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Side Effect of QuarkTonal – Vol. I
11.10.2025 News
— Available on Bandcamp Album Title Side Effect of QuarkTonal – Vol. I by Ehsan Saboohi https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/side-effect-of-quarktonal-vol-i About the Album Composer’s Note Following the publication of the six-volume series QuarkTonal: Quatrains Vol. 1–6 in 2024, and the release of my book Aesthetics of Post-Orientalism: Philosophy of Composition with its accompanying audio exemplars in 2025, this album serves as a practical extension of the QuarkTonal theory. The ...

Opus Five Vol. 1
25.09.2025 News
— Available on Bandcamp Album Title Opus Five Vol. 1 https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/opus-five-vol-1 Works by: Bruce Hamilton, Dave Seidel, Ehsan Saboohi, RDKPL, Hubert Heathertoes & Zan Hoffman Track List 01. Ehsan Saboohi – 13 September 1874 02. Dave Seidel – Penumbral 03. Bruce Hamilton – Witness 04. Bruce Hamilton – Strings Attached 05. Bruce Hamilton – Cry_Wait 06. Bruce Hamilton – This Unity 07. RDKPL – 250818_02 08. Hubert Heathertoes & Zan Hoffman – How to ...

Gaza
19.09.2025 News
Album Title: Gaza by Ehsan Saboohi https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/gaza Composer’s Note Nothing. Only shame. Only compassion for the innocent. Ehsan Saboohi September 19, 2025 Track List 1. Gaza Fugue No. 1 2. Gaza Fugue No. 2 3. Gaza Fugue No. 3

aesthetics of post-orientalism: Philosophy of Composition
22.08.2025 News
Release on Bandcamp Title aesthetics of post-orientalism: Philosophy of Composition By Ehsan Saboohi Listen, Read, Pre-order, and Support: https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/aesthetics-of-post-orientalism-philosophy-of-composition *Project: Aesthetics of Post-Orientalism — Philosophy of Composition A theoretical and practical dissertation exploring the possibilities of musical composition and its philosophical foundations in the contemporary post-orientalist context. About This ...

Imaginal Isomorphism: A Preliminary Inquiry into Reading and Understanding “Mystical Literature” as Fantasy
16.08.2025 Article
Imaginal Isomorphism: A Preliminary Inquiry into Reading and Understanding “Mystical Literature” as Fantasy Ehsan Saboohi Composer and theorist of Post-Orientalism “Is Rumi’s understanding a form of fantasy? Can we say that there exists no ontologically substantive thing called mystical literature?” This Note is a structural and algorithmic study that examines the isomorphism of narrative texts within the framework of Post-Orientalism and genre analysis. The focus of the Note is strictly on ...

post-orientalism and the evental possibility of emancipation from ethnic self segregation in the east
23.07.2025 Article
Title Post-Orientalism No. IV: The Cultural Sound Blocks of Humanity Vol. 7 – Radif of Iranian Music for Qanun By Nilufar Habibian About the Album post-orientalism and the evental possibility of emancipation from ethnic self segregation in the east Liner notes by Ehsan Saboohi 1 The qanun and oud have played a fundamental role in the formation and transmission of musical knowledge across the Middle East and Central Asia. These instruments carry modal and rhythmic systems while simultaneously ...

Post-Orientalism Anthology: Sonitus Vol. 5 by Various Artists
19.07.2025 News
**Now Available on Bandcamp** Album Titles Post-Orientalism Anthology: Sonitus Vol. 5 Various Artists Works by: Bruce Hamilton, Dave Seidel, Deniz Tafaghodi, Ehsan Saboohi, Emad KhankeshiPour, Itaru Ouwan, Mohammad Reza Hashemi, RDKPL, Sina Noorizadeh Pre-Order, Listen, or Support the Project: https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/post-orientalism-anthology-sonitus-vol-5 Also published in this series: Post-Orientalism Anthology: Sonitus Vol. 1 Works by: Deniz Tafaghodi, Lena ...

The collection Q Time Machine: Polychronic Time, subtitled “Reading Rhythm in Polychronic Time – For All Musicians and I
15.07.2025 News
Now published and available on Bandcamp: https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/q-time-machine-polychronic-time The collection Q Time Machine: Polychronic Time, subtitled “Reading Rhythm in Polychronic Time – For All Musicians and Instruments,” has been published as the first educational work in the post-orientalism music genre. This 53-page practice book includes rhythm-reading exercises and theoretical explanations, with audio files in both digital and acoustic (Desrekten) percussion ...

Q Time Machine: Rethinking the Ontology of Time and Musical Structure
07.07.2025 Article
Q Time Machine: Rethinking the Ontology of Time and Musical Structure Liner Notes by Ehsan Saboohi Abstract Q Time Machine redefines musical time through a novel rhythmic system inspired by the quark in physics. This project explores a non-linear, relativistic concept of time, using the desarkaten, a traditional Iranian percussion instrument, and integrates Python programming for generative composition. The liner notes detail the Q system, its philosophical underpinnings, and its educational ...

On post-orientalism as a Genre by Kristoffer Cornils
06.06.2025 Article
Liner note: On post-orientalism as a Genre by Kristoffer Cornils Most artists hate it when the music they make is considered to be part of a certain genre, and it is easy to see why. After all, creating art is an act of deeply personal expression, or so we have been told again and again. Being lumped in with a bunch of strangers whose music shares some similarities with the ones they make thus strips artists of their individuality. Being categorised, crammed into a genre, feels like an ...