featuring performances by:
Siamak Shajarian, Vocals
Kate St-Pierre, Vocals
Keyavash Nourai, Violin
Dmitri Mahlis, Oud
Satnam Ramgotra, Tabla and Percussion
Shahrokh Yadegari’s Tower Sounds, a groundbreaking multi-channel sound piece and composition, interweaves traditional Jewish and Islamic music, poetry, and song, combined with state of the art electronic compositional structures and stunning live performances by the highly acclaimed Persian vocalist Siamak Shajarian, and performers Kate St. Pierre, Vocals; Keyavash Nourai, Violin; Dimitri Mahlis, Oud; and Satnam Ramgotra, Tabla, Percussion.
Originally curated by Lawrence Rinder, now the director of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, for the Magnes Museum where the piece originated as Through Music, a sound installation in 2007, Tower Sounds extends the work of Rinder's grandfather, Cantor Reuben R. Rinder (1887-1966), The cantor of Congregation Emanu El in San Francisco from 1915 to 1959.
Ann Hamilton’s Tower is an eight-story high tower with a double-helix staircase, created over a 12 year span by Ann Hamilton with Jensen Architects and completed in 2007. Audience members disperse along the staircase and find seats within the open nooks of the tower walls. For those ambitious enough to climb the 124 steps to the top, magnificent views of Oliver Ranch and the Alexander Valley unfold below.
This is a unique opportunity to visit the Ann Hamilton Tower, which is rarely open to the public, and to witness a one of kind performance created especially for this space.
"Ann Hamilton’s Tower is a sacred space," says Shahrokh Yadegari, "When you come to the Tower, you instantly realize that you have walked into a sound world with amazing visual symmetries. You become detached from the outside and begin to listen to the voices of your inner being. The acoustics are truly unique and bring a special life to any music that is played there."
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