Sound/ music performance dates:
Upcoming:
• 20.03.2025 – ‘Confronting Bruital Vol. 1’, Organized by Dr. Nexus at PAS Artspace, Berlin. (more info)
• 22.10.2025 – Hošek Contemporary: Trio performance with Leonie Roessler, and Diana Fonseca. (More infor)
Past:
• 26.02.2025 – Duo Performance with Ani Samperi, TXXXTR, Berlin.
• 23.02.2025 – Solo Performance at ‘Hard to Talk’, Monthly performance series for the resident artists, organized by Sasha at PAS Berlin.
• 19.02.2025 – Confronting Noises #2, Secret Duo (with Ani Samperi), PAS Berlin.
• 31.01.2024 – Brief Solo Performance at ‘Hard to Talk’, Monthly perfoemance series for the resident artists, organized by Sasha at PAS Berlin.
• 23.03.2023 – ‘Silences, Delays, Vortices’ Sound performance organized by Dora Bleu – PAS Berlin.
• 05-12.07.2022 – ‘Contemporary Musik Magazine Festival’ [1st Ed.], Sound Engineering, digital performance for electroacoustic pieces – Museum of Music, Tehran.
• 22.02.2024 – ‘Unstrained Movement’ – Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin, Germany.
• 2022 – Brief performance at Space21 festival, Suleymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.
• 2020 – ‘Listening Urgency’ Radio performance by Hardi Kurda, Radio Corax online (UK).
• 2019 – ‘Mesopotamia’ Sound design for a duo-performance (w. Ali Mohajer) in parallel to the painting exhibition by Milad Shirbisheh, Sayeh Art Gallery, Tehran.
• 2019 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Ed.4., solo sound performance ‘Heaven’ – Roudaki décor Hall, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
• 2019 – ‘Silence’ experimental/ ambient-music and live sound-processing w. Mehdi Fouladi & Pedram Zare – Charsoogh Abanbar, Jame Mosque, Yazd, Iran.
• 2019 – ‘Liveset in the Plateau’ Sound Performance w. Leonie Roessler – House of Art, Shiraz, Iran.
• 2019 – ‘Two artists, two livesets’ Sound Performance w. Leonie Roessler – Da Theaterhouse, Tehran.
• 2018 – ‘Metamorphosis of Sounds’ Heka Electro Ambient music Festival – Da Theaterhouse, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
• 2018 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Vol.3., Duo performance w. Zhoobin Askarieh – Roudaki décor Hall, Tehran. (Ticket Link)
• 2017 – ‘Art for Peace Grand Festival’ Digital performance w. Banafsh Band – Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran.
• 2017 – ‘Re-listening’ Audiovisual performance set – CafeBaz. Tehran, Iran.
• 2017 – ‘Sound-oriented’ collaborative audiovisual sound-processing performance – Shenakht Cafe. Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Vol.1., Collaboration with Kian Hosein and Arman Moghadam – TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Winter Mood festival’ Vol.1., Audiovisual performance – Saayeh Art gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Open-Mic’ Standup comedy performance, scheduled by House No. 4 – Shenaakht Cafegallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2014 – ‘Neurite Night’ Sound performance in TADAEX – Gholhak Pardis Cinema, Tehran, Iran.
• 2012 – ‘Limited Access Festival’ Live improvisation session in Saroseda workshop – Aaran gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2011 – ‘Frequency’, Live performance w. Sina Shoaie – Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.
• 2011 – ‘Frequency’, Live performance w. Sina Shoaie – Manouchehri House, Kashan, Iran.
• 2009 – ‘Urban Art’, Unofficial sound-performance in the street art [stencil art] exhibition – Arte gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2003 – ‘Ezterab’ w. Patriam (ex-Zartosht members) – Österreich Kulturforum (OKF), Tehran, Iran.
Curation/ Event organization:
• 19.02.2025 – Confronting Noises #2: Label day for Noise à Noise artists, PAS Artspace, Berlin. (more info)
• 30.12.2024 – ‘Confronting Noises #1′: Label day for Noise à Noise artists, PAS Artspace, Berlin. (more info)
• 08.12.2023 – Payman Abdali plays the ‘Music for Black Sine Wave’ performance at Galerie-Zeitzone, Berlin. (more info)
• 05.12.2023 – Payman Abdali plays the ‘Music for Black Sine Wave’ performance at Zwitschermachine, Berlin. (more info)
• 11.07.2022 – ‘Noise à Noise Day’ Label day for Noise à Noise artists, 1st edition of Contemporary Musik Magazine Festival – Museum of Music, Tehran.
• 26.07.2019 – 03.08.2019 – ‘Noise vs. Noise’ A week of performances by the Noise à Noise label artists, Limited Access Festival – Studio Markov, Tehran. (More info)
Production for the stage, film:
• 2025 – ‘Onyx’ Short film, Sound recording/ post production – Directed by Ramina Jenabi, Berlin. Watch here
• 2018 and 2019 – ‘Secret of Ganjour’ Puppet theater (Game-Theater), sound design – Directed by Honey Hoseiny and Marzieh Naderi, IIDCYA, Tehran.
