Ars Electronica Festival · 2011
A Hidden Place
by Sohrab
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2011
Sohrab's “A Hidden Place” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
With _A Hidden Place_ context is everything and nothing. Sohrab is a Tehran-based musician whose sense of displacement and isolation within his own country is palpable across the six ambient pieces making up this release. He is both a product of his environment and a reaction against it.
About Sohrab
Sohrab (IR), born in Tehran in 1984, was seven when the Iran-Iraq war ended. His name, from an old poem called _Shahname_, means “rouge water”, which can also mean “blood”.
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