The Full Friday Service: SOS Music with Lara Sarkissian

The Full Friday Service guest mix and interview comes from SOS Music alumni Lara Sarkissian - who released “Fortress In The Clouds” last year on SOS Music Volume 1.

Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, DJ and filmmaker born and based in San Francisco, CA. Sarkissian is co-founder of CLUB CHAI; a record label and curatorial project that artistically hybridizes non-western sonic and visual worlds among contemporary western culture. She contributes regular shows to NTS radio. Lara Sarkissian’s electronic music weaves experimental techniques from dance and ambient along with Armenian instrumentation and sampling. Her debut EP DISRUPTION from 2018 is an electronic soundtrack to an imagined fictional film inspired from stories of Armenian mythology and ties these legends to encounters with familial spirits. She produces scores for multi-channel and spatial installations and video. Her work has been exhibited at Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Gray Area Art and Technology Festival. Lara Sarkissian's short film IR HOKIN HANGEEST was screened at Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2017 as a part of a V-A-C Foundation exhibition, paired with her live score performance.