Iranian New Music Series P.5 – Axiom of Choice

Text by Dawoud Kringle Axiom of Choice, a southern California based group who dares name themselves after a mathematical concept (i.e. an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that the Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty) is someone to be reckoned with.

Iranian New Music Series P. 4 – Hafiz Modizradeh

In Chromodal Discourse… Text by Dawoud Kringle The approach to improvisation that Ornette Coleman pioneered in the late 1950s and early 1960s rewrote the book on musical improvisation. However, Coleman’s paradigm shift was only the beginning. San Francisco based composer, saxophonist, and musical theorist Hafez Modirzadeh is among the forerunners of a significant transformation in […]

New Iranian Music Series P. 3 – Fared Shafinury

Text by Dawoud Kringle Austin, TX based composer, vocalist, poet, Persian setarist and multi-instrumentalist Fared Shafinury is one of the more iconic and unique figures among the Iranian-American diaspora, balancing two seemingly dissimilar cultures. It has been said of him that he “effectively unearthed his ancestral roots in classical Persian music and poetry, as well as reinvigorating […]