Concert Compositions

© Shiva Feshareki 

Shiva Feshareki - Immersive Electronics/Turntables
BBC Singers
Kit Downes - Organ

“The evening culminated in a stupendous fantasy [Aetherworld] on a Josquin motet by the turntable virtuoso Shiva Feshareki, who sent blasts of electronic sound rippling round the hall while the singers sustained harmonies and Kit Downes had a rip-roaring time extemporising ferocious discords on the Albert Hall organ. That was fresh, exciting, provocative and like nothing else in these Proms”
- Richard Morrison, Chief Classical Music Critic, The Times

REVIEW: http://5against4.com/2021/08/23/proms-2021-bernard-hughes-birdchant-nico-muhly-a-new-flame-after-sweelinck-shiva-feshareki-aetherworld-world-premieres/

Aetherworld (2021) [BINAURAL FOR HEADPHONES] premiere BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall

© Shiva Feshareki 

performed and composed by Shiva Feshareki on Turntables and Electric Guitars

Seismic Wave Orchestra [Binaural/Headphone -- Reference Copy]

from KR096: GIULIO ALDINUCCI - Real 
out on october 14th 2022 as 180gr LP / tape / DL

Real

GIULIO ALDINUCCI - Asymptotic Embrace

Morphing Polaroids

Confusion and Friction

0223 22 Lv 1 L10 Swm I Ii Mini Arg B

Lilly & George—Once I’m in [07.03.2023]

Whirling Dervishes (excerpt)
Composer: Shiva Feshareki

Title: Whirling Dervishes

Year: 2022-2023

Length: 20’ (abridged), or, 45’ (full)

Instrumentation List: Live Ambisonic Turntables (or fixed immersive electronics) and Amplified Grand Piano. The full version includes interactive lighting (optional).

Description: ‘Whirling Dervishes’ is a new hypnotic production inspired by the ancient Sufi tradition in which dancers spin until they reach a simultaneously meditative and ecstatic state. The live performance features a duo between Zubin Kanga on piano and Shiva Feshareki on turntables with 360° ambisonic diffusion and a bespoke lighting display linked to the movement of sound around the room. Premiere of 20min version at Sound Unwrapped, Kings Place by Shiva Feshareki and Zubin Kanga 2023. Commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London. We are currently accepting booking requests for the world premiere performance of ‘Whirling Dervishes’ (full version).

Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (turntables/immersive electronics) and Zubin Kanga (Piano).

WHIRLING DERVISHES (2022) [Excerpt]

Composer: Shiva Feshareki

Title: Sama-zan Trip

Year: 2022

Length: 20’

Instrumentation: Live Ambisonic Electronics/Turntables and Symphony Orchestra.

Description: In reference to the spinning meditation practice of the Sufi Dervishes, ‘Sama-zan Trip’ is a physical and cosmic dance of energy in which live turntable-manipulation immerses the orchestra and the audience in spatial sound that glides and whirls within the space.  It is a single expansive piece that is accumulative, hypnotic and trance-like; building up and then returning down again. Premiered by Shiva Feshareki and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at Musikprotokoll, Helmut List Halle, 2022. Co-Commissioned by ORF Musikprotokoll. We are currently looking for co-commissioners for this work.

Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (ambisonic turntables) and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Sama-zan Trip (2022) [Excerpt]

700WET, a clever wordplay on "wet" and "watt",  evokes the image of a charged battery ready to make some serious noise - and is eager to release its energy. This electrifying art-pop project is the brainchild of Marja Christians, an award-winning dancer and opera singer and Cid Hohner of Moonwalk X Records, OTTO, and Aufgang B. Their alluring synth-pop and honest operatic vocals transport listeners to a realm of sensual pleasure, inspired by the feminist power of erotica. Imagine Grace Jones singing minimal wave style in a Chicago house and you'll get a taste of their genre-defying 'Lovers-Dance' sound. Fans of italo disco and digi dub would surely like to take a bite here. They crafted their music with Yamaha Portasound keyboards and smoky Crumar string machines. All of this creates an authentic and distinctive sound that is hard to find elsewhere. 700WET is an explosion of creativity that will take you on a journey of lust, passion, and love.

