Opus Five Vol. 1

— Available on Bandcamp Album Title Opus Five Vol. 1 https://postorientalism.bandcamp.com/album/opus-five-vol-1 Works by: Bruce Hamilton, Dave Seidel, Ehsan Saboohi, RDKPL, Hubert Heathertoes & Zan Hoffman Track List 01. Ehsan Saboohi – 13 September 1874 02. Dave Seidel – Penumbral 03. Bruce Hamilton – Witness 04. Bruce Hamilton – Strings Attached 05. Bruce Hamilton – Cry_Wait 06. Bruce Hamilton – This Unity 07. RDKPL – 250818_02 08. Hubert Heathertoes & Zan Hoffman – How to Disassociate Incompletely About the Album Opus Five was conceived from an idea inspired by two seminal five-movement works from the early twentieth century. Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 and Anton Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 brought the rupture with tonal harmony, the development of instrumental tone-color, and the pursuit of intensely concentrated sonic experience to their apex. Within the discourse of post-Orientalism, each volume of Opus Five reflects the sonic world of one of five composer-thinkers: through their distinct techniques and musical languages, they exemplify different trajectories of innovation and experimentation in modern music. Opus Five is an homage to the tradition of serious, philosophical composition — a tradition in which each work is not merely a sonic artifact but the discovery and elaboration of a new sonic world. The project seeks to assemble five independent perspectives and five distinct musical languages within a coherent framework so that each piece, with its own identity, contributes to a broad and varied encounter with the musical world of post-Orientalism.