The Anagram String Trio is James Ilgenfritz (bass), Meaghan Burke (cello) and Stephanie Griffin (viola). They have worked as a trio with M Lamar, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, and Petr Kotik, as well as performing their own works for trio. The four works on this album represent experimentalism from the last seventy years, with works from the 1960s, 1970s, 2010s, and 2020s. This includes works by California-based experimental improviser/composers Wilfrido Terrazas and Niloufar Shiri, as well as two pillars of African American postwar experimentalism: Composer Alvin Singleton, and founding Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson. This project, was supported by Issue Project Room and Oda, and was recorded by Bob Bellerue and Jade Guterman at Figure 8 Recording.

Downing Poet

Achromatic

Voice: Fariba Zahedi 
Music: Niloufar Shiri 
Birds: MixKit

Sabz Khaham shod | سبز خواهم شد

an excerpt from The Flower’s Bite: Menghar-e Gol performance at the Benton Museum.
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Screaming and electronics by Jessika Kenney. Kamancheh screaming and some electronics by me.

Niloufar Shiri and Jessika Kenney

'Krä_nō': Solo saxophone performed by Keaton Shaw as part of Timber Vol. 4: New Music Mosaic.


'krä_nō

'Moving Surfaces' 
Commissioners: Susan Bienkowski & Wang Lee. Long Beach Opera 
Soprano: Alejandra Martinez
Pianist: Stephen Karr
A/V Editing: Stephen Karr
Text by H. E. Sayeh

Text:
A bell sounded in my chest,
A bell for love or death?
No lips opened to answer me.
A gust of wind killed the lantern.

The bell tolled in my chest,
A bell for love or death?
No lips opened to answer me.
A gust of wind killed the lantern.
Night spread like a terrible dream.

I asked for whom is the bell ringing?

Moving surfaces

Performed by Lamnth
Lilit Hartunian, violin
Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom
June 4th, 2024
Edward M. Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Recorded by Jeffrey Means

SAAR in Farsi means "pain." In the past few years, I have endured and come to understand the many different dimensions of pain—not physical pain, but the kind that is felt viscerally that enters your body like ink moving through water; the kind of pain that is felt in dreams. This pain, however, has been a catalyst for growth and healing, and has led to a deeper understanding of my own resilience and transformation. — Niloufar Shiri

SAAR

Sarāb: String Quartet 
Performed by Jack Quartet  
Christopher Otto (violin)
Austin Wulliman (violin)
John Pickford Richards (viola)
Jay Campbell (cello)

Sarab II - Excerpt

Composer: Niloufar Shiri 

Flute: Michael Matsuno
Piano: Kyle Adam Blair
Double Bass: Matt Kline

Niloufar Shiri | نیلوفر شیری

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