belly of a snake for percussion+electronics+variable instruments

Belly Of A Snake

for solo oboe

for voice, bass clarinet and percussion
performed by TAK

moon that sank|wet grass

**please listen with headphones or good speakers!

for double bass, bass clarinet and, tape
performed by Kathryn Schulmeister and Madison Greenstone

premiered at Harvard University - as part of Hgnm series, spring 2022
mix by Murat Çolak

a machine dream, its parts like organs unified, knowing where to land, when to erupt, when to suppress but always unfulfilled and cautious.

in the landscape of my dreams landed two voices, unfulfilled

Dermatome
for percussion trio
premiered by line upon line, Austin, Texas

Dermatome

for flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, cello and electric guitar
premiered by Nadar Ensemble at Harvard University

 I can't resist the body, a machine with its cogs and wires and patterns, which revolts against itself, devours itself, but can never resist the natural force of its parts and falls again and again into the pattern. the need to destroy is the desire to move against the system and to destroy itself, to be impossible, undone, to escape and to revolt is to have hope for a different beginning, a change of pattern and all that could be before the beginning. and with it, comes the melancholy of the impossible-of something that could only be imagined. and as a result, the joy of hearing the concrete crumple, melt or move to the threshold of breaking while the machine thrives to function.

concrete and bones of another

for violin, cello and tape
Premiered by Hannah Weirich and Dirk wietheger #Ensemble Musikfabrik

#48660 is inspired by the texture of voile, , a sheer transparent fabric in plain weave with tightly twisted yarns which often has a stiff finish.
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#48660

flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion instruments
and experimental animation
link to video: https://vimeo.com/778634629

premiered by ensemble recherche at Harvard University

animal is about a creature stuck in a claustrophobic room. It doesn't know what it is or where it belongs.
trying to remember, am I one or thousands?
maybe flesh? Or stone? Perhaps a color?
or a sea of earth.
trying to remember, it forgets.
as a sudden impulsive act of madness, it takes refuge to the unknown. so, it unfolds. to see how it is to feel. but what is growing inside of me? is it my face? arms? legs? my teeth?
i think I’m growing a new organ.

Animal

the loss-
my MOTHER has long been separated from my LIMBS, HANDS, my STOMACH
and what has replaced this VOID?
let the tubes create itself and let them grow,
let them connect and rejoice,
let the animal to be reunited; to PROTECT me as my MOM would

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performed by Broken Frames Syndicate

watch with animation here: https://vimeo.com/912102230

“....I read somewhere that what I believed to be poetic and sublime testimonials of
my conviction that life is a desperate confrontation with unknown forces are in reality
cute girlish dreams, flaring with sexual symbols....”
Dorothea Tanning

Premiered by ELISION Ensemble
Melbourne Recital Center

Kathryn Schulmeister
Marshall McGuire
Peter Neville

Children’s Games

writing this piece coincided with a moment in my life where waiting has been the sole intention of my everyday.
I haven't seen my parents for a very long time due to the political climate and have reached a surreal point in my life i which my every day is filled with waiting. the waiting has brought a sense of immobility and stuckness accompanied with anger.
this waiting no longer contains a peaceful negative space but a sense of overflowing emotions with numbness.

premiered by SMASH duo at Gaudeamus festival, 2025
                                    
         


10 am is when you come to me

the music begins within a dimly lit room where a ritual is taking place . in a slow procession a statue is being carried; its belly open, a flock of birds flying out. 
inspired by Tarkovsky's nostalgia

premiered by Riot Ensemble

flock of birds flying out of her belly

for piano and percussion

percussion: camille Emaille
piano: Golnaz

Silence I

Goli ( Violin) Camille ( Percussion) (1)

John Ivers( clarinet)
Golnaz shariatzadeh( violin)

violin clarinet

Nashtifan windmill is a cyclic trap in which the forces are the residue of a preexisting cycle. As the kinetic nature of the wind, the volatile particles flow, act, resist and conform until they find no way out. Instead of disintegrating, they will constantly deterritorialize. 
flute: Michelle Lee
percussion: Tony Giuseppe Gennaro

Nashtifan

String Quartet (2018) [excerpt]

Written for the wasteLAnd academy, 2019
Rachel Beetz, flute
Dustin Donahue, percussion
Brian Walsh, bass clarinet

Golnaz Shariatzadeh

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