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aesthetics of post-orientalism, Vol. II: Subject, Structure, Counterpoint
29.12.2025 News
— POST-ORIENTALISM MUSIC: PUBLICATION CALENDAR 2026 aesthetics of post-orientalism, Vol. II: Subject, Structure, Counterpoint Ehsan Saboohi, Author Release: January 4, 2026 This book is about two. It concerns how one voice becomes two voices in musical counterpoint, and how one being enters into relationship with another without either destroying the other or dissolving into it. The central question is whether two can emerge within the linguistic and musical framework of the Middle East—whether, ...

aesthetics of post-orientalism, Vol. II: Subject, Structure, Counterpoint
29.12.2025 News
— POST-ORIENTALISM MUSIC: PUBLICATION CALENDAR 2026 aesthetics of post-orientalism, Vol. II: Subject, Structure, Counterpoint Ehsan Saboohi, Author Release: January 4, 2026 This book is about two. It concerns how one voice becomes two voices in musical counterpoint, and how one being enters into relationship with another without either destroying the other or dissolving into it. The central question is whether two can emerge within the linguistic and musical framework of the Middle East—whether, ...

New Year, New Sound
27.12.2025 News
Dear friends and colleagues, As we welcome the New Year, the post-orientalism community extends warm wishes for a prosperous and creative year ahead. We offer our sincere thanks to all listeners, followers, and supporters whose engagement sustained our projects, releases, and conversations over the past year. Your attention, listening, and encouragement matter to the life of this community. We also wish to express our deep gratitude to the publications, radio programmes, writers, and curators who ...

Announcement from Post-Orientalism
25.12.2025 News
Announcement from Post-Orientalism Post-Orientalism announces the release of Four Sleepers, a four-volume collection grounded in post-orientalist aesthetics, now available on Bandcamp. The complete set has a total duration of approximately eight hours. Each album employs QuarkTonal system structures and Python programming, and is presented as a single, continuous composition. The project examines a Zen worldview, focusing on how sonic processes may dissolve perceived boundaries between self and other ...

Call for Collaboration — Sonitus Project: Post-Orientalism Anthology
25.12.2025 Article
Call for Collaboration — Sonitus Project: Post-Orientalism Anthology In 2025, the Post-Orientalism label released eight volumes of the Sonitus anthology, comprising 105 individual works, sequentially numbered Sonitus No. 1 through Sonitus No. 105. The Sonitus project adopts a research-driven approach, treating Sonitus not as a fixed audio object but as an ontological event. The focus is on sound as a site of disclosure rather than on formal or stylistic coherence. Volume 9 is scheduled for ...

Materialism and Temporality
22.11.2025 Article
Materialism and Temporality by Nik Masoo Liner Notes by Ehsan Saboohi Section I — Materialism and Temporality: Foundational Concepts Marxist materialism understands being not as a fixed substrate but as a ongoing process generated within concrete material relations and practical activity. It breaks decisively with any substantialist or ahistorical account of reality. In the dialectical view, matter is not a passive given but a dynamic field of determinations whose character emerges through ...

A Narrative of World Classical Music History
20.11.2025 News
Post-Orientalism Music is honored to announce that beginning January 1st, 2026, a new roadmap will commence in the activities of this label. This path, titled "A Narrative of World Classical Music History," provides a framework for re-engaging with the classical heritage—not from an identity-centered perspective or through prevalent dichotomies, but rather based on an understanding that musical structure and knowledge belong to all humanity. In many countries over the past decades, a misconception ...

Album and Score of "48 Etudes for Multiple Percussion Solos" Released
15.11.2025 News
Album and Score of "48 Etudes for Multiple Percussion Solos" Released Post-Orientalism Press has released the album and score of "48 Etudes for Multiple Percussion Solos," accompanied by liner notes from Ehsan Saboohi, composer and theorist of Post-Orientalism. According to the composer's notes, the process of developing and writing this collection began in 2020 and was completed at the end of 2025. During this period, Saboohi focused on reconsidering the concept of time in music and re-examining it ...

Opus Five Series — Weekend Bundle Offer
31.10.2025 News
Opus Five Series — Weekend Bundle Offer Celebrate the release of Opus Five Vol. IV with an exclusive weekend offer: purchase all four volumes of the Opus Five series at 75% off — just $9 total (regularly $36). Valid through November 5, 2025, exclusively on Bandcamp. To redeem: Apply code Opus5 at checkout for each individual album purchase. Discount code: Opus5 Official site: https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/ === #PostOrientalism #postorientalismGenre #OpusFive #Bandcamp

Opus Five Vol. III
24.10.2025 News
Available on Bandcamp Album Title Opus Five Vol. III Pre-Order, Listen & Support: https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/opus-five-vol-iii Works by: 1. Rahi Sinaki – Blutorange 2. Dave Seidel – Elegy, for Jon 3. Ehsan Saboohi & Emad KhankeshiPour – And from the earth, blood rises to stain the sky 4. RDKPL – 241130_01 5. Hubert Heathertoes – Inconsistency helping where it is needed === Previous volumes: Opus Five Vol. I — postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/opus-five-vol-1 Opus ...