The CYLAND Audio Archive (CAA) is a division of CYLAND MediaArtLab, created to investigate archiving and exhibiting methodologies of sound art. This archive is a continuous process of working on a structure of various subgenres of sound art, making compilations, and cataloging the growing archive. To date, there are 58 releases, including works by more than 80 artists from every continent except Antarctica. All the records are available for listening on cyland.bandcamp.com. Each release presented is a stand-alone piece accompanied by an artist statement.

Eight directional speakers distributed evenly in a hall will play eight carefully selected CAA releases in a loop. These sound spots inevitably overlap, turning into a constant humming, all while sharing one space. Source material for artists varies from existing records — personal or found — filed records, machine signals, or sounds extracted from revitalised devices, which were initially completely strange to sound creation in the first place and turned into sound machines. All of them are reflected and conceptualised by artists, collected together into a contradictory and rich picture of sound to memorise and fix the experience of being present in the world. Where sound — recognised or completely strange — will escape being fully possessed but remains an environment shared by people who heard it together. That is how memories form, building blocks for infinite variations of archives. — Sergei Komarov and Lidiia Griaznova

Selection of Records for CYFEST 16 in Yerevan:

CAA—11 Anthony Bisset
CAA—13 Sashash Ulz
CAA—21 Alexey Grachev
CAA—22 ZOV
CAA—25 Rumore Bianco
CAA—55 Michele Spanghero
CAA—48 Wouter Van Veldhoven
CAA—42 Makiko Yamamoto