Laudan NooshinFeb 8, 2022THE SOUNDS OF POLISH TEHRAN By Laudan Nooshin Introduction: The Jolly Boys in Tehran In August 1939, a Polish-Jewish dance band by the name of ‘The Jolly Boys’...
Laudan NooshinAug 11, 2021Guest blog. The Noise of Tehran, by Payam Pilvar and Hosein FouladchiA Field Recording Project about the Noise Pollution of Tehran Researchers: Payam Pilvar and Hosein Fouladchi Like cities the world over,...
Laudan NooshinJul 22, 2021GUEST BLOG. 'TOMORROW': 24 hours in the life of tehran, by Mohsen Nourani VIDEO BLOG: COMPOSER FOCUS ‘TOMORROW’, 24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF TEHRAN As part of a series of blog posts exploring how composers have...
Laudan NooshinJun 21, 2021HedieH:Tehran’s Unsounded PoeticSTen minutes into Tehran, I have my first encounter with Hafez. I bring it upon myself by asking the taxi driver about poetry. It’s all...
Laudan NooshinMay 11, 2021GUEST BLOG. NaqqAreh-khAneh: Sonic Time Signifier Sonic Tehran is delighted to present our first guest blog, written by Mohsen Mohammadi A band of naqqareh-khaneh; albumen print; Stephen...
Laudan NooshinApr 16, 2021DOOR KNOCKERs: THE SOUNDS OF PATRIARCHYTHE GENDERED SOUNDSCAPE A particularly intriguing aspect of the traditional architecture of Tehran (and other Iranian cities) are the...
Laudan NooshinMar 24, 2021'More Than Just the Sounds of Traffic': The Petro-Sonics of TehranIran’s first oil well, Masjed Soleyman (source https://sites.evergreen.edu/ccc/energy-foreign/the-nationalization-of-iranian-oil/) Oil...
Laudan NooshinFeb 14, 2021resounding the historical cityPanoramic view of Tehran. Old steel engraved antique print Published in L’Univers La Perse, 1841, M. Louis Dubeux...
Laudan NooshinFeb 1, 2021Beginnings: Stories, Sound and Belonging#sonictehran Standing on a flat rooftop in north Tehran on a summer’s evening I am immersed in sound: the strains of the call to prayer...