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Sound/ music performance dates
▶ Upcoming:
● ??.07.2025 – Circus Charivari – Villa Kuriosum, Berlin. (More info coming soon)● 22.10.2025 – Hošek Contemporary: Trio performance with Leonie Roessler, and Diana Fonseca. (More info)
▶ Earlier in 2025:
● 29.06.2025 – ‘Present Absence’ Audio-Visual performance with Red Hare. Event by Alexander Markvart at PAS Berlin. (More info)● 28.06.2025 – ‘Present Absence’ Audio-Visual performance with Red Hare. Event by 48Stunden Neukölln, VJ Open Lab at Prachtwerk Berlin. (More info)
● 08.06.2025 – Goethe-Institut im Exil – ‘Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds’ Solo AV Performance – ACUD MACHT NEU. (Event details.)
● 23.05.2025-25.05.2025 – ‘On Air – On Site’ Sound performance. Institute of Sonology, New Music Lab, The Hague. (Event details.)
● 07.05.2025 – Solo ambient-music performance for self-curated event ‘Beneath the Shadows: The Quiet After’, PAS Berlin.
(Facebook Event)
● 30.04.2025 – Duo performance with Leonie Roessler, PAS Berlin. (Facebook Event)
● 20.04.2025 – Duo Performance with ‘Severin’ at ‘Hard To Talk’, Program curated by Alexander Markvart for the resident artists and their collaborators at PAS Berlin. (Facebook Event)
● 07.04.2025 – PAS Berlin: Solo Rap Performance at ‘Hard to Talk’, a series curated by Alexander Markvart for resident artists and guests at the art space. (Facebook Event)
● 26.02.2025 – Duo Performance with Ani Samperi, TXXXTR, Berlin.
● 23.02.2025 – Solo Performance at ‘Hard to Talk’, Monthly performance series for the resident artists, organized by Sasha at PAS Berlin.(More info)
● 19.02.2025 – Confronting Noises #2, Secret Duo (with Ani Samperi), PAS Berlin. (More info)
▶ 2020-2024:
● 21.02.2024 – ‘Unstrained Movement’ – Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin, Germany.● 23.03.2023 – ‘Silences, Delays, Vortices’ Sound performance organized by Dora Bleu – Petersburg Art Space (PAS). Berlin, Germany.
● 11.07.2022 – ‘Contemporary Musik Magazine Festival’ [1st Ed.], Sound Engineering, digital performance for electroacoustic pieces – Museum of Music, Tehran.
● 19.12.2021 – Brief performance at Space21 festival, Suleymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.
● 26.04.2020 – ‘Listening Urgency’ Radio performance by Hardi Kurda, Radio Corax online (UK).
▶ 2003-2019:
● 21.11.2019 – ‘Mesopotamia’ Sound design for a duo-performance (w. Ali Mohajer) in parallel to the painting exhibition by Milad Shirbisheh, Sayeh Art Gallery, Tehran.● 26.06.2019 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Ed.4., solo sound performance ‘Heaven’ – Roudaki décor Hall, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
● 03.05.2019 – ‘Silence’ experimental/ ambient-music and live sound-processing w. Mehdi Fouladi & Pedram Zare – Charsoogh Abanbar, Jame Mosque, Yazd, Iran.
● 26.02.2019 – ‘Two artists, two livesets’ Sound Performance w. Leonie Roessler – Da Theaterhouse, Tehran.
● 02.03.2019 – ‘Liveset in the Plateau’ Sound Performance w. ‘Leonie Roessler’ – House of Art, Shiraz, Iran.
● 05.05.2018 – ‘Metamorphosis of Sounds’ Heka Electro Ambient music Festival – Da Theaterhouse, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
● 23.04.2018 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Vol. 3, Duo performance w. Zhoobin Askarieh – Roudaki décor Hall, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
● 19.09.2017 – ‘Art for Peace Grand Festival’ Digital performance w. Banafsh Band – Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran.
● 02.06.2017 – ‘Re-listening’ Audiovisual performance set – CafeBaz. Tehran, Iran.
● 17.01.2017 – ‘Sound-oriented’ collaborative audiovisual sound-processing performance – Shenakht Cafe. Tehran, Iran.
