Mohammad Reza AzadehfarTehran Art University · Department of Music
Mohammad Reza Azadehfar
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Mohammad Reza Azadehfar’s research and publications in music focus on Iranian music, rhythm, and music interdisciplinary studies. He has received five grants for researches in University of London, University of Arts, and INSF. He is an academic member of Faculty of Music at University of Arts Tehran and ex-dean of Music Faculty.
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January 2005 - present
University of Arts, Tehran
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October 1999 - December 2003
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At women’s religious ceremonies in Iran, only female researchers are admitted and the researcher is expected to participate fully in the rite and accept whatever duties the conductor or chief of the ceremony gives at the event. This includes adopting a set of behavioral and ethical norms appropriate to the situation, such as refraining from recordi...
This Article is a study of the musical tools of Ta’ziyeh and how it employs the Dastgāh and Āvāz of the Iranian traditional music, which is considered an Iranian- Shi’ite artform. What opens Ta’ziyeh for more examination today in Iran and even worldwide is its intrinsic dependence to musical elements as well as utilization of the two entangled comp...
مک‌آلستر می‌گوید «موسیقی در اصل مسئله‌ی ارزش‌های انسانی است، نه نُت‌ها » و گورالی کِنِث اتنوموزیکولوژی را ساحتی می‌داند که مطالعه‌ی «موسیقی به‌عنوان صدا» را به مطالعه‌ی «انسان موسیقی‌ساز» رشد می‌دهد. گیلبرت چِیس معتقد است تاریخِ موسیقی، گفتگو با مردگان است، اما اتنوموزیکولوژی گفتگو با زندگان. کتاب حاضر موسیقی را چنین تعریف می‌کند: «موسیقی رخداد ضاب...
Globalization is an explicit threat to intangible cultural heritage. Preservation of the traditional dance and music of a variety of cultures and ethnic groups is a subject of many studies and projects of scholars in different disciplines. In the current project, we focus on the same theme by applying a combination of new technology and creative id...
阿扎德赫法尔（Azadehfar）教授关于伊朗音乐的参考文献：
论著:
2022 《田野中的文化信仰与宗教实践：伊朗穆斯林女性的仪式》，载于《民族音乐学的伦理学》，贝弗莉‧黛蒙德、乔纳森P.J. 斯托克编，[英文]
2019 《音乐旅行：伊朗城乡可持续发展战略》，纳什尔‧马卡兹，德黑兰。ISBN 978-964-213-431-1，[波斯语] link
2018 《伊朗音乐中的节奏结构（第三版）》（增补关于伊朗节奏周期与印度塔拉的比较研究章节），[出版中] 伊朗艺术大学，[英文] link
2017 《伊朗音乐中的旋律结构》，[出版中] 纳什尔‧马卡兹，德黑兰。[波斯语，英文版在编] link
2017 《伊朗作品中旋律创作的基础》，纳什尔‧马卡兹，德黑兰，ISBN 978-964-2...
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Video games are changing how we interact and communicate with each other. They can provide an authentic and collaborative platform for building new communities and connecting people. Since video games generally rely on visual elements that must be recognized by the players, most of them are not accessible by visually impaired people. In this resear...
The central enquiry of the present study is how modern and traditional discourses of revolution influenced in shaping, living and dying Chavosh in the context of Iranian traditional music? In this study, we try to adopt an analytical method with a descriptive approach to examine the process of formation and collision of the way a musical discourse...
In addition to dramatic functions, music is capable of providing the necessity of coherence among different formal and structural elements in video games and movies. The present study seeks to answer the question that what are the main roles of music in dramatic formation and visual entity in both video game and film. For this purpose,a comparative...
This project seeks to facilitate the process of preserving the intangible cultural heritage through an enjoyable performance for youngsters and new generations. To peruse our plan, we benefited from a multidisciplinary approach that brings music composition, choreography, and computer gaming together.
The combination of choreography, sonification,...
This is lecture 11 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 10 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 9 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is part one of a lecture on "Music and Identity" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is part two of a lecture on "Music and Identity" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is part three of a lecture on "Music and Identity" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 8 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 7 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 6 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 5 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
In this project, we used an Azerbaijani MoCap dance data captured by Perception Neuron. This dance is known as Tərəkəmə and performed by a female professional dancer as "Arrangement by Master". It is performed in a compound meter 6/8, and its tempo is slower than typical men Azeri dances . The core of this project was to find a creative way to conv...
