aesthetics of post-orientalism, Vol. II: Subject, Structure, Counterpoint

— 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, within a tradition that emphasizes the single melodic line, a subject can appear as a coherent one, and then a second subject as a genuine and independent two. Edward Said proposed the concept of cultural counterpoint: two independent lines producing shared harmony while maintaining their distinctiveness. This book translates Said's theoretical framework into practical, testable, and reproducible rules within the domain of music. If no path toward genuine two-voicedness exists except through fundamental departure from the linguistic and musical tradition of the Middle East, the author's answer is unequivocal: he is willing to undertake that departure. As a composer, he engages in a project of maximal forgetting—the deliberate effort to become conscious of what has sedimented beneath awareness, to examine the unconscious structures that shape hearing, thinking, and compositional practice. This book moves systematically from theory to practice through four chapters, engaging with the works of Kant, Badiou, and Rancière, and providing contrapuntal exercises that demonstrate the practical realization of these principles. This is an attempt to find a path between two insufficient options: the uncritical acceptance of Western standards as universal norms or an absolute relativism that negates the possibility of dialogue and shared practice. Post-Orientalism music label | Catalog: PO.0138 postorientalism.bandcamp.com === #aestheticsofpostorientalism #postorientalismGenre #SubjectStructureCounterpoint #Book