Schahram Poursoudmand

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Schahram Poursoudmand
Music & Sound Artist I Composer I Visual Imagist I Poet

Schahram Poursoudmand is a German experimental, avant-garde composer, music & sound artist, visual imagist and poet. He creates extraordinary music, sound and visual art.

Award-winning and worldwide presented artistic works. Presentations, festivals and exhibitions: Tokyo, New York City, Paris, Venice, Barcelona, Seoul, Toronto, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Art Barcelona, National Museum of Modern Art Nimes, Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, World Financial Center New York City etc.

In the avant-garde projects LICHTPHON, ONEVERYMOON, LICHTSCHREI, SHINE and ART-AVANT, Schahram Poursoudmand develops creative possibilities for discovering identity and beauty through disintegration, dissolution, transformation and recreation of being and beyond in the transitions from existence to non-existence. The moment becomes eternity. This is the essential approach and intention of his artistic passion.

Music, sound, image and moving picture is stretched and condensed in form, time and space. Tonal and visual entities, sections and details, become disintegrated through dissolution in themselves and creates new structures, unknown realities and avant-garde elements by further deformation, in the beauty of decomposition. Existence, time, duality, deconstruction, humanism, transcendence, the infinite moment, the unknown, and recreation are some of the themes in his works.

Schahram Poursoudmand creates unreal worlds of music, sound, visual art and poetry of strange beauty with unique aesthetics and expression. A surreal and bizarre mystery in music and visual art.

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Works I Publications I Screenings I Honours (Selection)

2018 - 2020

"Silhouettes *Iconique* (LICHTPHON/IKONEN 1)"
Cycle Trilogy IKONEN (1/3) / Video-Music-Sound-Art-Vision
• New York Movie Awards
• Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival
• Genre Celebration Festival, Tokyo
• Top Indie Film Awards / Winner Best Sound / Nominee Best Experimental Short / Nominee Best Music / Nominee Best Original Idea

“Schmutziges Licht (LICHTPHON Art-Avant X)“
Sound/Video Art - Co-Production with Video Artist Yoann Trellu
• Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2020, Paris
• Retro Avant Garde Film Festival RAGFF Venezia / Winner Best Experimental Short Film
• Top Indie Film Awards / Winner Best Sound /
Nominee Best Experimental Short / Nominee Best Music / Nominee Best Original Idea
• Florence Film Awards / Winner Honorable Mention: Original Score & Sound Design
• Genre Celebration Festival Tokyo / Nominee Best Score & Best Visual Effects
• AltFF Alternative Film Festival Toronto / Nominee Best Short Experimental
• New York Movie Awards
• KRAF International Short Film Festival
• Beijing International Short Film Festival
• FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL
• Beijing International Short Film Festival
• International Film Festival of Larissa
• Lisbon Film Rendezvous
• BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
• Golden Statuette International Film Festival Los Angeles
• BlackBox Short Film Festival
• Dolgoji Experimental Short Film Festival
• KINOLIKBEZ International Film Art Festival
• XIX RADIO CITY, International Film Art Festival
• L.I.F. Audiovisual Art Festival
• SEGNALI AUDIOVISUAL & PERFORMANCE ARTS FESTIVAL

2008 - 2017

"AUF EWIG (LICHTSCHREI)"
Soundtrack for the electroacoustic project Vox Novus
• World Financial Center, New York City, US
• FoFA Gallery, Montreal, CN
• EARFEST New York, US
• Sonic Art Festival Oxford, GB
• NonSequitur Festival, Seattle, US
• Full Moon Concerts - Long Night’s Moon, San Francisco, US
• University of North Dakota, US
• Outside the Box New Music Festival, Southern Illinois University, US

“SOURCE“
Zeppelin Sound Art Festival
Centre of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

“SIL”
Sound/Video installation
Short Circuit, Exhibition
Foro Artistico, International Media-Art, Hanover, DE

2007

“UN SON PARLA - FESTIVAL DES MUSIQUES D ́AUJOURD ́HUI“
New Soundtrack for an movie extract of the award-nominated thriller “Lemming” (2005)
Director: Dominik Moll, Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling
Carré d'Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Nîmes, FR

2004

“AFTER THE DAY BEFORE (Másnap)“
Film Score for the award-winning drama, HU
Director: Attila Janisch / Music: Schahram Poursoudmand, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti, Hans Mittendorf
• Winner Grand Prize, Budapest Hungarian Film Week
• Winner Best Cinematography, Budapest Hungarian Film Week
• Emerging Master Award, Seattle International Film Festival
• Blue Angel for Best Cinematography, Kosice Art Film Fest
• Winner Film Critics Award, Hungarian Film Critics Awards

1998

“GHOSTS FROM THE DARKSIDE 1“
SHINE: Track “Shine”
2 CD Sampler/V.A. (Christian Death, Gitane Demone etc.)

1996

“H.R. Giger & Schahram Poursoudmand (SHINE / VISIONI DI FINE MILLENNIO)
Exhibition “H.R. Giger / Visioni Di Fine Millennio”
Deluxe Exhibition Catalogue: Limited edition of the exhibition catalogue with SHINE – inthecentre CD album. Deluxe Edition (hardcover/clothbound). Total No. 170 / 1-70 incl. CD. Catalogue and CD are signed by Schahram Poursoudmand and H.R. Giger.
Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan, IT

"SHINE - INTHECENTRE“
CD album, 12 Tracks / Antiphon Records
1. ZWISCHENSTIMMEN / 2. HONEYSUCKLE / 3. STANDSTILL / 4. DOWNTHEAGES / 5. AFTERTHOUGHT / 6. SHINE / 7. SOURCE / 8. THEPRIMITIVECREATURE / 9. YEARNING / 10. BIOMECHANICS / 11. THANKYOU / 12. NOTREAL

1985 - 1995

“BIOMECHANICS & THEPRIMITIVECREATURE”
Compositions to the paintings "the shiner" & "the primitive creature" of the Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger.

“EIN ZEICHEN“
Music for the experimental theatre project F. Fazz, Berlin, DE

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