Radif Recomposed by Chem XP, Pegah Zohdi

Album title
Radif Recomposed
By Chem XP & Pegah Zohdi

Composer's note

“Radif Recomposed” is a digital recomposition of Pegah Zohdi’s Santūr recordings released on her Radif for Post-Orientalism Sound.

The compositions are a reconstruction of inflections throughout Pegah Zohdi’s work. Like a meditative crate-digger’s dream, when a new sampler pad runs loops of melodic Persian instrumentation, each track builds a miniature world within the universe Pegah has provided.

Venturing into digital ambient experimentation and deconstructed techno patterns, Radif Recomposed begs to be visualized as it is heard. It stands as an integration of traditional music merging with technology, and the results this process holds.

Santūr recordings by Pegah Zohdi
Algorithmic recomposition by Chem XP"

Artist’s Biography | Pegah Zohdi

Pegah Zohdi was born in Tehran on December 31, 1992. She graduated from the Tehran Music School in 2010 and was the first winner of Santoor playing in the first and second festivals of music schools in 2005 and 2006 in Tehran, Iran.
She obtained an MA degree in music from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, during which time she studied the Radif of Persian classical music with Dariush Talaei and Majid Kiani. She also delved into the intricate details of music playing with Siamak Aghaei.

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