“FALL AND RISE“ is a transcultural interdisciplinary performance, research, and creation by Alireza Ostovar in collaboration with Tember Ensemble and guests.

The piece is about "life and death" inspired by Maulana's (Rumi's) poetry called "When I die."

This is a music recording from our live performance on 17 September 2022 in Berlin. For more info about the piece, please check: http://aliostovar.com/fallandrise/

The poem in English:

On the day of my death,
when my coffin is going by,
Don't think that I have any pain
about leaving this world.
Don't cry for me, and don't say,
"What a pity! What a pity!"
If you fall into the traps of the Devil,
that would really be a pity!
When you see my corpse is being carried,
don't say, "Parting, separation!"
Since, for me,
that is the time for union and meeting.
And when you leave me in the grave,
don't say, "Good-bye! Good-bye!”
The grave is only a curtain for hiding
the gathering of souls in Paradise.
Having seen the fall,
Consider the rise.
Why should there be any loss
because of
The setting of the sun and moon?
It seems like a setting to you, but it
is rising.
The tomb seems like a prison, but is the soul's liberation.
What seed ever went down into the earth
that didn't grow?
Why should you doubt
about the human’s "seed"?
What bucket ever went down
and didn't come out full?
Why lament for a soul
when it can return
like Joseph from the well?
When you have closed your mouth
on this side,
open it on that side
to raise up your voice
beyond place and time.

[Molana, Ghazal 911]

Album credits:
Fall and Rise (2022) - Tember Ensemble & guests

Alireza Ostovar (concept, artistic direction, composition, live-electronics, and recorded/processed video).
Azin Zahedi (santur, flute & voice recitation, interpretation/improvisation).
Petros Tzekos (percussions & voice recitation, interpretation/improvisation).

Poem from Molana Rumi

Live recorded on 17.September.2023, in Berlin.
Mix, Mastering, and artwork by Alireza Ostovar

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Welcome

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Alireza Ostovar
is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, producer, sound engineer/designer, researcher, music teacher, and performance artist currently based in Berlin.
He was born in Tehran. He completed his bachelor's degree in electronic music at S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and his master's degree in integrative composition at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.
He wrote his master's thesis on "TRANSCULTURAL MUSIC: A RESEARCH ABOUT INTERCULTURAL AND TRANSCULTURAL PROCESSES IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC" shortly after officially releasing his first album "REFLECTIONS" for quartet and live electronics. He is the founder of Transcultural Electroacoustic Music Berlin Ensemble (TEMBER).
Alireza has worked on many projects as a freelance composer, sound designer, and performance artist. (such as. Marina Abramovic "The Cleaner" , International Electroacoustic Festival of Monaco, Emufest (Rome), Ars Electronica, Maxxi Museum of Contemporary Art, Linux Audio Conference (ZKM), Urban Solar Audio Plant (USAP Berlin) the Annual Conference of the Korean Electroacoustic Music Society (KEAMSAC), the Irish Sound, Science, and Technology Convocation (ISSTC2015), the Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, the Lichtmuseum (Unna), the Ernest Busch Hochschule Berlin, the Philharmonie Essen, the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Komische Oper Berlin and many more. 
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Photo credit: Anton Tal

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