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The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 399Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. This week's program features the best of 2025:
0.00 Weirs - Lord Randall
9.20 Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton - live at pioneer works, 26 october 2023 Side 1
25.21 Gagi Petrovic - Op-en-amelijk ['Gekkenhuis' by Jolien van Haaster, 2012]
32.58 Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari - Black Stones of Sirius
39.01 Deepstaria Enigmatica - The Eternal Now
58.43 Natasha Barrett - Glass Eye
1.09.11 Gabriel Paiuk - Degrees of Transparency (Soundtrack Version)
1.26.15 Robert Dick, Stephan Haluska and James Ilgenfritz - The Memory You Need
1.31.53 Diego B...
2025-12-283h 02
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 380Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. This week's program:
0:00 Blue Heron & DÜNYA - The Triumph: I. Kainat - The Universe
4:01 Aki Onda - Screen Test
10:38 Klotz Wenzel Vethake - part 3
19:20 Fletcher Tucker - Great Flowering Mind
31:58 JAAR - Open Afternoons
36:59 Robin Guthrie - Jura
40:07 rsn - compaction #1.2
59:45 Lingyuan Yang - The Song of the Mist
1:05:44 Roger Feria Jr. - A flower for my daughter: My life
1:09:35 Spirit Radio - Dew Point
1:19:11 Jake Henry - 5-Rainbow Ex...
2025-08-173h 02
TuonelaEclectic current – And then I watch it fall apartHistory shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse – Dr Luke Kemp
Track list and start times:
00:00 Caroline Shaw & Noreia String Quartet – The Beech Tree + The Orangery
04:21 Norman Westberg – La Liege
09:50 KapTep & Sebby Kowal – 404 Error Page Not Found
14:50 Innovative Landscapes Laboratory – Catatonic Wandering
19:37 Ambulatorio Segreto – Tragedia Nella Gelateria
24:35 Cortex of Light – Exit Strategy
28:29 Guru bobol – betache
34:28 DARDIS – Street Wind, Brass Rain
42:22 Anja Kreysing – desert haze
46:56 Lawrence English – Another Body
53:09 Barn Owl – The Darkest Night Since 1683
1:00:32 Ali Balighi – Electropoem In 39.29 Hz Nr. 2
1:02:59 h+ - With Stars For Eyes
1:08:45 Imaginary Softwoods – Eye Color
1:13:54 Pier WILL – The Trees
1:16:05 insectarium – Afarit
1:23:20 Logic Moon – Abyss
1:28:38 Her Menacing Pet – Red Museum
1:35...
2025-08-052h 00
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 375Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. This week's program features an interview with Rafael Anton Irisarri:
Blurt - Mecanno Giraffe 0.00
Joey Waronker & Pete Min - Chocolate Chip 3.44
Dadub feat Nova Someway - Somehow 7.19
R. Schappert - Love nest 13.37
Anja Kreysing and Stefan Strasser - Meridian Collapse 24.47
Siavash Amini - Culter 1.00.57
Ali Balighi - Electropoem No. 4 1.07.21
Merzbow - Monolith 4 1.15.20
Colin Andrew Sheffield - Sunrise 1.32.55
’t Geruis - towards home, dark blue 1.36.36
Kaze & Koichi Makigami - Shishiodoshi 1.41.11
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Empire Systems 2.05.00
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Persistence 2.15.32
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Secretly Wishing for Rain (William Basinski and Gary Thomas...
2025-07-133h 03
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 365Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. This week's program:
Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari - Exorcism: Clearing the Electromagnetic Field 0.00
Ehsan Saboohi - Second Recording 20.15
Stefan Goldmann - healer 30.35
João de Nóbrega Pupo - Tréguas, Mágoas e Chinfrins 34.32
Brìghde Chaimbeul - She Went Astray 40.14
Giridhar Udupa - Bhoomi - Mother Earth 41.42
Anthony Pateras - Sans Visages #1 59.37
Jules Reidy & Sam Dunscombe - Gracelords 1.02.13
Fletina - The Copper Years 1.18.17
Marc Billon - Microphonies 21 - Part II 1.23.07
Ben McElroy - DEOR 1.30.33
Micaela Trombini - Livecode Performance 1.39.51
Anna McMichael & Clocked Out - Peak Plastique 1.46.19
nd dentico - Find Len...
