Jacques Lecoq mime

mirroring notes of counterpoint Bach

Contrapunctus XII, Art of the Fugue:
http://www.teoria.com/articulos/analysis/kdf/XII/eng/index.html

red alarm

This is what I was hearing as a child at the time of Iraq bombing Tehran. W'e'd go to basement to be safe but it was just another game for me. In fact I loved the excitement, hiding, and basement gathering with neighbours and didn't bothered about war as much as I remember. I feel I should do something with this sound.

musical chairs

I find choreographing musical chair for officers intriguing. This is from Evita.

Roulette

I have interest in the from and function of this object, also on concept of Casino and games in general. Im particularly fascinated with kinetic toy-like round objects such as hourglass, spin top, or holahoop.

pendulum Waves

When hearing music brain of the beholder tries to put the audio and visual together, even though they're not designed to match in this example. This is all physics but it looks magical.

victor gama

Form of his instrument (which he designed himself) is really interesting. He showed lots of other creative instruments at ROH a few weeks ago. it's a visual theatrical experience as well as musical when you see him playing.

octave

The art of fugue, bach counterpoint 1

Steve Reich Six Marimbas Counterpoint

military music and ritual in Tehran

Mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE.  This ritual is still live in Iran and it started from 17th century. Even those who are not really religious they participate. In my childhood experience it has been a theatrical playground or a carnival which contain music, performance, certain colours, and certain food. European travellers wrote about violence of this ritual in 17th century in Isfahan.it's not violence in current in Iran as far as I know. However In 2009 this ritual turned to protest against government, which was followed by utmost violence of government against people. The shift from replicating war sense to actual war doesn't seem to be very surprising to me. Now we have two war sense to replicate in coming years! Here is a video:

war dance

Sabre Dance is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane written by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.

Dance in Iran before Islamic revolution

Pictures of dance in Iran before revolution on first half of the video is surprising to see for me. This is a swedish ballet company who's doing sort of persian dance. It doesn't seem interesting but still. Sheherzade ballet seem more profound and middle eastern, although the music is not classical persian!

ballet Sheherazade & Persian march

ballet Sheherazade composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on one thousand and one nights.

 

Music is persian march by johann strauss. He composed it when Nasereddin shah, king of Iran visited Europe.

Persepolise music is composed based on persian march. It is subttler and in a way less of a march I think

choir dancing

This is a experiment I've done yesterday.

Michel Gondry- music videos

I am not interested in the music but the music video. There's equivalent of every bits of music with image. For example when we hear higher note we also see a bold imagery such as the bridge. Image and music represent equal intensity in relation to one another. Gondry actually plotted out the synchronization of the song on graph paper before creating the video, eventually "modelling" the scenery with oranges, forks, tapes, books, glasses and tennis shoes.
 I'm interested in bringing this to sculpture.

In this one he had represented each element of the music with a dancer.

improvising on accidents

I had random prints of books on the floor and a few microphones between them. I started walking in them anxiously. While I was looking for critical information in papers audience was experiencing noise which was adding to my anxious behaviour. Then I started improvising on some of the texts I found. little by little I found texts about crime and death.  I read the, out loud and then asked audience to sing from musical notes that I found. Similarly I've created another narrative on singing by giving them more texts about 'Structure' and 'methodology'. In this experiment I was looking to improvise narratives through fragments of information. By adding extra sound of papers I was looking to exaggerate drama and intensity of the narrative and taking the audience attention from materiality of papers to their content back and forth.

Christian Marclay's "The Clock"

I've seen this in venice biennial and had no idea about it. while I was sitting for 45 mins I just looked at my watch and released it's synch with the video I'm watching. Those who had this knowledge already didn't enjoyed the piece much. I had a golden moment of living with piece.