Turning World, by Shiva Feshareki

Turning World

by Shiva Feshareki

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1.	Aetherworld 19:53	info
2.	Still Point_I 09:40	info	buy track
3.	Still Point_II 05:26	info	buy track
4.	Still Point_III 24:28	info	buy track

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1. Aetherworld (Live)
2. I. — (Live)
3. II. Homage to Daphne Oram (Live)
4. III. — (Live)

THE GUARDIAN'S CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE MONTH
"Feshareki's most ambitious and accomplished record to date." - The Wire

Debut album released on NMC Recordings.

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Aetherworld for choir (BBC Singers), organ (Kit Downes) and immersive electronics/turntables (Shiva Feshareki) was recorded at its BBC Proms premiere in 2021, and is exemplary of Feshareki boldly grappling with the dualities of music and meaning. Focussing on the natural harmonics of the voice, the choral material in Aetherworld is based largely on harmonic overtones, revealing the structure of the sound; the infinite harmonics nestled within a single fundamental pitch.

Using a range of technologies from vintage analogue turntables to state-of-the-art ambisonic live-sampling technology, Feshareki manipulates a recording of Josquin’s Qui Habitat to invent new forms that "connect us physically and spiritually in time and space, allowing our minds to expand in any direction or dimension, within a shared moment" (Feshareki).

Still Point (1948–9) by Daphne Oram for double orchestra (London Contemporary Orchestra), five microphones and three 78RPM discs, is thought to be the earliest example of a composition specifying real-time electronic transformation of instrumental sounds. In the work, the double orchestra is ‘acoustically treated,’ creating one ‘dry’ orchestra (using acoustic baffles) and one ‘wet’ orchestra, which are then manipulated live in performance through turntables, amplification and echo effects.

Together with composer James Bulley, Feshareki extensively researched within the Daphne Oram Collection and related archives in order to realise the world premiere performance of the final score for Still Point, previously thought lost for over 20 years. Composed when she was only 23 years old, Still Point was to be the last piece that Oram wrote for orchestra before she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958, laying the roots for the new fields of British electronic music that were to come.
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released May 27, 2022 on NMC Recordings.

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released May 27, 2022

Shiva Feshareki (turntables)
Kit Downes (organ)
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin

James Bulley (electronics)
London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames

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Shiva Feshareki London, UK

Shiva Feshareki is a British-Iranian composer, artist and turntablist, described as “the most cutting-edge expression of turntablism” and as “one of the most astonishing acts of musical alchemy” (BBC Radio 3). Her intrepid exploration of a 360-degree sound world encompasses compositions for orchestral, solo, choral, chamber, electronic and interdisciplinary installation works. ... more

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