Krope

In the organizer's words:

Krope is a six-part concept album by Belarusian sound artist and producer Anton Anishchanka. Based on archived folk songs from the 1960s to 2000s, the work transforms the fragile voices of the past into vivid, cinematic soundscapes. Created in collaboration with ethnographer Iryna Vasilyeva, the album combines traditional Belarusian music with field recordings, acoustic instruments and analog synthesizers to create an immersive sound journey in which memory, landscape and resilience flow into one another. As a continuous suite, Krope unfolds like a movie: memories resurface, fragile yet persistent, forming an emotional narrative of uprootedness, loss, perseverance and hope. The central archival voices - songs of love, exile and grief - echo across the decades and at the same time reflect the urgency of contemporary realities. From the tender rejection in Krope (Dill) to the grief inscribed in Dubrovuška (Oak Grove), the album traces an arc of human experience that is at once deeply personal and universal. By reimagining traditional music through contemporary sound art, Anishchanka preserves endangered cultural heritage and reveals its timeless relevance.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST + SELECTED PROJECTS

Anton Anishchanka is a Belarusian electro-acoustic musician, field recordist and traditional music researcher. Working at the intersection of sound art and ethnography, he combines archival recordings with his own field research, analog synthesis and live processing. His projects include Parus (with Hanna Silivonchyk), the improvisational duo Primary Noise and the research-based radio series Shatkavalka. He is also the founder of the Shatkavalka label and the independent art space Accidental Point in Minsk. In addition to his compositional work, Anishchanka develops sound installations and site-specific projects in which archived voices and environmental recordings are transformed into spatial listening experiences. His practice extends far beyond the studio and includes field recording expeditions in Belarusian national parks, rural regions and protected nature reserves, where he documents fragile soundscapes that are in danger of disappearing. International collaborations with research institutions such as the Institute of Art of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ethnographic expedition in Armenia, 2024) and the Romanian Archive of Traditional Music form a central part of his methodology. Working with archival collections, Anishchanka explores cultural memory, uprootedness and resilience, combining ethnographic research with contemporary sound art to open transcultural dialogues.