Born in 1987 in Ahvaz, Iran. With a bachelor’s degree in computer software programming from Iran, Anahita moved to Armenia in 2010 to study music composition at Yerevan State Conservatory. In 2018, she moved to Germany to continue her musical and artistic journey where she studied in the Master degree program “Sound Art – Composition” at Hochschule für Musik Mainz at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.Anahita started her journey by being the first woman performing soundart on the streets of her hometown.
The grounding for her work lies in the deep understanding of the sonic aspects of language, human speech and the possibility of inducing visual perception through aural data. She acquired this knowledge while researching the linguistic roots of words based on their onomatopoetic impressions. As an artist, she is interested in walking between the line of extreme and subtle. The subtle can carry extreme messages and the extreme can have subtle nuances. Her walking this line is in many cases meant literal. She’s using herself as a subject to explore the individual suffering of humans and how to overcome it. Given her musical background, sound has been for a long time not only her primary, but her only media. Recently she has reached a point where she started to feel the need to use visual aspects like photos, videos and live performances as complementary layers in her projects because it forces her to put herself into situations that make her feel uncomfortable or insecure. Being often the subject of her own pieces, this adds an authentic layer that was missing before. On a personal level, it helped her facing her fears and insecurities as a woman and an artist.
CV
Education:
University Ahvaz (SCU and JDK), Iran, Bachelor of Science – Software Engineering, Jul 2010
Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, Armenia, Bachelor of Music – Composition, Jun 2016
Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz, Master of Music – Sound Art Composition, November 2022
Exhibitions:
Gutenberg Musem, Mainz, Germany, October 2022
Vayo Residency, Kashan, Iran, January 2022
3 x Klingelg Biannual, Mainz, Germany, September 2021
Opening sound art festival, Trier [Netzwerk Gallery], Germany, July 2021
Soundseeing Festival, Münsterland [Hous Nottbeck, Kunstverein Coesfeld], Germany, June 2021
Zweitstelle Art Gallery, Mainz, Germany, April 2021
INMM Aktions Tag, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2020
Lange Nacht der Museen, Fulda, Germany, September 2019
Gutenberg Soundart Academy (GUSAC), JGU Campus, Mainz, Germany, August 2019
UMBO Kultur Club, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2019
Klangkunst Tag, Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Germany, July 2019
Alumni Tag, Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Germany, July 2018
Ahwaz Sound Exhibition, Ahwaz, Iran, October 2017
Sound+ing Begger, Street Sound Performance, Ahwaz, Iran, March 2017
Honors:
The “Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz Kulturförderpreis 2022”
Granted the “DAAD” scholarship to finalize a degree in 2021
Commission for a Radio piece from hr2 in 2020 (aired October 2021)
Granted the “Deutschlandstipendium” in 2020
The “Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz Kulturförderpreis 2019”
Self-developed experimental music workshop “Into the Noises” founded by STEP beyond travel grants – Budapest, Hungary/Kocise, Slovaki, January 2016
Composition Workshop Hosted by Cultural.am – Three short pieces for piano/assistant/tape, performed at Yerevan Contemporary Art Museum, July2015 – Performed by Anoush Moazzeni in Toronto,Canada [Deterritorializing Call for Score], July 2021