NORO-36 The Socialite: Three Parts To An Unending Anecdote by Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros. Live album consisting of music from different locations, time, and aesthetic. The album is thematically based on a revolving never ending anecdote about a Three-Legged Cat known by Alan S. Tofighi, and obtrusive story telling. Track 1 and 2 recorded…
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Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros present Six Occult Visions (For Self-Amputation) Live at the DA Center For the Arts Pomona
8.1.2014 Six Occult Visions (For Self-Amputation) is the First Completed Film of Artist/Composer/performer/occultist/experimental animator Alan S. Tofighi. bringing together a multitude of mediums SOVFSA is a semi autobiographical film related to experiences, research, and experiments in the occult from approximately 1998-2014.
Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros Live August 1 2014
August 1, at the DA Center for the arts Pomona. Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros will perform an improvised set of electroacoustic music and film score. “Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros (https://www.facebook.com/Nouroboros)–Obscure young composer from CalArts using modular synths, prepared guitars, and Yuri Landman instruments. Explores many esoteric theories, microtonality, and electroacoustic elements. Punk and…
NORO-35 Twins – Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros Octet II-III
NORO-35 Twins is a Live Documentaion of Nouroboros Octet II and III which performed respectively at COC Elektronika Festival on June 4, 2014 and Young Composers Conference II June 14, 2014. NOROCTET II featured Aleatoric Music in which the performers were instructed to have stylistic shifts that would occur during five sequences of randomly calibrated…
NORO-34 Phalanxes – Alan S. Tofighi & Francisco Marin
NORO-34 Phalanxes by Alan S. Tofighi & Francisco Marin,Is the First Meeting of the minds between Alan S. Tofighi of Nouroboros and Francisco Marin of Pure Shit processed through indeterminacy immediacy, improvisation, and temperature. Working with new instruments and random tunings, these recordings demonstrate the natural force of improvisation that has been essential in both performers…
NORO-32 Non Partial Flame – Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros
NORO-32 Non Partial Flame by Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros, is an album exploring the microtonal textures of the Whopper three stringed instrument built by Yuri Landman. A dry signal accompanied by a mixed and overt delay signal compromise the bulk and non synchronistic rhythm of the composition. An exploration and interpretation on the twin…
NORO-31 The Heel Is the Ball – Nouroboros
NORO-31 The Heel Is The Ball, is the debut Solo Album by Nouroboros. Exploring Modular Synthesis, as well as digital and Electroacoustics, this is an album demonstrating the aspect of Space in notes and rhythm. A Narrative studying Achilles for a Post Achilles world, as well as the underlying synchronicity between accident and heroism. Synthesis…
Album a Month Release: December- “Two Does Not Equal Eight” by Nouroboros Octet
The latest installment of the AAMR for the month of December is NORO-30 “Two Does Not Equal Eight” by the Nouroboros Octet. Recorded Live December 7, at the COC Electronic Music Presentation Alan S. Tofighi Leads the Nouroboros Quartet through his aleatoric piece “Adrenalin in Five Stages” conducting musicians with Hourglass Sand Timers. The second performance of…
Alan S. Tofighi & The Nouroboros Octet Live
From the Desk of Alan S. Tofighi “For my electronic music final, I have decided to create the electroacoustic colossus that will be the Nouroboros Octet (or double quartet if I want to reference Ornette) I will have 15 mins. of music varying from aluminum neck guitar, analog synthesis, DIY synth, prepared instruments rolling chairs,…
NORO-29 The Crunch EP – Nouroboros
NORO-29 The Crunch EP, is a work of various instruments processed through the program Logic. Compilation of efforts by Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros. Conceptually based on the many impossibly varied tasks based around leaving and or entering the mouth. Ingestion, Expulsion, insertion, exhalation, and growth are some of the based sounds. Nouroboros- Gakken SX-150,…