Concert version for brass quintet and live electronics, commissioned by Shriver Hall. (Installation version for overhead wavefield synthesis and video projection commissioned by EMPAC.)

[there are subwoofer bass frequencies present - use good headphones or larger speakers for best effects, not earbuds]

Audio documentation of the world premiere performance.  American Brass Quintet at Shriver Hall, December 8, 2019. (P.S. this was premiered on my birthday, and it was basically the best birthday present ever - thank you ABQ!)

Program Note:
Spending time in the chambers of ancient ruins and the cavities of basilicas and churches has led to a fascination with the interaction of architecture, light, and acoustics in relation to the human spectator. The different window types (from oculus to clerestory to stained glass) guide our relationships with the spaces, recanting visual stories as they divert beams of light in paths of illumination throughout the course of the day. The same is true of the sonic qualities of these, often vast, spaces. Within "The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures" I take the brass performance tradition of the madrigals and motets of Renaissance polyphony and pass sourced quotations through a compositional prism. The resultant fragments are illuminated and obscured in the composition through the use of antiphonal and heterophonic writing, density and silence.  Fragments of Josquin's Miserere, a spare and austere motet setting of Psalm 51, jostle our memory as they are stretched and ornamented throughout the ritualistic sonic space.

The Glow that Illuminates, the Glare that Obscures (2019) for brass quintet + elec (concert version)

Sounds of Within for Flute Solo - Neda Nadim - Claudia Aizaga, flute

Are You There? for Flute and Live, Interactive Electronics - Shahrzad Talebi - Claudia Aizaga, flute

Instinctual (2023)
An encounter in two parts.

I composed this fixed media piece for our collaboration project "Instinctual" with Choreographer Dani Bogle.

Composer: Shahrzad Talebi
Choreographer: Dani Bogle
Dancers: Dani Bogle, Kylah Holt

Performed at The Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater at the University of North Texas, Denton, November 2023.

Instinctual (2023)

for Bass-Koto and 10 channels-Live-Electronic
EDIZIONI SUVINI ZERBONI – MILANO
Commissioned by l´ Ina GRM
Bass-Koto, Makiko Goto,
14 min 30 sec
23.05.2009, Multipnonie Festival von l´Ina GRM.
Salle Olivier Messiaen in Radio France 
(Production in l´Ina GRM)

Qualia for Bass-Koto and 10 channels-Live-Electronic

Music Composer
Ph.D. composition student at the University of North Texas
M. Mus. from BGSU
Graduated from Art University of Tehran

Instinctual (2023)

Shahrzad Talebi

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