Toranj – New Iranian electronic music

Toranj is a recital of acousmatic pieces created by young Iranian composers. The concert gives insight into the excellent moment and the splendid panorama of the electronic music in Iran, a consolidated country with an enormous creative power and sonic imagination.

Cradle, pass and projection of the oldest civilizations of humanity and diverse ancestral cultures, Iran possesses an artistic and musical tradition deeply rooted and tightly connected to a sort of spirituality, in the visual and sound realms, both of them characterized by the use of filigree, the geometrical virtuosity and the knowledge of space. This emotional approach to sonic phenomena is traceable in Iranian classical and folk music.

The music presented by The DK<projection> in the recital endeavours to make converge contemporaneity and tradition, dealing masterfully with sound through new technologies. With a deep understanding of space and a ductile treatment of sound, the music by these young Iranian authors unites rationality and emotion at sensitive levels, which are difficult to reach by today´s Western composer.

With the inestimable collaboration of the Institute of Sonology The Hague (NL), the premiere of this project will take place within the 10th Mostra Sonora de Sueca, Valencia (ES) 8th of May, 2014 at 20.30 hours, venue Els Porxets – Sara Moret, adress Carrel del Sequial, 1 Sueca, together with three other productions by The DK <projection> from 8th to 11th of May, 2014, respectively: callingHiggs, a flashmob for cell phones, DK <qumran>, multidisciplinary series of pieces based on the avantgarde building Bodegas Qumrán by Konkrit Blu Arquitectura and the concert Institute of Sonology. As a homage to the composer Dick Raaijmakers, this last recital will be conformed by historical and recent pieces by authors from this important European institution.

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