU
KSEIJ DANCE - " IO È " - Show
Budapest Táncszínház / DEPO / Budapest Dance Theatre Depo Dance Studio - Koppány street 15 - 1097 Budapest, HU May 26, 2017 start @ 8:00pm
The " IO È " show created by Alekseij Canepa for Kseij Dance, aims today to represent through three acts how men with the advent of technology began to decrease constantly relations each other, increasingly becoming automata, almost like they were remote-controlled by others.
Dancers : Sara Ferrera, Sara Gualtieri, Giorgia Ponticello, Chiara Ramone, Martina Sgarlata, Sindi Stana, Chiara Traverso, Alice Vancheri Choreographer : Alekseij Canepa Direction and Lights : Alekseij Canepa, Alla Poilova Original Live Soundtrack : Armenia Production : Studio Danza Alla Poilova
Tickets are available on the spot For more information: BUDAPEST DANCE THEATRE Telephone number: +3612834892
ARMENIA [elettronica The new album coming out, from which " IO È " taps into, is "WE ARE STILL MACHINES".
Posted: March 19th, 2017
Author: Armenia
March 4, 2017 - " IO È " extract
March 4, 2017 - Palalassio - Palazzetto dello sport Ravizza - Alassio SV
KSEIJ DANCE - " IO È " extract - FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELLA DANZA Palalassio - Palazzetto dello sport Ravizza via San Giovanni Battista 31 - 17021 Alassio SV March 4, 2017 start @ 9:00pm
The " IO È " show created by Alekseij Canepa for Kseij Dance, aims today to represent through three acts how men with the advent of technology began to decrease constantly relations each other, increasingly becoming automata, almost like they were remote-controlled by others.
Dancers : Sara Ferrera, Sara Gualtieri, Giorgia Ponticello, Chiara Ramone, Martina Sgarlata, Sindi Stana, Chiara Traverso, Alice Vancheri Choreographer : Alekseij Canepa Direction and Lights : Alekseij Canepa, Alla Poilova Original Live Soundtrack : Armenia Production : Studio Danza Alla Poilova
ARMENIA [elettronica The new album coming out, from which " IO È " taps into, is "WE ARE STILL MACHINES".
Posted: February 8th, 2017
Author: Armenia
January 13, 2017 - FRAGILE / handle with care - 2nd Edition
January 13, 2017 - Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè - Genova
FRAGILE / handle with care - 2nd Edition Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè piazza della Commenda - 16126 Genova free entry start h 18:00
Friday, January 13 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual
“Si può portare il bue assetato al fiume, ma, se non sarà lui a bere, morirà. Cadi sette volte, rialzati otto volte. Memory cluster. I miei ologrammi persistenti. Solo chi ha il coraggio di scrivere la parola fine, può trovare la forza per scrivere la parola inizio.
Lo stelo del fiore, sapiente percepisce la bufera e si piega al suo arrivo. C'ero soltanto. C'ero. Intorno cadeva la neve. Sii come il bambù, fuori duro e compatto, dentro morbido e cavo. Le sue radici sono saldamente confitte nel terreno e si intrecciano con quelle di altre piante per rafforzarsi e sorreggersi a vicenda. Lo stelo si lascia investire liberamente dal vento e lungi dal resistergli si piega. Ciò che si piega è molto più difficile a spezzarsi.“ (Aforismi)
"Memory Cluster - Ologrammi persistenti" Performance of electronic music and visual at the vernissage.
"FRAGILE / handle with care - 2nd Edition" Collective contemporary art's exhibition curated by Benedetta Spagnuolo. " Fragile – handle with care ", a radical extension of fragility's concept, which touches existential questions related to sensitivity, delicacy, human vulnerability and uncertainty, dilemmas and expectations. This itinerary starts from here and it's not only expositive, but inner, concerning an introspective reflection about fragile and ephemeral, material human condition.
Posted: December 24th, 2016
Author: Armenia
2016
December 18, 2016 - Digital Warhol
December 18, 2016 - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce - Sala Conferenze - Genova
Digital Warhol Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce - Sala Conferenze via J. Ruffini 3 - 16128 Genova free entry start h 18:00
Sunday, December 18 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual
#modus #armenia #duplexride #andywarhol #villacroce #genova #electronic #live #set Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 18:00 Armenia's performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce for "Digital Warhol" exhibition's opening.
