Unstable Objects-Electroacoustic Studies on Sound and Materiality
Matin Peymani
This album unfolds within the field of electroacoustic and acousmatic music, approaching sound not as a compositional object but as a material condition shaped by transformation. The work is built around four sound sources—a bell, a plate, a reed, and a string instrument—each treated not as a fixed entity but as a mutable sonic body. Rather than emphasizing instrumental identity or technique, the album attends to the behavior of matter in time. Changes in material character—density, elasticity, resistance—become audible as shifts in timbre, resonance, and temporal articulation. Sound emerges here as the trace of matter undergoing variation, revealing its internal tensions rather than external expression.
The music resists narrative development and thematic progression. Instead, it unfolds through states, surfaces, and thresholds, where sonic form arises from the interaction between material presence and temporal perception. Listening becomes an act of sustained attention, oriented toward gradual transformation rather than event-driven change. Situated between research and artistic practice, the album aligns with a musicological perspective that understands composition as the organization of conditions rather than gestures. In this sense, the work proposes an acoustic archaeology: a listening practice in which sound is perceived as sedimented material history, unfolding across a continuous durée.
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Rect Plate Solo 8:090:00/8:09
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0:00/8:06
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Orbit-String Solo 7:300:00/7:30
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Bell Solo 4:190:00/4:19