audiovisual
And the lover rebuilt his memories inside the machine, to drown within them and the machine fell in love.
Fresh Figs is built around the idea of how a computer might remember what once belonged to a human memory broken, incomplete, and emotionally charged. The piece moves between sound and image, exploring the thin line where human feeling meets machine interpretation.
The visuals were created using TouchDesigner and Blender, and the music was formed through several short experimental electronic pieces that gradually merge into one audiovisual flow. Every stage of the work from composition and sound design to video editing was done by the composer.
The material includes both self-recorded sounds and visuals, as well as transformed fragments from existing media sources such as:
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000, Jonas Mekas)
- La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
- Ai Eshgh Ai Eshgh (Ahmad Shamlou)
- Khaakestari (Mohammad-Ebrahim Jafari)
- Sepideh – Shahram Nazeri, Mohammadreza Lotfi & Sheyda Ensemble
- Radif Avazi (Mahmoud Karimi)
- The Radif of Mirza Abdollah (Dariush Talai)
- Moamaye Hasti – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian & Mohammadreza Lotfi
- Taknavazi Setar (Kayvan Saket)
- Setar Improvisation in Bayat-e-Esfahan (Mohammad-Reza Lotfi)
Although the idea behind Fresh Figs comes from the connection between human memory and artificial perception, the work expresses this relationship through its sounds and images rather than explanation.