About
Music Unbound
Music Unbound is a cultural initiative working at the intersection of artistic practice, cultural research, and inclusive methodologies.
We develop interdisciplinary music projects – from performances and laboratories to media formats and research programmes – that bring together professional artists, researchers, and community knowledge-bearers.

Our work treats music not only as performance, but as a form of cultural knowledge: something transmitted, negotiated, and reinterpreted through collaboration between tradition, contemporary practice, and scholarship.


Our mission is to create ethical, research-informed artistic environments where living musical traditions, contemporary creativity, and diverse bodies of knowledge can meet on equal terms.

We build frameworks in which participation is possible across different levels of training, experience, and ability, and where inclusion operates not as outreach or therapy, but as a structural principle of cultural production.
Through this approach, we expand pathways into authorship, performance, and research, and broaden who is recognised as a cultural contributor in professional artistic ecosystems.
Our Activities
We develop media projects and artistic formats that present contemporary musical culture in Kazakhstan.
We work with the conditions of participation in music—from rehearsal processes and instruments to stage formats and team communication.
We conduct research into academic music, technology, and new forms of musical thinking.
Our Team
  • Raushan Jumaniyazova
    PhD in Art History, MBA, Professor at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
  • Zhan
    Kasteyev
    Music producer, festival curator, cultural strategist
  • Narina Ramazanova
    Musicologist, Music Producer
  • Arshat
    Sharip
    Conductor, MA in Conducting
  • Janelle
    Safiyeva
    Musicologist, MA in Music Criticism
  • Danara
    Musakhan
    PhD, curator of music projects
Music Unbound
musicunboundkz@gmail.com
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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