2025-05-043h 03
The No Normal Podcast5.3: Ali BalighiAli 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...
2025-02-251h 03
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 352Contemporary music from everywhere. This week's program:
numün - Opening 0.00
Asa Horvitz/Carmen Quill/Ariadne Randall/Wayne Horvitz - To Understand The Story 5.34
Philamelian, Elif Yalvaç - Drēamcræft 10.20
Diacritical Mark - Grit For The Gizzard 18.50
Yuri Urano - Uncertainty 31.33
Laura Masotto - Skin (Hior Chronik Rework) 35.48
Austin Williamson - Broken Radios and Scorched Sands 39.37
Dean Drouillard - Guided By Hands 42.50
Enhancement - Ignis Ash 46.31
Fletina - Becquerel (excerpt) 50.46
Hiroshi Ebina - Slow wave 54.21
Ran Slavin - Cloud Cascade 59.47
Dromedaries x Alexoteric - Hermes Majesty 3.0 Firmware Safe Injection Site (or How I Learned To Love the Demiurge) 1.05.4...
2025-02-023h 02
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 345Contemporary music from everywhere. This week's episode:
Park Jiha - Blown Leaves 0.00
Infinite Future Band - Bozo Complete 4.32
Ali Balighi - Love in Exile - Movement II 17.17
EHb - Amatombe 27.11
Nicola Miller - Buffleheads 32.21
Drew Whiting - Four Movements Gradual Quartet 39.38
Alfredo Santa Ana / Miranda Wong (piano) - Two Worlds 43.38
Choral Chameleon; Vince Peterson, artistic director - There Once Was... 49.00
Night Sky Pulse - Rebus 55.54
David Zucchi- Monsignor 1.00.30
David Douglas & Applescal - NRG 1.05.29
Quintelium - High Church 1.05.38
IMMR - Emptiness is Also Form 1.11.35
Reza Vali, composer; Carpe Diem String Quartet; Daphne Alderson, vocal back up - Dashti (Calligraphy No. 18) 1.19...
2024-12-153h 03
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 313Contemporary music from everywhere with host Kevin Press. This week's program:
Ana Dall’Ara-Majek - Parasiti fluxique 0.00
Kee Avil - Gelatin 5.44
Ali Balighi - Ashes 9.35
Concussed - Orbital Decay 11.20
Masaya Ozaki - Opið Rými 18.14
boycalledcrow - Sadhu 31.44
Audio Obscura - The Last Day Of August Felt Like The First Day Of Autumn 34.53
Johanna Elina Sulkunen - Happiness 39.42
Midori Hirano, Nils Mosh - Heiden 43.23
Andrea Taeggi - Tripofobia 52.34
Steph Richards - Prey 1.00.27
LEMADI TRIO - I 1.04.44
Werner Hasler & Carlo Niederhauser - Matucana [botanical] 1.28.55
de type inconnu - six 1.31.18
J. Pavone String Ensemble - Three Trees 1.35.18
Splitter Orchester - Imagine Splitter 1...
2024-05-053h 03
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 295The best contemporary music of 2023, uninterrupted. With host Kevin Press. Full program:
Taylor Deupree - A Small Morning Garden 0.00
Patrick Shiroishi - the soil that things grew from 3.46
Sophie Dupuis - Taken by the Locos 5.20
Jessica Pavone - Neolttwigi 12.34
Shuta Hasunuma - unpeople 24.17
Siavash Amini - Wayward 26.57
Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly - Effort grind braid 33.50
Machinefabriek with Monika Bugajny - II (after Brahms) 40.20
Karen Willems - tttta iiiiii 43.11
Jérôme Noetinger & Anthony Pateras - Coruscation 1 49.56
Chantal Michelle - 66 Rue L (pt. I) 54.28
Federico Durand - La cesta de mimbre 1.08.23
Nate Scheible - plume01 1.15.08
Andrey Guryanov - 1977-1990 1.17.43
Bana Haffar - L...
