Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings #06/15
Each Morning of the World #09
Armenian cathedral of Aruchavank ~ Aruch ~ Armenia
40,17.34480000N, 44,4.84033020E
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Lloyd Dunn
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My journeys in Armenia have, by and large, been tracings of the routes between Armenia’s central architectural achievements, namely, its ancient churches and monasteries, and its ancient towns. While some lie in ruins, many others are fully operational.

When we visit Armenia, we sometimes give in to the sense that we are seeing the tattered remnant of a once radiant and integrated whole. Indeed, this ancient land has experienced many hostile foes over the centuries, often sweeping away much of essential value that we can only guess at, but leaving behind at least traces of those harder things that are made of stone. These monuments attest to a long-standing, rich and original culture, which persists to this day in the modern Republic of Armenia.

I chose this 7th-century Armenian cathedral of Aruchavank in the western Armenian town of Aruch, to represent the many churches in Armenia that I visited and in which I made recordings. An earthquake (16th-17th c.) has left its sturdy walls standing beneath a gaping oculus in the place of a now-missing tholobate (drum), which would have been surmouted by a conical dome.

As we enter and look up, we find ourselves as if standing at the bottom of a well, lowly beings, our only consession being to peer upwards into a mysterious blue beyond, a wintry world peopled by a roaring wind and soaring birds.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruchavank

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Lloyd Dunn
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Lloyd Dunn is a sound and visual artist from the US, currently residing in Prague. He has been actively producing media art since the 1980s, and is a founding member of the mixed-media and experimental sound art group the Tape-beatles, as well as the founder, publisher and editor of several small-press magazines, such as PhotoStatic and Retrofuturism. Since the early 1980s, he has been making work for a variety of media, including film, video, audio, print, and the web.

Dunn is the author/creator of a series of filecasts, emanating from the online presence at nula.cc, launched in 2009. It combines many elements, including field recordings, sound works and compositions, essays, as well as photographic and video works. The nula.cc project takes the form of a quasi-diaristic series of online filecasts, which the visitor may browse at random, chronologically, or geographically by means of a map interface.


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