The idea of fragmenting sound is crucial to Elnaz Seyedi's sonic effect, and she often starts pieces with small fragments, as reflected in titles like 'Fragmente einer Erinnerung' (Fragments of a Memory).
Recording & Production
This album is part of the 'Edition Zeitgenössische Musik' (Edition Contemporary Music), a project by the German Music Council that promotes young German composers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Elnaz Seyedi's music is characterized by the simultaneous presence of opposites, such as widely separated instrument registers, tension between fragment and continuum, and tonal abstraction.
Compositional Technique
Elnaz Seyedi's music often features hybrid sound physiognomies of tone and noise that are never fully controllable, with subtle microtonal differentiations challenging the listener's perception.
Composer Biography
Elnaz Seyedi, born in Tehran in 1982, studied composition in Tehran, Bremen, Essen, and Basel.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Elnaz Seyedi's compositions are less inspired by her Iranian musical-cultural origins than by European composers like Luigi Nono, Klaus Huber, and Younghi Pagh-Paan.
Compositional Technique
Many of Elnaz Seyedi's piece titles quote lines of poetry, but the words themselves are not vocalized in the music; instead, the poetry serves as a spiritual basis for the sound.
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