Posted: December 14th, 2016
Author: Armenia
December 10, 2016 - Elettroponente - così indietro nel passato da sfiorare il futuro
December 10, 2016 - Centro Civico G. Buranello - Auditorium - Genova
Elettroponente così indietro nel passato da sfiorare il futuro Centro Civico G. Buranello - Auditorium via Nicolò Daste 8 - 16149 Genova free entry start h 21:00
Saturday, December 10 ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual :: KSEIJ DANCE - Contemporary Live Dance WE ARE STILL MACHINES (sleeping machines) extracted choreographies from "IO È"
Second and final leg of Armenia and Kseij Dance's "Ponente Tour", after the performance in November at Ex Manifattura Tabacchi in Sestri. Through "Elettroponente" festival Armenia and the young Genoese Kseij Dance contemporary dance company arrive at Centro Civico G. Buranello's Auditorium in Genoa Sampierdarena for a not to miss Saturday night. Armenia, experimental electronic musician, brings the upcoming album "We Are Still Machines" in the mark of a new integration man/machine/gesture/dance. Enriched with original visuals and with now cold now warm movements of "Kseij Dance Company", the performance will be colorful and it will move between energetic, dark and introspective live electronic music. Armenia collaborates from 2016 with dancer and choreographer Alekseij Canepa and his "Kseij Dance Company", Studio Danza Alla Poilova's feminine emerging young contemporary dance company located at Sestri Ponente. The company, which will be on stage in the exciting final part of this live performance (curated by Duplex Ride), is currently formed by Sara Ferrera, Sara Gualtieri, Giorgia Ponticello, Chiara Ramone, Martina Sgarlata, Sindi Stana, Chiara Traverso, Alice Vancheri and Noemi Re (assistant to the choreographer). "Kseij Dance Company" arrives along with Armenia from recent Italian premiere of "IO È" at "Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi" in Genoa. This show represents the transformation of mechanical man into machine.
Posted: October 6th, 2016
Author: Armenia
November 5, 2016 - AlteR_ElektrO
November 5, 2016 - Auditorium Ex Manifattura Tabacchi - Genova Sestri Ponente
ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual :: KSEIJ DANCE - Contemporary Live Dance
Auditorium Ex Manifattura Tabacchi Via Filippo Emanuele Bottino 6 - Genova Sestri Ponente accessed from via Giacomo Soliman 7 November 5, 2016 start @ 5:00pm
Free Entry
Within "ALTER_ELEKTRO suoni e visioni in 4 elettronici modi", festival curated by genovarepubblicaelettronica
WE ARE STILL MACHINES (sleeping machines) Armenia, experimental electronic musician, presents the upcoming album "We Are Still Machines" in the mark of a new integration man/machine/gesture/dance. Enriched with original visuals and with now cold now warm movements of "Kseij Dance Company", the performance will be colorful and it will move between energetic, dark and introspective live electronic music. Armenia now collaborates with dancer and choreographer Alekseij Canepa and his "Kseij Dance Company", Studio Danza Alla Poilova's feminine emerging young contemporary dance company located at Sestri Ponente. The company, which will take part in live performance in "AlteR_ElektrO", is formed by Sara Ferrera, Sara Gualtieri, Giorgia Ponticello, Chiara Ramone, Martina Sgarlata, Sindi Stana, Chiara Traverso, Alice Vancheri and Noemi Re (assistant to the choreographer). "Kseij Dance Company" arrives along with Armenia from recent Italian premiere of "IO È" at "Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi" in Genoa. This show represents the transformation of mechanical man into machine.
Posted: September 23rd, 2016
Author: Armenia
September 17, 2016 - A Ride In Wonderland
September 17, 2016 - Museo Luzzati - Genova
ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set and Visual
Museo Luzzati Porta Siberia - Area Porto Antico - Genova September 17, 2016 start @ 6:00pm
Free Entry
Within A RIDE IN WONDERLAND, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE
Festival of electronic music and visuals for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Duplex Ride.