This is lecture 4 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 3 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
The purpose of this study is to examine changes in musical performances in streets of Tehran focusing on styles and genres over the past fifteen years. In this study, we investigated genres in the streets, and analyzed changes and main causes of such changes. This article is part of a major project conducted by the authors in Tehran from 2014-2016...
This is lecture 2 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
This is lecture 1 from a series of video lectures on Music Analysis Course. The course provides methods on Macro and Micro analysis of music. The course focuses on Iranian classical music. (The lectures presented in Persian language).
Researches on historical social life put this fact forward that the transition from farm life to urbanization modified many cultural traditions and to some extend disappeared ceremonial customs in one way or another. Folk music is one of the traditional heritages that is likely to disappear through urbanizing traditional life of village dwellers. T...
Tahrir is an important aspect of Avaaz, in the Iranian, Arabic, and Turkish music area. Mohammad Reza Shajarian is a famous Iranian Avaaz singer. In recent years Mohammad Reza Shajarian in addition to teaching many students directly at his master classes has some strong indirect impact on many other Avaaz learners who are at their beginning or even...
This is a lecture on "Ethnomusicology and Technology" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 7 on Persian Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on "Applied Ethnomusicology" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 6 on Persian Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on "Transcription" from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 5 on Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on shamanism and music from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on shamanism and music from a series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on Organology (description and categorization of musical instruments), from the series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 4 on Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on Music and Politics, from the series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on Music Believes and Religious, from the series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 3 on Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on Music and the body, from the series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is a lecture on Music and gender, from the series of Ethnomusicology video lectures. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 2 on Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
This is lecture 1 on Lyrics and Music. This series of lectures have been presented in Persian Language.
Introduction: The modern human is on the cutting edge of information, communication, and technology, the turning point of which is to maintain the valuable traditional and cultural data inherited from the ancestors and hand down it to the descendants. This is fulfilled via stories, dances, and activities; negligence in this regard results in loss o...
The recent human is on the cutting edge of Information and Communication Technologies, making lots of valuable data for their descendants. But there are main issues in converting and maintaining the previous existing traditional and cultural data which have been transferred via stories, dances and activities from the ancestors to the descendants du...
E-learning drew the attention of pedagogics and learners all around the world. Serious computer games as an attractive medium of delivering information and developing skills are capable of using in various topics and areas of education.
Saray game is a video Game for developing sight reading, one of the most central music learning abilities for be...
This book consists of two main parts. The first part which includes 5 chapters discusses about concepts and practice of event tourism and music tourism in general. The second part which includes 3 chapters examines issues of improvement of music tourism Iran through various case studies as a mean of sustainable development in rural and urban.
Faculty of Music in University of Arts with cooperation of ICTM representative in Iran invites students and professionals to participate in workshops in Iranian music taking place in Tehran University of Arts.
Workshops include music practical lessons in Dastgāhs from the Iranian Radīf, lectures on Persian musical structures, organology of Iranian...
This article is a review of the book An Introduction to Atonal Music Analysis by Amin Honarmand published by the University of Tehran in 2014. This book consists of four main chapters. It begins with general issues on analysis of atonal music in chapters one to three and focuses on the structure of dodecaphonic music in the last chapter. Even thoug...
عبدالعزیز بن عبدالقادر مراغی، پس از افول تیموریان، از زادگاه خود هرات به بورسا و دربار سلطان محمد بن مراد عثمانی رفت و رسالۀ موسیقی خود، نقاوةالادوار، را به او تقدیم کرد. با این‌که کلیات مطالبی که عبدالعزیز در رسالۀ خود آورده، برگرفته از رسالات پدرش است، گاه توضیحات مفیدی در رسالۀ او دیده می‌شود. به‌علاوه، او از برخی ابتکارات خود در این کتاب سخن گف...
Dance and lamentations stands against each other in the mind of people. In other words, in most societies dance is mostly related to cheerful ceremonies much more than they are used for grief and sorrowful times. In Dashtestan, southern province of Iran by the Persian Gulf, people perform dance ceremonies in the occasions of martyrdom and death of...
Tourists are somehow interested in traveling to witness events in mysterious lands. Event tourism has a central part in financial development of several cultures. Urban and folk musical events take place in various regions of Iran. However, the audiences of those events are mostly local people. In order to provide possibility of turning the local e...
