Date: September 25th, 2024
Event Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Sufi Mediterranean Restaurant - 5915 Balboa Ave, SD, CA 92111
Nostalgic Persian Pop Music: Alireza Mahmoodi
In this performance, he will perform a few samples of his own music and some popular songs from famous Iranian artists including Faramarz Aslani and Vigen.
About Alireza Mahmoodi: Alireza is very passionate about Iranian traditional and pop music. He sings and plays guitar and setar. His pop music is more influenced by famous singers such as Faramarz Aslani and Vigen. His main profession is in Electronics Engineering. He has a PhD in Microelectronics.
Presenter: Shahrokh Yadegari, UCSD Professor
Topic: Persian/Iranian Electronic Music: Self-referentiality and Music
Presentation: In this talk I will discuss my electronic music practice which has been formed based on the principles of Iranian/Persian classical/traditional music and poetry. The history of electronic music and musical traditions, along with synthesis and analysis techniques in the West will be reviewed. The topic of self-referentiality found in Persian poetry, natural phenomena, and our understanding of music in general will be discussed.
About Professor Yadegari: Shahrokh Yadegari, composer, sound designer, and producer, has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Ann Hamilton, Christine Brewer, Gabor Tompa, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Lucie Tiberghien, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Hossein Omoumi, and Siamak Shajarian. He has performed and his productions, compositions, and designs have been presented internationally in such venues as the Carnegie Hall, Royce Hall, Festival of Arts and Ideas, OFF-D’Avignon Festival, International Theatre Festival in Cluj Romania, Ravinia Festival, Ruhr-Triennale, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival, Tirgan Festival, Forum Barcelona, Japan America Theatre, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego.
Yadegari holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT’s Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego. He worked as a unix kernel programmer at such companies as Interactive Systems Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and ICL Inc. He has also worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), and is one of the founders and the artistic director of Kereshmeh Records and Persian Arts Society, organizations dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Persian traditional and new music. Yadegari is currently on the faculty of the department of Music at UC San Diego, and the director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group and the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) at the Qualcomm Institute (UCSD’s branch of California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology).
Language: Farsi/English
