Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 2. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to be played at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and mute / change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

Part One: youtu.be/3bFnL-NScXg
Part Two: youtu.be/t0uBrmzbLmg
Part Three: youtu.be/JuL0QeuPD0E
Part Four: youtu.be/SpKiqpJViSw

This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

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Bandcamp

Browser Music 2

Batumi-based DJ Izzanami is going to play for the next hour from our wagon.

Izzanami [14.01.2022]

slept well

from Koray Kantarcıoğlu's Loopworks 2. 

More info at www.discrepant.net

Loopworks 2 (masters 24b)

Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Lamba Pr 03 (from Loopworks 2)

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-28th-april-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue 280422

recorded by @2207

~/- участник комьюнити Oblast с Уральскими корнями. Как и остальные представители объединения не охотно делится информацией о себе в сети, оставляя возможность вести это повествование своему творчеству. Помимо мира звука ~/-(Артем) увлекается аналоговой фотографией и путешествиями по диким уголкам нашей планеты, черпая основное вдохновение у природы.

Tracklist:

Efdemin - Oh, lovely appearance of death
Hyde - Sacrificed greyhound (ju ca Remix)
Golden Living Room - Lodollite dreams (for the Princess) (Nico Niquo Remix)
Heoliene - Gaussian lounge
Dj Healer - Where the place for me was
Levan Shanidze - L3 (Chushi edit)
Final - Fall
Bellows - Untitled
Sergey Hiiri - Springs
J - You take each others breath away... (Fia Fiell version)
YMO - Loom
Pelican Daughters - The bicycle ride
Q Radio - Echo back
Perila - Fallin into space
Rat Heart Ensemble - B.Y.F.S
Ethereal Logic - Final Adjustments
More Eaze - Priority (ft. Ben Bondy)
Forest Management - Imagined Version of The Previous Outing
Dj Healer - Back home

037 w/ ~/-

The Idealist - Actionist Dub

Pre-order: 14th October 2022
Release date: 21th October 2022
Format: Cassette, Digital

"Llacuna Infinita" is a journey to the Albufera Natural Park (Valencia). 
An attempt to put to music the sounds and sensations that have accompanied some of the walks through different parts of this wonderful landscape.

Mínim is the personal project of Juanvi Fortea, member of Mecánica Clásica and half of Materia and Güiro Meets Russia.

Copyright © 2022 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Mínim - Llacuna Infinita (Album) | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Special guest shows from around the world.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/lucinda-chua-5th-december-2022

Lucinda Chua 051222

Feed Me (*(1), *(2) ):
1: Feed Me (NOF Granie, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS) 05:39
2: Coffee (NOF Granie, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS) 02:23
3: Scooter (NOF Granie) 07:24
4: Passing Through (NOF Granie, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS) 05:04
5: Listening (NOF Granie) 02:26
6: Above (NOF Granie, Human Voice, Soma Pipe, Soma COSMOS) 03:40

*(1): NOF Granie, granular synthesiser by Norman Freund
*(2): Soma, Soma Laboratory, hardware synthesisers.

Dates:
12-Oct-2025 (inception), 20-Oct-2025 (finalised), 20-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Photography by Zachary Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/feed-me

(The description provided here is a summary, refer to my BandCamp page for full details).

Description:
Feeding time, my morning ritual, my cat Pixel gets feed before any thing else, no peace otherwise. A meow, saying feed me. Recording Pixel's feeding requests, me getting my breakfast ready (coffee cup rattles, coffee machine) and the after breakfast sounds of my son, Zachary Freund, on his scooter, doing a tail whip on a rather resonant steel bollard, all to be feed into my granular synthesiser, Granie.

A mix of granular synthesis and various other instruments: my voice, Soma Enner, Soma Pipe, Soma COSMOS. Tuning of the synthesisers was largely improvised, no particular system in mind, just choices which I thought suited the mood at the time.

Five field recordings were used for the granular synthesis:
1: Pixel's feed me requests
2: Pixel getting seconds
3: Pixel's human minder getting breakfast ready
4: Coffee machine sounds
5: Scooter and bollard sounds

Track 1, "Feed Me"
Granie granular synthesiser featuring Pixel's meow.
Soma Enner.
Soma COSMOS, Rhythmic #6 mode, dynamic use of blur and drift parameters.
Granie tuning done prior to performance, all five grain buffers had their own tuning.

Track 2, "Coffee
Granie granular synthesised sounds, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS. As the title suggests, this featured the coffee making sounds.

Track 3, "Scooter"
Granie granular synthesised sounds, featuring the scooter hitting the steel pipe. The clinking of coffee cups provided the percussion. The dual delay+feedback network of the Granie was experimented with here, modulating delay times and gain feedback. The ringing sound of the steel pipe, providing an ostinato, setting the mood.

Track 4, "Passing Through"
Granie synthesiser sounds, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS.

The underlying theme here was a flickering sound reminiscent of old super 8 movie projector, which was done here through granular synthesis of the coffee cup sounds.

The lead part was played with the Soma Enner and the Soma COSMOS. Various themes were recorded into the COSMOS memory live, layering in, fading out and presenting new ideas and adjusting live the COSMOS Blur and Drift settings (Rhythmic #3 mode). Enner tuning was totally improvised live.

Track 5, "Listening"
Granie synthesiser sounds.
Track five comes back to the original theme, Pixel's meow. At first the meow is definitely not recognisable since the play-back frequency was several orders of magnitude higher than originally recorded, but then towards the end it is gradually slowed down to the original recorded play-back speed to reveal it's source.

Track 6, "Above"
Granie synthesiser sounds.
Human voice -> Soma Pipe -> Soma Cosmos -> Granie synthesiser.
The lead parts were mostly singing into the Soma Pipe using the Resonator mode (dual frequency controls on the Pipe). Naturally I messed with the COSMOS blur and drift settings live during the performance.


The Granie synthesiser is available for purchase from my GumRoad site at:
https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie

ready for you to make your own audio journey into granular synthesis.

Browser Music 2

Andrew Pekler