Lagan Way Take00

Hadi Bastani is a sound artist, anthropologist, and composer. Spanning spatial composition, live performance, and installation art, his creative outputs have been represented through international festivals, residencies, radio broadcasts, podcasts, and workshops, including Klangteppich (Berlin), Sonorities (Belfast), TADAEX (Tehran), the BBC, Resonance FM, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. His scholarship and creative practice engage with combined affordances of ethnography and practice-led research in sound to explore, examine, and articulate socio-technological, spatio-material, and affective assemblages that underpin different people’s sonic experiences and expressions, in the broadest sense to include musicking processes, focusing on the post-revolutionary-Iran. His investigation of contemporary Iranian experimental electronic music practice (2015-2019) has formed the first comprehensive research on the subject and culminated in a book that will be published through Routledge in 2024
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These raw recordings were made in and around Belfast, for the purposes of a sound library that was compiled for a soundscape intervention project commissioned by the Northern Ireland Hospice in the summer of 2015. All sounds were recorded using a Zoom F4 digital recorder and Sennheiser MKH 418-S microphones.

The project was led at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast. It consisted of a series of sound installations created for different public spaces in the Hospice using wall-mounted and garden speakers. The installations were patched through a programme written in MAX/MSP, which allowed for the playback of the audio files according to a specific schedule agreed upon with the Hospice’s management.

Belfast is a city that still deals with ‘troubles’. Creating soundscapes that appeal to a mixed crowd of residents at the hospice posed various cultural and technical challenges. To overcome these, we organised several workshops in order to explain the project to the residents, play them sounds, and gather detailed feedback. The final installations were a fine-tuned response to the hospice residents' feedback, the majority of whom are no longer with us.
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Recording list:

Lagan Way Take00
Lagan Way Take01
Lagan Way Take02
Lagan Way Take03
Lagan Way Take04
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links:
Website – https://www.hadibastani.com
Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/hadi-bastani
Bandcamp – https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/cold-hour
Facebook (Digital Arts And Experimental Music Scene Of Iran) – https://www.facebook.com/DigitalArtsAndExperimentalMusicSceneOfIran
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/___io__/

059 — Hadi Bastani – Lagan Way

Psychosis

Sarıya sarılan

modular etude i

modular etude ii

Live recording of an improvised electronics and visuals set performed by Steph Horak and Hadi Bastani at Sonorities Festival 2018, in Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast.

pendulum

pendulum (live) - hadi bastani & steph horak

Composition based on a choreographic piece"Zoorkhaneh" by Mostafa Shabkhan 2017.
Performed at Bipod Contemporary Dance Festival, Beirut, Lebanon- 2017.  
Samples recorded in an "Ab Anbar" Kashan,Iran, Spring 2017.
Zarb(Zoorkhaneh percussion): Mohammadreza Neshasteh Saz.

Cover photo: Mostafa Kazemi Motlagh

Zoorkhaneh

Panjareh Ghatreh Aftab (پنجره قطره آفتاب)
Songs/Lyrics: Navid Soltani
Production/Mastering: Hadi Bastani
Art/Design: Leila Ghandi

Roosari Siah (روسری سیاه)

Panjareh Ghatreh Aftab (پنجره قطره آفتاب) 

Songs/Lyrics: Navid Soltani
Production/Mastering: Hadi Bastani
Art/Design: Leila Ghandi

Har Ja Miri (هر جا میری)

Najjar (نجار)

Listening is just another way of feeling, understanding, and forgetting; a mode of experiencing through sound; a mode of being in sound as it unfolds. There are no boundaries between not-seeing and silence, smells, touches, and tastes. Cactus or cherry that's the question ...

I am a sound artist, anthropologist, radio producer, and music blogger currently based in Belfast. My sound pieces explore relations between the sense of place/space, materiality, memory, and spatiality in electroacoustic music. I also create multi-channel compositions, installations, and performances in immersive settings. In my work sounds are generated through computer-based synthesis, Eurorack modules, found objects, hacked electronic toys, field recordings, and algorithmic processes.