Jean-Francois Charles

On April 16, 2026, we performed with Ramin Roshandel (the Jamshid Jam duet) new music to an excerpt from Lotte Reiniger 's film The Adventures of Prince Achmed . Here is the live recording: This performance was a first step towards the creation of a complete soundtrack for the 65-minute movie as a trio (Ramin Roshandel, Nicolas Sidoroff, and myself). One of the next steps consisted in the creation of a kind of storyboard for the movie: To be continued...

Tonight at 5:30pm, Ramin Roshandel and I, i.e. the Jamshid Jam duet, are playing new music to an excerpt of Lotte Reiniger 's wonderful movie The Adventures of Prince Achmed , at the invitation of film and media historian Michael Cowan and the organisers. Come if you are available! If not, stay tuned: we are working on more music for this film! To be continued...

Monday, October 6, 7:30pm, Voxman Building, Opera Studio My colleague professor Matthew Arndt emcees the first of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics. As he says: " Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future. " I am thrilled that Matthew Arndt invited me to curate the second part of the evening with compositions of mine. I am also thrilled that brilliant minds and artists from Iowa City are joining me on stage! Program Matthew Arndt presents the première of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by Auden Lincoln-Vogel. Legit , for trombone & live electronics, with Jonathan Allen Jamshid Jam & guest, for setar & live electronics with guest spoken word artist, with Ramin Roshandel and Jhe Russell Première of Montagne Pelée , for solo baritone saxop...

The Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik is a prestigious non-profit organization dedicated to awarding prizes to the best new releases in recorded music. I am thrilled to see that our album Tenebrae was nominated for the Quarterly Critic's Choice in the category Electronic & Experimental Music . Check the complete list of nominees in all 32 categories .

Over the years, I've been blessed to make music with incredible artists. Today, I am thrilled to annouce the release of the Tenebrae album , created in collaboration with eleven unique musicians and poets. Tenebrae by Jean-François Charles The album is a 21st century reverberation of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae responsories . Like the ship on the album’s cover, the music is suspended between the physical and the spiritual world. Two poetic bonus tracks, La bête and The sea , invite to meditate further on the place of life on planet Earth. First nocturne On the Mount of Olives , with Ramin Roshandel, setar Ramin Roshandel and I created the Jamshid Jam duet in December 2019. We released Jamshid Jam as an album and performed it across the United States. Together, we have also played soccer, enjoyed Persian food, and listened to a lot of music while traveling. Sorrowful is my soul , with Nicolas Sidoroff, trumpet & objects As students, ">Nicolas Sidoroff an...

When we performed at the Stanley Museum of Art, there was quite a bit of ambient noise. This pushed us to create music like we had never made together yet. Especially, the second part of the concert ended with an incredible constellation of sonic stars . Here is the video: You could already listen to the first part of the concert .

Ramin Roshandel and I were invited to perform for the release party of the book In a Time of Witness - the event took place on September 22, 2023. We were super excited to play for the first time as the Jamshid Jam duet at the Stanley Museum of Art. Plus, we were super lucky that Negar Soufi showed up with two cameras and her friend from Cinematic Arts Malik Ford . Here is the first part of the concert: If you like the music, have a look at our Jamshid Jam Tiny Desk Contest video !

September 8: theory & musicology colloquium, University of Iowa. Thank you colleagues, and Sarah Suhadolnik for the pictures! September 11: University of Nebraska, Omaha. Thank you music technologist Seth Shafer ! September 12: Iowa State University, Ames. Thank you astromusicologist Ritwik Banerji ! September 15: Impromptu Fest, High Concept Labs, Chicago. Thank you pianist and composer Amy Wurtz , pianist Marianne Parker , composer Ben Zucker , cellist Alyson Berger , photographer Andy Yau for the pictures, and everyone at New Music Chicago! September 22: Stanley Museum of Art , University of Iowa. Thank you curator of learning & engagement Kimberly Datchuk, and everyone at the Stanley - we love this museum! We hope to see you today at the Stanley, 6:30-8pm!

From the Jamshid Jam duet archives: an excerpt from our Englert Theatre 2021 show . Studio album: jamshidjam.com

Moxsonic Festival , Warrensburg, MO, March 18: TURN UP Festival , Tucson, AZ, March 25 SEAMUS Festival & Conference , New York City, DiMenna Center for Classical Music , April 7: Jamshid Jam: Ramin Roshandel (setār) & Jean-François Charles (live electronics)

The Jamshid Jam duet features Ramin Roshandel on setār and Jean-François Charles on live electronics. Here is an excerpt of our Iowa City October 2022 concert .

Update: check out the Jamshid Jam album, featuring Ramin Roshandel on setār and Jean-François Charles on live electronics . A Form By Which To Be Possessed is an exhibition of new works by the BOLT artist-in-residence Maryam Taghavi . You are invited to the closing reception: Saturday, November 13, 6 pm Chicago Artists Coalition, 2130 W. Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612 Ramin Roshandel and I are going to perform a duet setar & live electronics. We are going to respond to the art, and perform with Shams Asna (voice & spoken text). We hope to see you there!