"I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir" said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." Lewis Carroll was a shy stutterer man who felt uncomfortable with adults. His first book was "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" which was followed by "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". From the latter the director John Henderson in 1998 conceived an artwork targeted to adults. In his film (included in some visuals during Armenia's concert) Alice is a teenager and all characters are humanized. Costumes and makeup fully reflect the style of the 90's. It's the latest adventure of a teenage girl who now cannot escape to growth. She must therefore give up games, disobedience, fantasy, to devote herself to life as a wife and home's guardian. Also Carroll has to surrender to time, recognize his advanced age and give the last touching farewell to the girl who led him for a while out of social patterns and human logic. It seems infact that the White Knight who Alice meets is precisely the author, clumsy, full of tools he invented, old on his horse slowly drifting away on the horizon. At the end the live electronic set will be also enriched by the video presence of the contemporary dance company Kseij Dance, with Alekseij Canepa's choreography for "Balance" that will close Armenia's live performance of his original electronic music, mostly taken from the outbound album "We Are Still Machines".
Posted: June 5th, 2016
Author: Armenia
June 1, 2016 - " IO È "
June 1, 2016 - Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi - Genova Bolzaneto
KSEIJ DANCE - " IO È " - Show - Italian premiere
Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi via Pastorino 23-25 R - 16162 Genova Bolzaneto June 1, 2016 start @ 8:30pm
The " IO È " show created by Alekseij Canepa for Kseij Dance, aims today to represent through three acts how men with the advent of technology began to decrease constantly relations each other, increasingly becoming automata, almost like they were remote-controlled by others.
Dancers : Sara Ferrera, Sara Gualtieri, Giorgia Ponticello, Chiara Ramone, Martina Sgarlata, Sindi Stana, Chiara Traverso, Alice Vancheri Choreographer : Alekseij Canepa Direction and Lights : Alekseij Canepa, Alla Poilova Original Soundtrack : Armenia – Antonio Armenia Visual: Armenia – Antonio Armenia Production : Studio Danza Alla Poilova
In May 2015 Kseij Dance presented the Italian premiere of its own show "INTERAZIONI" at Teatro Verdi in Genoa.
ARMENIA [elettronica The new album coming out, from which " IO È " taps into, is "WE ARE STILL MACHINES".
Tickets reservation : STUDIO DANZA ALLA POILOVA VIA MONTEROTONDO 11 R GENOVA SESTRI PONENTE 3496753561
Posted: March 30th, 2016
Author: Armenia
May 27, 2016 - Fractal #2
May 27, 2016 - Sala Dogana Palazzo Ducale - Genova
ARMENIA - WE ARE STILL MACHINES - Evening Electronic Live Set
Sala Dogana Palazzo Ducale piazza Giacomo Matteotti 16123 Genova May 27, 2016 start @ 9:00pm
Free Entry
Within FRACTAL, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE
Armenia in 2016 presents the new tracks from "We Are Still Machines", in the mark of a new integration man/machine/gesture/dance. For this reason he opened a few months ago a fortunate collaborative research along with dancer and choreographer Alekseij Canepa and his creature "Kseij Dance Company", a young female contemporary dance company which belongs to Studio Danza Alla Poilova. This will lead in Genoa on June 1, 2016 to the representation of " IO È " show's Italian premiere at "Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi". Already born electronic tracks have been re-assembled around the performance of the young dancers and will go to compose the album's definitive material, which will be mixed probably in September 2016 and which will be released digitally for download and streaming on Bandcamp and on main online stores such as iTunes. "Balance", "Like A Dervish" are some of the titles that will be presented as a preview. While waiting in Sala Dogana Armenia will present for the first time ever part of the material, enriched with new visuals, in a colorful performance that will range from the most energized by rhythm tracks to the more obscure and introspective ones.
Posted: May 14th, 2016
Author: Armenia
2015
October 10, 2015 - Retrofuturi
October 10, 2015 - Wolfsoniana - Genova
ARMENIA - WE ARE THE ENEMIES - Electronic Live Set
Wolfsoniana via Serra Gropallo 4 - 16167 Genova Nervi (Parchi) October 10, 2015 start @ 5:00pm
Free Entry
Within RETROFUTURI, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE
When imagining the future was a dream.
