Some background on Iranian music
For some background on Iranian classical music see here for an article written by me exploring the radif, particularly considering how to use its techniques in the context of my own practice of contemporary ...
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The beating heart of the city
On embarking on this trip to Tehran I was fully prepared for my daily life to be very different from that in London. I was prepared for the weather (topping 45 degrees so far), the food (endless delicious meals but each with more rice than I would normally eat in a week) and the religious holidays (Ramazan continues, ...
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Hermes Records: the vanguard of contemporary music in Iran
Ramin Sadighi is the founder of Hermes Records, a Tehran-based label founded in 1999 with the aim of producing and promoting the work of Iranian musicians and composers. Their artists draw on both Iranian and Western classical influences, producing work that encompasses the genres of contemporary classical, film music, ...
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Stay Close…but to what?
A project such as Stay Close must invariably engage with the notion of musical Orientalism; the processes by which a Western gaze selectively promotes and displays key aspects of Eastern musics with the effect of exoticising and caricaturing a complex map of individuals involved in the production and reception of this ...
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