Cyrus Shahrad is a human of many talents: musician, novelist, journalist, and film critic. His work has appeared in a range of publications, from the New Statesman to the Telegraph to Google’s Think Quarterly. His novel The White World won the Telegraph's novel of the year competition in 2006.
Cyrus lives in London, where he makes music under the moniker Hiatus. It is that music that brought us together. His compositions are lush and cinematic, weaving live instrumentation and vocals into atmospheric digital soundscapes. Over the past decade, his songs have personally provided me with a container for grief, joy, love, and loss as I've navigated what it is to be a human of integrity and purpose. To listen to Hiatus is to be transported.
Not only are you going to hear some of Cyrus’s music on this episode, but you're also going to hear from the human himself: an artist in process, working at the creative precipice. In a society that commodifies almost everything, we explore what it is to stay true to ourselves, create something beautiful and meaningful, and bring our gifts into the world.
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EPISODE #12 NOTES
David Lynch
DJ Shadow
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
DJ Ben Klock
Faraz Eshghi Sahraei
The Kamancheh, a traditional Iranian stringed instrument
The Pandemic is Portal by Arundhati Roy
Bani Adam by Saadi Shirazi
SONGS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE BY HIATUS
Precipice
Turbine
Becoming
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