About
Hassan Zanjirani Farahani is an iranian born composer, sound designer, performer and media artist located in Vienna. He studied piano, trumpet and clarinet at Tehran Conservatory before moving to Vienna, where he took up his composition studies. He pursued his studies in composition and music & media technologies at Anton Bruckner University (Linz) and participated in many academic courses in sound recording, PA, computer music, media art, acoustics and physics, light design, animation and graphics. His major teachers include Andreas Weixler and Carola Bauckholt. He graduated in all his studies in composition and music & media technology with excellence degree. As performer and improviser, Hassan Zanjirani Farahani concentrates on contemporary music and electroacoustic music. He performed in many festivals among others Festival Musikprotokoll Graz (Austria), Mantova Chamber Music Festival (Italy), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Wien Modern (Vienna). He is also a live-electronics improviser, who has played in many events, festivals and venues such as Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna), Ars Electronica Center (Linz), Helmut List Halle (Graz), Porgy & Bess(Vienna), Brucknerhaus (Linz) etc.. His compositions are stylistically variable. Most of them are electroacoustic pieces for ensemble and live electronics. He also wrote pieces for film, theatre, dance performances and musical theatre and is concerned with stage and club lighting, architectural lighting, projection, graphics, animations and visualization. More over, he has already developed architecture installations worldwide, especially in Austria, Germany, Emirates Turkey, Iran etc. His occupational area also includes educational activities like university lectures and courses for composition, electronic music, digital audio workstation (DAW), sound synthesis, light design, visualization and media art, etc. In addition to his musical activities, he works as sound engineer, sound and light designer, music producer, graphic designer and VFX artist. Since 2017, he is the directing manager of the company Luxoaria GmbH in Vienna specialised in cultural management as well as event technology. In 2019, he was among top young entrepreneurs and compnay managers in Austria and won state support for his initiative “Cultural Program for Tourism”.
Selected Compositions
Prelude (2008) for piano
Sonata (2009) for piano and violin
Vocalise (2009) for soprano and piano
Schur e Homayun (2011) for piano
Octet for winds (2011) for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
Aschube Mavali (2011) for Duduk, Daf and synthesizer
“Iijad?” (2012) for orchestra, 5 singing bowls, 2 Kanglings, duduk and synthesizer
Algorithmic aleatoric pieces (AAP) (series)
- AAP1(2012)
- AAP2(2013)
Deceased Memories (2012) for crotales, vibraphone, piano, strings (violin I, violin II, cello, double bass)
(55+1-1)x (2012) for modular synthesizer
Destruction (2013) for 2 flutes, alto saxophone, french horn, bass drum, tam-tam & live-electronics
Tibet (2013) for 4 loudspeakers
Ars nova contrapuncti (series)
- 1for microtonal midi organ (2013)
- 2for 2 midi pianos (2014)
Nenoitairav über Hoamatland (2013) for clarinet, oboe and bassoon
Du bist nicht einer von uns… (You are not one of us…) (2014) for 24 instruments, electronics and light design
Blind sweeper (2014) for piano, live-electronics, dance performance and light
Das Unlogische notwendig (2014) for soprano and live-electronics on the text of Friedrich Nietzsche, “Menschliches, Allzumenschliches”
Copper-jacketed lead (2014) for 4 loudspeakers and lighting
Pigment of SourceSwitch (2014) for alto saxophone, piano, live-electronics and light design
Die blitzenden Fackeln von ZEUS (2014) for computer-controlled piano (Bösendorfer CEUS), live-electronics and light design
A conversation with the last white buffalo (2014) Tape for dance performance in collaboration with Josseline Black and Anni Taskula
Loud Whisper (2014) for amplified tenor Recorder and Tenor Saxophone
Eroberung des Glücks (2014) for 6 instruments (flute, clarinet, accordion, piano, violin, cello) and live-electronics
Particle displacement (2015) for 4 Accordions on commission of Paul Schuberth, Lazar Mishkov, Nikola Jelic, Atanas Dinovski
Goldene Braut der Berge (2015) for clarinet and double bass on commission of Vera Karner
Hamlet I-III (2016) theatre score for tape, piano, harp, harpsichord, vibraphone
Laptop concerto (2016) concerto for laptop and orchestra
Solo piece for media artist (2016) Live electronics and lights
Oberfläche der Ästhetik (2017) Music theatre
Motley Deductions (2017) for saxophone quartet
Distorted intention (2017) stereo acousmatic music
Metric Cycle (2017) for three musicians and 15 instruments
Life’s flow (2017) Pop song
Dusted leitmotif (2017) for solo accordion
Media Art Gallery
Sound Design
Stage Lighting
Architectural Lighting
