Events – Ramin Akhavijou

EGO

Ego” is a multimedia experience that combines theater, video, installation, and music, exploring the intersection of identity and technology. Taking place at the New Hazlett Theater on March 20th and 21st, this performance blends avant-garde music with a psychological exploration of how AI influences the many facets of our personalities.

https://newhazletttheater.org/events/ego/

Soundstallation

I am excited to share the results of my project with you. The combination of technology, sensors, motors, circuits, microcomputers, microcontrollers, and interactive performance has resulted in a collection of works, Soundstallation, that I am eager to present.

A new series of music and technology works, Soundstallation, by Ramin Akhavijou. -Sound Silence Thought

https://www.soundsilencethought.com/soundstallation

she is there- Sydeboob Duo

“she is there” for flute and soprano.

Thursday 5/4 at Scholes Street Studio, doors at 7/show at 7:30

Sydeboob Duo, Anna Elder and Sarah Steranka, is premiering two new works by Hannah Selin and Ramin Akhavijou, with additional works by Inti Figgis-Vizueta, Anthony Braxton, and Ellen Ruth Harrison.

Music Biennale Zagreb festival- Klangforum Wien

The unnoticed dance no.2- will be recorded by Klangforum Wien

working with Klangforum Wien on my new composition (the unnoticed dance no.2: pulses under threshold) in mid-April as part of the MBZ Music Biennale Zagreb festival, as well as working with Franck Bedrossian and attending lectures and discussions of Chaya Czernowin, Clemens Gadenstätter, and Olga Neuwirth.

Sound and Movement project

METTA, 5118 Penn Ave Pittsburgh. March 30th, 2022. 7:30 pm

Members of the Staycee Pearl Dance Project & Soy Sos, and University of Pittsburgh’s artists

Will I be Remembered?- Da Capo Chamber Players

“Will I Be Remembered?” Ramin Akhavijou- 2022

Based on the words by Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Something happens to a person in prison. This question of, ‘Will I be remembered?’ Almost all prisoners carry this feeling with them, when missing one’s spouse, children, and family.” Recorded by Da Capo Chamber Players

ttttt- Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble

Join us on March 10 at 8pm in Cary Hall at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music for an evening of world premieres written for Ekmeles by members of the international Tesselat Composers Collective!

Hailing from Canada, China, France, Iran, Japan, and Poland, the composers bring a variety of backgrounds and influences to their music. The works take inspiration from such varied sources as the ripples of goldfish in a pond, Berio’s Sequenza III, an Old High German magical incantation, and the memory of being lost on a mountain.

Ramin Akhavijou – ttttt (2023) World Premiere

Jean-Patrick Besingrand – La colline sans nom est perdue dans le brume (2023) World Premiere

Amy Brandon – Erratics (2022) US Premiere

Amy Brandon – Night is the Darkest Weather (2022) US Premiere

Chatori Shimizu – Kingyo Obsession (2023) World Premiere of new arrangement

Tomasz Skweres – Merseburg Charm (2022) World Premiere

Piyawat Louilarpprasert – i.u. (2023) World Premiere

Total duration of the program is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.

probable No.41- Aurélienne Brauner (Cello), NYC

Aurélienne Brauner, Cello. Mise_En Place, NYC. Dec. 15th, 2022.

program:

Chatori Shimizu, Ramin Akhavijou, Tomasz Skweres, Jean-Louis Agobet, Daphné Hejebri, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Edith Lejet

probable no.41- Will Yager (Double Bass), Baltimore

Will Yager , Double Bass. The Undercroft, Baltimore. Dec. 3rd, 2022.

A concert of premieres of works for double bass by composers of the Tesselat Composers Collective. Works by: Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Emily Koh, Ramin Akhavijou, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Victor Baez, Chatori Shimizu and Tomasz Skweres.

probable no.41- Noppakorn Auesirinucroch (Guitar)- NYC

Noppakorn Auesirinucroch, Guitar. Mise_En Place, NYC. Nov. 17th, 2022.

Most of the pieces in this collection can be not-/performed by any non-/musical instruments. “probable no.41” is also part of a series I’ve written based on the wonderful poetry of Gertrude Stein.

The majority of the pieces in my collection “probable” were created with the idea of the non-performative aspect of performance in support of artists who are wiped out or disappear as a result of social-political decisions and circumstances.

The “probable” collection is about “nearly nothing.” This collection is characterized either by non-conventional components, indeterminate elements, confusion, undefined materials, impossibility, invisibility, etc., or by musical elements that are coupled with these materials. The performance of collection occurs when an aim, concept, intention, or interpretation causes this nothingness to become something.

The program includes works by Emily Koh, Ramin Akhavijou, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Brandon Amy Brandon, Victor Baez, Chatori Shimizu, and Tomasz Skweres.