The line between poetry and music has always been a blurry one. Christopher Nolan recently claimed he cast musician and hip hop artist Travis Scott in his epic The Odyssey because the Homeric saga has been handed down through civilisations as “oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” and therefore he was directly evolving the craft. Now, perhaps more convincingly and certainly less commercially, Tehran-based composer Siavash Amini and Brooklyn author Eugene Thacker take this statement one step further. Songs for Sad Poets, Vol. III sees the creative duo deliberately breaking down poetry into microfibres to thread back through ambient compositions, thus merging music and poetry at a more atomic level.
Songs for Sad Poets, Vol. III follows Amini and…
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…Siavash Amini is a self-taught musician in rock and metal music, who later studied music for his university degree in Tehran. He belongs to a generation of young Iranian music enthusiasts who possibly had nothing except a personal computer and a dreadful dial-up internet connection. Electronic musicians like him were lucky enough to witness the unexpected rise of a genre in its pure artistic form. Electronic music in Iran was essentially introduced as an elite genre, and it took quite a while for it to be incorporated into popular styles. Raised and shined in this scene, where there were a handful of serious annual electronic music festivals in the 2000s and 2010s, Amini followed his path to become an internationally recognized musician.
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