Recordings & Videos
Récitation 11, Georges Aperghis
This is an excerpt from a program at Taos Chamber Music Group, curated by Chatter. It took place on January 11, 2025.
Socrate, Erik Satie
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Portrait de Socrate ("Portrait of Socrates")
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Les bords de l'Ilissus ("The banks of the Ilissus")
Tara Khozein, soprano
Judith Gordon, piano
This is an excerpt from a program at Taos Chamber Music Group, curated by Chatter. It took place on January 11, 2025.
Tara Khozein & Rhonda Taylor: Amuse-Bouches (2025)
This is a mini album of our favorite moments from a free improvisation session from February 2023 in Las Cruces, NM. It's a document of our musical collaboration that day as well as a celebration of our friendship and deep regard for each other.
Mixed and mastered by Rhonda Taylor.
Kat and the Devil: Satyre (2025)
This is the first half of a fully-improvised concert at Jedermann Budapest making use of the lightly-edited first chapter of The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers. The concert took place on March 26th, 2025.
Tara Khozein (text & vocals)
Oli Mayne (vibes)
Ernő Hock (double bass)
Szilveszter Miklós (drums)
Video Documentation: Daniel Sipos
Concert curator: Gábor Boskovics
Tara Khozein & Thea Soti: Live at Lumen (2024)
This is a selection of pieces from a fully improvised concert on "Free the Music" series in 2023. This recording is also available as an online album as the 14th part of Prepost Records' "Prepost Pirate Live Series".
Tara Khozein, voice
Thea Soti, voice & electronics
Audio & video recording mixed, edited & mastered by Dávid Tamás PAP.
SoundFishing (2024)
This is an excerpt from SoundFishing, a voyeuristic public space concert for Budapest-based improvising musicians. It was co-directed by myself and Martin Boross and was produced by the Stereo Akt theater company.
More information about the show can be found here.
The performer-creators are:
Samu Gryllus, bass
Tara Khozein, voice
Katalin Ladik, voice
Rozi Máko, electronics
Áron Porteleki, percussion
Voland Székely, percussion
Kat and the Devil: Cats, Witches, Devils (2023)
Kat and the Devil is a quintet of improvising classical and jazz musicians where I sing and speak using prewritten texts based around an author or theme. Our performances are often funny, melodic, pan-idiomatic, surprising, and theatrical. Our previous programs include Witches, Basho, James Joyce, Hallucinogens, communing with the dead, and Architecture. Our first project (and our namesake) comes from James Joyce's short story "The Cat and the Devil". Here are some excerpts from our first performance as a quintet.
Hostage Opera/Geiseloper (2021-23)
Hostage Opera, by Samu Gryllus is a documentary, semi-improvised, participatory opera using projection, recitativo storytelling, and conducted improvisation. The performance places the audience in a situation where they can experience the humanity, absurdity, and tragedy of the story firsthand, by collectively giving voice to both the young hostages and hostage takers.
Cicaverzum (2023)
I wrote the lyrics and recorded the main theme for Rozalia Szeleczki's debut feature film, Cicaverzum with an original score composed by Ádám Citrom. The lyrics in the song include a secret pun that no one knows about except for me. If you find it, send me a message!
ONCE WITHIN A TIME (2022)
Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career: a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one, tinged with apocalyptic comedy, rapturous cinematography, unforgettable vistas, and the innocence and hopes of a new generation. Featuring an original score by Philip Glass and Sussan Deyhin with additional vocals by Tara Khozein, edited by Jon Kane, and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and Alexander Rodnyansky.
KHHH (2022)
An ad hoc quartet plays fully improvised music. This is the full performance, recorded live at Budapest's Lumen Cafe on April 26th, 2022.
Tara Khozein - vocals
Péter Hárságyi - drums
Ernő Hock - bass
Nándor Hevesi - guitar, synth
Audio & video recording, mixing, editing & series production - Dávid Tamás Pap
PAP Prepost Records / Monkey Business Productions
Iterations
(Unsilent Desert Press. 2021)
Iterations is the (mostly) unedited documentation of a single session of duets of Carlos Santistevan (upright bass) and Tara Khozein (voice) recorded on Friday June 25th, 2021, in Santa Fe, NM. We made these sounds, thinking very often of our common friend and mentor, J.A. "Dino" Deane, who took his final exit shortly after we made this recording. 2 humans, 2 microphones, 1 instrument, 1 voice. 16 Iterations.
she is patient or panning for gold (2021)
This is the video documentation of a Voice-Theatre work created for Holly Grimm’s Aikphrasis. The work is a response to a poetic text, which artist Holly Grimm created, using an AI text-generator.
The Tara & Rhonda Show (2018 & 2017)
This is the video documentation of two years of text-based scores written by and for the Tara & Rhonda Show with Rhonda Taylor (saxophones) and Tara Khozein (voices).
Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return (2016)
These are works created for use in Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I provided the vocal recordings. I am not credited as an artist on Meow Wolf's website, and they instead credit me as a "volunteer" even though I was an employee. This might be because I was part of a class action law suit against them in 2019, where 3 other people and I sued them for unfair termination and discriminatory practices. Here are two pieces that I still like, and that I still feel proud of, along with much of the other work I did while I worked there.
Beamspace Finale feat. Tara KhozeinMI & Kevin Zoernig
Beamspace Ambient feat. Tara KhozeinMi & Kevin Zoernig
Garden Project (Chris Jonas. 2015)
Garden is Chris Jonas' three chapter series of live music-driven intermedia performance/installations developed over 5 years that use linear-immersive media (live music, installation, transparent screens and projected video) to explore expressive, atmospheric, metaphoric, psychological and cross-cultural realms of place, night time and the intersection of the human and natural environment.
*No vocal sounds were notated for the two vocalists, although formal and aesthetic instructions were provided by Jonas.
