Visioner-Symphonic Poem

Matin Peymani

Visioner is a symphonic poem that unfolds not as a linear narrative, but as an auditory experience of a timeless world. In this work, time is not treated as a measurable quantity, but as a mode of presence—one in which Read more

Visioner is a symphonic poem that unfolds not as a linear narrative, but as an auditory experience of a timeless world. In this work, time is not treated as a measurable quantity, but as a mode of presence—one in which events do not succeed one another chronologically, but coexist within an open and shared space. The composition opens with distant, unseen vocal sounds that function neither as characters nor as narrators. Rather, they operate as an act of calling—an auditory gesture addressed to those who are willing to hear and to see. These voices mark a transition from the concrete toward the unbounded, opening a space in which reality and imagination gradually merge.

As the work unfolds, the listener is drawn into a timeless domain where surreal states emerge not as dramatic events, but as successive layers of experience. The music moves through a boundless field in which orientation dissolves, and the sensation of being lost appears not as absence or lack, but as a release from fixed structures. The vocal parts do not represent individual identities; instead, they embody human freedom as an existential condition. They articulate an enduring inner resilience—a persistence of freedom across changing circumstances, without capitulation.

In the final section, the music gradually returns to the present moment. This return is marked by lightness, as if the encounter with another reality had only briefly touched the lived world before withdrawing once more into concealment. The work is dedicated to the Bahá’ís and to all free people of the world. The work was performed in November 2024 by the DKDM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anu Tali.

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Clouds Around a Line

Matin Peymani

This electroacoustic album unfolds from a single sonic source: a solo Eastern instrument whose articulations and gestures are recorded, analyzed, and resynthesized. The transformed sound does not accompany the instrument; Read more

This electroacoustic album unfolds from a single sonic source: a solo Eastern instrument whose articulations and gestures are recorded, analyzed, and resynthesized. The transformed sound does not accompany the instrument; it follows it— as a cloud generated from the sound itself. What emerges is one sound perceived across multiple temporal and spatial layers.

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Sensing the Wind's Gentle-the ligeti quartet

Matin Peymani

Sensing the Wind is a string quartet that investigates sound not as representation, but as a constitutive force in the formation of reality. Rather than depicting nature as an external scene, the work approaches sound as Read more

Sensing the Wind is a string quartet that investigates sound not as representation, but as a constitutive force in the formation of reality. Rather than depicting nature as an external scene, the work approaches sound as a medium through which space, time, and orientation become perceptible.

The compositional impulse originates from an embodied experience of walking in the Alps during a summer day. However, this experience is not translated into narrative imagery. Instead, subtle environmental phenomena—such as the movement of air through trees, the friction of gravel underfoot, and distant human presences—are treated as perceptual traces that inform the internal logic of the music.

At the core of the work lies an exploration of how sound organizes perception. Through the use of advanced sound-based techniques and spectromorphological parameters—such as spectral width, density, and brightness—the quartet constructs distinct sonic characters and movement patterns. These parameters are not ornamental, but structural: they function as agents that articulate directionality, motion, and spatial awareness within the musical field.

Microtonal scales and extended string techniques are employed from the outset, not to imitate natural sounds, but to model the composer’s physical and sensory engagement with them. This approach enables a focused investigation into how auditory phenomena shape our understanding of orientation, distance, and temporal flow, transforming listening into an active perceptual process.

Formally, Sensing the Wind departs from linear development in favor of a parallel, sound-based structure. Multiple sonic layers coexist without hierarchical prioritization, allowing the music to be perceived as a stratified field of simultaneous processes rather than a sequence of events.

The quartet invites the listener into a mode of listening that is immersive and exploratory. By suspending conventional musical expectations, the work opens a space in which sound reveals its capacity to reorganize perception and to disclose reality as something continually formed through sensory encounter.

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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 Read more

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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Studies in Equal Temperaments-19, 13, 31, 46 EDO

Matin Peymani

This album emerges from a sustained listening-based exploration of equal divisions of the octave, treating tuning systems not as theoretical frameworks but as spatial conditions for sound. Focusing on the 19-, 13-, 31-, Read more

This album emerges from a sustained listening-based exploration of equal divisions of the octave, treating tuning systems not as theoretical frameworks but as spatial conditions for sound. Focusing on the 19-, 13-, 31-, and 46-EDO systems, the work approaches pitch organization as a navigable field rather than a hierarchical or melodic structure. Electronic sound serves as the primary medium through which movement, contour, and texture are articulated. Rather than illustrating tuning systems explicitly, the album invites the listener to experience the perceptual spaces these systems generate. Intervals are perceived as trajectories, densities, and directional forces, while shifts in tuning produce corresponding changes in sonic form and spatial orientation.

The music avoids linear narrative and thematic development, unfolding instead through the gradual organization of sonic spaces. Each piece establishes a listening condition in which relationships between pitch, texture, and temporal continuity are experienced as non-centralized and non-teleological. Situated between research and artistic practice, the album treats tuning as a generative structure rather than a corrective mechanism. Listening becomes an encounter with divided space—an acoustic environment in which sound derives its internal balance and motion from the tuning system itself.

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Tablet of Visitation

Matin Peymani

In 2021, as part of the Boshra project, a sacred and prayer-based musical work was composed for the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra. The composition explores the relationship between sound, devotion, and collective Read more

In 2021, as part of the Boshra project, a sacred and prayer-based musical work was composed for the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra. The composition explores the relationship between sound, devotion, and collective experience, approaching music not as a representation of faith, but as an auditory act of presence, reflection, and communal resonance within a ritual context.

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Piano For Prelude and Fugue

Matin Peymani

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Haft Eqlim Tar &Orchestra

Matin Peymani

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Javedan

Matin Peymani

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