WE ARE THE ENEMIES - NOI SIAMO I NEMICI ARMENIA, with his experimental music and processed visuals, will approach an Orwellian future, currently disguised in a dystopian present and underlying theme of man's awareness and his mechanical nature. The new album, "We are still machines", is undergoing advanced production. As above so below. We are still machines creating other machines. "We are the enemies", which also contains small audio samples of the reciting voice of the Futurism's founder Marinetti, is the first track that will anticipate everything and will be presented in preview at the concert for the festival RETROFUTURI at WOLFSONIANA by DUPLEX RIDE. Together with the previous "Slave" with the voice of John F. Kennedy and "Facing the abyss" with the text of the speech by Bush after September 11, the new track will complete the concert's lineup with an electronic triptych trying to grab the doublethink of our Western society. "You are the task" and "My secret heart" will bring us back to the heart and a more human dimension.
Posted: August 6th, 2015
Author: Armenia
June 27, 2015 - Zero Gravity
June 27, 2015 - Museo di Sant'Agostino - Genova
LEGGE COSMICA (Claudio Ferrari, Ilaria Testa) - featuring Armenia and Bruno Gussoni - Electronic Live Set
Museo di Sant'Agostino piazza di Sarzano 35/R - 16128 Genova June 27, 2015 start @ 4:00pm
Free Entry
Within ZERO GRAVITY, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE
A powerful energy's spiral surrounds one of the rooms of the museum. Abstract sounds, high and low electronic frequencies, accompanied by installations and modern images placed on the two hall's floors and around, surround the audience who moves for freely exploring possibilities for listening and viewing. This is the icon of what will happen in the new festival of electronic music and visuals ZERO GRAVITY, sounds and visions floating in space of the modern, made by Duplex Ride through its artists for the first time at Sant'Agostino Museum: from March 28 to June 27, in Franco Albini's architectural setting.
Posted: June 20th, 2015
Author: Armenia
March 28, 2015 - Zero Gravity
March 28, 2015 - Museo di Sant'Agostino - Genova
ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set In REBOOT's wake, Armenia's first live electronic album, available in digital stores and on self-produced CD!
REBOOT, trustworthy picture of a whole concert, in addition to seven updated instrumental pieces from the previous studio album A NEW BEGINNING, includes three unreleased tracks, which were created during concerts in past two years: UNDER SKY, YOU ARE THE TASK (in double version) and LEAD ME TO LINES.
Museo di Sant'Agostino piazza di Sarzano 35/R - 16128 Genova March 28, 2015 start @ 4:00pm
Free Entry
Within ZERO GRAVITY, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE
A powerful energy's spiral surrounds one of the rooms of the museum. Abstract sounds, high and low electronic frequencies, accompanied by installations and modern images placed on the two hall's floors and around, surround the audience who moves for freely exploring possibilities for listening and viewing. This is the icon of what will happen in the new festival of electronic music and visuals ZERO GRAVITY, sounds and visions floating in space of the modern, made by Duplex Ride through its artists for the first time at Sant'Agostino Museum: from March 28 to June 27, in Franco Albini's architectural setting.
Posted: March 20th, 2015
Author: Armenia
March 14, 2015 - Modern Ride
March 14, 2015 - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce - Genova
ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set In REBOOT's wake, Armenia's first live electronic album, available in digital stores and on self-produced CD!
REBOOT, trustworthy picture of a whole concert, in addition to seven updated instrumental pieces from the previous studio album A NEW BEGINNING, includes three unreleased tracks, which were created during concerts in past two years: UNDER SKY, YOU ARE THE TASK (in double version) and LEAD ME TO LINES. To complete the album for the visual side nine corresponding live videos will follow: the first two are already available on YouTube and Vimeo (UNDER SKY/YOU ARE THE TASK and TO THE STARS).
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce via J. Ruffini 3 - 16128 Genova March 14, 2015 start @ 4:30pm
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Within MODERN RIDE, festival curated by DUPLEX RIDE 4 unpredictable appointments of electronic music and visual art
After the success of last year, in 2015 DUPLEX RIDE association returns between the walls of VILLA CROCE in Genoa. MODERN RIDE, a cavalcade into the future, a series of new appointments of vanguard music and of visual art, which finds its natural place within the context of the contemporary art museum.
