Short Bio
Rojin Sharafi is a Tehran-born, Vienna-based sound artist, composer, and performer working across electroacoustic music, noise, and experimental electronics. Her visceral sonic language blends analog, acoustic, and digital tools, exploring tension, rupture, and transformation. Praised by The Wire for her “thrilling, variegated” sound world, Sharafi’s latest album O.O.Orifice follows critically acclaimed releases including Urns Waiting to be Fed (2019), Zangaar (2020), and Kariz (2021). She also performs with the folk futurist ensemble HUUUM. Her work has been presented internationally, from London to New York, affirming her as a vital voice in experimental music.
Press
„Among this wave's most exciting new figures is Rojin Sharafi. The 23-year‑old's challenging interdisciplinary compositions experiment with narrative and structure, as in her Girih contribution, Pulp.“
“O.O.Orifice is a record of pluralities and ruptures… Sharafi renders the cut a thrilling, variegated, mind and body activating place to inhabit.” ....
“Sharafi’s compositions are immersive sound worlds where acoustic and electronic elements dissolve into one another, defying genre and expectation.”
“Rojin Sharafi, the Vienna‑based Iranian artist, led two of the strongest performances of the (Monheim Triennale) festival.”
“The music of Rojin Sharafi is uniquely mangled by its own logic … This is one of the most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music you’ll come across in 2019.”
ORF Ö1 Zeit-Ton (AT, January 2021)
„Die Uraufführung des Stückes ‚Taste It‘ von Rojin Sharafi war eines der Highlights beim ORF musikprotokoll … die sich … der ‚kulturellen Hegemonie, kulturellen Hybridität und dem kulturellen Überleben‘ widmete.“
“Tehran-born, Vienna-based artist Rojin Sharafi plays electroacoustic music that’s kinetic, complex, and grippingly powerful. … Looking like she’s spelunking in some post-apocalyptic future cave, her full set for ‘Urns Waiting to Be Fed’ represents a full-velocity array of colliding analog bubbles, waves of frequency, micro-fragments of string and percussion, … You get hyperactive rhythms and hybrid sound bent between the physical and virtual.”
“...it’s like dance music that’s lying in pieces… Textures sit at odds with one another, almost creating a sense of vertigo—weighty subs, tinny white noise, metallic textures, grainy piano.”
A surreal compound of frenetic lopsided rhythms, fiendish vocals and microtonal instrumental vamps … Grotesque and, at times, strangely beautiful, O.O.Orifice is a neat advancement of Sharafi’s compelling sonic language.”
„Roh und verfeinert, rau und träumerisch – ein Mix aus Noise, Folk, Ambient, Metal und zeitgenössischer Musik.“
“…bending the old into the contemporary, the local into the global, to mark out new terrain.”
„Kariz ... can be hydration for our musical souls.“