Ali Balighi is a composer, sound designer and poet born in Tehran, Iran. You can listen to his most recent album Radif of Iranian Music: Home Is Far Away, available now on Bandcamp. Ali's compositions draw from his poems, sound explorations and experimentations with electronics. These elements combined have led to the creation of many opulent multidisciplinary works and albums. His works have been performed internationally at festivals and conferences such as Sonic Matter, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, NoiseFloor UK Contemporary Music, Research On Contemporary Composition Conference, ClarinetFest, Cortona Sessions For New Music, Audiovisual Frontiers Festival, ICSC 2022 6th International Csound Conference, and Tehran International Electronic Music Festival.

Music included in this episode:
01:12 – Dastgah: Algorithmic Explorations of Persian Microtonality and Serialism (excerpt 1) Composed by Ali Balighi, March 2025 
9:35 – A Song Below Water (excerpt) Composed by Ali Balighi, 2022 
16:25 – Who am I? Composed by Ali Balighi, Performed by Kathryn Vetter, 2020 
28:39 – Corridor Composed by Ali Balighi, February 2025 
33:38 – Home is Far Away Composed by Ali Balighi, February 2025 
40:28 – Dastgah: Algorithmic Explorations of Persian Microtonality and Serialism (excerpt 2) Composed by Ali Balighi, March 2025 
46:33 – Walking in the Darkness (excerpt) Composed by Ali Balighi, 2018 
61:26 – Dastgah: Algorithmic Explorations of Persian Microtonality and Serialism (excerpt 3) Composed by Ali Balighi, March 2025

For more information: 
● Ali Balighi 
  ○ Website: https://alibalighi.com/ 
  ○ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali_balighi/?hl=en 
  ○ Bandcamp: https://alibalighi.bandcamp.com/

5.3: Ali Balighi

poios tolmaei

Embark on a new sonic journey with Tifoteca Stamps February 2025 Mix, a thoughtfully curated selection of 28 tracks that transcend time and borders. From obscure gems to pioneering sounds, this mix explores the deep connections between music and history through the lens of our theme in philately. Each piece tells its own story, offering a unique glimpse into global diversity and, we hope, a shared sense of unity.

01. Krzysztof Penderecki – Zmartwychwstanie: Ewangeli (🇵🇱 Poland, 1972)
02. Sainkho Namchylak, Dickson Dee – Seventh Story (🇭🇰 Hong Kong, 2009)
03. Silence – Santur (🇮🇷 Iran, 1992)
04. Mohamed Abdo – Awah (🏴 Dubai, 2008)
05. Egschiglen – Hentin Öndör Uuland (🇲🇳 Mongolia, 1997)
06. Molam Lao – Lam Mahaxay (🇱🇦 Laos, 1994)
07. Fernando Falcão – Ladeira dos Inocentes (🇧🇷 Brazil, 1981)
08. Dizzy Gillespie & Arturo Sandoval – First Chance (🇨🇺 Cuba, 1983)
09. Banda Six – Asilunganga (🇲🇿 Mozambique, 1982)
10. Fifi Rafiatou – Baba Rere (🇹🇬 Togo, 1996)
11. ВIА Кобза – У суботу молотив я (🏴 USSR, 1978)
12. Uoh! – T.V. Cubana (🇺🇾 Uruguay, 2015)
13. Golem – Stellar Launch (🇩🇪 Germany, 1976)
14. Giusto Pio – Ananta (🇮🇹 Italy, 1979)
15. Cowz II – Ok pal, I'll pretend for one second that you even have a clue about the "real world" considering you probably still live in your parents' attic, and only wish you could see an actual live vagina or tits (🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016)
16. Young People – M'Belle: Dance Of Sara Kabba (🇹🇩 Chad, 1966)
17. Banteay Ampil Band – Look At The Sky (🇰🇭 Cambodia, 1983)
18. Los Tupamaros – Mi Orquesta (🇨🇴 Colombia, 1982)
19. Aurlus Mabele – Stop, Arrêtez ! (🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo, 1992)
20. Yulduz Usmanova – Jeli Jeli (🇺🇿 Uzbekistan, 1993)
21. Благовест и Светослав Аргирови – От Понеделник - Няма Шега (🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 1984)
22. Freq Nasty – Boomba Clat (🇫🇯 Fiji, 2003)
23. The First Serenade Band – Jungleist Passe (🇩🇲 Dominica, 1995)
24. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh – Vagif (🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 1991)
25. Lucien – Sempre Maria (🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands, 2001)
26. Troupe École Tudu – Tiolent (🇳🇪 Niger, 2018)
27. Sanulim – E.T. The Extra-Terrestial (🇰🇷 South Korea, 1984)
28. Çocuk şarkıları Superstar – Küçük Kurbağa (🇹🇷 Türkiye, 2016)