Posted: January 13th, 2015
Author: Armenia
Updated: February 23rd, 2015
Author: Armenia
January 10, 2015 - Reparto Ovest - annunci di futuro in un passato di ferro
January 10, 2015 - Centro Civico G. Buranello - Genova
ARMENIA - Electronic Live Set
Centro Civico G. Buranello via Nicolò Daste 8 - 16149 Genova January 10, 2015 start @ 9:00pm
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Within REPARTO OVEST, festival of electronic music and visual by Duplex Ride
Armenia presents an electronic layered multi-level sound, in search of awareness and knowledge between instinct, emotion and mind. The inherited name ("Armenia") now looks like a destiny or an omen: his eyes and sensitivity connected to the most hidden East, bearing a versus narrative that counteracts the mainstream of today's society ("Facing The Abyss") and the enslavement of individuals and populations to needs that alienate their real nature ("Slave"), Armenia uses every modern tool to find and draw a line of energy capable of piercing and revealing the world ("A New Beginning"). Increasingly close to the realization of their nightmares and their own dark side the human machines must be restarted ("You are the task [Human machine needs rebooting]"). "We Are Machines" is today's new album in production after "A New Beginning", released in 2011 on iTunes.
Posted: September 21st, 2014
Author: Armenia
Updated: October 14th, 2014
Author: Armenia
2014
May 24, 2014 - Duplex Ride
May 24, 2014 - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce - Genova
ARMENIA - WE ARE MACHINES - Live Electronica
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce via J. Ruffini 3 - 16128 Genova May 24, 2014 start @ 4:30pm
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Within DUPLEX RIDE, multimedia festival of electronic music and video
Armenia presents the new electronic live show based on tracks of "A New Beginning" and enriched for the occasion by new sound parts and for the first time by the live performance of "New Worldline" and two versions of "You Are The Task (Human Machine Needs Rebooting)", a track that saw its genesis on stage last year and reached the final elaboration, anticipating the new album in progress "We Are Machines". Particular emphasis will be given to the visual, which will insist on a strong sync sound/image (particularly for "Facing The Abyss" special guest G. W. Bush) to increase suggestions and impressions and which will collect new videos, such as "Saving Energy", recently filmed on the Celtic pyramidal building located near Rovagnate (LC), IT.
Posted: January 28th, 2014
Author: Armenia
Updated: May 3rd, 2014
Author: Armenia
2013
November 23, 2013 - Cross Riders 2
November 23, 2013 - Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè - Genova
ARMENIA - A NEW BEGINNING - Electronic Live Music and Video
Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè ground floor - piazza della Commenda - 16126 Genova November 23, 2013 at 17:00
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Within CROSS RIDERS 2, multimedia festival of electronic music and images by Duplex Ride and Casa della Musica
Posted: November 2nd, 2013
Author: Armenia
October 26, 2013 - Connect
October 26, 2013 - Club 262 - Genova
ARMENIA - A NEW BEGINNING - Electronic Live Music and Video
Club 262 - Live Room - Via Mura delle Grazie 25 - Genova October 26, 2013 at 23:00
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Posted: October 11th, 2013
Author: Armenia
July 26, 2013 - Sunset Ride
July 26, 2013 - Piazza Renato Negri - Genova
ARMENIA LIVE SUNSET - A NEW BEGINNING live
Piazza Renato Negri - Genova July 26, 2013 at 18:00
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Posted: July 5th, 2013
Author: Armenia
May 18, 2013 - Museums' Night
May 18, 2013 - Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè - Genova
ARMENIA LIVE SET Music and Video - A NEW BEGINNING live
Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè ground floor - piazza della Commenda - 16126 Genova May 18, 2013 at 18:00
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Within CROSS RIDERS, multimedia festival of electronic music and images by Duplex Ride and Casa della Musica
Posted: May 2nd, 2013
Author: Armenia
January 11, 2013
January 11, 2013 - Casa della Musica - Genova
ARMENIA LIVE SET Music and Video
Casa della Musica via M. Boccanegra 15 - Darsena - 16126 Genova January 11, 2013 at 21:30