کتاب ساختار ملودی در موسیقی ایرانی رویکردی متفاوت به موضوع ساختمان موسیقی ایرانی دارد. بسیاری از مطالعات سده‌ی اخیر به‌صورت سنتی تمرکز خود را بیشتر بر مطالعه‌ی الگوی فواصل اصوات و مُدهای شکل‌دهندۀ آوازها و دستگاه‌های قرار داده‌اند. این در حالی است که بی‌اغراق ملودی در ساختار موسیقی ایرانی بارزترین نقش را بازی می‌کند؛ تا بدان حد که کم‌توجهی به آن من...
AAWM 2018 welcomes submissions that examine world musical traditions from any analytical and theoretical angles, including (but not limited to) ethnographic, historical, formal, computational, and cognitive perspectives. Submission formats include papers, posters, special sessions, lecture-recitals, and workshops.
The rich musical heritage of the w...
اگرچه تعداد اصوات سازها محدود است و دامنۀ صوتی حنجرۀ انسانی از آن‌هم محدودتر، یکی از شگفت‌آورترین توانایی‌های که در نهاد انسان وجود دارد بهره‌برداری این محدودیت برای خلق آثار نامحدود موسیقایی است. آوازی ساده شامل تنها ده نت، امکان تبدیل‌شدن به بیش از شصت میلیون ملودی متفاوت را دارد. اما در ابتدای کارِ یک آهنگ‌ساز جوان، معمولاً ایده‌های موسیقایی به...
The Arts is a new book for grade 10 in Iran. It introduced to Iranian secondary schools in year 2016-2017 for the first time. The book covers vital issues in appreciation of the arts and analytically studying various kinds of arts including visual arts, architecting, music and cinema.
The Arts contains for main chapters including:
1. Concept of A...
Studies on Iranian music are particularly conducted to show its melodic aspects and are highly occupied by the discussions of modal systems of dastgāh-ha and the arrangements and functions of notes and their alteration within a tetrachord and pentachord. Accustom listeners to Iranian music, however, pay little or no attention to microtones and thei...
This book consists of three parts. In first part it provides a concise review on various theories in diverse outlooks of Islamic thinkers toward music. It includes the outlook of theorists of ʿIlm al-Kalām (science of discourse) from three schools of Mu'tazilite, Ash'arite, Shi'a in first chapter and views of three philosophical branches of Mashā'i...
Providing bases for developing the people’s musical taste can increase the music consumption in every society. While in the United States and some major developed countries there are companies and organizations such as SoundScan that constantly monitor the consumption of music and selling musical albums and concerts to provide the exact statistics...
This book provides an insight to Iranian music theory, Dastgah system, musical Instruments and music history in general.
In this study the music theory generated in Iranian culture is used to examine the point of view of Western music perform ers living in such culture to see how breathing in a society can influence the fundamental music perspective and music perception, even if one plays a music coming from an extremely different culture. Results showed that Iranian...
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Music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. An important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects....
This article illustrate how symmetry acts as one of the central requirements in constructing both music and visual arts of Iran. This interdisciplinary study sheds light on Iranian aesthetics and the way an artist or composer builds up the formal construction of his or her artistic production. A symmetry analysis of a musical piece will help us to...
Iranian philosophers usually avoid engaging the issues related to what music really does when perceived by man and how it can improve the life of man on Earth. At the same time, Sufists and mystics manly focus on the later issue. Based on theosophical view, music has something in connecting the God and his creator.
To investigate the place of phil...
Iranian musician, since the early stages of learning music in school of tradition, learns how to employ the radīf in his or her performance. Radīf is a large collection of gūsheh-ha—tunes; melody types—organized in seven dastgāh-ha and five auxiliary systems, āvāz-ha. The radif, which is in the memory of performer, is the main material for improvis...
Limitation of broadcasting music from state televisions in Iran led to turn the Iranian music lovers particularly youngsters toward satellite channels and internet based music resources. Now, that such situation goes on for more than 10 years, one should expect shifting the musical habits and taste from traditional music to foreigner ones. This stu...
"Most Islamic philosophers consider music as one the four elements of mathematics, the statements which is linked to Aristotle’s quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. However, in the statements addressed by philosophers, we cannot see many discussions on the nature of music as perceived by human and the way it may improve the life...
User interface (UI) is point of interaction between user and computer
software. The success and failure of a software application depends on User
Interface Design (UID). Possibility of using a software, easily using and
learning are issues influenced by UID. The UI is significant in designing of
educational software (e-Learning). Principles and con...
This dictionary originally provided to support the book Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music, which now I openly make it available for scholars and students interested in Iranian Music.