Tifoteca Stamps February 2025 Mix

Two Too Many is a pensive and introspective piece, where Jeremias Langsämmer carefully balances restraint and emotion. The pizzicato strings establish a quiet pulse, like measured footsteps in contemplation, while the cello and violin add depth and longing. Swelling string textures emerge gently, never overwhelming, but coloring the piece with a sense of unresolved thought. It’s music that feels like an internal dialogue—reflective, searching, and quietly expressive. Langsämmer crafts a space where emotion lingers in the pauses as much as in the notes themselves, making for a deeply affecting listen.

Two Too Many by Jeremias Langsämmer

Dark Magic #56

"Real History" is a politically charged song criticizing corrupt politicians, historical revisionism, and societal manipulation. It portrays leaders as selfish traitors who exploit divisions for their gain while silencing dissent and rewriting the past. Through powerful, repetitive choruses and dark imagery like "rats rise up, blood for bats," the song expresses frustration over lies, censorship, and the loss of truth. Ultimately, it’s a rebellious call against oppression, urging listeners to recognize the manipulation and fight back, even as the system claims victory.

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Real History (2025)

Olivia Shortt is a storyteller, and they tell us their stories through absurdist and maximalist music, video art and fashion. Olivia discovered that this extravagant combination of art forms can conjure unique spaces for story telling, and such mediums assist her in designing sonic environments for all people to experience and uncover their own personal meaning. In the newest episode of New Music Edmonton's The No Normal podcast, Reid and Olivia discuss her recent residency in Edmonton, her work with the Jack Quartet and her ongoing journey of navigating the strange and weird as forces for her artistic expression.

Olivia Shortt
○ Website: https://www.olivia-shortt.com/
○ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oliviash_rtt/?hl=en

5.4: Olivia Shortt

Dark Butterfly by Kim Hosong Hosong "ผีเสื้อรัตติกาล"
Movement I from “ The Insecta Symphony ”

“Dark Butterfly” คือบทโหมโรงอันทรงพลังจากซิมโฟนีชุด The Insecta Symphony ผลงานประพันธ์ของ คิมโอซับ (Kim Hosong) ที่ถ่ายทอดภาพของผีเสื้อยามราตรี เปราะบาง ลึกลับ และเต็มไปด้วยแรงขับเคลื่อนจากความมืดมนของสัญชาตญาณ

เพลงนี้บรรเลงครั้งแรก ณ โรงแรมบินัตรี กรุงเทพฯ โดยวง Siam Sinfonietta พร้อมบรรยากาศแวดล้อมที่ถูกออกแบบมาเพื่อเสริมพลังทางอารมณ์ของเสียงดนตรี

 “ผีเสื้ออาจดูบอบบาง แต่ในความเปราะบางนั้นซ่อนความดุดัน ความลุ่มลึก และพลังของการเปลี่ยนแปลงเอาไว้” – คิมโอซับ

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บทสัมภาษณ์จากคิมโอซับ (Kim Hosong)

“Dark Butterfly เป็นเหมือนการแหวกม่านแห่งความเงียบในยามค่ำคืน ผมต้องการให้เสียงดนตรีพาเราไปยังขอบเขตของจิตใจมนุษย์ ที่ซึ่งความกลัว ความฝัน และความกล้าหาญหลอมรวมกัน ผมเริ่มจากแรงบันดาลใจเล็กๆ จากแมลงกลางคืน แล้วค่อยๆ ขยายมันออกไปเป็นพลังของวงทั้งวง”

