Shaahin Mohajeri

Shaahin mohajeri or Shahin mohajeri ,(in Persian شاهین مهاجری) born 26 July 1971 in Tehran, Iran is a Tombak player, Tombak Researcher and microtonal composer. He has B.A in geology from Tehran university. He began studying tombak under supervision of [http://www.donbak.co.uk/artists/farhangfar_nasser.htm Nasser Farhangfar] , master of tombak, but His Studies of tombak sound and fingering, tombak musical analysis and his [http://www.answers.com/topic/arrhythmic arrhythmic] musical ideas have led him to a different musical world of tombak and tombak playing.

He composes music for solo of tombak and tombak group with different pitches, ranging from traditional to his personal style.

He is working on a new musical notation system for tombak as a result of acoustical parameters and a system of fingering classification for this drum .

On 23 Dec 2006 Shaahin mohajeri lectured on tombak history, organology,acoustics and [http://www.omoumi.com/Inventions_tombak.html tunable tombak] of [http://www.omoumi.com/inventions.html Dr.Hossein omoumi] in the [http://www.tehranconservatory.com/MenuR10.asp?Sub=&id=429 Tehran Conservatory of Music] .

As a microtonalist, he works on different [http://240edo.googlepages.com/sometuningmodels tuning systems] such as :
* [http://240edo.googlepages.com/equaldivisionsoflength(edl) Equal divisions of length(EDL)]
* [http://240edo.googlepages.com/arithmeticirrationaldivisions(aid) Arithmetic irrational divisions of octave AIDO(or nonoctave,interval)]
* [http://240edo.googlepages.com/arithmeticrationaldivisionsofoctave Arithmetic rational divisions of octave ARDO(or nonoctave,interval)]
* Equal divisions of octave
* [http://240edo.googlepages.com/arithmeticdivisionsoflenght Arithmetic divisions of length (ADL)]

Shaahin mohajeri believes that 96-EDO is a good system for intervallic structure of Persian music with more accurate estimation than [http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/AliNaghi.htm ali naqi vaziri's] 24-EDO system. Now, He is working on a microtonal notation system based on 96-EDO for Persian music and on a model for tuning systems classification based on divisions of octavic or nonoctavic musical scales and systems.

Microtonalist [http://www.akjmusic.com/ Aaron krister johnson] in his interview with [http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/15-questions-to-aaron-krister-johnson/view tokafi] Called him as a very talented individuals from the Middle East.

Some of his tuning models is used in [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/references.html/ scala] , a powerful software tool for experimentation with musical tunings.He is also listed in [http://www.microtonal-radio.com/ 81/80] ,an internet radio dedicated to microtonal music.

References

* [http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/15-questions-to-aaron-krister-johnson/view 15 Questions to Aaron Krister Johnson]
* [http://www.iranhmusic.com/article.aspx?id=648 گزارشی از سخنرانی پژوهشی شاهین مهاجری و دكتر حسین عمومی در باره تمبك كوكی]

External links

* [http://240edo.googlepages.com Shaahin's homepage]
* [http://www.rhythmweb.com/gdg Shaahin's tombak music in Rhythmweb]
* [http://www.drumdojo.com/world/persia/tonbak_acoustics.htm Shaahin's notes on acoustics of tombak]
* [http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/f/farab.aspx Farab,an interval measurement unit for 144-EDO]
* [http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/i/iranian-segah-mode.aspx Iranian segah mode]
* [http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri Shaahins's Persian page in harmonytalk]
* [http://www.iranflamenco.com/8ko0.pdf ایقاع ووزن خوانی یادیاری]
* [http://acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com/home Shaahin's homepage on tombak acousticsoftombak.googlepages.com]
* [http://acousticsoftombak.blogfa.com روایتی برای تمبك]
* [http://www.harmonytalk.com/id/1069 گزارش نشست پژوهشی تنبک کوکی و نی کلیددار]
* [http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/audio&video Shaahin's tombak and tomdaf music in irandrumz]
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/references.html Shaahin in scala references]
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/scalesdir.txt Shaahin mohajeri's scales in the large collection of over 3700 scale files for Scala]
*Shaahin in xenharmonic wikispace: [http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/MicrotonalListeningList?#toc13 1] .... [http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/96edo 96EDO]
*Shaahin in Huygens-Fokker Foundation: [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/links.html#comp 1] .... [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/links.html#music 2] .... [http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html#S Tuning & temperament bibliography]
*Shaahin in list of microtonalist mentioned by john starrett in his Microtonal website: [http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jstarret/microtonalists.html 1] .... [http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jstarret/Listen.html 2]
* [http://www.nakedlight.co.uk/Links-00.htm Shaahin in Naked light]
* [http://www.microtonal-radio.com/ Shaahin in 81/80 microtonal radio]
* [http://irandrumz.googlepages.com/events 3rd International festival of percussions in catalunya , spain , Feb 2008]
*Shaahin's ADO tuning model mentioned in Ph.D. Thesis of Ozan Yarman: [http://www.ozanyarman.com/misc/Ozan_Yarman_tez.pdf 1]
* [http://irandrumz.googlepages.com Shaahin in irandrumz]