Arash Arfazadeh
Date: October 5-11
Arash Arfazadeh describes his acusmatic sounds as reverse musique concrete or neosurrealism. With roots in psychedelic art and club music, he tries, through completely electronic synthesis, to question the sampling culture’s preoccupation with cultural references. He aims to trigger the body’s body memories in the listener through the tactile materiality of the sounds as a way of circumventing the analytical brain and calls for a more direct sensual approach. The piece ’Kayserzinn’ comes from his as yet unreleased debut album ’Alexithymia’ (the inability to identify or name emotions) which is about an emotional awakening from the soulful world of ideas of modernism told through an autobiographical narrative.
