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 Personal information

 

Date of Birth: July 26th, 1971

Address: #68, Damirchi Street, Resalat Highway

                 Narmak/16496,Tehran, IRAN

Cell phone: 0098-912 370 8971

Home Phone No.: 0098-21-7720 3212

E-mail: Acousticsoftombak@yahoo.com

             Shahinm@kayson-ir.com

Personal Web Pages:

                    http://www.96edo.com

                    http://acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com/

                    http://acousticsoftombak.blogfa.com/

                    http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/

                    http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri

 

 Education

 

 University of Tehran                                                                                                       1990-1995

                 B.Sc. in Geology                                                                                                 Tehran/Iran

 

 Musical Training

  • Self studying in music mainly in the fields of rhythmic studies and microtonality              1991~Present

  • Student of Maestro Naser Farhangfar[1] in Tombak[2] playing                                    1989~1992

 

Musical and related job Experiences

  • Contributor and Researcher : Harmony Talk , an online musical Magazine         http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri            Since  2004
  • Contributor : Honar-e-Mousighi (Art of music) , a monthly musical magazine     http://www.art-of-music.net/official/1191/    
  • Soutazin company  www.soutazin.ir                                                                                                                                          R&D manager : Designing & Calculating frequency table of 24-EDO for  ROHAB (Quarter-tone tuner) , Designing HAMAVA (musical software)
  • Teaching tombak playing
  • Teaching microtonality
  • Music director and performer of "Irandrumz ensemble"                                       http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/

 

Publications

  • Persian articles published in "Harmony talk"                                                             http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri      

  • Persian articles published in "Honar-e-Mousighi (Art of music)"                              1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

  • English article in "Drumdojo"                                                                                      http://www.drumdojo.com/tonbak_acoustics.htm   

Research Experiences

Tombak

  • Acoustical self-studies on Tombak's sound

  • Woking on a new system of notation for Tombak

  • Working a new system of classified fingering for Tombak , named as "Extended fingering"

  • Working on "Theory of Composing for Tombak"

  • Working on "Arrhythmic composing & playing" as a different expressive musical language for Tombak

  • Studying organology of drums , mainly goblet drums and Tombak  http://acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com/classifications-introduction

  • Studying history of goblet drums and tombak http://acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com/gobletdrumsthroughhistory

  • Working on Acousticsl similarities between tombak sounds and speech , a musico- linguistic approach to Tombak , based on Onomatopoeias to propose a method for tombak solfege

  • Tomdaf : Working on a new method of playing Daf[3] based on Tombak fingering

 

Rhythm

  • Working on a new system of time intervals relating to irrational meters (Inspired by micro- tonality)

  • Working on a new method for classifying musical meters

  • Working on a new method of rhythm solfege based on Onomatopoeias

 

Microtonality

 

Compositions

 

Festivals

 

       -  3rd International festival of percussions in catalunya , spain , Feb 2008   http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/events

       -  The American Festival of Microtonal Music, Microfest 2011, 30th anniversary conserts

          My music : "Barana" for sextet of wind instrument  in baran scale
  

 

Prizes and Nominations

 

2010:  Finalist,UnTwelve 2nd annual microtonal composition competition                  http://untwelve.org/2010_competition.html

                                                                                                                                  My music:  The battle of Ahuramazda and Ahriman

2010 : Winner, AEH and Muto Ethno2 microtonal demos competition

                                http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/88709

                                http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/91296

 

Software Skills

 

Working with softwares such as : Different VSTs , SCALA, ENCORE, CAKEWALK, SOUNDFORGE, SAMPLITUDE, MAGIX, ESPRESSIVO, COOLEDIT, WAVELAB, SOUND-ANALYZER  SOFTWARES,SIBELIUS,ADOBE AUDITION,Overture,....

 

Interests

  • Classical music , folk music , Persian music

  • Physics , mathematics , Acoustics 

  • Metaphysics

  • Reincarnation

  • Biology , Geology

                                                 Related links

 

·                    15 Questions to Aaron Krister Johnson

·                     Shaahin's tombak music in Rhythmweb

·                     Shaahin's notes on acoustics of tombak

·                     Farab,an interval measurement unit for 144-EDO

·                     Iranian segah mode

·                     Shaahins's Persian page in harmonytalk

·                     ایقاع ووزن خوانی یادیاری

·                     Shaahin's homepage on tombak acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com

·                     Shaahin's tombak and tomdaf music in irandrumz

·                     Shaahin in scala references

·                     Shaahin mohajeri's scales in the large collection of over 3700 scale files for Scala

·                     Shaahin in xenharmonic wikispace: 1.... 96EDO

·                     Shaahin in Huygens-Fokker Foundation: Composers....Tuning & temperament bibliography

·                     Shaahin in list of microtonalist mentioned by john starrett in his Microtonal website: 1.... 2

·                     Shaahin in 81/80 microtonal radio

·                     3rd International festival of percussions in catalunya , spain , Feb 2008

·                     Shaahin's ADO tuning model mentioned in Ph.D. Thesis of Ozan Yarman:1

·                     Shaahin in irandrumz

[1] One of The most famous Tombak players in Iran (http://www.iranchamber.com/music/nfarhangfar/nasser_farhangfar.php)

[2] Tombak is a goblet drum from Iran. It is considered the principal percussion instrument of Persian music(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonbak)