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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]

long-form audio installation
artistic research
booklet in English – containing aural photography, theoretical discourse on the culture of listening, and more...

sound, text, images: Manja Ristić
editor: Sonja Leboš
sound mastering: La Plant Studio, Belgrade
design: Nevena Vasiljević
proofreading: Mark Vernon
production, publishing, distribution: ELL Studio 2023
artistic research in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, Zagreb

water memory is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

read more about the project >>> 
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/water-memory-mnemosonic-topographies-of-the-adriatic

water memory

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water memory – mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic

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]

Format: CASSETTE, Digital
Pre-order date: 14th July 2023
Release date: 21th July 2023

An album recorded at Les Lilas - near Paris - with synths, guitars, tape loops, and some other materials.

A quote heard during the French revolt against pension reform:
"There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence. It legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression, and exploitation. It crushes and eliminates millions of people in its silent and well-oiled cogs.

The second is revolutionary violence, which is born of the will to abolish the first.

The third is repressive violence, which stifles the second by making itself the helper and accomplice of the first violence - the one that causes all the others.

There is no worse hypocrisy than only calling the second 'violence' while pretending to forget the first one that gives it life and the third that kills it."
(Helder Camara, Spiral of Violence)

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

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Latency marks its 10th anniversary with a special collection of commissioned works by HTRK, Damsel Elysium, and Tarawangsawelas. The three artists have crafted individual soundscapes that were showcased during the label night, held in the picturesque gardens of Villa Medici, Rome, on 26 June 2023. 

Originating from Melbourne, HTRK (pronounced ​“Hate Rock”) is a duo comprising Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang. With a discography spanning releases on labels like Ghostly, Boomkat, and their own imprint N&J Blueberries, Jonnine and Nigel have crafted a truly unique sound over the past decade. Their performances can be seen at a variety of venues like the Sydney Opera House and Rewire. 

London-based Damsel Elysium is a multifaceted artist who spans the realms of sound, visual art, and performance. Damsel utilises improvisational double bass, violin, piano and original field recordings to explore alternative connections with physical spaces and nature. They have collaborated with artists such as FKA Twigs, Celeste, Cktrl, Matt Maltese and the London Contemporary Orchestra. 

Tarawangsawelas is an Indonesian duo from Bandung. They are masters of the Tarawangsa, a traditional Sundanese instrument from West Java employed in ceremonies celebrating bountiful harvests. By combining the string instrument with a series of effect units, Tarawangsawelas conjure contemplative and hypnotic compositions while making traditional music accessible to a wider audience.

Damsel Elysium - 27 Glass Ceilings (Latency 023)

original song by Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone

Funerale Di Un Contadino

Simplists offers a dubby wave experiment! More events that simplifies reality here: https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/nb03t-simplists-over-simplifies-reality-lp

Simplists - Wonderful Girl (A1)

Based in Brussels and Paris, moli del tro is a label that explores a range of genres, from experimental music to pop and sound art. It is also the dj name of the duo of its founders, Laurence Creyf and Gilles Vanneste.


moli del tro @ Kiosk Radio 15.02.2024

TA: Buchla Series 200, Serge Modular, contact microphone.
No plugins or other DSP. 

Recorded at EMS, Stockholm.

Thanks to Mats Lindström, Gabrielle Karlsén, Daniel Araya, Jan Rohlf, Marcus Gammel, Fernando Sixto and Marion Innocenzi.

Serge & Buchla (excerpt, recorded at EMS Stockholm)

Live from Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival. 
Shiva Feshareki - DIALOGUE - for Live Turntable Manipulation and Orchestra

Turntables/Live Electronics: Shiva Feshareki
Conducted by: Bramwell Tovey
Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra 


recordings made by BBC (Neil Varley)
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall 

Premiered at the EFG London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall by Shiva Feshareki and BBC Concert Orchestra 18.01.2018

*Strictly copyright of Shiva Feshareki and the BBC*

DIALOGUE (2018) - for Live Turntable Manipulation & Orchestra (Live from London Jazz Festival, QEH)

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

The Draughton Light

© 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

DIALOGUE (2018) - for Live Turntable Manipulation & Orchestra (Live from London Jazz Festival, QEH)

Shiva Feshareki

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