11/14/2025
Tune in tomorrow (Saturday 11/15) for a new episode of “The Radio Art Hour” — airing at 5am and 3pm!
TPNY Memory (2013) is a Hörspiel composed by Jean-Jacques Palix based on an original libretto by Leyli Daryoush. The play, through a three-act narrative, draws on the interplay of three languages—Farsi, French, and English—to convey the floating reminiscences of a young Iranian woman through time and space. The play is set in three cities—Tehran, Paris, and New York—and we are carried as listeners through a set of traveling and shifting memories. TPNY Memory was first broadcast on France Culture with support from Beaumarchais - SACD and Radio France.
Jean-Jacques Palix is a composer for stage, archivist, rare music enthusiast, and sound hunter. Since his work as a charter member in the early 1980’s with the experimental Radio Nova in Paris, he has collaborated on contemporary dance performances, exhibitions, films, video, events, and fashion shows. In 1992, Palix founded an independent record label, publishing records with David Coulter, Eve Couturier, Jeff Rian, and Vincent Segal, among other. He regularly gives lectures and conducts concerts, noise events, and sound installations in fine arts and architecture schools.
Of Iranian origin, Leyli Daryoush was born in Tehran and lives in Paris. She has long split her time between Paris and Tehran. A musicologist by training, she is interested in contemporary opera and American minimalism. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2004 - 2007. She holds a doctorate in Theatre Studies from the Sorbonne. Since 2009 Daryough’s practice has focused on dramaturgy and writing.
Vocal and instrumental musicians featured in TPNY Memory: Vincent Ségal, Karima Nayt, Carol Robinson, Eve Couturier, and Niaz Nawab.