2023-12-313h 02
The ModernsThe Moderns ep. 290Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. Three hours of music for you this week, featuring Amina Hocine, Neve and a gorgeous box set featuring the complete discography of the influential Island sub label Obscure Records. Full program:
Liz Helman - Those Forming Another 0.00
Phil Struck - Mond über Flur 6.38
Kirk Barley - Marionnette 10.00
Valerio Camporini F. - Blackbird : out of Chaos : 14.43
Andreas Hoem Røysum & Klaus Ellerhusen Holm - Coulombic Density 19.33
BRUCE BRUBAKER - Music for Airports, 2-1 31.56
Mesmer - Slusen 39.58
Hverheij - Reasons Are 44.27
David Baron - Infernal Machine 46.26
VESSITT - MOOD 48.15
Beifer - Interlude for her 52.4...
2023-11-263h 02
Ali Balighi, ComposerKorsoo for Alto Saxophone , Tenor Saxophone and Fixed media“Korsoo” in Persian means glimmer or a small sign of something such as hope, understanding or light. As our environment is going to be destroyed, many programs are made about global warming and urban pollution by Persian radio stations.When I was in a taxi in Tehran, I was listening to one of these programs, and I thought it is a great idea that I compose a piece based on this controversial subject. Moreover, I used the sound of this conversation and some electronic sounds for the fixed media.
Ali Balighi, composer
Parker Fritz, alto saxophone
Justin Evangelist, tenor saxophone
Univ...
2022-05-2807 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerThe Denseness Of LonelinessA subject of particular interest to me is exploring the relationship between poetry and contemporary music. Also, listening to nature and attempting to imitate it in a musical context can spark my imagination. For this text score, I selected the following short poem:
Tree is alone
The forest is the denseness of loneliness.
- Ali Balighi
In this piece, a conductor listens to the ensemble without a score and tries to communicate with the musicians. Furthermore, musicians should listen to each other so as not to copy each other's performances.
Composer: Ali Balighi
Mysterium Ensemble:
Ali Balighi, piano
Vicente Pedroza, cl...
2022-05-2004 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerRang-ha for clarinet in Bb and live electronicsVicente Pedroza, clarinet Bb
Program note:
This music was composed based on two different musical ideas from two modern composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen. Moreover, Rang-ha (رنگها) means colors in Persian.
The pitch organization of “Farben” from Five Pieces for Orchestra reveals two general layers: a stream of five-voice chords (continually subjected to changes in instrumentation) and a group of very short ejaculatory motives (generally static in instrumentation) that from time to time occur together with the stream of chords, but neither interrupt nor embellish it1. I use this idea of cluster chords and color in my piece.
I was also influe...
2022-05-1106 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerDaramad For 3 Sopranos And Fixed mediaIn Persian,“Daramad” means to start music and also, it is a classical form of Persian music, however, it means to learn music with a deep perspective to theory and techniques for me. In this music, I tried to make a connection between language from a sense point of view and fixed media as a musical atmosphere. The relation between sopranos parts is based on rhythm, counterpoint movements, nonmeaning words and alone letters.
This piece won the third place in the fifth international Reza Kourorian electroacoustic composition competition, and was played in the forth tehran international electronic music festival (TIEMF 2021)
Comp...
2021-02-2808 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerDaramad for Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone and Fixmedia, 2020, Zen DuoDaramad means to start music in Persian. Daramad for me, means composing a new piece which has a new experience. Conec- tion between contemporary and classical Persian music is the most important issue in this piece. For composing, I used an old Persian song “CHE SHAVAD BE CHEHREYE ZARDE MAN...”which was writen in Bayat-e-Turk. Bayat-e-Turk is an old Dastgah in Persian music and had been very famous for a long time.
2020-12-2306 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerDaramad For Tar And Fixmedia (2020)(فارسی در ادامه)
“Daramad” means to start music in Persian. Also, “Daramad” means composing a new piece which has a new experience for me. It is the first time that I write a piece for Tar and Fixmedia. It is clear that finding a new perspective of this instrument has a profound importance for me. However, Tar as a classical instrument in Persian music plays a powerful role but a few contemporary composers have worked on this instrument. I tried to find new techniques in Tar that were hidden.
Moreover, “Daramad for Tar and fixmedia” was commissioned by Yarava Electronic Studio (YES). I appreciate having for this...
