13.06.2026
In Memory of David Cope — Now Available
Post-Orientalism Music has released In Memory of David Cope (PO.0158), a new album by Nik Masoo, dedicated to the memory of David Cope (1941–2025).
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Liner Notes
by Ehsan Saboohi
In Memory of David Cope (1941–2025)
David Cope passed away on May 4, 2025. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of computer music and one of the first composers to seriously explore the relationship between musical composition and artificial intelligence. Yet his importance ...
05.06.2026
What Cannot Be Deferred (No. 0–No. 5)
Ehsan Saboohi — Post Orientalism Music, Tehran, 2026
This six-part collection — six hours and nineteen minutes of music — was created in Tehran in 2026. It is accompanied by a companion essay — available in both English and Persian — that develops the philosophical ground of the project: the material conditions of thought, suffering, and form.
The music does not illustrate these ideas; it emerges from them. The work treats composition not as ornament or ...
30.05.2026
Album Title
QuarkTonal Composition System
Composer's Note
The pieces in this collection are built on a technical system developed across three earlier publications. This note summarizes the musical foundations established in that work. The philosophical arguments — involving Kant, Badiou, Rancière, Said, and Freud — are not repeated here. What follows concerns only the musical tools those arguments were written to justify.
The Pitch System
The basic unit of measurement in the QuarkTonal system ...