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📣 ติดตามผลงานต่อไปของ Kim Hosong ได้ที่:
🔗 Facebook Page: Kim Hosong
🔗 YouTube: Kim Hosong
🔗 Instagram: @kimhosong_
🔗 Spotify / Apple Music: Kim Hosong Hosong
🔗 TikTok : Kim Hosong 
📧 ติดต่อเพื่อจองการแสดงหรือร่วมงาน: kimhosongstudio@gmail.com

Dark Butterfly "ผีเสื้อรัตติกาล"

WAPCOP EP - 1 - So Throne

https://youtu.be/kPO9by7LZOM

So Throne

WAPCOP EP - 2 - Crackman

https://youtu.be/t8pdBPvRAwg

Crackman

WAPCOP EP - 3 - Uglychild

https://youtu.be/a_SWAVuL2RU

Uglychild

WAPCOP EP - 4 - Morn

https://youtu.be/-nUr0pIz73w

Morn

WAPCOP EP - 5 - Wapcop

https://youtu.be/5SrAP80W2j8

Wapcop

HRZNTL

This track was created by recording the raw sounds of painting on canvas — brushes, colors, textures, and every subtle detail — and transforming them into techno using Ableton Live.
It’s both a documentary and a musical experiment, where art and music meet in a unique soundscape.

YouTube Short Video :

https://youtu.be/U0FUwO2LWVs

ADRE Soundtrack 30 Min Dark Cinematic

„Wenn Maschinen träumen – und Geister lärmen.“                                               A storm of sound, tension, and pure madness.
“Ghosts & Commotion” isn’t your typical Halloween track – it’s a bizarre soundscape caught between haunted spirits and mechanical chaos.
Sampled noises — circular saw, electric planer, steam iron, vacuum cleaner, and voice — merge into an eerily vibrant sonic collage.           Keywords: Industrial, Experimental, Soundtrack, Halloween, Dark Ambient, Noise Art, Electro, Ghosts, Machines

Ghosts & Commotion

weird beat i made on fl mobile

🎬 Song Insight

“Karma’s Giving Raises” is a battle cry for those burned, used, and left to rebuild from the ashes. Through a haze of ticking clocks, static, and raw confession, the song captures the dizzying collapse of trust and the bitter clarity that comes after betrayal. Each verse peels back the layers of survival-mode living, tracing the line from denial to cathartic release.
The track’s heartbeat is cinematic—dark trap rhythms mesh with avant-garde, lo-fi textures, echoing every lie and every loss until there’s nothing left but the echo of consequence. The chorus lingers with a haunting, anthemic bite, serving both as a reckoning and a warning: in the end, everyone pays what they owe.
This is heartbreak with teeth—brutal, honest, unafraid to name names and torch old bridges. The only way forward is through.

📝 Lyrics

Intro:
Time ticking, mind slipping, world’s edges fray
Living in survival mode, every hope gone gray

Verse 1:
Too busy surviving to feel alive
Hull ripped out, I barely survive
Collapse warnings—every sign,
Lie after lie, I drew the line
Version of you living in my mind,
Breaking through, invade the design
Illusions grow, allowed to bloom
Ghost in my room, full of doom

Pre-Chorus:
You didn’t just use me—nah, you consumed me
Hollow name, echo screams, haunted loosely
I defended the storm that unended me
Simple choices, roots pulled so ruthlessly
Ain’t no pride left, not a single ounce
Clown cart crashin’—what you grabbing now?
Disgrace, no face, karma’s giving raises
Piper knocking loud, no one escapes it

Chorus:
You didn't just use me—nah, you consumed me
Echoes in the dark, all I hear is your ruin
Wrote you off my life—yeah, script deleted
No comeback scene, you’re gone, I mean it
You didn't just use me—nah, you consumed me
Shadow in my mind, but I broke through it
Wrote you off my life—yeah, script deleted
No comeback scene, this time I mean it

Bridge:
You said you couldn’t work, why?
Too busy gettin’ fucked, calling that a job
I thought I knew you—nah, just a plot
Excuses keep me stuck, web gets caught
Inside, it’s simple—just rot
Foil your story, before you get shot

