Composer’s Note:
Different theories revolving the fundamental concepts in the traditional (Classical) music in the East )including Mode, Maqam, Adwar, Dastgaah and Lahn [Tone] (have each resulted in different schools of music and musicianship, which are all based on different aesthetic maxims of different countries.
By paying homage to the past traditions for playing ‘Tar’ (Plucked string instrument), and the Schools that have survived from the past, ‘Post-Orientalism’ aims to construct and develop a new theory for the traditional (Classical) music of the past. It will pay attention to compound musical aesthetics from its within.
You may not be able to find any traces of the traditions with the definitions that came earlier in this text, or methodologies that are shaped in the western Contemporary music.
Please don’t be surprised if it’s composition and development looks unpleasant or strange to you, or if you did not find its musicianship traits aligned with the sounds of the brilliant players of Tar!
The title for this strange composition is Post-Orientalism music.
‘Post-Orientalism III’ is a composition series that is written for the solo Tar and is written for and is dedicated to ‘Saina Zamanian’ and it now my honor to deliver it with respect. This series has an approximately duration of 52-minutes. It is also my honor that this album is finished and I can now share it with the admirers of music.
In this final part of the text I want to say thanks to my dear colleagues, Soheil Sheila, Reza Asadpour, Ramin Ashtari and Bruce Hamilton for being a guide.
Saboohi,
March 19, 2023
یادداشت آهنگساز
در موسیقی سُنتی(کلاسیک) شرق نظریه‌های مختلف، پیرامون مفاهیمِ بنیادینی چون (مُد، مقام، ادوار، دستگاه و لحن) هر کدام مکاتبِ مختلفِ نوازندگی و موسیقایی متفاوتی را بر پایه‌ی اصول زیبایی شناسی کشورهای مختلف ساخته است.
موسیقی پُست-اورینتالیسم با احترام به سُنت‌های گذشته‌‌ی تارنوازی و مکاتب گذشتگان، قصد طرح و بسط تئوری دیگری از موسیقی سنتی (کلاسیک) شرق دارد. و از درون اصول زیباشناسانه‌ی خود دست به ترکیب‌های موسیقی خواهد زد.
شاید در مواجهه نخست با آن، نشانی از سُنت به مفهومی که در متن آمده است و یا روشمندی‌های شکل گرفته در موسیقی معاصرِ غربی نیابید.
اگر روش‌های بسط و گسترش آن برای شما ناخوشایند و نا‌آشنا آمد و همچنین تکنیک‌های نوازندگی آن را منطبق بر مکاتب برجسته و درخشانِ تارنوازان دوره‌های مختلف ایران نیافتید. تعجب نکنید!
نام این ترکیب‌‌بندی نا‌آشنا، موسیقی پُست-اورینتالیسم است.
پُست-اورینتالیسم شماره‌ی ۳ مجموعه‌ای است برای تکنوازی تار که برای ساینا زمانیان نوشته و با احترام به او تقدیم شده است. این مجموعه به مدت زمان تقریبی ۵۲ دقیقه است.
باعث افتخار من است که این آلبوم به سر‌انجام رسیده است و امروز می‌توانم آن را با دوستداران موسیقی اشتراک بگذارم.
در انتها در همکاران عزیزم جناب آقایان، سهیل سهیلی، رضا اسدپور، رامین اشتری، بوریس همیلتون برای راهنمایی‌هایشان قدردان هستم.
-صبوحی، ۲۸ اسفند ۱۴۰۱
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Saina Zamanian (B. 1994, Tehran), is a composer, and a player of Târ and Setâr. She has studied Tār and Setār with masters of Persian music, figures including Hooshang Zarif, Hossein Alizādeh and Dāryush Talāyi.
She graduated from the Faculty of Music of Tehran University of the Arts in Persian art music, and is now a professor at the Tehran Conservatory while pursuing a doctorate at the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne.
She has participated in many international festivals, namely the Moqām (Uzbekistan), Folk music festival (Malaysia), etc. and was director of the Saba music festival in Tehran for two seasons.
To date, she has published four music albums entitled: "Eleven Tasnifs of Ali-naqi Vaziri", "Eleven Duets of Ali-Naqi Vaziri" "Rahgoon (tar solo)" and "Post Orientalism III". She is fluent in English and German and has made a variety of translations for books and articles into Farsi.
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Ehsan Saboohi is a composer and music theorist, he considers himself a post-orientalist composer, a term he has coined to describe a music language for analyzing the aesthetics of his and his colleagues’ compositions. He demands a different language of common Contemporary Classical music trends by taking inspiration from the philosophical-social ideas of the famous philosopher Edward Said.
“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.”
Read more:
ehsansaboohi.musicaneo.com
postorientalism.com 
