Marsbar X Klub

Electronics: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Setar: Mahmood Schricker

Bloodshed

Solo bassoon. 

For and Performed by Rebekah Heller.

What The Body Says

For and Performed by Distractfold Ensemble. 

[Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Guitar]

Semantic Confusion

"Weaving" performed by Schallfeld Ensemble. 

For bass flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, accordion, and live processing.

Weaving

Seeds I is written for and in collaboration with Marco Fusi and was premiered in April 2024 at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. 

Marco Fusi - Viola D'Amore
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi - Electronics 

Audio and video recording was done by the Stanford Graduate Composers and with the generous of support of Dave Kerr.

Seeds I

Seeds II, the second version of Seeds I, is written for Calvin Van Zytveld (cello) and the Tank, and was premiered in May 2024 at The TANK Center For Sonic Arts.

Calvin Van Zytveld - Cello 
The Tank - Space

Audio and video recording was done by the engineers at The TANK Center For Sonic Arts.

Seeds II

Written for and premiered by Adapter Ensemble in February 2024, at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Performers: 
Carol McGonnell (Clarinet) 
Petteri Pitko (Harpsichord)
Gunnhildur Einarsdottir (Harp)
Matthias Engler (Percussion)

Roots

Dožam, a five-piece album, combines traditional Iranian music with electroacoustic sounds and techniques, with each track based on a specific Iranian mode. For each piece, I had the privilege of collaborating with a talented performer based in Iran—the place where I learned music and can truly call home.

Dožam, meaning a collection of feelings such as anger, sadness, frustration, and distress, brings together sounds and resonances to create sonic worlds that may echo the shared experiences felt across the world.

Album Credits: 
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi - Composer/Producer
Negin Mohammadi - Kamancheh/Collaborator 
Hiwa Seyfizade - Voice/Collaborator 
Samar Araghi - Tar/Collaborator 
Anahita Azimi - Violin/Collaborator 
Bahar Amrollahi - Qanoon/Collaborator 
Saba Studio - Recording 
Geryon Sound - Mixing and Mastering
Shirin Azadi - Album Cover Design
Ali Aghajani - Project Assistant

This project was made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, whose contribution was essential to its realization.

01 SABR (feat. Negin Mohammadi)

02 VEIRĀN (feat. Hiwa Seyfizade)

03 YĀD (feat. Samar Araghi)

05 ROYĀ (feat. Bahar Amrollahi)

04 ĀVĀR (feat. Anahita Azimi)

For and premiered by Distractfold Ensemble. 

Recorded by Murat Çolak on November 2, 2024 at CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. 

With the incorporation of the CAVIAR system (Center for Augmented/Virtual/Interactive Audio Realities), operated by Luna Valentin


‘They sniff your breath
lest you have said: I love you.
They sniff your heart--
(such strange times, my sweet)
and they flog love at every checkpoint.
We must hide love in the backroom. In the cold of this dead-end crooked road
they stoke their pyres
with our poems and songs. Don’t risk thinking,
for these are strange times, my sweet. The man who beats at the door
in the nadir of night,
has come to kill the lamp.
We must hide light in the backroom.’

- Excerpt from Ahmad Shamlou’s ‘In This Dead-End Road’ - Translated by Sholeh Wolpe

In This Dead-End Road - در این بن‌بست

Seeds III, for solo piano: The threshold between stagnation and flow. Written for and 

Premiered by Robert Fleitz. Recorded by Anna Golubkova on January 12, at  CCRMA Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. 


Seeds III

"I feel worst moments of this deathly night
many thousand wellsprings of sun 
in my heart
flows out of belief"

Excerpt from "Mahi", by Forough Farrokhzad
Translated by Sina Ghassemi

Lyrics: Māhi (fish), by Forough Farrokhzad 

Performed and premiered by the Peninsula Women's Chorus (PWC) on March 9, 2025


Māhi

Seeds IV, for kamancheh and tape. 

Written for and premiered by Niloufar Shiri. 

Recorded on March 1, 2025, at Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) 

Seeds IV

Seeds V - A dark forest, where light shines through, but nothing ever changes.

Written for and performed by Departure Duo. 
Soprano: Nina Guo 
Double Bass: Edward Kass
Lyrics: Chārā Sobh Nemishavad?/Why Doesn't Morning Come? by Ahmadreza Ahmadi

Recorded on April 10, 2025, at Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Seeds V

Imperfection 0.1

Imperfection 0.3

Imperfection 0.2

For Bass flute, Bass clarinet and Live electronics

Displacement II

Commissioned by Western Front and written for an 8.2 octophonic sound system.

Enigma

Solo piccolo piece + live processing.

Performed by Mark Takeshi McGregor as part of the Music and Sound Festival at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Winter/Spring 2019

The Starts And Stops

A piece for soprano, double bass, two bass drums, and electronics. Premiered as part of the New Music on the Point Festival in June 2019.  
Performed by
LIGAMENT (Soprano+Bass)
Jan Williams and Emerson Wahl (Percussion)

unpinned momentum

Performed by Hexum Quartet as part of EQ: Evolution of the String Quartet at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

vortex of length

A Fixed Mayhem

King and Rign's "The Vivication SS2020" collection runway music. 
As part of the Couture Culture fashion Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery. 

Commissioned by Couture Culture.

vivication

Based on Hossein Alizadeh's "Chargah in 7 beats" composition. 

Credits: 
Mahmood Schricker -- Electric Setar 
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi -- Electronics 
Reza Moghaddas -- Mix and Mastering

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