Basir Mahmood, with Davíð Brynjar Franzson, one of the leading Icelandic composers of his generation currently resides in New York. “David Brynjar Franzson : Sound Over Sight” is from a series of documentaries titled “One’s Vocabulary”, outcome of an informal conversation between the two during their stay at Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart Germany in 2012. -- Davíð Brynjar Franzson, composers, currently resides in New York. His works have been premiered by ensembles such as the the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, Elision, Ensemble Surplus, Avanti!, eighth blackbird, Yarn/Wire, Either/Or, the Mivos Quartet and loadbang. His music has been performed at festivals such as Transit, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Ultraschall, Maerz Musik, Musika Nova, Nordic Music Days, Dark Days of Music in Reykjavik, and at the Internationals Musikinstitute Darmstadt, where he received a Stipendiumpreiz in 2008. In 2009, il Dolce far Niente received first prize at the music 09 competition. In 2010, a Guide for the Dead through the Underworld, a one hour long collection of works, was staged at the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin by Ensemble Adapter. franzson/ -- Basir Mahmood (b. 1985 Lahore, Pakistan) studied in Lahore at the Beaconhouse National University, and received a yearlong fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011. In order to engage with situations around him, he ponders upon embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary, as well as his personal milieu. Using video, film or photograph, Mahmood weaves various threads of thoughts, findings and insights into poetic sequences and various forms of narratives. Since 2011, his works has been widely shown, including: The Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia, 2012; Inaugural Show, Broad Museum, Michigan State University, 2012; Asia Pacific Triennial (APT 7) at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2012; Sharjah Biennial 11. (2013); At Intervals at Cooper Gallery Project Space, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 2014; and Des hommes, des mondes at college des bernardins, Paris, 2014. basirmahmood/
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