Soundscape
Available on SoundCloud
This project is a long-term and ongoing sonic journey that shifts the act of recording from image to listening. Sounds are captured in abandoned buildings, lesser-visited historical sites, semi-inhabited villages, cemeteries, and spaces where life once circulated. Through these residual environments, the work indirectly conveys a sensory impression of the land of Iran — not through representation, but through what remains after use.
At each site, only minimal information is registered:
an indistinct photograph of the place, the location’s name, GPS coordinates, and a single word describing the overall atmosphere. The audience does not add sound; what is heard belongs solely to the site at the moment of listening.
Each track is a reconstructed act — a performance recorded in the absence of the performer. The artist is present only as a listener; there is no intervention. The sound remains after; the performer does not.
Inspired by the narrative logic of One Thousand and One Nights, the project unfolds as an open-ended sequence of echoes: wind moving through stone, distant footsteps, air circulating across empty courtyards, and the residual hum of places that have outlived their stories. Each recording stands alone, yet together they form a sonic atlas of absence.
1001 Echoes is not a documentation of events, but a sonic register of loss —
an atlas of sites where memory persists without spectacle,
and where listening becomes a way of inhabiting what is no longer there.
Listen: SoundCloud — Soundgraphy: Echoes of a Thousand and One Nights