Pavel Niakhayeu
Sound and music researcher
Belarus °1978
research interests: music scenes, music sociology, sound studies, soundscape, music and politics
affiliation: independent
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Pavel Niakhayeu (b.1978) – Belarusian music and sound researcher, electronic musician, A/V artist. Co-founder of Mental Force festival and A/V program curator of Artes Liberales festival in Minsk. Owner of Force Carriers techno label.
MA in Sociology/Visual & Cultural Studies. Former lecturer of the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) where I was teaching a course on contemporary sound/music cultures and technologies in 2008-2022. Co-editor (with Benjamin Cope) of ‘P.S.Soundscapes’ (2018). Contributor to a number of Belarusian and international media about music and culture.
Research interests: independent music scenes, music and politics, political soundscape, cultural memory loss.