Stuck & Situated Composition/Instrument played at Musicking in Uncertain Times at York University, Toronto, Ontario
Stuck ‘n’ Situated performance resides at the intersection of performance, instrument design and composition with two modes of entanglements: controlled input, and inside out. Stuck ‘n’ Situated is performed through a sympoietic digital music instrument that is dynamic, responsive, complex, and situated at the nexus of improvisation and interactivity. Stuck ‘n’ Situated is conceptualized and enacted through different listening modes, the sounds of the found objects in proximity, and the sounds mediated by midi controllers, that were initially built, tested and can be performed in-person or in telepresence, as the experience of “being in time and [cyber]space”. It entails accumulated experiences of being physically restrained and immobility, with ‘just enough’ amount of micromovements to exhaust the being-in-time.

Stuck & Situated - March 25, 2022

Hi there. I'm Jonas Ruchenhever. Between 2005 and 2013 I created audio collages, soundscapes, radio art, ambient, noise and drone music. Some of my work has been self-released, some has been published by labels such as Nostalgie de la boue, Pocket Fields, Industrial Culture, suRRism-Phonoethics, A.M.P.-RECS and Smeraldina-Rima. ~ After a very long hiatus, I'm sort of back, occasionally putting out stuff from the archives. ☺︎ ~ Thank you for listening. ♡ Much appreciated. — Peace

Siavsh Kaveh was born in Tehran, 1986. He is an Iranian traditional music performer of Kamancheh and Daf. He began Learning Daf with music instructors, Arash Yari (2000) and Ali Nourbakhsh (2002). Shortly after, he started learning Kamancheh with Mohammad Abdoli (2003). He continued educating Kamancheh under supervision of the university faculties, Ehsan Zabihifar, Mehdi Oloumi and Reza Parviz Zadeh at University of Art in Iran. In addition, he took part in private Kamancheh classes with Master Ardeshir Kamkar. He graduated in Iranian Music performance specialized in Kamancheh performing from University of Art, Tehran, Iran (2006). His bachelor thesis is about introducing different techniques of Kamancheh playing. He has composed ten etudes for Kamancheh performers as an exercise, using particular fingerings and bowings for Kamancheh. Hi is a gold medalist of the second national Kamancheh Competition of the Spring Festival of University of Art (May 2009). He was a member of Avaye rood ansemble for seven years. The ansemble won awards from First Chamber Ensemble Festival of National Students festival (Jun 2007), Second Chamber Ensemble Festival of National Students (Jun 2011), Second prize winner of the ensemble competition of the fourth Student Music Festival (Dec 2007), and Avaye Rood Selected for the best ensemble performanace in the Second prize winner of the first Chamber Ensemble Music Festival of University of Art (May 2008).   

Amir Nouroozi (1986 - TBD) is a composer.

Stuck & Situated - March 25, 2022

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