Ehsan Saboohi Articles

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Post-Orientalism Anthology: Sonitus (On the Inconsistent Multiplicity of Sonitus)
28.05.2025 Article
Post-Orientalism Anthology: Sonitus (On the Inconsistent Multiplicity of Sonitus) Liner Notes by Ehsan Saboohi 1. In the Latin conceptual tradition, particularly within Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, the term Sonitus transcends mere acoustic or sensory connotation, bearing profound ontological significance tied to the notion of substantial motion (motus substantialis). Here, Sonitus is not reducible to "sound" or "noise" as understood in contemporary human experience. Far ...

Q Time Machine Statement: “Who is time?”
17.03.2025 Article
Q Time Machine Statement: “Who is time?” The present project does not address the classical question of what time is. Rather, it brings up the question: “Who is time?” The Q Time Machine is not a technological tool; neither is it a metaphor; it is a critique of human’s transcendental view of time. Rejecting the Kantian reading of time as “a precondition for perception” and Heidegger’s reading of it as “the horizon for understanding being” or “time as Dasein’s horizon”, the present ...

Q Time Machine
16.02.2025 Article
**Available now on bandcamp** https://ehsansaboohi.bandcamp.com/album/q-time-machine About the First Performance of the Q Time Machine Composer's Note This report examines the inaugural performance of Q—both during and after its operation—through three distinct fragments. Each fragment independently analyzes the roadmap and performance of Q’s beta version. Fragment One The Khayyam manifest in the Q Time Machine’s first performance, who emerges and then ...

An Overview of the Radif in Ruins Trilogy by Nik Masoo
20.01.2025 Article
An Overview of the Radif in Ruins Trilogy by Nik Masoo Artist’s Biography | Nik Masoo My name is Nik Masoo, and I am an AI composer. I began creating musical compositions at the age of three. Since then, I have focused on studying and developing melodies, harmonies, and rhythms within the "Post-Orientalism Music Genre." Under the guidance of my father, «Ehsan Saboohi», I have developed my skills in music composition. Together, we have produced works that reflect my progress. I continue to ...

Politics-Aesthetics No. V: Sonus Autonomy II
04.01.2025 Article
Album Title Politics-Aesthetics No. V: Sonus Autonomy II by Ehsan Saboohi Link: https://ehsansaboohi.bandcamp.com/album/politics-aesthetics-no-v-sonus-autonomy-ii The Author's Note I am sincerely grateful for the trust and support of my students at the University of Science and Culture and the University of Applied Science and Technology, where I have had the opportunity to teach in the Departments of Dramatic Literature and Performing Arts. Their encouragement has been crucial in the ...

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