700WET - Gimme Love

Sivat Selim - Marja

https://soundcloud.com/comewith

Tracklist:
00:00 det är svårt att anpassa sig ~ fromix
02:06 octavia e. butler reading things and going on
03:04 jerry och häxornas kväll
05:00 spaceflower technostone
06:56 alkemisternas index
09:52 mixtape ~ internal freque ride, m. oh, drömmarnas ö
10:33 off_piste road
10:57 cobra 8 lundbypark
12:08 where the sun never sets
13:07 cutting out a heart
13:52 u.f.p.
16:58 jerry
17:07 time to get real woah
17:33 the ones who walk away from omelas ~ ursula k. le guin tribute
21:28 snail with nightmare
22:43 various frustrations ~ audience singalong
24:10 whale manifesto ~ vi äro tusenden
26:18 octavia e. butler tribute
29:28 octavia punk
29:40 in i dimman ~ vildvittra på mars
38:22 eeva come eeva
40:04 avocado glitch
40:30 rotvälta, stenhuggare
41:29 when nature calls and you hang up
42:24 monstera club ~ running dream
44:44 1 min noise
45:44 i am your co-ghost
46:27 octavia punk
46:39 efter stormen
47:28 det är svårt att anpassa sig ~ fromix ll
48:23 this is for you 2
48:49 saddest music in the world pitch
49:25 toxic waste
49:52 jerry och häxornas kväll
51:46 sover du
53:29 my comment is

Jenny Johansson (23/06/23)

Detroit2

1. Loris S. Sarid – Wood, Metals, Clay, Glass, Plastic, Fabric, Paint, Grass 
2. Marta Forsberg – Outro: Ögonlock 
3. Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii – 2008 
4. NUG – Heat 
5. Eli Keszler – Tokyo Part X 
6. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Open Me 
7. Jonah Parzen-Johnson – When I Feel Like Myself 
8.  Emmer – Night Time for Miri I 
9. 0N4B – Soothing Memories 
10. Marta Forsberg – Part 1: Echo 
11. Goran Kajfeš Tropiques – Unity In Diversity

wabi-sabi 27.03.24

Performed by the strings of the London Philharmonia
at Royal Festival Hall in 2010

'Out Of Sorts' (2010)- String Octet

"almost to the day 10 years ago i was exchanging emails with carsten (nicolai) and olaf (bender) for my first release with raster-noton. before i knew it, i was playing a concert at villa massimo - i never played in front of people before. till today i feel nervous and a bit estranged by the situation of live performances, but i've learned (a bit) to dive into this and get an experience out of it - after all an essential part of art is presenting what you've done to the public. making a mixtape, though, feels more natural and honest in some way. so, without the need to shoot from the hip, this mix is dedicated to all the patient, inspiring and encouraging people i've met with raster(-noton)."

grischa lichtenberger


tracklist

1
- lek, lullaby to faa mai (elephant lullaby) (elephantnews youtube, 2014)
- island people, vultures and doves (island people, raster r-m174, 2017)
- grischa lichtenberger, 0416_10_lv_1_cello 1 (unreleased, 2016)

2
- robert lippok, varieties of impact (applied autonomy, raster r-m181, 2018)
- steve reich, six pianos (six pianos, deutsche grammophon 2525463, 1974)

3
- grischa lichtenberger, 1018_08_lv_gr_ssd (unreleased, 2018)
- byetone, rocky (soft) (death of a typographer, raster-noton r-n092, 2008)
- grischa lichtenberger, 0517_01 lv2 ms snt seq b (unreleased, 2017)

4
- frank bretschneider, thermik (archiv 4, raster noton r-n175)