Iranian music is part of a greater musical culture beginning from the eastern part of Chine to the northern part of Africa in one dimension and from India to central Asia in another dimension. Iranian music enjoys two main streams classical Iranian music which is referred to by native Iranian as “tradition music” and folk music referred to as “regi...
This book provides a broad set of issues related to music marketing. It starts with technical guides to preproduction, recording in studio and postproduction in its first part. The second part covers issues related to marketing and selling physical and digital music products. In the third part, music industry in Iran is examined. In this part reade...
Most previous studies of Iranian music focus on melodic systems (Farhat, Zonis, etc.) or on instrumentation and the transcription of folk songs (Massoudieh, Darvishi, etc.). This book examines the so-far neglected rhythmic structure of Iranian classical music. Nonetheless, this book is not simply a rhythm book. This research has adopted a multidisc...
The book comes with a free Audio-Video CD. Epic and Music consists of five Chapters each of which covering a different aspect of music and epic in Persian context. The impact of musical form and Persian poetry is the first chapter of this book. This chapter provides the basics of Epical poem and music and its fundamental concepts written by Fatemeh...
وقتي به مشکلات روز انساني اشاره مي‌کنيم همه چيز در مرتبه دوم قرار مي‌گيرد، زيرا اقتصاد مشکل اغلب مردم است و مسئله دوم اين است که مثلاً تعطيلاتشان را کجا بگذرانند يا عصر کجا بروند. اين مشکل روز انساني است که هميشه بوده و خواهد بود. اما امروز دربارة اين مسئله صحبت نمي‌کنيم. مشکلات روز انساني را به دو دسته تقسيم مي‌کنيم: مشکلات انساني از ديدگاه اجتماع...
The term Rock used to denote a particular category of pop music. Since late 1960's rock music entered into important social, cultural and artistic discussions. Rock music influenced several generations through its rather short life. Several music genres came to exist from this music while it carried on its own life up until now. Huge number of audi...
Efficiency of Art Educational Systems Based on Economic Variables Providing information from real situation of society acts the central role in educational and research based systems. Educational systems and research programs in the modern world are updated through using such information. Based on the criteria aimed in every system, the information...
Improving the work environment for workers of textile factories by control and harmonizing machinery noises
A Comparative Study on Accents in Periodic Actions of Drama and Music One of the main reasons of spreading the multimedia in the world is that of employing various arts at once. In fact " using " multi‐arts are far ahead of " studying " multidisciplinary approaches. In spit of that, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies are growing faster...
Tah̩ rīr is one of the most distinction characteristic in Iranian and Azerbaijani art music and is a highly professional skill in singing which marks the expert singers. The techniques similar to tah̩ rīr are found in musical performance from Tibet to West Asia in the musical cultures of Mongols, Turkmens, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Persians, Turks and Arabs....
A Comparative Study between Representation of Iranian Rhythmic Cycles (Adwār Īqā'ī) and Cyclic Time The long-standing argument as to whether Western notation is a proper way of representing non-Western music remains an unresolved challenge for ethnomusicologists today. One suggested solution is that of employing the own approaches of the group or n...
Iranian musician, since the early stages of learning music in school of tradition, learns how to employ this heritage in his or her performance. This heritage is called radif. By attempting to writing down the radif of Iranian music in last three or four decades and appearing various notated versions on the radif, however, signs of a new problem is...
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What will be impact of technology in popularity of Western Music Notation for musicology and music composition? Since invention of phonograph transcribing songs and music for the purpose of preservation became useless because simply we can record it to avoid a song to be forgotten. Today development of technology provide a huge possibility of analyzing a piece of music. Most of young composers benefit from a great verity of sound processors and music software in their music compositions. Does it mean that western music notation is going to be less required in future of musicology and composition?
We have developed our social skills when “outdoor social relations” were part of our everyday life. What can parents do for their kids to develop her/his social skills when they are locked in their homes because of pandemic virus? Will setting up little group performances help coordinating with other people and closely experiencing "living in society"?
Will stage performance start a huge decline if scientists do not succeed to develop any vaccine for COVID-19? What will happen to our “needs for socializing” at performance events?
People prefer to take their time with their cellphones more than any other companion. At the beginning of gramophones a number of musicians saw the new technology as a danger to concert music. They surely could not imagine the way music is consumed today.
Digital tech surely make it possible to benefit from music everywhere and anytime. However, listening music by so called "smartphone" in our privet will make humanly connecting to community nonfunctional.
Does technology care about reestablishing presence of us in community? How far we go in depth of loneliness?