● 27.04.2016 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Vol.1., Collaboration with Kian Hosein and Arman Moghadam – TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
● 2016 – ‘Winter Mood festival’ Vol.1., Audiovisual performance – Saayeh Art gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 2016 – ‘Open-Mic’ Standup comedy performance, scheduled by House No. 4 – Shenaakht Cafegallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 17.10.2014 – ‘Neurite Night’ Sound performance in TADAEX – Gholhak Pardis Cinema, Tehran, Iran.
● 13.01.2013 – ‘Limited Access Festival’ Live improvisation session in Saroseda workshop – Aaran gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 2011 – ‘Frequency’, Live performance w. Sina Shoaie – Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.
● 2011 – ‘Frequency’, Live performance w. Sina Shoaie – Manouchehri House, Kashan, Iran.
● 21.02.2009 – ‘Urban Art’, Underground sound-performance in the street art [stencil art] exhibition – Arte gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 2003 – ‘Ezterab’ w. Patriam (ex-Zartosht members) – Österreich Kulturforum (OKF), Tehran, Iran.
Curation/ Event organization
● 06.05.2025–07.05.2025 – Beneath the Shadows: The Quiet After. (more info)● 05.05.2025 – Confronting Shadows: Fall of Spring Blooms #1. (more info)
● 19.02.2025 – Confronting Noises #2: Label day for Noise à Noise artists, PAS Artspace, Berlin. (more info)
● 30.12.2024 – ‘Confronting Noises #1’: Label day for Noise à Noise artists, PAS Artspace, Berlin. (more info)
● 08.12.2023 – Payman Abdali plays the ‘Music for Black Sine Wave’ performance at Galerie-Zeitzone, Berlin. (more info)
● 05.12.2023 – Payman Abdali plays the ‘Music for Black Sine Wave’ performance at Zwitschermaschine, Berlin. (more info)
● 11.07.2022 – ‘Noise à Noise Day’: Label day for Noise à Noise artists at the 1st edition of Contemporary Musik Magazine Festival – Museum of Music, Tehran.
● 26.07.2019–03.08.2019 – ‘Noise vs. Noise’: A week of performances by the Noise à Noise label artists, Limited Access Festival – Studio Markov, Tehran. (more info)
Production for the stage, film
● 2025 – ‘Onyx’ Short film, Sound recording/ post production – Directed by Ramina Jenabi, Berlin. Watch here● 2018 and 2019 – ‘Secret of Ganjour’ Puppet theater (Game-Theater), sound design – Directed by Honey Hoseiny and Marzieh Naderi, IIDCYA, Tehran.
● 2019 – ‘Devic’s Syndrome’, digital sound performance for the stage w. Farin Moghadam in Fajr (Plus) Theater Festival – Directed by Kamyar Salehpour, Da Theater House, Tehran.
● 2017 – ‘When a kid starts to talk?’ Sound design for the stage and film – Directed by Iman Bayatfar, pending release.
● 2017 – ‘Cloth of Blood’, Live speech processing for the stage, Samimi Mofakham Hall, Tehran university of Fine Arts. (Tickets on Tiwall)
● 2017 – ‘I love my Tehran’ v.2., Live digital audiovisual production/ performance in Fadjr Theater Festival – Directed by Ehsan Yousefinasab Tehran, Iran.
● 2016 – ‘Laboratory’, sound design – Moj-e No hall, Tehran, Iran.
● 27.12.2015-26.01.2016 – ‘Ideas of a Clown’ Digital audiovisual production/ performance w. Arman Moghadam – Roodaki Decor Hall, Tehran, Iran.
● 2011 – ‘Motivation’, Media production for performance art – Curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, EastArt gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Exhibitions/ Screening
● 27.03.2025-06.04.2025 – ‘SAFARNAMEH / Travelogue / سفرنامه’ Group exhibition – Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany.
● 03.04.2025 – ‘Bruital Movie Night VI – Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany.(Facebook Event)
● 09.03.2025-07.04.2025 – ‘It takes a village to burn a village down’ Photography exhibition – PAS Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
● 19.02.2021-05.03.2021 – ‘To Live’ sound installation with Arefe Arad – E1 artgallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 2020 – ‘Charivari Circus’ Annual visual art exhibition – Circusbienalle, Berlin, Germany.
