Placed within a quiet sacred space, the instrument emits sounds which are amplified and/or distorted through its elongated body. With hallucinatory plate reverbs and diverse resonances, the instrument functions as an alternative to prevailing, western notions of time, rhythm, and attunement. This installation is a new part of Arutiunian’s ongoing series Gharīb, which explores the sonic as a way of presenting alternative power dynamics. 

Andrius Arutiunian is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer exploring sonic dissent, aural cosmologies, and vernacular histories. Through playful investigation his installations, films, and performances challenge the concepts of musical and political attunement.