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Rojin Sharafi

Rojin Sharafi is a Vienna-based, Tehran-born sound artist, performer, and composer of acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Her music crosses the boundaries of different genres, drawing from many musical spheres such as noise, folk, ambient, metal, and contemporary music. In order to produce entirely unique textures, she devises and sets up digital musical instruments such as a synthesizer and a drum machine.

Her latest album “Urns Waiting To Be Fed” was released in September through the label “Zabte Sote/Opal Tapes” and was described by the British online music magazine “The Quietus” as “truly unexpected”, calling it “one of [2019’s] most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music”. Her second album, “Zangaar”, was inspired by the interplay between literature and sound and was released in 2020.

Throughout her career, she has composed for solo performances as well as in collaboration with countless interdisciplinary projects for film, dance and music ensembles like WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV, Decoder Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble United Berlin. She also works regularly for film and dance productions with organizations such as Arte Creative and Tanzquartier.

Sharafi has been part of the line-up at international festivals such as SET x CTM 2018 (TEHERAN), Unsafe+Sounds 2018, Hyperreality 2019, Wiener Festwochen 2020 (VIENNA), Musikprotokoll 2020 (GRAZ), No Bounds (SHEFFIELD), Skaņu mežs (RIGA), Schiev (BRUSSELS), Rokolectiv (BUCHAREST), UH Fest (BUDAPEST), Intonal (MALMÖ). Her work has been presented across the world in cities like Basel, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Gent, New York, Riga, Sheffield, and Washington DC.

She is a SHAPE 2020 Artist and was awarded in 2018 the Austrian female Composers’ Prize at the Wien Modern, Austria’s biggest festival for new music. Currently, Rojin Sharafi is pursuing her Master’s in Sound Engineering and Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she is delving into research and a deeper understanding of digital music performance.

Since 2020, she has been working continuously with WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV on collective forms of remembrance and storytelling.

Why Not ?

Rojin Sharafi

Rojin Sharafi is a Vienna-based, Tehran-born sound artist, performer, and composer of acoustic, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Her music crosses the boundaries of different genres, drawing from many musical spheres such as noise, folk, ambient, metal, and contemporary music. In order to produce entirely unique textures, she devises and sets up digital musical instruments such as a synthesizer and a drum machine.

Her latest album “Urns Waiting To Be Fed” was released in September through the label “Zabte Sote/Opal Tapes” and was described by the British online music magazine “The Quietus” as “truly unexpected”, calling it “one of [2019’s] most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music”. Her second album, “Zangaar”, was inspired by the interplay between literature and sound and was released in 2020.

Throughout her career, she has composed for solo performances as well as in collaboration with countless interdisciplinary projects for film, dance and music ensembles like WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV, Decoder Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble United Berlin. She also works regularly for film and dance productions with organizations such as Arte Creative and Tanzquartier.

Sharafi has been part of the line-up at international festivals such as SET x CTM 2018 (TEHERAN), Unsafe+Sounds 2018, Hyperreality 2019, Wiener Festwochen 2020 (VIENNA), Musikprotokoll 2020 (GRAZ), No Bounds (SHEFFIELD), Skaņu mežs (RIGA), Schiev (BRUSSELS), Rokolectiv (BUCHAREST), UH Fest (BUDAPEST), Intonal (MALMÖ). Her work has been presented across the world in cities like Basel, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Gent, New York, Riga, Sheffield, and Washington DC.

She is a SHAPE 2020 Artist and was awarded in 2018 the Austrian female Composers’ Prize at the Wien Modern, Austria’s biggest festival for new music. Currently, Rojin Sharafi is pursuing her Master’s in Sound Engineering and Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she is delving into research and a deeper understanding of digital music performance.

Since 2020, she has been working continuously with WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV on collective forms of remembrance and storytelling.

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2024

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