● 12.01.2019-02.02.2019 – ‘Dock/ Ancien Palais de Justice’ Group exhibition, sound Installation, ‘Concrete Jungle’, Liege, Belgium. (More info)
● 14.02.2017-18.02.2017 – ‘Days of experimental sounds Ed.1’, Sound Installation, ‘Tehranscape’ v.1’, Rooberoo Mansion. Tehran, Iran.
● 08.06.2017-15.06.2017 – ‘Unnamed, On paper’ exhibition for painting/ collage exhibition, Collage, ‘Broken’ – New Media Projects, Tehran, Iran.
● 26.02.2016-02.03.2016 – ‘Limited Access Festival’, Video Art, ‘Flaneur’ – New Media Projects, Aaran artgallery, Aaran projects. Tehran, Iran.
● 23.01.2015-04.02.2015 – ‘Unnamed Envelope, No.3’, Drawing, ‘Stillness’ – Haft Samar Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 02.10.2015-09.10.2015 – ’TADAEX 05’ Sound Installation, ‘Language of the landscape’ – Mohsen Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
● 09.12.2014-25.12.2014 – ‘Limited Access Festival’, Video art, ‘Citylapse’ – Vista, Aaran & No.6 Art galleries. Tehran, Iran.
● 28.10.2011-31.10.2011 – ‘Saroseda v.2.0’, A/V installation, ‘Small things can make me happy’, w. Mahtab Alizadeh – Mohsen gallery. Tehran, Iran.
Residencies and Scholarships
● 2024 – 2025 – Resident Artist at PAS e.V., Berlin, Germany.
● 2023 – 2024 – Full scholarship by Martin Roth Initiatve and (GAFCA) for independent research, Berlin, Germany.
● 27.01.2022 – As the recording artist (collaboration w. Negar Kharkan) – Vayu Residency space, Kashan, Iran.
● 17.12.2021-22.12.2021 – Performer, Space 21 – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan.
● 20.08.2016-04.11.2016 – Sound technician, Circusbiennalle – Berlin, Germany.
Presentations, Talks and Panels
● 25.05.2025 – ‘The Role of Radio in the Development of Experimental Sound’, Panel discussion at On Air – On Site 2025 – West Den Haag, Netherlands. (More info)
● 10.01.2025 – [Online] ‘Archive: In-Progress ’, Reconnect Festival: Documenting and Preserving Informal Performances in Iran ‘How a Label is Born’ – Tehran, Iran. (More info)
● 02.09.2023 – Presentation of ‘Music for Black Sine Wave’ project by Noise à Noise and Post-Orientalism – Organized by Room For Doubt at Villa Kuriosum.
● 24.02.2022 – [Online] ‘Role of Independent Collectives for Music Publication’, TIEMF – Tehran, Iran.
● 12.02.2022 – [Online] ‘Artist Talk’, About the activity during Vayu Residency in Winter (on IG) – Kashan, Iran.
● 20.12.2021 – ‘The Politics of Music in the Age of Isolation’, panel at Space21 Festival – Suleymaniyah, Kurdistan.
● 29.12.2020-30.12.2020 – [Online] ‘On Electronic Music Composition’ Hosting a two-episode live artist-talk with Sohrab Motabar – Contemporary Music Magazine, Online.
● 11.12.2020 – [Online] ‘Gate of Tehran Festival’ Brief presentation for Noise à Noise, and a conversation about independent art w. Peter Pirhoseinlou, Online event organized by ‘House No. 4’ Team.
● 02.08.2019 – ‘Noise vs. Noise’ Artist-talk Panelist, Limited Access Festival – Studio Markov, Tehran.
● 28.04.2017 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Ed.2., Presentation of ’Neural control of singing” – TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
● 15.08.2015 – ‘Newmedia talkseries: Aftab Darvishi’, Artist-talk Panelist – Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran.
Live Sound/ Recording
● 03.04.2025 – Live sound for Bonnie Harris and Tomás del Real, Engels Basement, Berlin.
● 29.03.2025 – Sound Recording for ‘Orb Of Xiath’ (More info)
● 29.06.2024 – Live sound and multi-track record session for ”The New Bridge” and “The Jeleng Collective” at Volksbühne Grüner Salon, Berlin.
● 23.07.2023 – Live concert sound and studio production for ‘TIV Project’ metal music, https://www.instagram.com/p/C9aVq2eN8hG/
● 06.2023 – Live sound reinforcement for ‘Midnight Drips’, Marzban Music Institute, Tehran.
