{"id":46,"date":"2023-12-03T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:03:23","slug":"poems-and-lullabies-of-the-post-nostalgic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project type<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Audiovisual performance, immersive performance, video projection, musical composition and improvisation, Saz with electroacoustic, voice, Armenian modal singing, poetical text <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programmed at<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>La G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Paris, 2025                                                                 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (AL), <em>Silenced Voices, Unbroken Spirit<\/em>, curated by \u00c7i\u011fdem \u00c7a\u011flayan, april 2025<br>NOPA sound art festival, (AM), october 2024<br>Dutch Design Week, (NL), october 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>started in 2023 &#8211; ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAltL-nCn3Q\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOPA sound art festival<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkw.de\/en\/programme\/events\/silenced-voices-unbroken-spirits\">HKW<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagenerale.fr\/fr\/projet\/arcane-voices\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lagenerale.fr\/fr\/projet\/arcane-voices\">La G\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctm-festival.de\/festival-2024\/programme\/artists\/m-1\/marie-yevkine-tirard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CTM artistic laboratory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In collaboration with<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yevkin\u00e9 Diarian, my great-grand mother<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-90-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Concert at HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), April 2025, during the event <em>Silenced Voices, Unbroken Spirits, the Legacy of Armenian Women<\/em>. \u00a9 Marie Yevkin\u00e9 Tirard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\">After finding a notebook of poems written in the 1930s by my female ancestor, Yevkin\u00e9 Diarian, survivor of the Armenian genocide, I felt a profound desire to sing these once-silent words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\">The project explores voice, music and the fluidity of memory as means to let a threatened, intimate archive survive. Embodying the figure of a contemporary mystical nomadic troubadour (Ashugh), I use the Saz with electroacoustic technologies.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2219487587&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radiofantasia\" title=\"Radio Fantasia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Radio Fantasia<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radiofantasia\/marie-yevkine-tirard-poems-and-lullabies-of-the-post-nostalgic\" title=\"123 \u2013 Marie Yevkin\u00e9 Tirard  \u2013 Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">123 \u2013 Marie Yevkin\u00e9 Tirard  \u2013 Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Poems&nbsp;and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic<\/strong>&nbsp;questions the politics of memory and highlights the urgency of remembering endangered cultures threatened by genocides. Inspired by the disappearing tradition of <strong>Armenian modal singing<\/strong>, my voice reactivates inherited cryptographic poems to reflects on the <strong>importance of personal archives<\/strong> in collective resistance. Voices mix with ambient sounds of the Armenian landscape, ancestral instruments (Saz) and electronic music. Resisting oblivion, the work transforms inherited poems into new, trans-cultural songs, <strong>allowing them to resonate beyond silence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic, concert-performance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ai8j9XJX5X8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HKWAGR300dpi-82-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Concert at HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), April 2026, during the event <em>Silenced Voices, Unbroken Spirits, the Legacy of Armenian Women<\/em>. \u00a9 Marie Yevkin\u00e9 Tirard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>Embodying the figure of a contemporary mystical nomadic troubadour (Ashugh), I use the Saz with electroacoustic technologies. Sounds drive the listener attention\u2019s to what is usually ignored \u2014<strong>the resonance spectrum of the note<\/strong> and its unexpected harmonies. The music revives what is <strong>almost forgotten \u2014 the hollows, the latent presence.<\/strong> The composition plays with hypnosis through repetitive melodic elements inspired by the minimalist pentatonic modes of <strong>oral music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic<strong> is not fixed, but rather fluid<\/strong>, <strong>such as oral memory is<\/strong>, evolving in its long term development<strong>.<\/strong> Starting from the desire to give a life to the poems of my ancestor, I gathered a <strong>community of resistance<\/strong>, thought to <strong>develop solidarity with diverse oppressed communities<\/strong> &#8211; just like nomadic troubadours <strong>narrate intimate stories<\/strong> to <strong>address collective traumas<\/strong> and broader <strong>philosophical issues<\/strong>. The music itself is in evolution, shaped by the different encounters and improvisation circles that I am organising with musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The project inscribes itself in <strong>time and memory<\/strong>, constituted from variations and <strong>positive feedback loop<\/strong>. It adresses these notions both <strong>philosophically and experimentally<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard_DSF2995-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard-poems-lullabies3-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard-poems-lullabies3-818x1024.jpg 818w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard-poems-lullabies3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard-poems-lullabies3-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marie-tirard-poems-lullabies3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Concert at NOPA sound art festival, Yerevan, (AM), 2024, \u00a9Marie Yevkin\u00e9 Tirard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7cd14b77 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><em>Poems and Lullabies of the Post-Nostalgic <\/em>opens up a transgenerational dialogue through the lineage of women, in a feminist perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\">Lullabies is not only very genesis of music in human history at the core of oral memory. It doesn\u2019t merely refer to calm songs, portals to dreams, passing on to children the struggle of their ancestors. Singing a lullaby can be part of an <strong>act of resistance<\/strong>, as it creates conditions for rest, listening, daydreaming and healing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project type Audiovisual performance, immersive performance, video projection, musical composition and improvisation, Saz with electroacoustic, voice, Armenian modal singing, poetical text Programmed at La G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Paris, 2025 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (AL), Silenced Voices, Unbroken Spirit, curated by \u00c7i\u011fdem \u00c7a\u011flayan, april 2025NOPA sound art festival, (AM), october 2024Dutch Design Week, (NL), october 2024 Date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artistic-project","category-music","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marie.tirard.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}