2020-08-1710 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerWho Am I - for Clarinet in Bb and fixmedia (2020)Composer: Ali Balighi www.alibalighi.com
Performed by Kathryn Vetter
Bandcamp Audio: https://kathrynvetter.bandcamp.com/re...
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwTNMx381Tw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2HUwS58h-TWBFYOy_5_mPa7gdqTJZBisH89V30GH1cDFN0zAZVe659ICQ
Program Note:
"One of the most important questions is “who am I?”, and finding an answer for it is absolutely important for everybody in the world. How we can find an answer for it? Many philosopher tried to find an answer for this question, but I believe that it is not enough as the our world is changing every moment and...
2020-08-1502 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerDaramad for Violin, Bassoon, Piano & Percussion(2019)Composer: Ali Balighi
www.mcicomposers.com
Written for Front Porch
frontporchensemble.org
University of Michigan
"Daramad" in Persian means the starting of music, the moment when every performer would be ready to play. This music is made by a member of a traditional group and it describes the mode of concerts in traditional styles; however, nowadays neither traditional musicians nor younger players use this form in their current repertoires.
My piece Daramad was composed according to an old Persian music Be Soye To. This song is a famous piece which was written by Majid Vafadar in Dashti mode. Simple structure...
2020-01-2607 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerThe Birth of Tragedy (for Santor and Fix media)Composer: Ali Balighi
Santor: Pubeh Zare'i
«زایش تراژدی برای سنتور و فیکس مدیا» نام قطعهی از من که در شور سل و بر اساس موسیقی محلی «دستون تالشی» با صدای محمود به (لدوبه) نوشته شده است. البته آواز اصلی که در ابتدای قطعه میشنویم در شور سل بمل هست که برای کوک راحتتر برای نوازنده سنتور آن را به شور سل انتقال دادم. این قطعه اولین بار توسط خانم لادن شیخی در سومین فستیوال موسیقی معاصر تهران و بعد از آن توسط خانم پونه زارعی در شهر گنت (بلژیک) اجرا شده است. نام این قطعه هم از کتاب اول فردریش نیچه میآید. نیچه در این اثر، مخالفِ نفیِ بوداییِ شوپنهاور از اراده است. او استدلال میکند که زندگی ارزش زندگی کردن با وجودِ سختیهای بسیارش را دارد. نیچه جهان زیست را جهانی هراسآور و وحشتزا میبیند، اما برخلاف شوپنهاور که در نهایت تسلیمشدگی را واکنش انسان در برابر چنین هجومی تشخیص میدهد، نیچه با پی افکندن نیروی اراده و در واقع تسلیمناشدگی فلسفهای دیگر در قبال این جهانِ تراژیک ترسیم میکند: «رازی در جهان هست که زندگی را هراسآور و تراژیک میسازد»؛ اما «به یاری هنر می توان از این هراس و سویۀ تراژیک زندگی عبور کرد.» سنت فلسفی آلمانی از آنجایی که همواره به جامعۀ یونان باستان همچون تجلی جامعهای آرمانی و انسانی و آزاد مینگرد، نیچه نیز در بیان نمونهای عالی و حقیقی از کار هنری به دوران یونان و نیروهای آفرینندۀ آنها نظر دارد. نیچه معتقد است که «یونانیان به خوبی از راز آن دنیای پنهان باخبر بودند. بزرگی و عظمت روحشان در آن بود که تسلیم آن جهان نمیشدند، بلکه با آن میجنگیدند و همین برای آنان به معنای آری گفتن به جهان بود.» نمود این به مبارزهطلبی، جسارت و قدرت، دیونیسوس است. خدایی که اوج حرکت است و دشمن خمودگی، تسلیم و تحقیر: خدای رقص. «دیونیزوس بیپایان است: میرقصد، چون رقصی بیپایان، جسم را در فضا نمایان میکند. مکان را ردّ میکند و او ذات موسیقی است.» حالت موسیقایی، حالتی قالبی است که بر جان هنرمند در هنگامِ آفرینش هنری سایه میافکند. هنرمند با روحی دیونیسوسی، جرأت نه گفتن به شرایط موجود و امّا آری گفتن برای جنگ با زندگی خشن را دارد. در اینجاست که میتوان هنرمند را معادلی برای جانِ آزاده دانست.
