Back to All Events

Entry to Iranian Music: Session 04 – The Dastgah System 1: Intervals & Structure

Poster by: Abou Saeed Eskandari

Entry to Iranian Music: Session 04

The Dastgah System 1: Intervals & Structure

Saturday, 29.08.2020, 18:00-21:00

Museum of Impossible Forms

schedule:

18:00 doors open

18:30-19:00 Introduction

19:00-20:30 Lecture by Farshad Sanati

short break

20:40-21:00 discussion and Q&A

Lecture by Farshad Sanati.

This lecture will delineate different attitudes towards the intervals and characteristics of Iranian Music and compare them to Turkish/Arabic Music. Farshad will  describe the concept of ‘Tetrachords’ and provide practical demonstrations of the different tetrachords and scales. Through musical samples, participants will be Introduced to various components of the Radif (7 Dastgah & 5 Avaz from Radif).

This session is for signed up participants and requires a background in music.

Farshad Sanaati Is a musician and musicologist, started playing Santour (Persian classical instrument) 20 years ago in Iran, he learned Iranian classical music repertoire (Radif) from Maestro Majid Kiani and contemporary Santour planning from Maestro Ardavan Kamkar. He gained a degree in Music, Mind, and Technology from the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. He founded Road Ensemble in 2015 and has had several performances, lectures, and workshops all over Finland about Persian and Kurdish music.

Please note:

  • Several sessions for the course An Entry to Iranian Music require signing up. Further reading material and detailed information may be provided after signing up.

  • Accompanying performances are open to public. All the sessions are free to attend.

    Participate by filling this form

(link: https://forms.gle/7yWeKmJ7kEZpjZ9c7)

deadline for application 18.07.2020

Please note that due to Covid-19 pandemic, our gathering will follow the social distancing standards and we will follow the official regulations and recommendations for gatherings. Unfortunately, a limitation on the number of people attending may mean that even for those sessions open for public, participants who sign-up will be prioritised. 


Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’.

Museum of Impossible Forms is a Safer Space. We follow a  Safer Space policy to create a welcoming, inclusive, awesome environment.

Events at the Museum of Impossible Forms are completely free and accessible without prior booking.

Museum of Impossible Forms is accessible by lift with thresholds up to 4cm on the way. The toilet has no thresholds but is not spacious enough to meet accessibility standards. The nearest accessible toilet is located at Kontula metro station.

For directions, please refer to this Map.