EROTÆME is a collaboration between AME and Eroteme.
For this edition, we partner with Another Sky : a London-based festival and artistic platform focused on experimental music from the SWANA region and its diaspora.
This one-day programme moves from a participatory workshop in the afternoon into an evening concert, bringing together sound, publishing and performance.
Workshop, 2–4pm
Navigating Morality & Compromise in the Creative Practice
A participatory session led by Olivia Melkonian and Sherif Dhaimish, exploring how artists sustain their work while navigating institutions, independence and personal values.
Through discussion and group exercises, the workshop considers compromise, autonomy and what success looks like on your own terms.
Concert, doors 7:30pm
Khabat Abas — cellist, composer and Another Sky Artist in Residence – presents development work for a new commission to be premiered in 2026, joined by Hardi Kurda, sound artist and founder of SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani.
🎟️ Tickets
Workshop — £5
Concert — £12.50 advance / £15 on the door
Full pass — £15
Limited capacity — advanced booking recommended
🍲 Food is included — arrive early to avoid disappointment
Another Sky is a London-based festival presenting composed, improvised and electronic music alongside film, new commissions, workshops and publishing activity across multiple days and venues.
📎 More info: anotherskyfestival.com
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Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան is an audio producer, sound artist/archivist and DJ invested in cultural preservation. In exploring and documenting the Western Armenian experience, she uses audio to work with fragments of memory to reimagine and reconstruct what has been lost, forgotten and misremembered, addressing absences and epistemic gaps. Her practice uses sonic archiving to preserve associations of place and memory as a result of endangered histories, while questioning memory and knowledge formation. Olivia’s work preserves intangible cultural heritage, exploring how sound-based memory informs collective knowledge and sustains cultural continuity. Through acts of remembering, she considers how historical consciousness is carried into the present and informs contemporary modes of living, learning and connecting.
Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش is a publisher, writer and champion of local stories. As director of Pendle Press, he has collaborated with publishers such as Manchester University Press and New Dimension to produce an eclectic range of books. With degrees from the University of Leeds and King’s College London, his writing has appeared in Left Cultures, New Lines and nb. Magazine. He is the co-author of How You Make Me Feel: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Intalex (Velocity Press, 2024).
Khabat Abas خەبات عەباس is a cellist, composer and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan. Her work explores time, space and memory through music, everyday sounds and noises. She uses her instrument beyond traditional norms—improvising, composing, creating videos and sound installations, crafting cellos from diverse materials, and incorporating her body into performances. She has performed with ensembles including the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, the Sulaymaniyah String Orchestra, the Gothenburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Non-Ensemble for Experimental Music in Sweden, London Improvisers Orchestra and Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra. She is co-founder of Duo Moment, with Hardi Kurda, which has released two albums: Broken Resonance on Space21 and Illegal Performance live at Cafe Oto. She has received the 2026 DAAD Artists Fellowship in Berlin.
Hardi Kurda هەردی کوردە is a sound artist, violinist, improviser, composer and researcher, as well as founder and curator of Archive Khanah and SPACE21 Sound Gallery in Slemani. He fosters international collaboration and sonic archiving in Kurdistan. His practice spans classical acoustic composition, electronic music and interdisciplinary pieces in which sound merges with other forms to create transformative listening experiences. By using radio frequencies as sound material, he bridges the physical and metaphysical, turning ephemeral signals into interactive performances. He has developed the concept of the Found Score, to connect noises deeply with audiences, and Urgent Listening, in which listening becomes a force of necessity, based on his listening experience when he arrived illegally in Europe.
