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"Vahid Jahandari excelled in innovative use of electronics. Jahandari’s mixed media work The Vulture transformed double bass samples into bird calls, with reverberant sustains creating a barren landscape. The creaking of bow overpressure gave way to an elegiac bass soliloquy before any remnants of acoustic sound were swallowed by eerie, electronically-manipulated timbres." I CARE IF YOU LISTEN | Amanda Cook For the young Iranian composer who travels to Europe for the first time, Bologna had to be the land of fate. Jahandari, a 22-year-old from Shiraz, the winner of 2Agosto Composition Competition, remembers that here, at the Municipal Theater - five German national premieres were represented. And he enumerated them all, from Lohengrin to Parsifal: «It was Wagner who inspired me further for writing music». la Repubblica | Luca Baccolini August 2015 |
"Vahid Jahandari‘s The Vulture was arguably the most impressive work on the programme. Jahandari’s soundscape transformed sounds from a double bass into an immersive, deeply threatening soundscape. There was something distinctly plaintive lurking within, though, heard in higher register material and fragments of melody, ghostly remnants and traces that seemed doomed in such a glowering environment, and which ultimately disappeared into their own reverb."5:4 |
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