composer : Ehsan Tavakkol
Quintet for strings & piano 
piano : Sergey Korepanov
quartet :Nocturnum Quartet

Quintet -  Ehsan Tavakkol

Ukraine is a pristine sound space for soundscape composition research and work. The sounds of nature and the markets of Ukraine are unique, and unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to record these sounds. Audio recording in Ukraine is associated with a constant struggle with conservatism and fear. This fear exists even among university professors. Mistrust exists not only between ordinary people but also between people and foreigners. For people, the person who records sound is usually a spy rather than a sound researcher!!!
After getting acquainted with Tehran's Sonic project, I decided to teach the subject of sound composition in the second semester of the university's electronic music class. Unfortunately, three weeks after the start of classes, the war started. This class continued online, which created many good works by the students. Numerous of these works can be found on the Sound Cloud website. 
The present piece is the result of work in the electronic music class at Kharkiv Art University in Ukraine. The audio files of this work were recorded by me or the students of the class from the beginning of the war in Ukraine.  The recorded environmental sounds are indicative of the fear and violence of war. This work begins with the sound of a bomb. The sound of the bomb can be heard many times until the middle of the work, but the beginning of the work dramatically shows the beginning of the war. This time, it is not the sound of the church bell that makes you wait for the event, but the war is suddenly revealed to the people of Ukraine without any prediction. These sounds are deliberately not controlled from a technical point of view, and with each shot the amplitude is at its highest level.
The sound of the siren after the sound of the bombs indicates the unexpectedness of this war for the people (usually the danger siren sounds before the bombing, but in the attack on the first day of the war, it sounded after the bombing). The change of the siren sound timber indicates an attack in different cities of Ukraine.
At the end of the sound of the siren, the voices of people can be heard running away from the environment. The sound of bombing and the breath of a person who runs away and takes shelter somewhere. This sound was recorded by one of my friends in the environment. It has been tried to show the real atmosphere of the war and the real scenario of the people's conditions in the arrangement of sounds. Many people of Ukraine took refuge in the subway or underground apartments when the bombing started. Usually, in this environment, children's voices and their games make a sound contrast, regardless of the black atmosphere of the war.

 People who stay and those who go
 
The sounds of the basement are connected to the sound of the train. Usually, Ukrainian trains have a different sound than trains in Western European countries because they are old. A very clear sound of the movement of the train wheels on the rails. In the sound of the train, the voices of ordinary people and foreign students looking for a way to leave the border can be heard, as well as the sound of sirens and explosions in the background. This file was recorded by me on the way to the train to Kyiv.
The sound of the train and the departure of people depict the unknown future of a country that has been left alone. The song at the end of the work is recorded from the voice of my dear friend from a shelter in Kharkov, who tells about the years of suffering from the Ukrainian people from Russia. This song is old and had narrated by Ukrainian grandmothers and recorded by Ukrainian ethnomusicologists.

Sound Of the War

Composer:  Dmitri Shostakovich
Arrangement : Ehsan Tavakkol

Dmitri Shostakovich - Concertino - Arrangement for Orchestra: Ehsan Tavakkol

Live performance of students orchestra of Kharkiv University Art
Conductor : Yuriy Yanko
Based on 3 Sonata of Scarlatti 
K 380 - L 23
f-moll (K 466; L 118)
C-dur (K 159; L 104)

Souvenirs from Scarlatti - Ehsan Tavakkol

Bitter Segah - Ehsan Tavakkol

با صدای دکتر مازیار صدری
ترانه: مهرداد بهار
تنظیم برای ارکستر: اقای احسان توکل

معجزه تو

تصنیف ای نازنین در مایه ی ابوعطا
با صدای دکتر مازیار صدری
ترانه: منوچهر جواهر کلام
تنظیم برای ارکستر: احسان توکل

ای نازنین

Composer: Ehsan Tavakkol
Flute: Kirill Ustinovsky
Clarinet: Roslan Kashyrtsev
Piano: Sergey Korepanov
Cello: Katia Burlutskaya

Ehsan Tavakkol/variations for Quartet piano, cello, clarinet & flute

The  Space recitative

Vladimir Ptushkin

Kereshmeh - Ehsan Tavakkol

Vocal: Rouzbeh Moghaddam
Music: Ehsan Tavakkol 
Lyrics: Asghar Vaghedi 
Graphic Designer: Ata-Ollah Tabadkani

بیا ای کولی آواره ای خنیاگر غمگین!
بیا آواز تلخت را برای کوه ها تکرار کن تکرار
بیا با رودهای پیر نجوا کن
بیا و سر به زانو گیر
بیا و گریه کن با یاد گل هایی که دستِ باد پرپر کرد
بیا و دشت را با چشمه ی چشمت نوازش کن
و بر گور هزاران لاله ی وحشی نیایش کن ...

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بخوان ای کولیِ بی همسفر ای عابر تنها
بخوان ای با همه بیگانه آواز غریبت را
بخوان شاید برانگیزی هزاران روحِ خواب آلوده را در شهرِ سنگستان

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