Verse 2:
It’s this shit I tell myself
Gotta let go, can’t waste my health
Chill the vibe, sick for real
Coulda been me, you at the wheel
That’s when it hit—why you split
Glad you did, guess you’re legit
Lay it out clean, burn your scene
MTV drama, no in-between
No rehab call, no second spin
This is the end, you never begin

Pre-Chorus:
Take a bow, show’s cancelled,
I’m writin’ you off, deadpan handled
Collect the cred, fade to black
No reunion—never comin’ back

Chorus:
You didn't just use me—nah, you consumed me
Echoes in the dark, all I hear is your ruin
Wrote you off my life—yeah, script deleted
No comeback scene, you’re gone, I mean it
You didn't just use me—nah, you consumed me
Shadow in my mind, but I broke through it
Wrote you off my life—yeah, script deleted
No comeback scene, this time I mean it

Outro:
Static fades, clock runs out
Script erased, nothing to shout
Dead silence, my final route
You lost your line—scene cut out
muffled static, glitched breath, whispered “don’t forget”:

Personal Reflection
When I wrote “Karma’s Giving Raises,” it wasn’t about revenge—it was about survival.
There comes a point when pain becomes absurd, when you realize you’re justifying someone else’s destruction at your own expense. This song poured out in the aftermath of picking myself up for the last time—still angry, but finally done.
It’s brutally honest: I had to burn the script, let go of the ghost, and admit there’s no fixing what was never real.

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Karma’s Giving Raises

Over 1,100 tracks produced, all here on SoundCloud. Lease a beat, $25 (non-exclusive). #Horror, #Trap, #EDM, #Electronic - I make it all. DM me to support / inquire. 💰💵💸

Support: paypal.me/realgraysonwells
Official YT: youtube.com/@realgraysonwells

"If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t hurt. Pain is the gift of knowing you’re alive."

4Me2BeFree is more than music—it’s my story, my scars, and my survival. Every song is a piece of me, a raw melody of love, heartbreak, and resilience. I blend AI-generated vocals and instruments with real emotions, turning my experiences—especially from an LGBTQ+ perspective—into something that speaks to anyone who's ever felt lost, broken, or just searching for something real.

Breakup songs? Yeah, they hit different. Music carries us through the worst of it, and every generation finds their own anthems of love, loss, and getting back up. Heartache doesn’t care about age, gender, or where you come from—music connects us all.

I make music because I’ve been there. The pain, the anger, the hope—it's all in these songs. If something here hits home for you, let it. If you feel something, let me know. That’s the connection that keeps this alive.

our soul is born without any kind of boundaries. those are added afterwards. music is one of the few ways to shake off those manmade weights and just smile or cry together even if we are in hugely different parts of the globe.. 

Just a simple soul that wants to share his creativity. All lyrics are written by MrWhoLab and music is produced with AI app Suno.

Ig: prodbyetropical Dc: Edrobigel Yt: EtropicalBeats Prod/Germany, Trap/cloudrap, Electronic stuff

These Guitars Say Sorry is the banner for a diverse range of artists, from UK singer-songwriter These Guitars Say Sorry to classical composer Jeremias Langsämmer along with his ensemble, Icelandic post-rock band Laxá with the Heima Kvartett, ambient artist Siegfried Jünger, and Doom Jazz ensemble The Dark Messiahs. Founded by Jez Stephen, who incepted all the projects, the label has released over 30 albums, crafting a unique sonic identity across genres.

Since 2021, These Guitars Say Sorry has released a track every week, later compiling them into albums available on all major platforms. Explore the catalog on Bandcamp: https://theseguitarssaysorry.bandcamp.com/ and support the work for as little as $1 a month on Patreon: www.patreon.com/tgss.

For me, techno reflects both my engineering roots and my creative soul, a mechanical symphony shaped by the machines I build and the music I create.

Producer & DJ Ozcan Ozkaya - ISNI: 0000000523988119

Besteci / Composer: Ozcan Ozkaya
Söz Yazarı / Lyricist: Ozcan Ozkaya
Aranjör / Arranger: Ozcan Ozkaya

New Music Edmonton is Edmonton's premier organization for the promotion and presentation of contemporary music and sound art.
Contact us at nmegeneralmanager@gmail.com

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