Somayeh Farzaneh @ Internet

There are always moments for me that I can not physically bear,
feelings that come from so deep inside,
when you are seeing yourself fully bare as a human with all complicated and unknown inside feelings,
moments which for me will be bearable a little bit by my art,
but exactly there, where you think that you are understanding something or you are discovering something unknown you would suddenly feel stuck,
not any more step forward!

There, only music can bring me light to see a little bit further of that deep and endless non-discovery being someone you call it ME!

Music as one of the impermanent forms of art has brought me some of my most interesting journeys I had through art ever. I do remember well that in some period of my challenging through art, any kind of music would disturb me, either by containing too many unneeded expression, or since what has been expressed there had been told the same way so long ago ever with a better quality ... but discovering music itself through Arvo Pärt was a total new discovery. While listening to it I would become deeply involved but in a complete opposite way ... means I would not get involved because of expressive music or some thing like that. The music has been told inside me just that much pure that it appears as a most effective pure filter for the human soul.

One day, on 7th June 2010 I gained this great chance to see Arvo Pärt himself in Istanbul for his concert ... how miraculously my partner and I found the ticket. Seeing the concert conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste and existence of Arvo Pärt was a unique experience for me.

Light and intensive, that is how he does look like! ... seems that he is not from this planet, his beautiful movement with is wife and other people impressed me, looking at him seems to me hearing what he composes.
Like a short poem - as if wind was blowing in all his being. I could not approach him and say how is it great to have such a different composer and how much I am thankful for moments that his spiritual music helped my soul to fly more safe and more easily.
Now I was seeing him in a beautiful church called Hagia Irene or Hagia Eirene - the most simple and beautiful one that I have ever seen. It has a wonderful harmony with Pärt's work and place. Mean while I should mention that I am not a musician or an art critics. I am sharing what I am gaining from music as an artist.
In the first piece I find a very familiar restless feeling which normally would lead me to new discovery of my side with a wider view. I have been experiencing this feeling once before through music by our contemporary composer Hossein Alizadeh in his Ney nava album. The universal restless in these two experiences increased my appreciation towards music as an amazing means for communication.

What I have gained from that night is just hard to describe, what I find fascinating was that this creation of Arvo Pärt amazed me by expanding something like one word or something like a very sensitive sense in the universe which expresses in a very gentle style or facing you with what you have inside and you do just not meet it more often unless you invite it consciously and look after it properly. The unity among the choir and instruments - which sometimes would change their roles.