- 1. In 32.10 Hz. (Sound Block 01 in C)1:06
- 2. In 44.11 Hz. (Sound Block 02 in F Quarter Sharp)1:45
- 3. In 60.61 Hz. (Sound Block 03 in B)1:06
- 4. In 41.68 Hz. (Sound Block 04 in E Quarter Sharp)1:20
- 5. In 57.21 Hz. (Sound Block 05 in B Flat)1:17
- 6. In 39.29 Hz. (Sound Block 06 in E Quarter Flat)2:37
- 7. In 54 Hz. (Sound Block 07 in A)1:19
- 8. in 37.09 Hz. (Sound Block 08 in D Quarter Sharp)2:13
- 9. in 50.97 Hz. (Sound Block 09 in A Flat)1:27
- 10. In 35.01 Hz. (Sound Block 10 in D Quarter Flat)1:06
- 11. In 48.11 Hz. (Sound Block 11 in G)1:06
- 12. In 33.04 Hz. (Sound Block 12 in C Quarter Sharp)3:02
- 13. In 45.41 Hz. (Sound Block 13 in F Sharp)1:06
- 14. In 62.38 Hz. (Sound Block 14 in C Quarter Flat)1:34
- 15. In 42.86 Hz. (Sound Block 15 in F)1:45
- 16. In 58.88 Hz. (Sound Block 16 in B Quarter Flat)1:06
- 17. In 40.45 Hz. (Sound Block 17 in E)1:51
- 18. In 55.58 Hz. (Sound Block 18 in A Quarter Sharp)2:26
- 19. In 38.18 Hz. (Sound Block 19 in E Flat)1:30
- 20. In 52.46 Hz. (Sound Block 20 in A Quarter Flat)1:06
- 21. In 36.04 Hz. (Sound Block 21 in D)1:06
- 22. In 49.51 Hz. (Sound Block 22 in G Quarter Sharp)1:20
- 23. In 34.02 Hz. (Sound Block 23 in C Sharp)1:37
- 24. In 46.74 Hz. (Sound Block 24 in G Quarter Flat)1:06
Presented live
Live performanceMusic for Black Sine Wave: Payman Abdali at ZwitschermaschineTue 5 Dec 2023 · Projektraum Zwitschermaschine
Album releaseMusic for Black Sine Wave: Payman Abdali at Galerie ZeitzoneFri 8 Dec 2023 · Galerie ZeitzoneAbout
Album title:
Music For Black Sine Wave
by Payman Abdali
About the Project
On July 2023, Ehsan Saboohi, Composer and the Post-Orientalism music theorist published his theory revolving the significance of the bass line in the methodology of Post-Orientalism music, by releasing his twenty-four pieces of bass compositions for a sine wave on Noise à Noise. Sounds were released without any further processing of the sounds.
Listen to it here: noise-a-noise.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-bla… ↗
By doing so, Saboohi invited his colleagues from across the disciplines of art (Music, Painting, Cinema and Literature) through a number of open-calls and friendly invitations, an invitation which was about adding to or making with a free development of the pieces from his solo-bass album.
About the album
The album that you are listening to right now is the outcome of thoughts by Payman Abdali, as the Electronic music artist.
In these pieces, Abdali attains a new structure and view of the methods of use, and the placement of intervals in the modal structures. You, as the audience, are not going to hear “type melodies” of Radif, or ever repeating performances from different Dastgaahs of Persian traditional music through the pieces. Sound blocks are not limiting themselves into the limited circles that were suggested by many music theorists throughout history, including Farabi, Abdul-Ghader Maraghi and Safi-al Din Urmawi, also not to involve and barr the theoretical foundations of Iranian music Dastgaahs. The sound blocks in the music by ‘Abdali’ are consciously free from the traditional predefined structure of Dastgaah music, namely “Šur”, “Segaah”, “Homayoun',' etc.
By analyzing his methodology, we may be able to call the work of “Payman Abdali” an Electronic Post-Orientalism.
Moments and situations in which ‘Microtonal’ intervals are – similar to how a composer from Western countries may look toward – are smaller than quarter-tones. The point is about how these intervals are not going to construct the “discontinuity and domination of Dastgaahs”, or in other words, they are not going to turn into sacred big tonal intervals.
These intervals are neither considered as micro or macro in the view point of Post-Orientalism music, and they are not unalterable. They are just Post-Orientalism intervals.
In this album, Payman Abdali has constructed a narrative structure and form. In his works, sound blocks transform from sound into photos, and images that represent signs from the life and identity of the composer.
Credits
The album is now (as of December in 2023) being premiered and released through a set of performances in Berlin:
First performance art Zwitchermaschine (December 6th) ↗
Second performance and the release (December 8th- 20:00 ) ↗
Galerie ZeitZone
Adalbertstr. 79,
10997 Berlin.
Post-Orientalism Statement:
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).
ehsansaboohi.musicaneo.com