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Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

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Quelle #14 (19/09/21)

Following one of our favourite records on Ultra Eczema, Joshua Burkett presents ‘Mystra & Friends’, a spotlight on his own record label and the burgeoning pool of experimental music from his home in Western Massachusetts.
To you I hope the sun continues its peek
Over the lip of the damp horizon

Tracklist:
1. Vomgrill
2. Shea Mowat
3. Cycles Inside
4. Creative Healing
5. Sound Of Pot
6. Knight Howls
7. Susan Alcorn
8. Ralph White
9. Tarp 1
10. Tarp 2
11. Foom
12. Angela Sawyer 1
13. Angela Sawyer 2
14. Electric Dawn(Shrinnirs)
15. Noah Wall
16. Uke Of Space Corners
17. Eric Malone Noise
18. Anthony Pasquarosa
19. Zizia
20. Wednesday Knudsen 
(All tracks are made by either artists on the Mystra label..or friends of the label. Many musicians are from Western Mass)

Outhouse Mix: Joshua Burkett

WKDU's 17th annual Electronic Music Marathon (EMM) broadcasted from 6 different offsite locations throughout Philly (& the station) for 84 hours nonstop while raising over $10K for the Paul Robeson House, The Block Gives Back, and CBTEL.

Check out www.emm.wkdu.org to learn more about the marathon - THANK YOU for all your support to make this happen <3 <3

2021 WKDU EMM - Wolf Dem

Penumbra / Umbra / Void
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Douglas McCausland
11.1.21

FULL PIECE AVAILABLE HERE: https://youtu.be/2gF24WisN-w

Penumbra / Umbra / Void is an entry in a diary. This piece is about self perception and identity, finding catharsis through the artistic process, recursive self-destructive cycles, obsession over minutiae, and self-inflicted isolation starting long before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Composed for cellist Seth Parker Woods in 2021, this work was supported by Music 541 and Experimental Sound Studio; cello materials were recorded with the assistance of Alex Inglizian and Ben Kolak.
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Penumbra / Umbra / Void (2021) // Binaural Audio

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Music 4 Lovers 111221

The Front Left Life boys are taking over May’s instalment of the Ulterior Motives show on Threads. The boys always bring rowdy selections and this one does not disappoint! 

Front Left Life
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Ulterior Motives w/ Front Left Life (*Catford) - 16-May-22

Guyus - 21 May 2022

method: looping in and out of loops - only five sounds form the basis of everything audible
narration: this poem is about geology and memory
all the words, all the sounds, all the composition, all the image: copyright jo richter 

Note: some soundcloud AI is changing the hashtags associated with my recordings in a very stupid way - this is annoying

the great unconformity

may I report regret, a loss
demurely ask for clemency
a billion years of stone and moss
erased - the unconformity

confounded you, confronted me
with nothing left, not even trivia
vague notions of despondency
premonitions of dementia

the great unconformity

RIVERS

200 (EXTRA SLOWED)

Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium.

As an artist, he researches and leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as real-time electronic music performance with purpose-built interfaces, spatial audio, interactive systems, intermedia art, musical applications of machine-learning, experimental sound design, and hardware-hacking.

Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying…” (SEAMUS) and “Ruthlessly visceral…” (The Wire), his works have been performed internationally, including features at Sonorities, SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, Sounds Like THIS!, NYCEMF, Sonicscape, and Ars Electronica.  Recent collaborations include artists such as bassist Aleksander Gabryś, cellist Seth Parker Woods, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the TAK Ensemble, and vocal ensemble Variant 6.  His work is available through various online platforms, and on SEAMUS, Plyta Z Audiomatu, and Jikken Records.

Recent honors include an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica for his piece “Convergence”, winning 1st-Prize in the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition, the gold-prize award for “contemporary computer music” in the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister Student 3D Audio Production Competition, and being awarded the runner-up nomination for the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music's 2019 CIME Prix. 

Douglas is currently the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Studio Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  He holds a DMA in music composition from Stanford University, where he studied with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum.  He additionally holds a MSc in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh, a MM in Music Composition from Michigan State University, and a BM in Music Composition, Saxophone Performance, and Music Education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Penumbra / Umbra / Void (2021) // Binaural Audio

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