Exposition

Shekasteh Mouyeh (last edited: 2019)

Saman Samadi

About this exposition

Radif – or, the traditional repertoire of Persian classical music, consisting of more than 200 short melodic motions (gusheh), which are arranged into seven principal modes (dastgāh) with five secondary branches of these modes (āvāz) – is the oldest documented version of Dastgah music, developed by Mirza Abdollah in the 19th century. This exposition represents the confrontation of these microtonal modes with and within electroacoustic music material and techniques, and the problematisation of the results along with objects of video-art and visual effects, creating a set of compositions that would exhibit novelty; furthermore, the assemblage of them for and through a live performance utilizing improvisational methods as an attempt to expand timbral possibilities in a contextual relationship with Western contemporary classical music. The aim of this artistic research is producing a syncretistic multimedia work of art that could serve in assimilating two perspectives of Eastern and Western into a new coalescence towards the grail of a universal totality of classical forms.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsmicrotonality, electroacoustic composition, multimedia, video art, persian music, performance practice, new music
date23/05/2015
last modified20/12/2019
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightSaman Samadi
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/730138/730139

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