5
- grischa lichtenberger, 0218_08_lv 2 b recs (unreleased, 2018)
- toru takemitsu, distance (garden rain, deutsche grammophon 002894775382, 1974)
- dasha rush, dance with edgar poe (sleepstep, raster-noton r-n158, 2015)

6
- grischa lichtenberger, 0617_01 lv 1 pnrecs + 0617_03 mobile paper shredder (unreleased, 2017)
- grischa lichtenberger, 1016_13 lv 1 ms (slow dances, unreleased, 2016)

7
- robert lippok & ronald lippok, fruit of the loom (weltecho, raster-noton r-n052, 2003)
- mokira, byte (cliphop, raster noton cdr 036, 2000)
- grischa lichtenberger, 0716_29_lv 1 re 0716_15 recs (unreleased, 2016)
- banks, fuck with myself (the altar, harvest 2557103717, 2016)

8
- nhk, __1 (unununium, raster-noton r-n111, 2009)

9
- grischa lichtenberger & jesse osborne-lanthier, 0117_18_re_0616_25 cslm ss2 mel 2 4b 180 dwnpt 51 2 (2017)

10
- zavoloka, inflame (sichten 1, raster r-m180, 2018)

11
- cassie, don't play it safe (don't play it safe, bad boy entertainment, 2017)
- djc artz, cassie-don't play it save filtered instrumental (youtube, 2018)
- grischa lichtenberger, 1018_10 cassie-artz remix (unreleased, 2018)

12
- grischa lichtenberger, 1017_09_lv_1b trks 2 (unreleased, 2017)

13
- atom™ & lisokot, leitmotif 1 (walzerzyklus, raster r-m176, 2017)

14
- kyoka, flashback (is (is superpowered), raster-noton r-n153, 2014)
- grischa lichtenberger, 1216_28_kyoka-flashback remix backstage (fridgebuzz+piano stockholm 2016) (unreleased, 2016)

15
- grischa lichtenberger, 0617_02_pb recs 2 arg 1 b q2 (bielefeld city, für carsten/c) (unreleased, 2017)

1018 10 lv 1 nts mix 1c

grischa lichtenberger »1018 10 lv 1 nts mix 1c«

© Shiva Feshareki 

Shiva Feshareki: Opus Infinity – A Spatial Composition for Live Ambisonic Electronics/Turntables and Spatialized Ensemble.
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Performers:
Instrumentalists - Ensemble Modern
Live Electronics/Turntables - Shiva Feshareki
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Recording and Mastering:
Christoph Classen for Deutschlandfunk Kultur
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Live from Frankfurt's LAB, Shiva Feshareki & the Ensemble Modern gave the world premiere of OPUS INFINITY on February 29th 2020. 

The turntable virtuoso and composer Shiva Feshareki from London is considered one of the most interesting current discoveries in the fields of contemporary music and electronic club music. For Ensemble Modern, she composed a new work for turntables, ensemble and loudspeakers, which Feshareki arranged at Frankfurt’s LAB according to a painstaking geometrical plan. The piece demonstrates the interconnection of sound with the naturally occurring patterns of the universe. The audience enter this spatial arrangement based on mathematical patterns, free to walk, stand, dance or sit, thereby becoming part of an immersive performance in which the composer manipulates her turntables live, intensifying and alienating allusions to the dancefloor. Together with the instrumentalists, she creates a dynamic sound sculpture which fills the entire space. 

The touch-based turntable spatialisation - which Feshareki controls live, in improvisation - was custom-installed by Christian Duka with state-of-the-art software developed by Auditif (Serafino di Rosario and Mario Buoninfante).

Photo: Walter Vorjohann

Opus Infinity (2019-2020)

Shiva Feshareki is an internationally acclaimed experimental composer and electronic artist who works at the intersections between electronic music, contemporary-classical composition and the “cutting-edge expression of turntablism”.
(Ryan Walmsley, Strange Sounds from Beyond) 

All enquiries: info@shivafeshareki.co.uk

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