Mahsa Salali
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  • Mahsa Salali
    • THE CALL
    • I AM WHO I AM
    • I Float Like a Rock
    • DeConstruct The System
    • ANA MENDIETA
    • RESISTANCE
    • CAPITALISED
    • FIST THE PATRIARCHY
    • Marina Abramović
    • JINA
    • Zanān
    • Oooh Festival
    • New Lights 2023
    • Eavesdropping
    • Irreligious
    • I'm a Woman
    • Women Life Freedom
    • My Walk
    • Spherical Bastard
    • Here Are Girls
    • Black Dog
    • The bones
    • 8'46"
    • Concentric
    • HOPIS
    • Foreign Sleep
    • New Lights Festival 2018
    • Epiphany | Pain | Movement
    • Research Installation
    • Music and Art Festival
    • 20 | 21 Perception
    • Occupy The Pianos
    • Parallax Project 10
    • Noitroba
    • Innerspace
    • Partial Perspective
    • I'klectic
    • Zealous X
  • Contact
""© Mahsa Salali 2024

Spherical Bastard 
Matchstick Piehouse July 2022

Composer: Mahsa Salali
Performed by Zanān Collective


The idea of the piece comes from the philosophy of Sufism culture and the dances of Whirling Dervishes. In Sufism, it is a common practice that in their everyday life they treat everything as an endless eternity, an infinity within life, a beyond without a start nor an end. The piece tries to capture the infinity of sound that has been started before ‘it plays’ or before ‘it is heard', the sound that has already begun and we are only capturing a moment of it, it is continuous and endless, does not have a start nor an end. The musical material of the piece is very minimal and changes over a very gradual process, allowing the sound and the shape of the sphere to sink in; The piece includes only 4 notes B C D E, where each note is introduced one by one and slowly added by the following note...

Roxanna Albayati: Cello, Carolina Cury: Voice, Nefeli Erma Maliali: Voice, Emma Gerrett: Clarinet, Evie Hilyer-Ziegler: Viola, Gosia Kepa: Percussion, Alex Lyon: Bass Clarinet, Siobhan Mccafferty: Violin, Hannah Shilvock: Bass Clarinet, Congling Wu: Violin, Egle Saka: Visuals
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  • Mahsa Salali
    • THE CALL
    • I AM WHO I AM
    • I Float Like a Rock
    • DeConstruct The System
    • ANA MENDIETA
    • RESISTANCE
    • CAPITALISED
    • FIST THE PATRIARCHY
    • Marina Abramović
    • JINA
    • Zanān
    • Oooh Festival
    • New Lights 2023
    • Eavesdropping
    • Irreligious
    • I'm a Woman
    • Women Life Freedom
    • My Walk
    • Spherical Bastard
    • Here Are Girls
    • Black Dog
    • The bones
    • 8'46"
    • Concentric
    • HOPIS
    • Foreign Sleep
    • New Lights Festival 2018
    • Epiphany | Pain | Movement
    • Research Installation
    • Music and Art Festival
    • 20 | 21 Perception
    • Occupy The Pianos
    • Parallax Project 10
    • Noitroba
    • Innerspace
    • Partial Perspective
    • I'klectic
    • Zealous X
  • Contact