Premiere recording by Daniele Colombo

cut•out (ˈkʌtˌaʊt)

n.
1. something cut out from something else, as a pattern cut out or intended to be cut out of paper.
2. a valve in the exhaust pipe of an internal-combustion engine, which when open permits the engine to exhaust directly into the air.
3. an act or instance of cutting out.
4. Slang. an intermediary, as in espionage.
5. a device for the manual or automatic interruption of electric current.
6. a usu. discontinued record album that is for sale at a discount.

Cutouts [solo violin] 2014

ENCRYPTIONS/sacrifice for solo flute with intermittent amplification. Premiered by Louna Dekker-Vargas at The Peabody Institute April 2, 2015. 

ENCRYPTIONS/sacrifice [2015]

"A different class of nervous patient thronged the wards of one of the great Paris hospitals for the poor. Here the self-described Napoleon of the Neuroses, Jean-Martin Charcot, had built his career by distinguishing a variety of awful neurological afflictions, from disseminated multiple sclerosis; aphasia; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (better known to most Americans as Lou Gehrig’s disease); Tourette’s syndrome, chorea; locomotor ataxia (a complication of tertiary syphilis, as would become apparent in the early twentieth century); and so on. But what later drew his attention was one of the great epidemic diseases of the age, a disorder that has now disappeared from the psychiatric lexicon: hysteria. Weekly, in an amphitheater in front of tout Paris, he hypnotized a parade of scantily clad young women, many of them repeat performers. The patients staged (and that is the appropriate word), the various stages of a hysterical fit: the seizures and the impossible bodily contortions of course, but more entertainingly still, the attitudes passionelles, the emotional gestures, cries and whispers that displayed unmistakably erotic overtones. And then they were re-hypnotized in private, so that they could hold their poses for the primitive cameras of the age, thus allowing their images to be reproduced and shown to a still larger virtual audience in the volumes of the Iconographis Photographique de la Salpêtrière."

Andrew Scull, The Paris Review, April 22, 2015

The Attitudes Passionnelles of the Iconographis Photographique de la Salpêtrière

're-creations' for bass clarinet + double bass, performed by Alberto Santamaria and Alexandre Klein, June 2, 2015, RCM

re-creations (2009, rev.2015 - Alberto Santamaria, Alexander Klein

Damplification
for pianist and assistant

Alexandra Radoulova & Tsugumi Shirakura, piano

Damplification for pianist and assistant

1st Tehran Contemporary Music Festival

Holography by Idin Samimi-Mofakham
for Piano & String Orchestra
"World Premier"
Performed by Nilper Orchestra
Conductor: Navid Gohari
Piano: Martyna Kosecka (Poland)
24 April 2016
Roudaki Hall - TEHRAN

Idin Samimi-Mofakham: Holography (Live Record - Sample Version)

Come Up, Comedown

Erik Drescher, flute
Commissioned by the VIPA Festival for Erik Drescher
Premiered July 6, 2017 in Valencia, Spain
Recording Engineer: Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Preliminary mix: Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie 
Mixed and mastered by Murat Çolak

The Attitudes Passionnelles of the Iconographis Photographique de la Salpêtrière

NickNelson

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