Dariush Dolat-Shahi (b. 1935)

Zahab (Tar and Electronic)

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Dariush Dolat-shahi is an Iranian-American composer and instrumentalist on the tar, the traditional Persian lute. His compositions include electronic and instrumental music as well as music for traditional Persian instruments.

First work in electronic music

My first exposure to electronic music came when I was a student in Holland. In Iran, I had been part of a group of four people who used to get together and listen to music by Schoenberg, Berg, Ligeti … but not specific electronic compositions. If I had heard any electronic music before being in Holland, I don’t remember that it had any significance to me. But before I moved to Holland, I created my first piece for tape and string quartet or chamber string ensemble, which was kind of an introduction to electronic music for me. I had a Groendig, a small, heavy, 50-pound German tape recorder. I recorded on one channel and then played it back while recording on the other. It was really a test with sounds, but not a real composition.

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Electronic music is still far away from acoustic recordings, the guy behind the instrument, the guy who has played for 40 years, the guy who is mixing it all, the placement of the microphones, everything having a history. Like a jazz recording. [turns on stereo] There’s an incredible room, an incredible atmosphere in a pure analog recording. It’s amazing. Every day, that’s my goal. To reach this richness.

That should be the target of every electronic musician, because the sound design of putting the frequency here and this frequency there—to separate all frequencies. It’s the only thing we can do. It’s our expression.
-Ricardo Villalobos

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Phonetic Music by Ernest Robson with Electronic Music by Larry Wendt
book published by Primary Press & Dustbooks, USA, 1981

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