Sound Artist + Experimental Musician + Performance Artist + Curator

• Lives and works in Bahrain.

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EDUCATION

• 2009 – 2011, University of Exeter (UK), Inst. of Arab & Islamic Studies, PhD Ethnomusicology.
• 2007 – 2009, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan), MA Economic History.
• 2005 – 2007, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan), Independent Research.
• 2000 – 2003, Drake University (Iowa, USA), BSBA Finance.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

• December 2011 - ‎‘___________ Music for an (In)Appropriate Time and Space’. ’Out of Space’ Art Exhibition at the Bahrain Financial Harbour. Live improvised electronic set. Manama, Bahrain.
• November 2011 – ‘Jasmine Fall Dance’. Al Riwaq Art Space. Video Art + Performance Art with Marisa Di Paola. Adliya, Bahrain.
• March 2011 _ ‘Space and Belonging’: improv.machine (+composition) number fourteen – a sound installation. Al Riwaq Art Space. Adliya, Bahrain. Group show.
• February 2011 _  ‘Shifting Sands’: A British Council Initiative. Cultural Hall. Group performance. Manama, Bahrain.
• January 2011 _ ‘Shifting Sands’: A British Council Initiative. Celtic Connections Music Festival. Group performance. Glasgow, UK.
• January 2011 _ ‘Improvisations’. Al Riwaq Art Space. Solo performance.  Adliya, Bahrain.
• December 2010 _ ‘What We Know About the City’ Intermedia Installation. Al Riwaq Art Space. Group Collaboration. Adliya, Bahrain.
• May 2010 _ ‘Midnite Sons’ Project/Elham Arts Festival. Bahrain Fort Museum. Group Performance.
• May 2010 _ ’Megamix 303’/Elham Arts Festival. Bahrain Fort Museum. Group Collaboration.
• March 2010 _ ‘Fexeter Tea Party Number 3.14…’. Exeter Music Scholars Performance. Improvised Group Performance. Exeter, UK.
• March 2010 _ Performance. Vibrophonic Festival. Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre. Solo performance. Exeter, UK.
• February 2010 _ Performances. Red Bull Music Academy. Various venues/events. Solo/Group performances. London, UK.
• November 2009 _ Performance. Le Club Bachraf Collaboration. La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art. Group performance. Manama, Bahrain.
• September 2009 _ ‘Liberated Piano’ Sound Sculpture/Instrument Construction.University of Exeter. Group Collaboration/Exhibition/Performance. Exeter, UK.
• May 2009 _ Speed Towerz/Elham Arts Festival. Bahrain Fort Museum. Bahrain.
• April 2005 – March 2009 _ Various Solo/Group performances. Tokyo, Japan.

RESIDENCIES

• February 2010 _ Red Bull Music Academy 2010. Participant. London.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS / LECTURES / CONFERENCES

• May 2011 _ Sonic Scheming: An Electronic Music Workshop. Al Riwaq Art Space.
• March 2011 _ Red Bull Music Academy: Bass Camp Beirut. Various venues. Beirut, Lebanon.
• January 2011 _ ‘Sound Jam’/Elham Arts Group. Al Riwaq Art Space.
• November 2010 _ ‘What if it were a Corpse? Recreating an Imaginary Oud’. University of London: Institute of Music Research. London, UK.
• May 2010 _ ‘Sonic Ink’: A Sound Art Workshop/Elham Arts Festival.
• March 2010 _ Flirting with Uncertainty: Improvisation in Performance. University of Exeter Sociology of the Arts.  Exeter, UK.
• September 2009 – Present _ Exeter Music Scholars Project. Exeter, UK.

DISCOGRAPHY

• ‘Childrens’ Sonic Infirmary’. Uncredited. Creative-Commons License EP. Release: TBA.
• Various Assets: Not for Sale. Red Bull Music Academy 2010. CD/EP. Released: June 2010. DOWNLOAD
• Manama and Other Spices. Hasan Hujairi. Creative-Common License EP. Released June 2009.http://hasanhujairi.com/music-for-download/

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS

• 2009 _ Music Scholarship. University of Exeter. Exeter, UK.
• 2009 _ Korean Literature Essay Contest Prize. London.
• 2005 – 2009 _ Monbusho Scholarship. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Tokyo, Japan.
• 2000 – 2003 _ Achievement Award. Drake University. Iowa, USA.

OTHER

• Co-founded ‘Children’s Sonic Infirmary’/’Midnite Sons’ new music collectives in Bahrain.
• Classically trained in guitar and oud.
• Involved in Electroacoustic / Acousmatic/ Experimental/ Improvisation / Intuitive music composition.
• Fluent in English, Arabic and Japanese.