Ash Koosha Mudafossil

With the release of I AKA I on Ninja Tune, Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha – Synaesthete, virtual reality pioneer, software humanist, political cause celebre, former rock musician and student of classical music – unveils his new live show in the UK for the first time. In addition Ash will be conducting a TEDxOslo talk on 21st April about sound as objects.

Working closely with long-time visual collaborator Hirad Sab and Dalena Tran in an effort to see as he sees, Koosha brings his fractal and affecting sonics to life with an audio-visual performance incorporating virtual reality and other groundbreaking technologies. Mainly using his own field recordings, Koosha manipulates their form into original and often beautiful movements — a process he calls “finding geometry in sounds.” Live support to be announced.

Ash Koosha has also shared a new video for “Mudafossil,” which premiered during Adult Swim’s Toonami block this past Saturday night. Like Ash’s music, the video uses digital technology to warp and distort familiar images into more abstract forms, creating something strange and alluring in the process. The video was directed by Hirad Sab and Dalena Tran too.

On the video’s concept, Sab and Tran say, “‘Mudafossil’ follows the journey of the modern man in the course of transition from being to arbitrary completion. Inspired by Sufi teachings and the discipline of purification of inner self, Mudafossil portrays man through the esoteric path (tarîqât) towards mystical truth (haqiqa) and finally unio mystica (marifa) or the ultimate knowledge.”

Ash Koosha recently told Dazed, “We are merging with technology and it’s applied to us more than ever. On this album the concept is how I face a version of myself which is merged with technology and enhanced: is it a different entity, or is it me but improved? That’s why I called it I AKA I — it’s a mirrored version. Even though we’re gonna be more scientifically advanced, we’re gonna stay human beings. And we should stay human beings.”