Concert venues usually mean walls, stages, and predictable acoustics. This performance at Lake Sevan, brought together by Chuvakam studio, happened where water meets sky, and it transformed my understanding of what my voice can do.
The Lake Sevan concert on 20th August brought together everything I love about music making. When Chuvakam approached me about this open-air performance in Armenia, the concept felt immediately right. The lake stretches beyond what your eyes can take in, surrounded by mountains that make you feel both small and infinite at the same time.
The acoustics here are unlike anything I’ve experienced. Your voice doesn’t echo – it expands. The sound travels across the water and comes back transformed, like the landscape is collaborating with you. No venue can replicate what happens when you sing to a lake that’s been here for thousands of years.
Setting up involved proper sound equipment suited for outdoor performance, but the core remained simple. Me, my voice, and an audience that gathered from multiple countries. Tourists from Germany, France, the States, and beyond found themselves part of an impromptu international music community on Armenian shores.
The wind became part of the performance. Instead of fighting it, I learned to work with it – singing during the quiet moments, letting the natural sounds fill the spaces between lyrics. The lake taught me about timing in ways no metronome ever could.
What strikes me about this concert is how my voice opened up completely. More expansive, less contained. Performing for water, sky, and people from across the globe strips away pretense. You can’t hide behind production or stage lights – just you and the elements.
The international audience created unexpected energy. People from different countries connecting through shared musical experience, singing along to familiar English choruses whilst surrounded by Armenian mountains.
Thank you to everyone who came and made this evening special. Thank you to Chuvakam studio (https://chuvakam.ru/) for making this vision reality.
This performance reminded me why music matters. When sound becomes universal language. When landscape becomes concert hall.
Some songs are meant for mountains.
— Indie pop artist, musician Anastasia Ledovskaya