Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) and TOWARDS SOUND present the exhibition
Rooted in Iran
Artifacts of sketching by Iranian female composers
HilbertRaum Berlin
Opening: 15.01.2021
Rooted in Iran
Artifacts of sketching by Iranian female composers
HilbertRaum Berlin
Opening: 15.01.2021
an online version will be available soon
©Atefeh Einali
sketch for I Am From Nowhere (for Solo Accordion)
sketch for I Am From Nowhere (for Solo Accordion)
What gives the impulse for a composition? How does one work with sounds that only exist in the imagination? As silent witnesses of the creative process, sketchbooks, notes and drawings provide insight into the everyday work of fourteen female composers from Iran. In short audio and video contributions, the composers tell the stories behind their sketches: of the effort to fit the meter of Persian poetry into Flamenco rhythms whilst doing justice to both cultures; of the attempt to connect the Persian with the Western tonal system through abstract formal drawings; of the mourning for a tree cut down out of greed.
The contributions of the individual women are as individual as their current life situations in Iran, in emigration in the USA, Canada and Europe or as those who have emigrated and returned home again All participants are members of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), whose goal is to support female composers facing profound cultural and pedagogical obstacles in their home country on their way into the national and international contemporary music scene.
The contributions of the individual women are as individual as their current life situations in Iran, in emigration in the USA, Canada and Europe or as those who have emigrated and returned home again All participants are members of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), whose goal is to support female composers facing profound cultural and pedagogical obstacles in their home country on their way into the national and international contemporary music scene.
The exhibition was curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld in collaboration with the Iranian Female Composers Association in (IFCA).
Featuring contributions by
Anahita Abbasi, Atefeh Einali, Farzia Fallah, Nilufar Habibian, Golfam Khayam, Martyna Kosecka, Afarin Mansouri, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Farnaz Ohadi, Arezou Rezaei, Parisa Sabet, Elnaz Seyedi, Aida Shirazi, Negin Zomorodi/Sam Esfehani
Featuring contributions by
Anahita Abbasi, Atefeh Einali, Farzia Fallah, Nilufar Habibian, Golfam Khayam, Martyna Kosecka, Afarin Mansouri, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Farnaz Ohadi, Arezou Rezaei, Parisa Sabet, Elnaz Seyedi, Aida Shirazi, Negin Zomorodi/Sam Esfehani