سنتور: بهزاد شایانفر
کمانچه: محمد سیفی
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Behzad Shayanfar: Santur
Mohammad Seyfi: Kamancheh

Goft_o_Goo - Single

Goft_o_Goo

composer: Faramarz Payvar
Performer: Behzad Shayanfar & Mohammad Seyfi

Farparak-single

Farparak

Saz-e Shekaste (broken instrument) Live 07 Roma (improvisation)

The new music and sound performance by Ali Ostovar explores working with objects associated with his memories from the past, especially in relation to his childhood memories with his father in his native Iran. The title of the performance refers to a song of the same name by Delkash, one of the iconic singers of the 1940s–1960s in Iran. Ali listened to many Iranian songs at home during childhood, as his father was fascinated with listening to and playing traditional music. The title also refers to his life story of carrying a broken Iranian setar around Europe for more than 12 years to find someone who could fix it; he still kept it even after buying a new one.
At the performance, he will play approximately 60 minutes of live-electronic music using his laptop, a few cassette players, a synthesizer, and possibly other instruments, questioning what it means to bring the past into the present or keep it there. Does the past consist only of what we remember? And what about what we don’t remember?
He recreates personal memories by selecting different sound materials, using sonic metaphors and transculturation, and playing with time, frequencies, and transformation.

Rome, 08.July.2023
aliostovar.com/saze-shekasteh/

Photo credit by Saleh Kazemi
[Rec - 23.07.08 - 22h42m14s   Performance in Roma]

Saz-e Shekasteh (Broken instrument) live 07 - Rome 2023

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

I'm Behzad Shayanfar, I've studied Iranian traditional music in Tehran University. I have been composing, teaching, and performing Santur now for more than a decade. Here I'm sharing some of my work. I hope you enjoy listening to them.

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