Roshi Nasehi: Women Make Music

‘Get Connected’ is a new project engaging and connecting excluded young people aged 13-18 through hands-on music-making. Sound Connections will work with 60 young people in the most deprived wards of three outer London boroughs — Bromley, Hounslow and Redbridge.

Roshi Nasehi is highly experienced musician who will lead the project in Hanworth Youth Centre, Hounslow. She will support the young people on developing their composition, improvisation and performance skills, and also have the opportunity to develop her own work alongside the work of the young people. There will also be three emerging artists who will work-shadow Roshi and the other artists in the first phase, and co-lead the project in the second phase.

Roshi Nasehi is a Welsh born singer-composer of Iranian parentage with a track record in live performance, collaboration, recording and workshops. Her experimental interpretations of the Iranian songs she grew up listening to and genre-busting original material have won her significant airplay (BBC Radio 3, 6 Music, RTE) and widespread acclaim including “a beguilingly unclassifiable mix of traditional roots and crunchy avant-garde sound effects and beats” The Independent (4 Stars), “an original creative voice” Songlines, and twice experimental record of the month in Mixmag, who described her as “one of the most singular voices working at the moment.”

A visiting tutor at Goldsmiths, she has led projects for many organisations including Sing Up, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Kith and Kids, and commissions include BBC Radio 3, So & So Circus Theatre and Birds Eye View, for whom she created a live score to Mary Pickford’s 1918 feature, Amarilly Of Clothes Line Alley as part of the Southbank 2012 WOW festival. In November 2013, Roshi received a British Council/Sound And Music commission to present a participatory Sound Art work in Kuwait in 2014.