In this lab led by Anna Harutyunyan and Arayik Petrosyan, Artsakh TUMOians fused the music and robotics learning areas.

TUMOian Anna Stepanyan captured the celtic essence in her track and illustration! Last Alt July, our drawing workshop leader Narek Barseghyan and music workshop leader Nina Avagyan joined forces for a lab on presenting cultures through creating illustrations and composing melodies.

At the music workshop, students can virtually explore different musical instruments through the Logic Pro X program. Check out our picks of some cool tracks gathered from different centers and levels in Armenia and Artsakh.

Three-time Juno award-winning jazz pianist and composer David Braid just wrapped up a learning lab at TUMO Yerevan! Students produced an experimental jazz track composed by Braid and inspired by traditional Armenian music.

With help from sound artist Roland Kuit, TUMOians recorded the sounds of Yerevan’s metro, then edited and curated them to create this sound installation.

As a result of the TUMO lab run by the Zulal Trio, the song “Khio” got a new lease on life with a fresh arrangement by Pyramidz and a new music video to boot, shot and edited by TUMOians as part of director Margos Margosyan’s lab.

The video for the song Garim by TUMO’s Pyramidz electronic band was created by TUMOians during a special workshop by renowned American-Armenian director Alex Nazari. Inspired by Gyumri, Garim is a song in the future garage genre, which includes monologues by Galya Novents from the movies The Tango of our Childhood and Autumn Sun. The development of the concept for the video, shooting and editing were all carried out fully by TUMOians.

In February 2018, the music and animation students at TUMO Gyumri were led by trainers Shahen Khandkaryan and Hakob Muradyan, as they collaboratively created the song “Upside Down” and its music video. Based on a concept developed together, the students presented a scene of space travel, through song and animation.

Music Team

Animation Team

TUMO Yerevan students had the unique opportunity to work with all-star talents to produce their own 2D animated films and create sound design for them. With the help of Disney animated film director Arnab Chaudhuri, students learned traditional animation techniques using pencil and paper. Over the course of a few weeks, they drew storyboards for their ideas and developed them into classical, frame-by-frame, hand-drawn animations using their own characters. In a parallel lab, another group of students led by Eric Hachikian developed, composed, recorded and finalized the sound design for these animations.

Animation Team

Sound Design Team

This video for “Pstik Papa” was created during cinematographer Mko Malkhasyan’s filmmaking lab. The song is performed by TUMO band TmbaTa with the help of Arik, the lead flutist from the folk-rock band Bambir.