Concert Compositions

Tazartès' Transports

Tazartes' Transports - Part. 1

© 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]

'Aetherworld' by Shiva Feshareki
Recorded live at the BBC Proms 2021
From the album Shiva Feshareki: Turning World
Out 27 May 2022 on NMC Recordings

Shiva Feshareki - turntables
Kit Downes - organ
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin - conductor

Shiva Feshareki: Turning World

Shiva Feshareki: Aetherworld (excerpt)

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]

One hour of NEW FORMS using nothing other than Madonna's seminal single Like a Prayer.

Composer and Turntablist Shiva Feshareki presents her monthly show NEW FORMS. Using her own bespoke turntabling techniques, she re-imagines music and sounds from any genre - live - through warped, vinyl-only turntable manipulation. Allow each special-edition show to be a trip into an alternative perspective to that which already exists: A new form.

NTS: Shiva Feshareki presents NEW FORMS: Like A Prayer 15.10.18

Rinse FM Podcast

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Kilbourne - 14th April 2019

Live Reimagination of NEW FORMS LP at Aures, London, using a 50 speaker surround-sound system. The ambisonics were spatialized live in performance, and captured using binaural technology

As part of Futureshook by Edited Arts and Amoenus.

Live Reimagination of NEW FORMS LP at Edited:Amoenus (Binaural) (3.2.2018)

A sounds of Sónar mix by Shiva Feshareki. 

Sheva plays SonarXS on Thursday 18th July. 
Info and tix: https://sonar.es/en/2019/artists/shiva-feshareki

Tracklist:
Shiva Feshareki - New Forms Jingle 1
Photek - The Fifth Column (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Shiva Feshareki - Composition no.1 and no.2 
The Commodores - Janet (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Gibson Brothers - Cuba (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Photek - ni ten ichi ryu (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Eliane Radigue - Feedback Works (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Kilbourne - NJ Terror

The Sounds of Shiva Feshareki

https://sonar.es/en/2018/news/meet-shiva-feshareki

A sounds of Sónar mix by Shiva Feshareki.

Shiva plays SonarXS on Thursday 18th July. 
Info and tix: sonar.es/en/2019/artists/shiva-feshareki

Tracklist:
Shiva Feshareki - New Forms Jingle 1
Photek - The Fifth Column (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Shiva Feshareki - Composition no.3 
The Commodores - Janet (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Gibson Brothers - Cuba (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Photek - ni ten ichi ryu (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Eliane Radigue - Feedback Works (Shiva Feshareki live expansion)
Kilbourne - NJ Terror

'LIQUID PYRAMID MIX' Shiva Feshareki (Sounds of Sonar)

Buy: https://shop.sarecordings.com/release/143106-shiva-feshareki-vapour?fbclid=IwAR0s9nYtv8eL7AZqmrkWl82kjG8qLbRp-KILYcJXlaxuruy2Yv8YjSBEAQg

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dta01M7mld0

Art and video by alx.000000

Vapour (2019)

Responsible gong baths in a time of coronavirus... I've stopped doing my group sessions and trying out offering them online instead.  Hello to my regulars!  And welcome to anyone new!  Please find a comfortable place to lie down, where you won't be disturbed, and listen with good headphones.  Let me know how you get on!  Cathy x

Sarasa Sound gong bath 16 March 2020

© 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)

Nebula (2020) [3D spatial for headphones]

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

Opus Infinity (2019-2020)

Shiva Feshareki

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