Olivia Melkonian is a sound artist, DJ and audio producer raised between London, UK and Sharjah, UAE.
She has worked in audio for over five years in youth-led radio stations, record labels, events companies and alongside leading UK-based production companies including Listen Entertainment and Audio Always. Olivia recently won a commission for the BBC.
Invested in projects of cultural preservation and reflections of uprooted histories, Olivia pieces together collective memory through remnants found in the home. Inspired by generational family traditions of storytelling, she archives dialect, ritual and even the mundane that remain unique to personal and family experiences.

Realising the power in recording our existence through sound and analogue visuals, Olivia captures collective memory as a tool of resistance, an act of revolution.