photo Alexis Rodriguez Cancino                                                                                                                                                 costume Synneve Goode

Vincent Bahar is a Swedish-Iranian composer, director and interdisciplinary artist materialising sound that moves between experimental, Western classical and Iranian traditions. Through transcendental Sufi rhythms on the Iranian frame drum daf, improvisation and electroacoustic soundscapes, she creates performances that are deeply physical, centred around

succumbing to change and meditating on the eternal metamorphosis.

Vincent is driven by a desire to merge ancient musical practices with avant technology to surface deep emotions and to challenge how we perceive past and future in the present moment. Her performances are often described as intensely felt - an embodied experience and something that happens to the listener rather than something that is merely heard.

Through nearly a decade of self-taught artistry, Vincent’s work spans award-winning film scores, commissioned compositions, performative installations, collaborations with contemporary dance institutions and groundbreaking experiments with AI technology. Her visionary projects are continuously supported by Sweden’s leading national arts institutions as pioneering pilots.

Right now she is developing her project Immanent Mechanics. Together with ballet dancer and choreographer Vivian Assal Koohnavard, she explores an encounter between Sufi rhythms and Samá movements where instrument, body, movement and sound form one embodied circuit that extend perception beyond the mind and into an immanent experience of deep physical presence. Immanent Mechanics is funded by The Swedish Arts Council and the city of Malmö and is an extensive experimental project that premiered at Staatsballett and Deutsche Oper Berlin in February 2026.
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As new work takes shape, Vincent is traversing into new environments and unexpected settings. Drawing on her unique background as an economic researcher, she enters organisations with a keen sensitivity to how attention moves, how people listen and what often goes missing in mentally driven, disembodied cultures. Her work challenges convention by creating space for embodied listening that cut through abstraction and allow for something to be felt again.

Bahar is based in Malmö and Berlin.