Sweet Spot. Lounge für elektroakustische Musik: LIMINA 2026 – Rojin Sharafi

Concert featuring works by Arda Saraçoğlu, Ieva Raubytė, Olga Krashenko and Robert Zbynek Wiesener.

This concert is curated by our guest artist Rojin Sharafi (IRN/AT).

Rojin Sharafi is a Tehran-born, Vienna-based sound artist, performer, and composer who fuses raw and abstract emotions with electronic elements that emulate acoustic sounds. Her distinctive musical language intertwines acoustic elements replicating electronic textures—and vice versa—resulting in a synthesis of resilient yet vulnerable and honest sonic expressions.

Using a mix of analog, acoustic, and augmented instruments alongside custom-designed digital tools, Sharafi gained recognition for her debut album Urns Waiting to be Fed, described by The Quietus as “one of [2019’s] most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music.” Following this success, she released Zangaar in 2020 and Kariz in 2021. In 2023, Sharafi and her band HUUUM published their debut album—an exploration of folk futurism.

The Wire described her latest album O.O.Orifice as “a record of pluralities and ruptures… Sharafi renders the cut a thrilling, variegated, mind and body activating place to inhabit,” while Boomkat praised it as “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.”

Sharafi’s music transcends established forms and conventions, venturing into uncharted electroacoustic cartographies. Disrupting hierarchies of rhythm, melody, and timbre, her compositions flow through mutating sounds, avoiding any predictable climax or conclusion. In this sonic journey, traces of traditional Iranian music subvert against metallic percussion, 8-bit particles, and nuanced textures, challenging logical canons and probing the unknown—without alienating the audience.

A cooperation of the Focus Area InterMediation. Music – Effect – Analysis / Inter-University OrganizationArts & Knowledges with the Contemporary Music Festival Limina 2026.

Event announcement Rojin Sharafi bei Limina 2026

For more information on the festival program, see: Contemporary Music Festival Limina

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The SWEET SPOT series is a forum for classical and brand new productions of electroacoustic music in Salzburg. Pieces from the genre are listened to and discussed together. Each concert is accompanied by a short introduction and an opportunity to exchange views on what has been heard.

Idea, technic and moderation of the series:

• Alexander Bauer (Composer, Organist | Electronic Music Studio (SEM), Mozarteum University Salzburg)
• Achim Bornhöft (Composer, Head of the Electronic Music Studio (SEM) | Mozarteum University Salzburg)
• Marco Döttlinger (Composer | Institute for contemporary music, Mozarteum University Salzburg)
• Martin Losert ( Instrumental music educator, Saxophonist, Head of the Department Music Education Salzburg, Head of the focus area InterMediation | Mozarteum University Salzburg)