ANUSHKA CHKHEIDZE
Live – CES Records, ISA Records / Georgia, based in NL-Utrecht
Anushka Chkheidze TECHRIDER 2024
Anushka Chkheidze - Intricate Pipes Rider
Biography
Georgian Anushka Chkheidze, born in Tbilisi in 1997, is one of the most promising talents far beyond the country’s borders.
Growing up in the small village of Kharagauli, she began singing in a choir at the age of 11. She herself describes the time she spent there as magical and believes that her music is strongly influenced by those childhood years.
In January 2019, Anushka Chkheidze released her first tracks on the compilation “Sleepers Poets Scientists” curated by Natalie Beridze, followed by her debut album “Halfie” in April 2020.
The second album “Move 20-21”, released in February 2021, was created during the pandemic and addresses the absence of physical movement and interaction with other people.
“Lost Luggage” was released in 2023 and deals with an obvious theme that is unfortunately not unknown to most of us.
The album “Clean, Clear and White” followed in May 2024, for which Anuska Chkheidze conducted field recordings as well as piano and choir recordings in the newly renovated research center in Basel, Switzerland.
She is invited to international cross-genre festivals and frequently collaborates with choirs, which led to a commission from the Swiss-Georgian festival Close Encounters for the highly acclaimed Gori Women’s Choir in Georgia.
With her installation “See Me,” Anushka Chkheidze explores the hidden currents and history of the Pader River through immersive soundscapes as part of a site-specific exhibition in Paderborn. Using river recordings, organ music, and voices from the local choir, she transforms urban spaces into a poetic, tangible experience.
Anushka Chkheidze’s composition for a MIDI organ entitled Intricate Pipes was commissioned jointly by the Monheim Triennale and the Gaudeamus Festival and premiered at the Monheim Triennale 2025 on an analog organ using Orgamats.
Intricate Pipes is a composition featuring polyphonic counterpoints, complex arpeggios, and precisely timed delays. The pipe organ becomes part of an electronic setup in which structure, timing, and harmony venture into new dimensions.
Anushka Chkheidze and Berlin-based sound artist Robert Lippok met in 2019 during a workshop program in Tbilisi and later collaborated with Eto Gelashvili, Hayk Karoyi, and Lillevan Pobjoy on the extensive music and book project “Glacier Music II,” which was released in 2021. This prompted them to explore a less conceptual form of music-making and real-time composition that corresponds to their respective environments. They draw on traditions such as minimal music and the electronica of the late 1990s and early 2000s to combine subtle beats with elegiac organ drones and playful melodies with lush textures. As the first document of an ever-changing intergenerational dialogue, their upcoming release Uncontrollable Thoughts is the result of mutual listening outside of time. (Out on Morr Music on Oct 31st, 2025)