“The Color of Pomegranates”: live soundtrack by Lee Adams

In 2025, multimedia artist, curator, and DJ Lee Adams presented a new soundtrack for Sergei Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates (1969, 80′) at the closing ceremony of the Judgement Hall Festival in London. The film, which departs from conventional biography, narrates the life of the troubadour Sayat-Nova through symbolic tableaux, religious images, rituals, and pictorial motifs, and is considered one of the director’s most poetic works. Adams’ composition, inspired by the musical traditions of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Turkey, creates a lively dialogue with the film’s images.

Nikko opens the evening with a new experimental electronic set.

🔷 Sergei Parajanov, born in 1924 in Tbilisi to Armenian parents, studied cinema in Moscow and developed a poetic, non-linear narrative style, far removed from the traditional biographical form. The Color of Pomegranates, filmed in historic locations in Armenia, is famous for its visual power and almost complete absence of dialogue.

🔷 Based between Athens and London, Lee Adams is a multi-media artist, DJ and curator who has worked extensively with sound, film and visual installations, from re-scoring a lost David Toop soundscape for conceptual artist John Latham, to collaborating with noise violinist Mia Zabelka on the touring project Rotten Sun. For 22 years he has organised the infamous Kaos London parties, he is a core member of the Palestinian collective Exist Festival and has run Khemia records since 2016.

🔶 Nikko is a dark-electronics DJ based in Athens, who has been making appearances in various venues since the late 90’s. For this special event he is presenting for the first time a project that is very dear to him called “Error”. Error can be described as an experimental electronic wave of sounds, that moves through dark ambient sonics to abstract-noise elements.