Abysmal (2023) 
Composer: Vesal Javaheri
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Mixed Version
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تکرار، لطمه، لطمۀ مکرر در این سیاه نامنتها، مضاف درد و مضاف‌ الیه زشت خوی، زیر سایۀ سیاه که تعبیر هر رؤیاست. بارقۀی شماست این شعاع نور، که خورد می‌کند ظلمات نامنتها را. شماست امید و امید زیستن
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Abysmal (2023)

Arshan Najafi is a composer and live electro-acoustic performer specializing in sound, image, and words.
Recognized as an emerging talent of his generation, his works have been featured and published by Spectro Centre for New Music, Noise à Noise Records, Petrichor Records, Unexplained Sounds Group, Cold Spring Records, XOR Space, Texas Tech University, Yarava Music Group, Unerhörte Musik, Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, MUSLAB, SIMEC, ICMC Boston and Noise-Works.
He has studied music with Saba Alizadeh, Parsa Hadavi, Sohrab Motabar, and Ata Ebtekar, exploring complex musical structures with a focus on experimental soundscapes and musique concrète. Selected as a winner of Petrichor Records’ “Call for Young Iranian Composers,” he received mentorship from Chaya Czernowin, Arshia Samsaminia, Reza Vali, and Amin Sharifi.
Najafi has also been recognized in competitions and events, including the 7th Reza Korourian Electro-Acoustic Music Competition by Yarava Music Group, the”Electronic Nights” series at Texas Tech University, “Seyr” call for scores for saxophone and electronics by the Spectro Centre for New Music, MUSLAB After, ICMC Boston, Echofluxx 25 amongst others.
In 2022, his debut book, Twenty Wrong Turns, was published by Aso Publications in Tehran.
Also his debut on Noise-Works “Imaginary Crisis” was released on December 27th, 2024.

Vesal Javaheri (b. 1998) began his musical career at the age of ten, playing classical guitar with Karina Kimiaei, and later with Pedram Falsafi, Babak Valipour, and Eileen Arjmand. He pursued his artistic interests in Electronic Composition and Music Programming with Kiawasch Saheb-Nassagh and Sohrab Motabar.
Some of his compositions have appeared on compilation albums in Iran, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Italy. And have been broadcast in countries such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Iran. "Chaos," his first personal album, was released in June 2022.
One of his compositions, suffering, was selected for the Sixth Reza Korourian Electro-Acoustic Composition Competition. The other piece, Requiem, was chosen for the first Golden LALA Electronic Composition Competition.
His musical activities include more than just composing and performing. He's also worked as a sound designer and composer for plays like DreamLand, Nasakh, Process, and There Will Be Blood.