Tanaz
Moddaber was born on February 9, 1981 in Teheran, Iran. She
studied architecture at the Rotterdamse Akademie van Bouwkunst
in 2006 and was awarded her Bachelor's degree in landscape
architecture in 2006 and a Master's degree in architecture in
2007 from the University of California in Berkeley, USA. Her
site-specific installations, studio
artworks and architectural projects have been influenced by
her training in westen and persian classical music. Her
sound performances include A Thousand Years of the
Shahnameh setar performance (Pergamon Museum, Berlin,
Germany, 2011), Harmony for Vanishing Points (Tokyo
Wonder Site and Tokyo Experimental Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 and
2014 respectively), A node's prosody.
Homecomings. (PROJECTIVE SPACE2, Berlin, Germany,
2015), Carillon (Lichthaus Arnsberg, Germany, 2016),
launch of her book Other Scales of Prosody (Ofr.
Galerie, Paris, France 2017) and Particles (Institut
für West-Östliche Musik, Berlin, Germany, 2020). Her piece Turmoil
is based on the design pictured below and was transcribed
for carillon by the Berlin carillonneur Jeffrey Bossin, who will play the
world premiere on November 11, 2022 at 4 p.m. on the
Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten.
