HMOT: EPK
# experimental quray
# tales of resynthesis
HMOT works with sound and decoloniality. Born and raised in East Siberia, Russia, with BaΕqort roots, HMOT takes this dual heritage as a starting point to study the politics of indigeneity, reflecting on how the interaction of indigenous and non-indigenous sonic and listening practices turns them into tools for community-building, the preservation of collective memory, and the transformation of political imagination into direct action.
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Stas ShΓ€rifullΓ‘, aka HMOT, is a Basel-based researcher and artist working with sound. Born in East Siberia, Russia, with YΔ±lan Bashqort (the Bashkirs of the Elan clan) roots, Stas draws on the duality of this heritage, exploring how sound shapes identity and memory in Indigenous cultures of Central and North Asia, where storytelling and listening have historically been more important than writing. This approach is bilateral: on one hand, studying how instrumental music, spoken literature, improvisation, and other communal traditions survived colonization and genocide; on the other, reflecting on how to resynthesize these practices and find ways to move beyond the exotic, essentialist, and nationalist frameworks they are often pushed into. Stas works in a wide range of media, including computer music, quray (a traditional Bashqort flute) improvisation, freeform composition, mixed-media installation, lecture-performances, and more.
Currently, Stas is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel.
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