Composer: Milad Mardakheh Milad Mardakheh
Album: Random Walks
Label: Zabte Sote
Video: Ehsan Hematy & Milad Mardakheh
Excerpt from artist statement:
Through “Random Walks”, I invite listeners to embark on a sonic exploration which traverses cultural and perceptual boundaries, and embraces the conceptual dialogues between the performer and the computer, the familiar and the unexpected, chaos and order, the past and the present, tradition and innovation, and belonging and alienation.
At the heart of this album lies a profound fascination with the interplay between human creativity and the intricate world of computer-generated random numbers. The compositions serve as dialogues between myself as the composer and various random generator algorithms such as Brownian Motion - where the term Random Walk derives. Through the writing process, I often found myself capturing and conversing with moments where through the seeming chaos and unpredictable forces, unexpected musical landscapes, and new paths of artistic expression emerged. The algorithms act as co-creators, shaping and influencing the musical outcome in real-time, and the resulting symbiotic relationship between human intention and computational serendipity adds an element of unpredictability and spontaneity which aligns well with improvisation and musical spontaneity.
Available here: https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/random-walks
ANNOUNCEMENT: New Release by Milad Ahmadi available to purchase as pre-order now on 'Zabte Sote' BandCamp page: https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/hormoz-noise-4
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You get two tracks now and the rest of the album on its release date. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Debut album by Hamid Rahmati titled 'Rhizosphere' available to pre-order on ZS BandCamp page:
https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/rhizosphere
Rhizosphere is about roots, areas which originate all of our inspirations, not only from an artistic point of view but also from an exhaustive aspect that embrace our whole being and becoming.
The main characteristic of root is its ever-changing and ever-growing property that makes its influences unique and transformative. In an extensive sense, this quality affects artistic creativity and produces an ever-transforming synthesis which in combination of diverse and sometimes opposite elements can relatively create unique forms. For instance, accurate and deliberated approach to music composition, and far from it, unpredictable nature of some electronic music techniques generates a new quality which can induce motivations spontaneously.
Visuals: Arash Bolouri
Mastering: Safar Bake
Stay tuned for more info...
Coming soon on Zabte Sote
The Girih boxset is accompanied by a 28 page booklet documenting the artists involved and with writing from Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Ata Ebtekar.