Excerpt from the score for the short film Sediment
Music composition: Setareh Nafisi
Music production: Setareh Nafisi and Nicholas Robert Thayer 
Melisa Delgado on viola
Aleksandar Škorić on drums
Camera: Amir Komelizadeh
Colour grading: Amir Komelizadeh
Directed by: Vida Kasaei

Sediment 'Mud'

This is a story about a journeyer. A Wayfarer. A person on the path. We are all, always, wayfarers. Sometimes the path is laid out before you with a shimmering clarity. And sometimes you can barely see your outstretched hands through the fog. But at all times the way is already laid beneath your feet. All you have to do is to find the courage to walk forward.  

When I was writing this piece I had a very strong vision. I see at the beginning a very cosy and warm fire,  a fireplace. A place to tell stories. There is someone there. I don’t see it as a person, but as a being. A wise being telling a story to a young being. They connect with each other, and then the wise being begins. The story starts with war. A complex war zone. The whole scene is there. I captured it in the music. The war is in the past now, but its legacy endures. All things then grow out of it. Beauty, peace, happiness, creation. They all become new seeds that blossom. And then life starts to happen. It could be anything. ANYTHING. The branches and blossoms and the trees and the leaves go on and on and on as the music develops and intertwines. They reach ever upward, like flowers yearning for the sun. These are the different periods, the different visions that, as a wayfarer you experience. But, left alone, like untended weeds, the effects of the war remain and strangle the undergrowth. Unresolved they again start to enervate and exhaust you. But, what matters most, is that within all the struggles you have the power to choose your own perspective. The struggles are in eventuality beautiful and calming. At the end it is not even that you reach somewhere, but something. Something. That inner peace. That last part it the inner peace. That’s what we try to create. The inner peace. 

Featuring
Olaia Oliverri - Violin 
Anna Csukly - Violin
Melisa Delgado - Viola
Lucjia Gregov - Cello
Setareh Nafisi - Electronics

Produced by Setareh Nafisi and Nicholas Thayer

Wayfarer

This atmospheric debut release from Iranian composer Setareh Nafisi combines classical composition, pop sensibility, and electronic production, to create something entirely new. The tune brings the taste of breathing free as the silver lining of our journeys, both inner and outer.

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Nafisi leaves us with a sense of hope and togetherness. "We're all the same.” - Maartje Hoek (24 May 2022, 3 Voor 12) 
Setareh’s work oscillates between music, poetry, movement and space. She is an artist driven by an approach of creating ‘music in context’. Her work includes composition, performing as a pianist and improviser, artistic direction, educational research and co-founder of non-profit organization The World We Live In, which is an arts and society driven association. Her work is most often described as ‘beyond borders’, and draws together all the threads of her musical journey, incorporating influences from classical, electronics, avant-garde and Eastern disciplines.

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