Radia #976 - Armen by Andrius Arutiunian - 14th December 2023

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This contribution comes from **https://radiopapesse.org**.

***Armen*** is a sound work and collection related to diasporic music which **https://andriusarutiunian.com** has been developing since 2016. It traces obscure Armenian disco releases from the 80s, remakes little-known pop songs from different parts of the Armenian diaspora, and navigates this treacherous sonic field in polyphonous, and sometimes contradictory ways. ***Armen*** is also a homage to one of the most common Armenian names.

In 2017 an iteration of ***Armen*** was published as a vinyl release. As writer **https://echogonewrong.com/author/monikakalinauskaite** wrote in her text for this publication: *“But right now, at this moment, on a rug, in a car, by the monotonous music machine, the only circles you draw are your first ones, spinning the body and thought, breaking t