Will we be more flexible and welcoming to accept "different musical cultures" there after? For how long we remain "kind", before we turn back to intolerating "otherness"?
Folk musicians in recently developed villages and towns are more and more exposing to Western music in their everyday lives. Are there any risk of unwanted changes in their traditional music as a result of such exposures? If so, in what ways?
For several years I am observing diverse views toward how should one culture preserve and keep its traditional or folk music alive. I met a number of modern conservatories having courses on teaching this kind of music. Even though, such music conventionally were being taught orally for thousands of years. Do you think teaching traditional and folk music through modern system will eventually harm the nature of this kind of heritage or it is they only way to keep it alive in our time.
I personally have written a short article in case of Iranian traditional music a while ago in which I wrote some of my suggestions. However, I recently had a chance to visit Beijing central conservatory and listened to the outcome of teaching traditional music there and that visit made me think more about this issue.
I think it is good for our living on earth that one day we keep either “metric system” or “imperial system” and saying good bye to the other one. I guess it brings a better understanding and communications. But, we are mostly do not have same idea about cultural features like arts, music, clothing, foods, etc.
The other thing is that some ethnic people in developing countries think that westerners would rather that the "others" keep their traditional way of life to have fun in their visits to strange lands. What’s your opinion would you keep your traditional way of life even if it’s demands hard work and harsh way of life?
Tradition is a huge concept and I think the problem starts here. I present an example:
When we say tradition it also includes water supplying for villages in remote area of developing countries. A number of traditional water supplying particularly from rivers and well involve spreading disease when we compare it with developed water refinery systems. Do we prefer that those villagers keep their traditional water supplying? This is only one instance I provided here to clarify a bit my point.
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In this section Bulletins and announcements of the events of International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) as open access publications are introduced.
Video games are changing how we interact and communicate with each other. They can provide an authentic and collaborative platform for building new communities and connecting people. Since video games generally rely on visual elements that must be recognized by the players, most of them are not accessible by visually impaired people. In this research, we study the sonifcation and interaction issues in the design of computer games for visually impaired individuals. We have proposed an audio game called GrandEscape with the focus on special needs of these people while playing. A comprehensive set of user studies have been performed to evaluate different interaction and sonifcation techniques in terms of providing the sense of presence and gaming experience.
Today human is on the cutting edge of Information and Communication Technologies, making lots of valuable data for their descendants. However, there are main issues in converting and preserving the previous traditional and cultural data which have been transferred via stories, dances and activities from the ancestors to the descendants due to negligence in gathering and maintaining of these cultural and location-based information.
The following interdisciplinary research helps to prevent the loss of the cultural practice in the future and will keep it for descendants. It can also improve and upgrade the knowledge of Azeri musical movements of the body and dances via capturing and storing the motion data within the geo-database. The findings of this study may apply to any other culture. The captured and collected body movements is from the north-west parts of Iran, Azerbaijan; which is known as Azeri Dance in the world.
This project consists of two phases of (1) possibility of identification, capturing and maintenance of musical movements on cultural-climatic backgrounds which in here is downsized to a case study of an Azeri folk dance, and (2) endeavor at utilizing these musical movements of the body in creation of melodic and rhythmic patterns as the innovation of this interdisciplinary project.
In this study, the explained methodology is completely experimental and performed in the Motion Capture Lab at the faculty of Multimedia in Tabriz Islamic Art University. Three highly skilled gesture performers participated in this experiment and each of them performed the musical movements and repeated several times. The captured data is a part of a famous folk tune called Terekeme (pronounces as /Tærækæmæ/) which is selected as an “Arrangement by Master” to have the same movements amonge all performers. After that, the rotation movement of hands and feet sonified by the aid of suggested method. We also did pay attention to the aesthetic property of the generated music and used some rules in creating the melody such as motifs, single or two-core construction, variety and unity.
The results consist of (1) a solution for improving data capture process to preserve Azeri dance data, (2) extracting contours of hands and feet rotation along both x and y axis from the captured data, (3) presenting a method for sonification of captured data and (4) utilizing musical movements of the body in creation of melodic and rhythmic patterns; which as the final product designed via Unity game engine, the player can move around and get as closer as he/she can to the performers to watch the performed dance and hear the melodic and rhythmic patterns generated through rotation data of hands and feet beside the visualized notes on the screen.
Hopefully better results along with georeferanced and geospatial database will be added in phase two as branding tool based on culture for each part of the earth in the near future.
