Shushan Hyusnunts (born 3th February 1989 in Yerevan) is a musicologist and sound performer. After completing her musicological studies at the Komitas State Conservatory in Armenia, 2012 she moved to Germany. In 2016 she graduated (Master of Arts) at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the philosophy of sound in Giacinto Scelsi’s orchestral works. At the same university she also held courses about Horatiu Radulescu, Dmitri Shostakovich as well as about traditional Armenian music. She continued her teaching activities at the Yerevan Conservatory, where she taught history of Western music. The core of her work is the research and life project theatrum phonosophicum, together with Leopoldo Siano, and the homonymous multisensorial series which started in the autumn of 2022 at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan. From spring 2023 to 2026, she has been “researcher in residence” at the Museo Archivio Laboratorio Hermann Nitsch (Morra Foundation). She writes and translates for the Armenian cultural magazine “Actual Arvest”, of which she is co-editor. She is living and working in Naples (Italy).

Leopoldo Siano (born 12th August 1982) is a philosopher of music and sound actionist, based in Naples. Very young he moved to Germany. From 2012 to 2022 he taught at the University of the Cologne (in the same Musicological Institute where Marius Schneider, one of his great inspirations, taught between 1950s and 1970s). Here, Siano is also co-organizer of the Raum-Musik acousmatic concert series. He is author and editor of several books (on Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Nitsch, François Bayle, etc.). His latest volume has been published in 2021 by the publisher Königshausen & Neumann (Würzburg): “Musica Cosmogonica: von der Barockzeit bis heute” (Cosmogonic Music: From the Baroque Era till Today). Together with Shushan Hyusnunts, he is the creator of the theatrum phonosophicum and the homonymous multisensorial series which started in the autumn of 2022 at the “Ground Floor” of the State Philharmonia of Armenia in Yerevan.
From spring 2023 to 2026 , he has been “researcher in residence” at the Museo Archivio Laboratorio Hermann Nitsch (Morra Foundation), Naples. Currently he holds the Chair of Music History at the Conservatory of Benevento.