Premiered by The JACK Quartet on March 10, 2021
Voxman Music Building, University of Iowa

verged, for string quartet

cello: Adrián Gómez; Voxman Music Builiding, University of Iowa

Commissioned by the New Music On The Point Festival and The Robert Black Foundation

Three sketches for solo cello

Premiered on July 30, 2021 at DePaul University
by the members of @Ensemble-Dal-Niente:

Constance Volk, Flute
Kyle Flens, Percussion
Jesse Langen, Electric guitar
Theo Ramsey, Viola

Conductor: Hannah Barnes

in memory of Ahmad Zerang

unbearability, for flute, percussions, electric guitar, and viola

Written for, and premiered by @annaelder at @SICPP (Summer Institute for Contemporary Music Practice) 2021

On three poems by E. E. Cummings

- I -
ringed
with monstrous
a doomed world's huge how
thunders are
(s lowl y
but certainly)crum
bl i ng
each more silent than each
remind
ers of this or of that
once(who knows)maybe
fearless him or beautiful
possibly her
and even lov ing
est youme


- II -
Cri
C
k
et
in
-visible every whereish;faint.ly shrill most
(keen)
bell Of,shy a
spirit :twisting cry!ex
transparent
-din-
or
arywish;quick- liest universal whis
per(Wis
p
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Like un
thing
oar in a such tre men
dous Sea
who
our
s e l v e s be ing,Call "
t
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"SometimeS


- III -
s(
there out of in finite no where,who;arrive s trollingly
:alight whitely and.
)now flakes:are;guests,of t wi
ligh
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Three pieces for solo soprano

premiered by Eva Richards at The University of Iowa, School of Music
Oct 24, 2018

Untitled (for solo cello)

Abstract #2 has been written for either any possible instrument which has five different registers or human voice. In this piece, the horizontal axis represents time (5-second blocks) and the vertical axis is pitch in five different registers. Dynamics have been shown as boxes and each box has a different spectrum of Gray (pale grey to black). Each spectrum is basically the maximum possible dynamic the performer can get to. In other words, if the spectrum is dark black, the performer is allowed to make a dynamic change from the quietest sounds to possible loudest ones. White is reserved for silence.

Premiered by Justin Comer at the University of Iowa, March 31, 2019

Abstract #2 (saxophone)

Abstract #2 has been written for either any possible instrument which has five different registers or human voice. In this piece, the horizontal axis represents time (5-second blocks) and the vertical axis is pitch in five different registers. Dynamics have been shown as boxes and each box has a different spectrum of Gray (pale grey to black). Each spectrum is basically the maximum possible dynamic the performer can get to. In other words, if the spectrum is dark black, the performer is allowed to make a dynamic change from the quietest sounds to possible loudest ones. White is reserved for silence.

Primiered by Shawn Seguin at the University of Iowa, March 31, 2019

Abstract #2 (bassoon)

Abstract #2 has been written for either any possible instrument which has five different registers or human voice. In this piece, the horizontal axis represents time (5-second blocks) and the vertical axis is pitch in five different registers. Dynamics have been shown as boxes and each box has a different spectrum of Gray (pale grey to black). Each spectrum is basically the maximum possible dynamic the performer can get to. In other words, if the spectrum is dark black, the performer is allowed to make a dynamic change from the quietest sounds to possible loudest ones. White is reserved for silence.

Premiered by Alex Spenceri at the University of Iowa, May 5, 2019

Abstract #2 (trombone)

Dedicated to and premiered by https://soundcloud.com/will-yager at The University of Iowa, School of Music
December 8, 2019

irreducibility (for solo double bass)

It's recommended to listen to this piece with headphones.

This is a collaborative piece by Ramin Roshandel (setār) and Jean-François Charles (live electronics) as a tribute to Jamshid, the inventor of music.

Premiered at The University of Iowa, December 14th, 2019

Jamshid Jam (setār and live electronics)

Dedicated to and premiered by soundcloud.com/ligamentduo: Anika Kildegaard (soprano), soundcloud.com/will-yager (double bass) at The University of Iowa, October 27, 2019

On a poem by E. E. Cummings with the same title (poets.org/poem/r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-g-r)


                                     r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
                           who
  a)s w(e loo)k
  upnowgath
                       PPEGORHRASS
                                                       eringint(o-
  aThe):l
               eA
                    !p:
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                                      (r
  rIvInG                              .gRrEaPsPhOs)
                                                                         to
  rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly
  ,grasshopper;


Drawing by: Jafar Sadeghi
instagram.com/jafarsadeghi1/

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r (for soprano and double bass)

Premiered by The JACK Quartet on March 11, 2020
Voxman Music Building, University of Iowa

irreversibility, for string quartet

This project was originally a larger choreographic research lead by Stephanie Miracle, Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa. Miracle, along with a team of graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Dance, were only three weeks away from premiering MAMMAL HALL, a site-specific wandering dance theater adventure designed for small audiences at The Museum of Natural History in Macbride Hall (a Pentacrest Museum) in Iowa City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been postponed indefinitely. But art making prevails. The MAMMAL HALL team regrouped via ZOOM and together developed an entirely new form through which their research might be shared. Part-podcast, part-radio-play, part aural-choreography, this is a listening experience for anyone, any age, anywhere.

Choreographer/Director: Stephanie Miracle

Assistant Director: Michael Landez

Sound Designer/Composer: Ramin Roshandel

Stage Manager/Assistant Producer: Mariana Tejeda

Performers/Co-creators: Danica Clayton, Bennett Cullen, Sabrina Duke, Jenny Fairman, Laila Franklin, Hunter Glenn, Julia Miller, Alyssa Simpson, Anna Wetoska, Dorothea Yu

Special thanks to the Pentacrest Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, and University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts Dance Department.

Archival museum exhibition audio used in this podcast includes the voice of esteemed elder of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (The Meskwaki) Donald Wanatee. Recordings used with permission from the Museum of Natural History.

Mammals in Captivity

Premiered by @lexletourneau in Voxman Music Building, University of Iowa, September 20, 2020

The poem has been used by courtesy of Carolina Ebeid

(disambiguation of miriam)

In 2017 activists strung up wedding dresses between the palm trees along Beirut’s seafront protesting a law allowing a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim.
 
unlike eyes, the ears don’t shut when sleep treads in
unlike eye the ear dont sh when sleep tread sin
unlike eyes, the ears hunt din

ik eyes, the ears do read
au ai / inept / little pain
u lied / yes,
keyed shut / yes,
keyed shut we slept red

lithe earth whelp
u lied
ears shut in
years n’t
years n’t

(disambiguation of miriam) for solo flute - on a poem by Carolina Ebeid

www.ramin-roshandel.com

My last collaborative album with Jean-François Charles is available here:
https://newfloremusic.bandcamp.com/album/jamshid-jam

Ramin Roshandel - composer, setarist

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