Rojin Sharafi - O.O.Orifice (2024)

O.O.Orifice is the fourth album by Vienna-based Iranian sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi. This work explores the space of in-between — the distance of before and after as it pertains to a life-altering event - the moment that creates a cut. This cut, this fracture, this wound is something that reopens now and then. It calls to you, asking to be heard, smelled, and felt. The cut creates a new space. An in-between space that disrupts the unity of order. A space with an origin all to its own—not inside, not outside; neither full nor empty. It is nameless until you discover it and give it a name. It creates coordinates that challenge your perception, and this is what this work strives to do. O.O.Orifice follows a common thread, allowing for different stories to be told with a focus on the cut. Analog synthesizers, microtonal acoustic and digital instruments, scattering rhythms and poetry converge to form a narrative about love and attraction, psychoanalysis, internalized shame, language and its complexities, loss of home, and rejection. 
 Each track has characters that shape its subplot through color and texture, with events and atmospheres that either complete the story or alter its initial direction. And what ties all these stories together is orifice—the space in between, the gateway, an opening that is both pain and, simultaneously, a channel flowing into depth—the part beyond the pain. Each cut left a mark on your body, on my body, and screams not to be forgotten.