از خانم پونه زارعی برای ضبط جدید این قطعه و همچنین دکتر سینا یوسفی برای تهیه کردن تمام امکانات سپاسگزارم و همچنین قدردان استاد بزرگوار جناب آقای محمدرضا درویشی با تهیهی گنجینههای بیپایان موسیقیهای محلی هستم. قطعهی «دستون تالشی» را در آلبوم «موسیقی حماسی ایران شماره ۱۹ موسیقی مازندران، گیلان، تالش » گردآوری: محمدرضا درویشی میتوانید بشنوید.
2019-06-1415 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerToo loud a solitudeCello: Ulrike Brand
Composer and live electronic: Ali Balighi
Recorded in :Sprengel Museum (Hannover, Germany)
2019-05-1708 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerChahar-Rah(SynthBeats)Composer: Ali Balighi
Performed by SynthBeats
2018 - Stony Brook University - New York
In Persian, Chahar-rah means crossing. The crossing always means arriving and getting away for me. The crossing is where that people see together, sometimes they walk away very fast or they stay and watch other. Arriving, departing…
The entire sound of this piece was recorded in my favorite crossing in Tehran. This crossing is where I went to university, I was falling in love and I grew up. I used the sound of street, the modern Persian music theory and a nostalgia sense in this piece.
2018-12-1405 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerKhane-HaftomComposer: Ali Balighi
Santoor: Puneh Zarei
Recorded by WRCMS in Canada
2018
2018-08-2606 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerA Little Piece For Violin And Live Electronics - Ali BalighiViolin: Neda Asadinejad
Recorded by Avaye Rood
2018-08-0705 min
2017-11-1804 min
2017-11-0403 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerDarya Khandid Dar Dor Dast... | دریا خندید در دوردست...Composer: Ali Balighi
Guitar: Ailin Arjmand
Photo: Parastoo Mussavi
Record: Delnavaz Studio
2017-03-1703 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerVertigo for Violin and Piano (Dedicated to Neda Asadinejad)Vertigo
Composer: Ali Balighi
Violin: Neda Asadi Nejad
Piano: Homayon Aramfar
Record, Mix And Mastering: Delnavazan Studio
Plz Download from: http://alibalighi.com/archives/175
سرگیجه
آهنگساز: علی بلیغی
ویلون: ندا اسدینژاد
پیانو: همایون آرامفر
ضبط: استدیو دلنوازان
سرگیجه اثری برای ویلون و پیانو است. این قطعه توسط ندا اسدینژاد (ویلون) و همایون آرامفر(پیانو) در استدیو دلنوازان اجرا و ضبط شده است. جا دارد که از زحمات بیدریغ دوستان نازنینم همایون آرامفر و ندا اسدینژاد تشکر کنم. همچنین از استاد مهربانم آقای کیاووش صاحب نسق که صبورانه که بنده را در راه بیپایان آهنگسازی راهنمایی میکنند و همچنین دوست خوبم سینا مذهب یوسفی (مدیر استدیو دلنوازان) که بدون هیچ چشمداشتی تمام امکانات این مجموعه را در اختیار بنده گذاشتند. بابت تمام زحمات و صبوریهای ندا اسدینژاد این قطعه را به ایشان تقدیم میکنم.
علی بلیغی
یک مرداد هزاروسیصدونودوپنج
2016-07-2204 min
Ali Balighi, ComposerThe Red Love (ft. Ali Balighi & Kosmee)Vocal: Kosmee
Composer: Ali Balighi
Mastering: Peter Bennborn
2015-06-2303 min
Ali Balighi, Composer06 - When Cried SanamComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0301 min
Ali Balighi, Composer05 - BirthdayComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0301 min
Ali Balighi, Composer04 - FilmsComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0302 min
Ali Balighi, Composer03 - TunnelComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0300 min
Ali Balighi, Composer02 - GameComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0300 min
Ali Balighi, Composer01 - Main TitleComposer & Piano: Ali Balighi
Kamancheh: Siavash Mollaian
A film by Fariborz Ahanin & Majid Sheida
2015-02-0301 min