● 13.05.2023 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for ‘Tehran Vocal Ensemble’, Hilaj Film School, Tehran.
● 2023 – Live sound reinforcement for ‘Beyond The Dirt’ band, Da Cultural House, Tehran.
● 18.05.2023 – Preparing the sound and live recording for ‘Fun-Q’ band, Hilaj Film School, Tehran.
● 10.05.2023-18.05.2023 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for a series of Rock/ Metal music performances and Jam sessions organized by IGM Magazine at Hilaj Film School. (Hamed Seyed Javad, Silent Soul Band, Saeed Shams, Blue Noise Trio, and more…)
● 2019 – 2023 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for Weekly ‘Live Jazz nights sessions’ partly coordinated/ organized by Khatteetesal Jazz club in collaboration with the Jazz Cafe, Tehran. (workin on nearly 200 performances, and more than 70 music ensembles and bands) More information available here.
● 2019 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for ‘Voice Project Festival’, six bands through three nights, Rooberoo Mansion, Tehran. (Tickets at the door)
● 2019 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for ‘Fereshteh Music Festival’ a collaboration with Cadence Magazine – Fereshteh Bookcity, Tehran. (Tickets on Evand.co)
● 2019 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for ‘Fereshteh Music Festival’ collaboration with Cadence Magazine – Fereshteh Bookcity, Tehran. (Tickets on Evand.co)
● 04.03.2019 – Preparing the sound for techniques ‘Cultural Spaces’ sound installation by Leonie Roessler, Motorkhooneh, Shiraz.
● 01.05.2019-10.05.2019 – Live sound reinforcement planning and technical support for ‘Khayyam’ Marionette opera, Installation Assistant – directed by Behrouz Gharibpour, Ferdowsi Hall, Tehran. (Tickets on Tiwall)
● 2017 – Live sound reinforcement for performances through ‘Nahal Short Film Festival’ – University of Art, Tehran, Iran.
● 26.04.2017-05.05.2017 – Live sound reinforcement and digital recording for ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ (TCMF2) – TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
● 07.04.2017-14.04.2017 – Live sound reinforcement and Technical support for ‘Limited Access Festival’ – New Media Projects, Aaran art gallery, Rooberoo Mansion, Tehran, Iran.
● 03.01.2017 – Live sound reinforcement and technical support for ‘Noise Works: Sohrab Motabar; Esmail Azimi’, – Silkroad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 15.02.2017-18.02.2017 – technical support at ‘Days of Experimental Sounds Vol.1’ – Rooberoo Mansion, Tehran, Iran.
● 09.12.2016 – Live sound reinforcement and technical support for ‘Noise Works : Andreas Spectl’ – Silkroad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 23.04.2016-30.04.2016 – Live sound reinforcement and record-session for ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival (TCMF1)”– TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
● 26.02.2016-02.03.2016 – ‘Limited Access Festival’, Technical support – TMoCA, Aran Projects, Tehran, Iran.
● 16.04.2015-17.04.2015 – ‘Alireza Ghorbani’ Live in concert, Sound Assistant – Bojnurd, Iran.
● 19.12.2014-25.12.2014 – Technical support for ‘Limited Access Festival 5’ – Aaran, No.6 and Vista art gallery, Tehran, Iran.
● 2013 – ‘Alireza Ghorbani’, Live in concert, Sound Assistant – Zanjan, Iran.
● 2013 – ‘Kamkaars’, Live in concert, Sound Assistant – Shahr-e Kord, Iran.
● 2012 – ‘Homayoun Shajarian and Siavash Band’, Live in concert, Sound Assistant – Hamedan, Iran.
● 2012 – ‘Hesamedin Seraj’, Live in concert, Sound Assistant – Qazvin, Iran.
Miscellaneous Education
● 2017 – ‘Audio Engineering Masterclass’ Iranian National School of Cinema (INSC), Tehran, Iran.
● 2017 – ‘Designing sound for films’ Mohammad Delpak, Karnameh Institute, Tehran, Iran.
● 23.12.2016 – ‘Tape-loop’ workshop by Andreas Spectl, Noise works, Tehran, Iran.
● 2015 – ‘World literature: Luis Borges’ Dr. Amirali Nojoumian, Iranian Artists Forum. Tehran, Iran.