Alireza Mortazavi and Carson Teal: Experimental Link Music Nights

Link Music Lab presents the Toronto debut of Turin-based Persian avant-garde musician and composer Alireza Mortazavi on santur in concert with local emerging multidisciplinary visual artist and experimental producer Carson Teal on electronics. Their collaboration promises rich soundscapes and mesmerising atmospheres.

Through a combination of improvisation and composition on his unique chromatic santur-piano Alireza Mortazavi describes his as "a music that has visual codes... is minimal and constantly swings between form and antiform”.

Creator of ambient minimalist future pop and category-defying dance music Carson Teal interlaces rich soundscapes with elements of video projection mapping over assembled and found objects.

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Experimental Link Music Nights contemplates the Persian-Canadian experience by reinvigorating re-exploring and re-imagining Persian traditional music within contemporary and cosmopolitan Toronto by inviting different musicians from the diaspora to collaborate and perform together. The series will explore connections between identity culture and musical creation with four concerts in its new season from December to March 2023.

Link Music Lab gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Canadian Heritage Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

Host or Publisher Link Music Lab