PATHOS / ELLIPSE IV - Homage A Xenakis, 2024

Parsa Hadavi, born in 1995, Gorgan Iran. He is a composer–researcher mainly focusing on the field of ecologies and its approaches to musical creation and composition. He is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture and astrophysics. His interest in science led him to develop a compositional method called the Multi-dimensional composition system by evolving the perception manners in composition both in the author’s and auditor’s part. 
He has studied architecture and urbanism at the Tehran University of Art and has pursued his education in instrumental and électroacoustique composition under the supervision of Claude Ledoux, Geoffrey François, and Gilles Gobert at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium, and later in Paris under the supervision of Jean Luc Hervé and Roque Rivas and currently he is a student in Musicology at University Paris 8. 
His research contains political-social concerns with ecology and ecofeminism approaches and his compositions mainly involve accessible technology.

Arshan Najafi is a composer and live electro-acoustic performer specializing in sound, image, and words.
Recognized as an emerging talent of his generation, his works have been featured and published by Spectro Centre for New Music, Noise à Noise Records, Petrichor Records, Unexplained Sounds Group, Cold Spring Records, XOR Space, Texas Tech University, Yarava Music Group, Unerhörte Musik, Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, MUSLAB, SIMEC, ICMC Boston and Noise-Works.
He has studied music with Saba Alizadeh, Parsa Hadavi, Sohrab Motabar, and Ata Ebtekar, exploring complex musical structures with a focus on experimental soundscapes and musique concrète. Selected as a winner of Petrichor Records’ “Call for Young Iranian Composers,” he received mentorship from Chaya Czernowin, Arshia Samsaminia, Reza Vali, and Amin Sharifi.
Najafi has also been recognized in competitions and events, including the 7th Reza Korourian Electro-Acoustic Music Competition by Yarava Music Group, the”Electronic Nights” series at Texas Tech University, “Seyr” call for scores for saxophone and electronics by the Spectro Centre for New Music, MUSLAB After, ICMC Boston, Echofluxx 25 amongst others.
In 2022, his debut book, Twenty Wrong Turns, was published by Aso Publications in Tehran.
Also his debut on Noise-Works “Imaginary Crisis” was released on December 27th, 2024.