Farhadian, Thea / Tectonic Shifts
Album: Tectonic Shifts   Collection:General
Artist:Farhadian, Thea   Added:Nov 2017
Label:Creative Sources Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-11-12 Pull Date: 2018-01-14 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Jan 14 Dec 17 Dec 10 Dec 3
Airplays: 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 02, 2021: Waste FM (rebroadcast from Nov 28, 2017)
Integer Study
4. Dec 09, 2017: Music Casserole
Integer Study
2. Jan 08, 2018: Sound Landscapes
Thin Silver Line
5. Nov 28, 2017: Waste FM
Integer Study
3. Dec 11, 2017: Everything A to Z week 114
Ice Wave

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2017-11-09
AVANT GARDE / ELECTRONIC / EXPERIMENTAL

Violinist / composer Thea Farhadian was born in Oakland, got her MFA from Mills College, and appeared on Day of Noise in 2012. Here she mixes violin, electronics, and sound-processing software. The pieces interestingly “blend improvisation and composition”

1 * Very slow. Peaceful. Short violin motif; electronics reply. Repeat; develop. (2:39)
2 Very slow. Tense. Bits of melody, both arco & pizzicato. Electronic beeps & blips. (2:30)
3 VERY slow. Eerie. Like incidental music in a scary movie. Multiple violin lines. (5:56)
4 Mid-slow. Strange. Sounds like tuning up and down an old radio dial. Interesting. (2:10)
5 Mid-tempo. Sci-fi. More radio tuning. Scraping & shuffling. (1:48)
6 * Very slow. Ominous but calm. Scary music & sounds in Antarctica perhaps. (4:39)
7 Very slow. Mostly quiet, but punctuated with louder bursts. Screechy. Disturbing. (1:27)
8 * Very slow. Relatively melodic. Arco violin with blurps & blasts of other sounds. (2:58)
9 Very slow. Hesitant. Dreary. Violin tries to start something, but never succeeds. (3:42)
10 * Very slow. Violin notes (arco & pizz) emerge from squeaky, squishy noises. (2:27)
11 ** Very slow. Melancholy. Almost solo violin (arco & pizz)—less noise. (3:04)
12 * Slow. Overlapping violin & electronic voices. Almost orchestral. Quite nice. (4:07)

Track Listing
1. Thin Silver Line   7. Transfer
2. Light Edge   8. Decay
3. Time Shift   9. Quantum Shift
4. Splinter   10. Vertical
5. Particle Party   11. Integer Study
6. Ice Wave   12. Silver Plate