Parisa Sabet: Community and Social Change Through Music

Welcome to the Bedroom Studios Podcast, the podcast where we talk about what goes on behind the scenes in a musician’s world, and bridge the industry gap by bringing their stories, expertise, and advice to early-career artists! Subscribe to join us for a fun chat about life as a creative person, tips and tricks for pursuing an artistic career, navigating the music industry, and more! I am your host Emma Della Rossa, and today I will be interviewing Parisa Sabet.

Dr. Sabet is a composer of electroacoustic, acoustic, and film music. Her most recent interdisciplinary work, Silent, was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in Toronto. Blue Girl is another of her recent works: honoring the stories of women who self-immolate as a form of protest against domestic violence and forced marriage. Presented at the 2020 virtual Nuit Blanche Festival, it was recognized by Now Toronto magazine as a “Stellar Highlight” of that year’s arts scene. 

In her academic work, Dr. Sabet focuses on Persian culture, and the synthesis of Western and Persian musical languages. In 2013, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada supported her study of a Persian folk dance, Čūb-Bāzī (“dance with sticks”). Although banned in Iran, the dance is still secretly performed: her orchestral composition, Those Still Dancing, arose from her findings. As an educator, her current research-creation project, No Need to Vanish, focuses on developing, designing, and producing contemporary learning resources that are practical, accessible and innovative for musicians from diverse personal and educational backgrounds. 

Her debut album, A Cup of Sins, was released on August 26, 2022. With funding from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, the recording includes a variety of her acoustic and electroacoustic works, all of which address issues of human rights, persecution, oppression, violence against women, and freedom of speech. 

Dr. Sabet earned a Doctor of Musical Arts, a Master of Music in composition, and a Master of Music Technology and Digital Media from the University of Toronto. 

Playlist: Guest Music Recommendations 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WblcUhf8fHq7mHX991Uco?si=e7f7bd25b792454f&nd=1&dlsi=27fdc6aa79b94eea 

Playlist: Song Spotlight

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aIirWwHreaYPP6Dl3AMlo?si=ec231ecaa3dc4937 

Connect with Parisa Sabet

Website: https://www.parisasabet.com/ 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6rc6com31lupeITVtURa2w?si=FlwgcIt8R_GfFmcVtot4rw 

No Need to Vanish - Music Technology Education Platform: https://www.youtube.com/@NoNeedtoVanish 

Connect with Emma Della Rossa

https://beacons.ai/emmadellarossa 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44sj7pOFxKg3igllNThHVg 

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