Komitas, Oosti Gookas?: The Post-Ottoman Musical Worlds of the Armenian Diaspora

There is perhaps no name more ubiquitous in Armenian musical culture than Komitas (1869-1935). Bo Soghomon Soghomonyan in the Ottoman city of Kütahya (in present day Turkey), Komitas has come to embody “‘Armenia”-or rather, the possibility of Armenia. But how easy it would be to stop the story there. What would happen if one were to poke at the borders of the sonic world that has come to be associated with Komitas and interrogate the sonic alignments these borders facilitate? What would happen if one were to seek out vestiges of the Ottoman world from which he had come? To do so would be to interrogate the very home that has made wholeness possible – to see it for its possibilities and impossibilities, inclusions and exclusions.

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