Ehsan Saboohi

post orientalism composer and music theorist

Post-Orientalism is a term coined by the Composer and music theorist Ehsan Saboohi to describe a music language for analyzing the aesthetics of his and his colleagues' compositions. Saboohi defines this language as follows:

"Post-Orientalism is a modern music language that uses microtonal sounds and intervals alongside altered sound chain and block structures to achieve a post-orientalism musical piece in different acoustic and electroacoustic compositions."

Ehsan Saboohi, in his third composition period, is looking for a different language of common Contemporary Classical music trends by taking inspiration from the philosophical-social ideas of the famous philosopher Edward Said (1935-2003).

In Memory of David Cope

13.06.2026 Artikel

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). ─── 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 ...

What Cannot Be Deferred (No. 0–No. 5)

05.06.2026 News

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 ...

QuarkTonal Composition System

30.05.2026 Artikel

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 ...

 
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