Rik Adriaans
Biographic Data
| ID | 641095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rik Adriaans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rik |
| FAMILY NAME | Adriaans |
| SIGNATURE | ADRIAANS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8899-4289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Mushroom at the End of the Patch Cord: Modular Synthesis as Musical Cybernetics
Since the Covid pandemic it is increasingly common for ambient and experimental electronic musicians to circulate social media content of their synthesisers in the presence of plants, mushrooms and scenic natural landscapes. This article explores these sonic escapades into nature by conceptualising today’s modular synthesiser scene as a cybernetic counterculture for the age of digital platforms. The Eurorack modular synthesiser format lets musici…
The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in Illiberal Hungary
This article examines the social media practices through which young Hungarians deliberate the workings of truth and the meanings of liberalism under Viktor Orbán's authoritarian regime. Noting similarities between ubiquitous government propaganda billboards and the aesthetics of parodic social media content, these youth increasingly perceive everyday situations as internet memes. Navigating generational differences, class antagonisms, and rural-…
The humanitarian road to Nagorno-Karabakh: Media, morality and infrastructural promise in the Armenian diaspora
The Armenia Fund Telethon is an annual media event broadcast from Los Angeles that calls on all Armenians to give donations for humanitarian aid and infrastructure projects in Armenia and the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork during the 2013 and 2014 editions dedicated to the new Vardenis–Martakert highway connecting the two territories, this article examines the transnational ritual sphere through which de…
Of oligarchs, orientalists, and cosmopolitans: How “Armenian” is rabiz music
This paper examines the controversial music genre rabiz in relation to political and socioeconomic developments in post-Soviet Armenia. Rabiz, an urban folk-pop genre characterized by melismatic singing and “oriental” embellishments, is a ubiquitous soundtrack to everyday life in the country, with lyrics commonly covering romance, male friendship, and family ties. Ethnographic observations suggest that its popularity draws on the affective appeal…
Dances with oligarchs: Performing the nation in Armenian civic activism
Among the cultured classes of Armenia, the country’s system of governance through oligarchic patron–client networks is widely believed to reflect negatively on cultural fields such as architecture, music and folklore. In particular, the concept of rabiz, in earlier times referring primarily to a genre of “oriental” music, has emerged as a ubiquitous term signifying moral corruption, backwardness and passive complacency. This paper examines this p…
Staging Sassoun: Memory and Music Video in Post-Soviet Armenia
This article examines the production of patriotic music videos in post-Soviet Armenia. In particular, it deals with music videos dedicated to the heritage of Sassoun, a mountainous region in present-day Turkey that was famous for its resistance in the era leading up to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The role of music videos in transmitting embodied memories of the lost homeland to new generations is shown to problematize Paul Connerton’s claim th…
The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in Illiberal Hungary
This article examines the social media practices through which young Hungarians deliberate the workings of truth and the meanings of liberalism under Viktor Orbán's authoritarian regime. Noting similarities between ubiquitous government propaganda billboards and the aesthetics of parodic social media content, these youth increasingly perceive everyday situations as internet memes. Navigating generational differences, class antagonisms, and rural-…
Dances with oligarchs: Performing the nation in Armenian civic activism
Among the cultured classes of Armenia, the country’s system of governance through oligarchic patron–client networks is widely believed to reflect negatively on cultural fields such as architecture, music and folklore. In particular, the concept of rabiz, in earlier times referring primarily to a genre of “oriental” music, has emerged as a ubiquitous term signifying moral corruption, backwardness and passive complacency. This paper examines this p…
Staging Sassoun: Memory and Music Video in Post-Soviet Armenia
This article examines the production of patriotic music videos in post-Soviet Armenia. In particular, it deals with music videos dedicated to the heritage of Sassoun, a mountainous region in present-day Turkey that was famous for its resistance in the era leading up to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The role of music videos in transmitting embodied memories of the lost homeland to new generations is shown to problematize Paul Connerton’s claim th…
Staging Sassoun: Memory and Music Video in Post-Soviet Armenia
This article examines the production of patriotic music videos in post-Soviet Armenia. In particular, it deals with music videos dedicated to the heritage of Sassoun, a mountainous region in present-day Turkey that was famous for its resistance in the era leading up to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The role of music videos in transmitting embodied memories of the lost homeland to new generations is shown to problematize Paul Connerton’s claim th…
Dances with oligarchs: Performing the nation in Armenian civic activism
Among the cultured classes of Armenia, the country’s system of governance through oligarchic patron–client networks is widely believed to reflect negatively on cultural fields such as architecture, music and folklore. In particular, the concept of rabiz, in earlier times referring primarily to a genre of “oriental” music, has emerged as a ubiquitous term signifying moral corruption, backwardness and passive complacency. This paper examines this p…
Of oligarchs, orientalists, and cosmopolitans: How “Armenian” is rabiz music
This paper examines the controversial music genre rabiz in relation to political and socioeconomic developments in post-Soviet Armenia. Rabiz, an urban folk-pop genre characterized by melismatic singing and “oriental” embellishments, is a ubiquitous soundtrack to everyday life in the country, with lyrics commonly covering romance, male friendship, and family ties. Ethnographic observations suggest that its popularity draws on the affective appeal…
The humanitarian road to Nagorno-Karabakh: Media, morality and infrastructural promise in the Armenian diaspora
The Armenia Fund Telethon is an annual media event broadcast from Los Angeles that calls on all Armenians to give donations for humanitarian aid and infrastructure projects in Armenia and the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork during the 2013 and 2014 editions dedicated to the new Vardenis–Martakert highway connecting the two territories, this article examines the transnational ritual sphere through which de…
The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in Illiberal Hungary
This article examines the social media practices through which young Hungarians deliberate the workings of truth and the meanings of liberalism under Viktor Orbán's authoritarian regime. Noting similarities between ubiquitous government propaganda billboards and the aesthetics of parodic social media content, these youth increasingly perceive everyday situations as internet memes. Navigating generational differences, class antagonisms, and rural-…
The Mushroom at the End of the Patch Cord: Modular Synthesis as Musical Cybernetics
Since the Covid pandemic it is increasingly common for ambient and experimental electronic musicians to circulate social media content of their synthesisers in the presence of plants, mushrooms and scenic natural landscapes. This article explores these sonic escapades into nature by conceptualising today’s modular synthesiser scene as a cybernetic counterculture for the age of digital platforms. The Eurorack modular synthesiser format lets musici…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Armenian (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)