Khamoosh is a participatory artistic research project that mediates conservation and
restoration by exploring the sonic heritage of Iran through recorded sounds of everyday life;
sounds less heard or even silenced. This process-based project aims to build an interactive
archive of sounds and to exchange, resurrect and decolonize these sounds using artistic
methods.

Khamoosh is focused on an aspect of Iranian sonic heritage that is less explored and
acknowledged compared to the more commonly investigated traditions of music — i.e.,
related to instruments and poetry. In other words, as we mentioned, the aim of Khamoosh is to
foreground the sounds less heard and less documented within their cultural contexts. Such
sounds represent and embody time, the local lore, cultural practices of the vernacular, and
ecologies, many of which are created outside of musical frameworks. Better yet, the focus of
this project is a space of listening in which the boundaries between music and other sounds
are blurred.

read full proposal and visit the project's website