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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 ...

What Cannot Be Deferred
15.05.2026 Artikel
What Cannot Be Deferred Ehsan Saboohi Tehran, 2026 What Cannot Be Deferred I. Beginning from the Situation, Not from Theory Every composition, before it becomes organized sound, is a position. That position usually remains concealed: in opening sentences, in references, in methodological explanations. Yet no theory speaks from outside the situation. No composition stands without ground. Every form rests upon a material base, and every material base already distributes the possibilities of ...

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 Artikel
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 Artikel
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 ...