Schmutziges Licht (Lichtphon Art-Avant X)

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

Schahram Poursoudmand is a German composer, music & sound artist, visual imagist and poet. He creates extraordinary music, sound and visual art of a unique kind. In his artistic work he explores and creates existential, metaphysical experimental art. Exceptional avant-garde visions of music, sound, visual art and poetry.

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.

Existence, time, deconstruction, transcendence, the infinite moment and discovery in the unknown are some of the themes in his work. He also worked as a curator for international media art exhibitions, was a musician, singer, founder of several experimental music bands and is a writer of poetic texts.

Music, sound and visual works, films, photo art, theatre works, CD releases:
„Silhouettes *Iconique* (LICHTPHON/IKONEN 1)“, „Schmutziges Licht (Lichtphon Art-Avant X)“, „Auf Ewig (Lichtschrei/Lichtphon)“, „After the Day before (Másnap)“, „SOURCE“, „SHINE - inthecentre“, „theprimitivecreature“, „biomechanics“, „Ein Zeichen“ etc.

Soundtrack for the award-winning drama “After the Day Before (Másnap)" together with Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti.

Cooperation with the Swiss artist and Oscar winner H.R. Giger. Soundtracks to the paintings „Biomechanics“ (1995), „The Shiner“, „The Primitive Creature“, „New York City“.

CD album „SHINE - inthecentre“. For his project „SHINE“, inspired by the art of H.R. Giger, Schahram Poursoudmand created and realized the concept album as a composer, musician, singer and producer. On the occasion of the H.R. Giger exhibition „Visioni Di Fine Millennio“ at Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan (1996), the limited luxury edition of the exhibition catalog including the CD album „SHINE - inthecentre“ appeared. Limited catalog and CD are signed by both artists.

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 manipulated, 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 surreal elements by further deformation in the beauty of decomposition and recreation.

Schahram Poursoudmand creates unreal worlds of strange beauty, mystery and drama with unique aesthetics and expressiveness.

“The fascination of renewal after the dissolution. The discovery and representation of beauty through artistic deconstruction. The changing and exploration of the new created by deformation of time and time states. The diving into deep nanostructured sound and image worlds when creating existence into non-existence and new realities are the topics that stirs and fascinate me. Not the obvious, clearly audible and visible - but the secret behind the veil."

... another world...an unknown place...an unknown time ...

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, New York
• Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival, Berlin
• Genre Celebration Festival, Tokyo
• Top Indie Film Awards, Tokyo
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 & Best Music & 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: Ltd. ed. 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

"Projects, Bands, Concerts, Performances"