First Day
Opening – Lecture – Talk – Concert
Opening – Lecture – Talk – Concert
19 February 2022
Microtonal Aspects in My Music
Harp and Electroacoustic Music
Amin Khoshsabk
Opening
Biography
Dariush Dolatshahi is a composer, performer, photographer, artist, writer and provocateur. He studied in Tehran, Holland and at Columbia University, where he earned his doctorate degree in electronic music and composition. (He has no degree in writing, painting or photography) website: https://www.dariushdolatshahi.com
Biography
Reza Korourian was born on November 5, 1971 in Tehran. He graduated from the Faculty of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor’s degree in Music. He was also a flutist, guitarist and pianist. He studied Music Theory, Harmony and basic lessons of Composition with Alireza Mashayekhi and continued studying Music Composition at university with Farid Omran and Kiawasch SahebNassagh. He then pursued his passion for composing more seriously with SahebNassagh. He completed his study of Electronic Music under the instruction of Shahrokh Khajenouri and Arvin Sedaghatkish. Korourian was one of the five participants who attended the first electronic music workshop in Iran which was held by Shahrokh Khajenouri. By 2008, he also participated in Joachim Heintz’s electronic music workshop and received conducting lessons by Manuchehr Sahbai. He presented his thesis in electronic music and spent years of his life translating reference books about electronic music and composition. His translation of Tom Holms’ article “The Most Impressive Electronic Music Pieces” was published in the 111th volume of “Art of Music” magazine. Two albums of his works have been published by “Contemporary Music Records” so far. The only official performance of his works was in “IC No.3” held by Yarava Music Group and with Khajenouri and SahebNassagh providing the speech, introducing Iranian and the world electronic music composers and presenting “In Dreams” by Korourian. A year later, “In Dreams” was introduced and performed at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Reza Korourian departed this life in the morning of March 3, 2015.
Live Events
Lecture
Microtonal Aspects in My Music
Caspar Johannes Walter
Saturday 19 February 2022, 17:30 Tehran Time
Pass code : TIEMF2021
Biography
Talk
Harp and Electroacoustic Music
Alice Belugou and Elnaz Seyedi
Live on Instagram
Saturday 19 February 2022. 22:30 Tehran Time
Daily Report
A Short Report on the Past and Upcoming Events
Live on Instagram
Saturday 19 February 2022. 23:45 Tehran Time
Concert
LANGUAGES OF THE UNHEARD (2020)
A live experiment of conversing in the language of protest in the frame of FREIRAUM FESTIVAL 2020
Languages of the Unheard was commissioned by Common Lab-Goethe-Institut Excellency Initiative by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX in collaboration with TIF-HELEXPO, Freiraum and Institute Hypewerk for Postindustrial Design, in the context of the State of the Arts.
‘WHAT WE MUST SEE is that a riot is the language of the unheard.’, Martin Luther King
Following a performance score, i.e. a list of instructions similar to those of a board game, Languages of the Unheard construct an online visual and auditory manifesto based on the language of signs and slogans coming from important protests in different European countries from the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) or ‘Common Market’ in 1957 to 2020.
Playing with the performativity of zoom’s feature to ‘rename’ ourselves, we will change constantly our names using the language of those signs, producing a written dialogue in the language of protest. During this dialogue, parts of our words will be audio processed and fed back into the dialogue in different ways, creating a soundscape of languages of the unheard.
This ‘silent’ conversation aims to reveal the materiality of the language of protest in order to create an embodied experience of its social force. What stays from our common fights in public space when we don’t have the proximity of our bodies? How can we turn immaterial language into a material ‘action’ in the way Arendt defined the term as the human ability to initiate something in public space that addresses the many without being able to control its outcome in advance?
Dimitri Papageorgiou & Danae Theodoridou
Biography
Aperiodic Videos for Periodic Sounds Nr.2 and 3
Commissioned by Yarava Music Group / World Premiere
Alireza Amirhajebi
Biography
Los ninos rojos
The modern harp is the direct heir of the salon instrument of the French nobility of the 18th century. Pedro García-Velásquez and I wish to put into play the imaginary attached to the instrument and to do so, create a new visual and sound device: a harp transformed analogically by a set of electric guitar pedals and accompanied by the voice projected in the resonance box of the instrument.
Harp: Alice Belugou
alicebelugou.com
Pedro Garcia Velasquez
Biography
Penumbra
Sometimes you do not belong to the light nor the shadow…. Just in a vague voice; you are a passenger
between these two words….
Commissioned by Yarava Music Group / World Premiere
Gelareh Soleimani
Biography
Traces XII
Traces XII is part of a cycle of works consisting of several Traces, which the composer sees as an open experimental laboratory, in which he dedicates himself to selected sonic and musical properties and investigates them. Traces XII is a journey into the sound of the harp and an exploration of the instrument. The piece moves in the extreme, mainly high and low and occasionally middle registers of the instrument. The limits of the harp register and the spectral sound space of the instrument are explored. The electronics allow for polyphony through the layers of sound, each with different content in time.
Harp: Alice Belugou
alicebelugou.com
Martin Matalon
Biography
Tīleh
Tileh in Farsi means a marble, a spherical tiny toy usually made of glass.
This piece attempts to create the feeling of looking at and through one of my favorite toys as a kid, a Tīleh. The feeling of playing with those little crystal balls, with different colors and sizes. And the wish to be able to touch the clouds trapped inside these little spheres.
Idin Samimi Mofakham
Biography
Flatterecho III
Harp: Alice Belugou
alicebelugou.com