Doors 17:30 | Start 18:00

This event is part of the PANDAwomen 2025 Festival.

Curated by ethnomusicologist and filmmaker Yalda Yazdani, this evening opens a window into the vibrant and evolving landscape of Iranian music — spanning tradition, jazz, and electronic experimentation. With artists from Iran, Europe, and the diaspora, the program invites audiences into a journey between memory and innovation, voice and rhythm, ritual and resistance.

Programme:

Welcoming Session
with Naser Reyhani and Yalda Yazdani

Workshop: Ableton & Iranian Music

with Cee and Yalda Yazdani

 

A hands-on introduction to how traditional Iranian instruments and modes can merge with digital tools. Artists explore rhythm, tonality, and live electronic improvisation between heritage and technology.

Live Set – Indie/ Pop
Sanam Maroufkhani

Intimate, piano-driven songs shaped by echoes of contemporary Iranian musical culture.

Duo Performance 

by Golnar Shahyar & Mahan Mirarab

 

A soulful dialogue between two leading figures of the Iranian diaspora. Vienna-based Golnar Shahyar and Mahan Mirarab combine jazz, Persian poetry, and improvisation — merging intricate rhythms and lyrical power.

Traditional Iranian Ensemble Performance

with Parisa Saeednezhad, Roshanak Rafani, Ghazaal Ansarirad & Elham Kazemi
 

A set of traditional Iranian music performed by master musicians of tar, santur, percussion and setar. Rooted in radif and modal structures, the ensemble creates a meditative and dynamic acoustic soundscape.

Tehran Contemporary Sounds

Behrooz Moosavi & Janna Maria
 

An immersive audiovisual performance combining analog synthesis and live generative visuals. A collaboration shaped by distance, memory, and modular systems.

Electronic Live Set + Visuals

Mahtab Sabetara & Baharan Eghbalzadeh
 

A contemplative set bridging ambient electronics and poetic visuals. Sounds move between minimal techno, Iranian tonalities, and spatial abstraction.

Curated by Yalda Yazdani

Yalda Yazdani is an Iranian ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and curator based in Berlin. Her PhD research focuses on female voices in West Asia and North Africa, and her curatorial projects include Female Voice of Iran, Qashqai Female Voices, and Female Voices United. Through research, performance, and dialogue, she creates spaces for unheard stories in music.

Artists:

Sanam Maroufkhani
Originally from Tehran and now based in the Netherlands, Sanam is a vocalist, pianist, and guitarist whose work weaves together classical Iranian music and jazz. Beyond performance, she is also involved in community-based music education and intercultural projects.
Parisa Saeednezhad
A performer of tar and setar, Parisa explores the depth of traditional Iranian music while engaging in dialogue with contemporary and electronic forms. She lives in Germany and frequently collaborates with artists across disciplines.
Roshanak Rafani
Trained in Persian percussion, Roshanak works with instruments like the daf and tombak to explore rhythm as a narrative form. Her performances often move between traditional structures and more experimental improvisation.
Golnar Shahyar
Singer and composer blending Persian poetry with jazz and improvisation.
Mahan Mirarab
Guitarist and composer known for microtonal jazz rooted in Iranian scales.
Mahtab Sabetara
An electronic musician from Tehran whose sound is shaped by ambient textures, minimal rhythms, and Persian tonalities. Her practice extends into installation and live audiovisual environments.
Ghazaal Ansarirad
Musician reinterpreting traditional Iranian melodies through contemporary arrangements.
Elham Kazemi
Multi-instrumentalist fusing classical Iranian and modern performance techniques.
Baharan Eghbalzadeh
Working at the intersection of film and digital art, Baharan’s visual language blends abstraction with symbolic and poetic references drawn from Iranian culture and mythology.
Behrooz Moosavi
A composer and performer using analog synths to explore layered rhythms, tonal ambiguity, and modular repetition. His live sets are immersive and structured like sonic meditations.
Janna Maria
A media artist whose generative visuals respond to sound and environment in real time. Her work is grounded in research and often emerges through collaboration with musicians and performers.
Cee
Berlin-based DJ, producer, and educator exploring intercultural sonic connections between electronic sound and traditional instruments.
Naser Reyhani
Scientist, cook and storyteller in Berlin, reconnecting food, music and places into living memory

Admission: 20 euro online  |  25 euro doors

Credits: Rene Leoeffler

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