My Curriculum vitae

 Personal information

Date of Birth: July 26^th, 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

 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

• Working on 96-EDO as a better intervallic framework for Persian music (Interval naming, accidentals, mapping to limits of just intonation and etc.)

• Introducing some new systems and concepts such as : 1- Equal divisions of length(EDL) 2- Arithmetic irrational divisions of octave AIDO(or nonoctave,interval) 3- Arithmetic rational divisions of octave ARDO(or nonoctave,interval) 4-Arithmetic divisions of length (ADL)

• Working on microtonal pentatonic and hexatonic scales based on 96-EDO

• Classifying octavic or nonoctavic musical scales and systems based on their intervallic divisions

Compositions

• Composing music based on different octavic/nonoctavic microtonal systems and scales such as 96-EDO, ADO,EDL,AIDO,.....                                                 http://www.96edo.com/My_Music.html

• Composing music for Tombak and Tomdaf           http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/audio&video

Festivals

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

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