• 2019 – ‘Devic’s Syndrome’, digital sound performance for the stage w. Farin Moghadam in Fajr (Plus) Theater Festival – Directed by Kamyar Salehpour, Da Theater House, Tehran.
• 2017 – ‘When a kid starts to talk?’ Sound design for the stage and film – Directed by Iman Bayatfar, pending release.
• 2017 – ‘Cloth of Blood’, Live speech processing for the stage, Samimi Mofakham Hall, Tehran university of Fine Arts. (Tickets on Tiwall)
• 2017 – ‘I love my Tehran’ v.2., Live digital audiovisual production/ performance in Fadjr Theater Festival – Directed by Ehsan Yousefinasab Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Laboratory’, sound design – Moj-e No hall, Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Ideas of a Clown’ Digital audiovisual production/ performance w. Arman Moghadam – Roodaki Decor Hall, Tehran, Iran.
• 2011 – ‘Motivation’, Media production for performance art – Curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, EastArt gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Presentations, Talks and Panels:
• 10.01.2024 – [Online] ‘Archive: In-Progress ’, Reconnect Festival: Documenting and Preserving Informal Performances in Iran ‘How a Label is Born’ – Tehran, Iran. (More info)
• 24.02.2022 – [Online] ‘Role of Independent Collectives for Music Publication’, TIEMF – Tehran, Iran.
• 12.02.2022 – [Online] ‘Artist Talk’, About the activity during Vayu Residency in Winter (on IG) – Kashan, Iran.
• 20.12.2021 – ‘The Politics of Music in the Age of Isolation’, panel at Space21 Festival – Suleymaniyah, Kurdistan.
• 2020 – [Online] ‘On Electronic Music Composition’ Hosting a two-episode live artist-talk with Sohrab Motabar – Contemporary Music Magazine, Online.
• 2020 – [Online] ‘Gate of Tehran Festival’ Brief presentation for Noise à Noise, and a conversation about independent art w. Peter Pirhoseinlou, Online event organized by ‘House No. 4’ Team.
• 2019 – ‘Noise vs. Noise’ Artist-talk Panelist, Limited Access Festival – Studio Markov, Tehran.
• 2017 – ‘Tehran Contemporary Music Festival’ Ed.2., Presentation of ’Neural control of singing” – TMoCA, Tehran, Iran.
• 2015 – ‘Newmedia talkseries: Aftab Darvishi’, Artist-talk Panelist – Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran.
Residencies and Scholarships:
• 2024 – 2025 – Resident Artist at PAS e.V., Berlin, Germany.
• 2023 – 2024 – Full research scholarship by German Association for Central Asia (GAFCA) e.V., Berlin, Germany.
• 2022 – As the recording artist (collaboration w. Negar Kharkan) – Vayu Residency space, Kashan, Iran.
• 2021 – Performer, Space 21 – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan.
• 2017 – Sound technician, Circusbiennalle – Berlin, Germany.
Exhibitions
• 2025 – ‘It takes a village to burn a village down’ Photography exhibition – Berlin Berlin, Germany.
• 2021 – ‘To Live’ sound installation with Arefe Arad – E1 artgallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2020 – ‘Charivari Circus’ Annual visual art exhibition – Circusbienalle, Berlin, Germany.
• 2019 – ‘Dock/ Ancien Palais de Justice’ Group exhibition, sound Installation, ‘Concrete Jungle’, Liege, Belgium. (More info)
• 2017 – ‘Days of experimental sounds Ed.1’, Sound Installation, ‘Tehranscape’ v.1’, Rooberoo Mansion. Tehran, Iran.
• 2017 – ‘Unnamed, On paper’ exhibition for painting/ collage exhibition, Collage, ‘Broken’ – New Media Projects, Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Limited Access Festival’, Video Art, ‘Flaneur’ – New Media Projects, Aaran artgallery, Aaran projects. Tehran, Iran.
• 2015 – ‘Unnamed Envelope, No.3’, Drawing, ‘Stillness’ – Haft Samar Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• 2015 – ’TADAEX 05’ Sound Installation, ‘Language of the landscape’ – Mohsen Gallery. Tehran, Iran.
• 2014 – ‘Limited Access Festival’, Video art, ‘Citylapse’ – Vista, Aaran & No.6 Art galleries. Tehran, Iran.
• 2010 – ‘Saroseda v.2.0’, A/V installation, ‘Small things can make me happy’, w. Mahtab Alizadeh – Mohsen gallery. Tehran, Iran.
Miscellaneous Education:
• 2017 – ‘Audio Engineering Masterclass’ Iranian National School of Cinema (INSC), Tehran, Iran.
• 2017 – ‘Designing sound for films’ Mohammad Delpak, Karnameh Institute, Tehran, Iran.
• 2016 – ‘Tape-loop’ workshop by Andreas Spectl, Noise works, Tehran, Iran.
• 2015 – ‘World literature: Luis Borges’ Dr. Amirali Nojoumian, Iranian Artists Forum. Tehran, Iran.