HADI BASTANI
Openwork Journal, Columbia Libraries.
Pleased to announce my new role as Managing Editor for Columbia University’s Openwork Journal. We're a peer-reviewed and open access platform (no submission fees), publishing research into experimental music/sound, art and scholarship. Interdisciplinary in scope, our journal promotes new modes of interaction between scholars, practitioners, editors, and peer reviewers.
Our call for proposals is published now - submission deadline: January 29, 2024 .
Soundscape
Urban Planning
Belonging Social Change
Listening in/for Ekbatan: An Experimental Acoustemology
Openwork Journal - Columbia University
Visiting Researcher in Immersive Composition and Social Change at the Centre for Sound Image, University of Greenwich, London. My research explores relationships between sound spatiality, urban planning, sense of belonging, sociospatial boundaries, gendered spaces, distributed practice, and political agency through collaborative multisensory ethnography and collaborative composition, focusing on post-revolutionary Iran.
‘Listening for Ekbatan: an experimental acoustemology’ , Paper presented at Sonic Cartography (SC2022) | University of Kent
Research Partner at Sonic Tehran | Project led by Prof Laudan Nooshin | Supported by The Leverhulme Trust & City University London
‘Musical Careers in Constant Crises: An Asynchronous Dialogue from Tehran to Athens, via Belfast and Vienna‘ Article published through Critical Studies in Improvisation | volume 14, issue 2-3 | May 2021
‘Experimental Electronic Sound as Playful Articulation of a Compromised Sociality in Iran’ Article published through Ethnomusicology Forum | volume 29, issue 3 | Mar 2021
‘TWO - Live at tak Theater Aufbau w/ Yalda Zamani’ Live electronics & live coding | Klangteppich Festival (Berlin) | Jun 2021
#ZanZendegiAzadi / #WomanLifeFreedom Multi-channel performance | The Beast, University of Birmingham | Oct 2022
‘Cold Hour’ Live coding | Tehran Contemporary Sounds (Berlin) | Oct 2021
Artist in Residence Klangteppich Festival (Berlin) | Apr – Jun 2021
‘Etude Ikologic’ Ambisonic installation | Deliaphonic festival (Coventry) | Mar 2022