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

"Warten"

Helene Richter - voice, effects
Yaşar Kan - flute, soprano saxophone

Edited, mixed and mastered by Yaşar Kan

Helene & Yaşar - Warten

در این قسمت ماهان و ستاره سعی‌ کردند تا گفتگو‌های رایج بین موزیسین‌ها که معمولاً محدود به همان قشر و گروه هست رو به بیرون از این دایرهٔ بیارند، و اون رو با همهٔ شنونده‌ها به اشتراک بگذارند، در باره صنعتِ موسیقی در دنیا و جهت گیری اون حرف بزنند و، از شرایط موجود برای موزیسین‌ها و مشکلاتشون بگویند. اینکه نژاد پرستی‌ و جنسیت گرایی چه جایگاهی در صنعت موسیقی‌ داره و کلا از تجربیاتشون در این حوزه می‌گویند

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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)

Human experience, shaped by the world within and around us, is at the center of Setareh’s work.

She is a composer, performer, and interdisciplinary maker, weaving music, poetry, and performing arts to create holistic pieces that not only ask questions but also seek new possibilities.

By researching human struggles derived from psychological barriers and inter-relational conditioning, her pieces—whether for choir, opera, or interdisciplinary works for dance and performing arts—aim to disrupt destructive patterns and bring focus to our shared humanity, offering hopeful prospects.

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