Parham Ghalamdar and Kaveh Soory

Medium: Cassette Tape

Size: 102 x 64 x 13mm

“Post-Pandemic Hungover” is a collaborative multi-media project by Kaveh Soory and Parham Ghalamdar to stage and perform the sounds of existentialist crises. The sounds are recorded in four corners of the MCR including the Huddersfield Road, Heaton Park, Manchester Airport JetParks, Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Prime Pizza Ltd (New Moston), and the artists’ private studios during the National Lockdown and the post-lockdown abnormalities.

The sounds presented articulate the experience of selected places in Manchester through the convergence of sound, site, and performance. The result is an immersive and affective experience of the spaces, protocols, and situations encompassing the stimulating of the unique urban Manchester. Together with the field recordings are layers of live performance using custom-built instrumentation to produce a unique series of characters, musical cycles, noises, and reverberations phenomena. The application of tension and pressure upon the assorted instruments recalls the distressing state of highly specialized infrastructure found within the perimeters of MCR spaces such as the Stockport Air Raid Shelter and Manchester Airport JetParks. Such spaces comprise many types and volumes of prefabricated space. In dialogue with this are the unique spaces used to record the instrumental performance. By merging different spaces “Post-Pandemic Hungover” brings into focus various industrial resonances, spatial characteristics, timbres of metal and concrete, and sonic artifacts produced by hard and permeable materials and surfaces.

Artist Biography

Parham Ghalamdar

Parham Ghalamdar is a painter and animator based in MCR. He is specialized in oil painting with a background in graffiti and public art. He studied MA Painting at Manchester School Of Art. Since the National Lockdown in 2020 he has been expanding his painting practice into the digital by making stop-motion animations and AI-generated works.

Parham is a recent recipient of Art Council Of England Project Grant and Innovate Grant quarterly fund. He was longlisted for John Moores Prize 2019, Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021, UK New Artist Of The Year 2021. He is also shortlisted for Gilchrist Fisher Award 2022 and Emerging Art Scene Prize 2021. Website

Kaveh Soory

Kaveh Soory is a Performance-Driven and Creative Music Composer with various successful tracks for podcasts, short films, adverts, animations, video arts, Pop/Rock music. A designer of original sounds and videos Tailored for any type of Multimedia. He holds BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology from University Of Salford.

Kaveh’s recent album “Situation Number One”, which is consisted of soundtracks for an animation under the same title, was released by the underground Industrial Coast label. He has also been working on various projects for BBC Art and BBC Radio as a sound recordist, Musician, and Foley artist. Website

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Photography by studio member Bridget Coderc