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Joseph Bohigian

Joseph Bohigian is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music. His work focuses on issues of memory, cultural reunification, and diaspora. With a strong interest in reestablishing a relationship with lost elements of our past to better envision our future, he makes use of archival materials in his music, such as sound recordings, interviews, and written texts, synthesizing fragments of song lyrics and reviving ancient musical notations. 

NEWS

Joseph Bohigian and Ensemble Decipher awarded MAP Fund grant for new project with vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian about the life of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, to be premiered in 2026.

Joseph Bohigian to appear on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Composer's Voice program to discuss his work Stone Dreams for laptop ensemble in an interview with Rob Voisey.

Joseph Bohigian's new album The Water Has Found its Crack reviewed in The Wire, "fragmentary structures of memory, exercise a powerful fascination," and I Care If You Listen, "elevated to a rallying cry."

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The Water Has Found its Crack

Out Now on Other Minds Records

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Joseph Bohigian presents a set of acoustic and electronic works composed while living in his ancestral homeland, Armenia. Including musical explorations of memory, cultural reunification, and diaspora via archival recordings, repurposed folk songs lyrics, and the revival of ancient musical notations.

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