Hassan Zanjirani Farahani

Hassan Zanjirani Farahani (born 19 November 1987) is an Iranian composer, sound designer, performer and media artist. He studied piano, trumpet and clarinet at Tehran Conservatory, and worked as a piano teacher for several years before moving to Austria, where he studied composition and electronic music in Vienna and Linz and media technologies at Anton Bruckner university (Linz), and attended master classes and workshops with notable composers and media artists such as Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Jonty Harrison, David Berezan and John Chowning. He is also a performer and improviser in both contemporary music and electroacoustic music. His compositions are stylistically variable but the majority are electroacoustic pieces for ensemble and live electronics. He had written also pieces for film, theater and musical theater. He is interested in lighting design and visualization, educational activities and online courses for composition, electronic music, digital audio workstation (DAW), sound synthesis, light design.. He is also a sound and light engineer and designer, music producer, graphic designer and an VFX artist .
Activities as performer
As
electronic music performer, Hassan Zanjirani Farahani deals with
electroacoustic scores of contemporary music. Among composers whose
works he has performed include Karlheinz Essl, Tristan Murail, Luigi Nono, Kaija Saariaho etc. He is also a live-electronics improviser, who have played in many events, festivals and concert venues such as Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna), Porgy & Bess (Vienna), Brucknerhaus (Linz) etc..
Selected compositions
Prelude (2008) for piano
Sonata (2009) for piano and violin
Vocalise (2009) for soprano and piano
Schur e Homayun (2011) for piano
Octet for winds (2011) for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, French
horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
Aschube Mavali (2011)
for Duduk, Daf and synthesizer
“Iijad?” (2012) for orchestra,
5 singing bowls, 2 kanglings, duduk and synthesizer
Algorithmic aleatoric pieces (AAP) (series)
* AAP1 (2012)
* AAP2 (2013)
Deceased Memories (2012) for crotales, vibraphone, piano,
strings (violin I, violin II, cello, double bass)
(55+1-1)x (2012) for
modular synthesizer
Destruction (2013) for 2 flutes, alto saxophone, French horn, bass drum, tam-tam &
live-electronics
Tibet (2013) for 4 loudspeakers
Ars nova contrapuncti
(series)
* No. 1 for microtonal midi organ (2013)
* No. 2 for 2 midi pianos (2014)
Nenoitairav über Hoamatland (2013) for clarinet, oboe and bassoon
Du bist nicht
einer von uns... (You are not one of us...) (2014) for 24 instruments, electronics and light design
Blind sweeper (2014) for piano, live-electronics, dance performance and light
Das Unlogische
notwendig (2014) for soprano und live-electronics on the text of Friedrich
Nietzsche, "Menschliches, Allzumenschliches"
Copper-jacketed lead
(2014) for 4 loudspeakers
and lighting
Pigment of SourceSwitch
(2014) for alto saxophone, piano, live-electronics und light design
Die blitzenden
Fackeln von ZEUS (2014) for computer controlled piano (Bösendorfer CEUS), live-electronics und
light design
A conversation with the last white buffalo (2014) Tape for dance performance
Loud Whisper (2014) for amplified tenor Recorder and tenor Saxophone
Eroberung des Glücks
(2014) for 6 instruments (flute, clarinet, accordion, piano,
violin, cello) and live-electronics
Particle displacement
(2015) for 4 Accordions
Goldene Braut der Berge
(2015) for piano and double bass

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