FIELD RECORDING / SOUND
İle — Balkhash
2026A sound work shaped by a journey from the İle River to Lake Balkhash. Water, leaves, boats and traces of human presence form a continuous listening space.
Musician · Composer · Improviser
AnuarKaldekhan
Sound as a place for memory. Music between stillness, movement and the landscapes we carry.
EXPLORE ALBUMS↘ALMATY, KAZAKHSTANMUSIC / SOUND / LIVE
Albums
Listening, in different forms.
September / Twelve Improvisations 2026
Örmek Toqu
Weaving
For me, improvisation is a form of weaving. Once a sound appears, I listen, respond, and attach another sound to what is already there. Threads become entangled, leave spaces, form structures, and loosen again.
Sound, language, images, memory and encounters can all become threads connecting us to the world. These five September pieces approach weaving as an ongoing action: connecting sound, tradition and the present, rather than making a finished fabric.
Listen / Five independent pieces
Five independent pieces, numbered 01–05.
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August / Live improvisation
Echoes of Water
A live improvised sound performance
An improvised sound performance inspired by water as a source of memory, movement, and listening. Through evolving textures of sound, silence, and resonance, the performance invites the audience to experience water as a living presence in constant transformation.
Almaty Museum of Arts · Almaty, Kazakhstan
Art Collider × Water Futures — Public Programme
ARTCOM Platform · in collaboration with Almaty Museum of Arts
Live recordings / Listen
Four excerpts from the performance, in their original sequence.
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Album / Live improvisation
Unknown World
in Qerter
An exploration of space, resonance and sound.
A live improvisation centred on Qerter (Sherter). Moving away from familiar melodies and techniques, Anuar listens to the instrument itself: one sound leads to another, and each choice opens a new direction.
The pieces emerged during the performance. Their titles were added afterwards, to remember the places through which the sounds had travelled.
READ THE ALBUM NOTES · PDF ↧Tracklist / Listen
Eleven pieces, in their original sequence.
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April / Twelve Improvisations 2026
Kökek ayı
Month of the Cuckoo
In Kökek ayı, I approach spring as something gradually heard and felt: a first distant call, wind opening the space, and earth that has not fully awakened. The title becomes a way of listening to seasonal change.
Three connected pieces move from the first emergence of sound, through the flow of space, to the slow presence of the ground. Rather than describing a fixed spring landscape, the music explores how the season is experienced.
CONCEPT NOTE · PDF · CHINESE ↧Three-part structure / Listen
First Sound → Wind Passes over the Grass → Unawakened Earth
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Album / 2023–2024 recordings
Tolqyn / Waves
Water, unrest, wind and stone.
Tolqyn / Waves brings together three works drawn from live performances and improvisations from 2023 and 2024.
Moving between electric guitar and traditional Kazakh wind instruments, the album explores sound as a space where landscape, memory, movement, and cultural traces intersect.
Tolqyn / Waves begins with the fluidity and continuous movement of water; Alañ / Unrest enters a more tense and unstable space; Jel men Tas / Wind and Rock turns toward wind, stone, petroglyphs, and the landscape of the Central Eurasian steppe.
Digital album · US$7.00
Tracklist / Listen
Tolqyn / Waves is available in full; Alañ and Jel men Tas offer 90-second previews. Complete album: 13:21.
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Live recordings / 2014–2016
Köş
Migration
Four live improvisations recorded at different venues between 2014 and 2016, presented in their original album order: Ğasyr (Century), Kitap (Book), Ruh (Soul), and Jūrt (Relic).
VIEW ALBUM ON BANDCAMP ↗Tracklist / Listen
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About
A practice
of attention.
Anuar Kaldekhan is an independent musician, composer and improviser based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His work moves between instrumental performance, composition and sound art.
Working with electric guitar, traditional instruments and field recordings, he explores memory, migration, ritual and ecology. His practice brings composed structures into conversation with the openness of improvisation.
For performances, commissions and artistic collaborations.
Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.