Selected Compositions
Shiva’s catalogue features over 200 compositions across a wide range of categories, including ‘Solo Instrumental’, ‘Small Chamber’, ‘Ambisonic Turntables with Solo Instrument or Small Chamber’, ‘Large Ensemble’, ‘Ambisonic Turntables with Large Ensemble’, ‘Choral’, ‘Ambisonic Turntables with Choir’, ‘Orchestral’, ‘Ambisonic Turntables with Orchestra’, ‘Immersive Fixed Electronics and Installation’, ‘Solo Live Ambisonic Turntable Manipulations [+ other Improvisers]’. Please contact Shiva’s project manager, Alec Curtis at alec@studiofeshareki.com, if you would like to hire a score or request more information.
Whirling Dervishes (excerpt)
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: Whirling Dervishe
Year: 2022-2023
Length: 20’ (abridged), or, 45’ (full)
Instrumentation List: Live Ambisonic Turntables (or fixed immersive electronics) and Amplified Grand Piano. The full version includes interactive lighting (optional).
Description: ‘Whirling Dervishes’ is a new hypnotic production inspired by the ancient Sufi tradition in which dancers spin until they reach a simultaneously meditative and ecstatic state.
Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (turntables/immersive electronics) and Zubin Kanga (Piano).
Opus Infinity
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: Opus Infinity
Year: 2019
Length: 50’
Instrumentation List: Live Ambisonic Turntables & Spatialized Ensemble.
Description: ‘Opus Infinity’ is a groundbreaking spatial composition inspired by the golden ratio, which Feshareki arranged at Frankfurt’s LAB according to a painstaking geometrical plan. The piece demonstrates the interconnection of sound with the naturally occurring patterns of the universe. The audience enters this spatial arrangement, and are free to walk, stand, dance or sit, thereby becoming a part of an immersive performance in which the composer manipulates her turntables live, intensifying and alienating allusions to the dancefloor. Together with the instrumentalists, she creates a dynamic sound sculpture which fills the entire space. Premiered by Shiva Feshareki and Ensemble Modern at cresc. biennale, Frankfurt Lab, 2023. Commissioned by Ensemble Modern and Cresc. Biennial.
Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (turntables/immersive electronics) and Ensemble Modern.
Sama-zan Trip (excerpt)
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: Sama-zan Trip
Year: 2022
Length: 20’
Instrumentation: Live Ambisonic Electronics/Turntables and Symphony Orchestra.
Description: In reference to the spinning meditation practice of the Sufi Dervishes, ‘Sama-zan Trip’ is a physical and cosmic dance of energy in which live turntable-manipulation immerses the orchestra and the audience in spatial sound that glides and whirls within the space. It is a single expansive piece that is accumulative, hypnotic and trance-like; building up and then returning down again. Premiered by Shiva Feshareki and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at Musikprotokoll, Helmut List Halle, 2022. Commissioned by ORF Musikprotokoll / RSO Wien: We are currently accepting booking requests for partners and co-commissioners.
Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (ambisonic turntables) and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The Torus of Revolution (excerpt)
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: The Torus of Revolution
Year: 2020
Length: 35’
Instrumentation List: Fixed Ambisonic Electronics (or multitrack file) and surround-sound speaker arrangement.
Description: This state-of-the-art 3D sound sculpture is for installation in an exhibition space or concert hall. It was composed live in performance by Shiva Feshareki at Hellerau Arts Centre, Germany, inside an ambisonic speaker dome, using her turntables as a unique instrument of sound manipulation. Recordings of her previous acoustic and electronic compositions are used as samples that are spatially and sonically transformed into new perspectives, live in improvisation. The sound sculpture moves within space as intangible objects and spatial patterns, and has since been exhibited as a fixed installation at London’s Southbank Centre. Commissioned by the Hellerau European Centre of the Arts.
Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (ambisonic turntables).
Aetherworld (excerpt)
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: Aetherworld
Year: 2021
Length: 20’
Instrumentation: Live Ambisonic Electronics/Turntables, Choir & Organ.
Description: Based largely on harmonic overtones, ‘Aetherworld’ reveals the structure of sound and the infinite harmonics nestled within a single fundamental pitch. Premiered by Shiva Feshareki, Kit Downes and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, 2021. Commissioned by the BBC.
Performers in audio example: Shiva Feshareki (turntables/immersive electronics), Kit Downes (organ) and the BBC Singers.
Venus / Zohreh
Composer: Shiva Feshareki
Title: VENUS/ZOHREH
Year: 2018
Length: 6’ - 60’
Instrumentation List: String Quartet or String Orchestra of any size, in proportion (Vln 1, Vln2, Vla, Vc, Db.). Primarily an acoustic work but can also be performed as a version including fixed electronics or live turntables.
Description: An exponential crescendo in volume, intensity, speed, and pitch exposure. Premiered by Ligeti Quartet and since performed by LSO Strings, Manchester Camerata, Sinfonia Cymru, ICE, Dusseldorf Symphoniker, Sean Shibe & more. Commissioned by Sound UK.
Performers in audio example: Dusseldorf Symphoniker (orchestra) and Zoi Tsokanou (conductor).