"Situations” Is the fourth installment of the ‘Politics-Aesthetics’ series, composed by Ehsan Saboohi.
This series is composed in the form of small pieces, in the terms of playback duration, starting from 0.001, ending on 0.999. Saboohi is experiencing new forms in art using the “Loop making” technique.
This series will be sold in three editions:
1. The first edition will be available in the form of NFT art on OpenSea platform with the following URL:
https://opensea.io/collection/postorientalism
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2.The second edition which is going to be developed on physical-media is going to be on sale via Noise à Noise and through an auction. This edition will have a different post-production process.
3.The third edition is a gift from the composer to his wife, which is kept for her until the composer is alive.
Along his Post-Orientalis mentality, Saboohi analyzes the auditory and visual situation for each of the blocks. He have employed microtonal intervals, Electronic souns, assymetric rhythms, unadjusted tunin systems, nois design and various soun-reinforcement possibilities and more to develop these blocks.
Saboohi have elaborated in the statement about “Post-Orientalism” as you can read below:
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 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).