Shahrokh Yadegari
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UPCOMING EVENTS: Lecture: Performance: |
| Shahrokh Yadegari - Composer/Sound Designer |
 Featuring Shahrokh Yadegari, Ph.D. '04 Over a decade ago, musical inspiration came to Iranian-American musician Shahrokh Yadegari, Ph.D. '04, from a jasmine tree behind his Santa Monica home. In the tree, a mockingbird had built its nest, singing beautifully every night. Yadegari, an expert in computer music and traditional Persian music, recorded the bird's beautiful songs and played the sound back to the bird. The result was magical. "The bird was so excited to hear its own singing...it was like a totally new world," explains Yadegari. "Everything changed: his energy, his performance, his song." Translating his experience into the world of music, Yadegari developed a software program called Lila to replicate the effect for acoustic musicians. Today, Yadegari-a professor of sound design at UC San Diego's top ranked Department of Theatre and Dance-uses Lila to sample and transform a musician's acoustic material. Just as with the mockingbird, Yadegari plays notes back to the musician for more improvisation, which can then be layered to make innovative and groundbreaking new music and sounds. This melding of technology and art has yielded remarkable results in the evolution of theatrical sound - from UC San Diego to Carnegie Hall. Join us for this one-night-only hosted reception with Shahrokh Yadegari, Director of the Sound Design Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance, to hear, first-hand, how the revolutionary program is changing the world of music and theater. REGISTER NOW BIOGRAPHY Shahrokh Yadegari (Ph.D. UCSD) holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University a Master's in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT's Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego. He has recently joined the faculty of the department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. He has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Hossein Omoumi, Vibeke Sorensen , Michael Dessen, Ivan Manzanilla, Keyavash Noura'i, and Siamak Shajarian. Yadegari has worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, in the years 1987 and 1989. He is one of the founders of Persian Arts Society, and Kereshmeh Records, organizations dedicated to advancement and preservation of Persian traditional music. He has studied computer music with Tod Machover, Miller Puckette, F. Richard Moore, and George Lewis. He also has studied santur with Esmaeel Tehrani and Radif-shenasi (understanding the Radif) with Hossein Omoumi. He has given talks in the United States and Europe at institutes such as IRCAM, Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Netherlands, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California Berkeley, and Society for Electro-Acoustic Music Los Angeles chapter. His music has been played internationally in the United States, Canada, Chile, Europe, China, Australia, and Cuba in various venues such as the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego. Yadegari's areas of research include the use of interactive computing for live music and theatre performances, spatialization, and applications of non-linear dynamical systems for synthesis. Among his recent projects are the sound design for The Children of Herakles directed by Peter Sellars, and the music for the video installation The Sanctuary by Vibeke Sorensen .
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