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It can function as a visual and informal extension of my artistic activity. In contrast to the more structured presentation of compositions, research, and publications on my personal website, this platform provides a place for documenting aspects of my activities as a guitarist, performer, composer, and musician. Performances, musical experiences, and visual records can therefore be understood as part of the broader artistic context in which my compositional ideas develop.
This aspect is particularly relevant to my understanding of music as a relationship among sound, performance, material, and experience. The activities as a performer are not separate from my identity as a composer; they provide practical experience with instruments, techniques, performers, and listening situations that can subsequently enter my compositional thinking.
My presence in the Pure Data community documents an important technological dimension of the compositional practice. The work with Pd is particularly relevant to my algorithmic and computer-based compositions, where software is treated not merely as a tool for producing sound but as a compositional environment in which musical processes can be designed, controlled, transformed, and performed.
This connection is especially significant in relation to Clearnessism and Controlled Random Event. Algorithmic processes can establish precise relationships between musical materials while still allowing controlled forms of variation and uncertainty. My involvement with Pd therefore represents a continuation of the broader investigation into how compositional procedures can become part of the musical experience itself.
The MusicaNeo archive represents an important part of my public artistic record. It brings together compositions, scores, recordings, biographies, albums, and writings, making it possible to follow the development of my musical activity across different periods and genres. It also preserves materials connected with Clearnessism, including the original 2014 manifest and documentation of works and albums associated with that.
For this reason, MusicaNeo is more than an external profile: it provides historical evidence for the development of my compositional thinking. The coexistence of scores, recordings, conceptual texts, and descriptions of individual works makes it possible to observe the relationship between idea, material, process, performance, and musical result across my artistic practice.
The Faculty Staff Home Page documents my institutional position as a member of the Music Department at University of Guilan. This part of my professional identity is important because the activity extends beyond individual composition and performance into teaching, academic work, and the transmission of musical knowledge.
The academic position also provides an institutional context for the relationship between artistic practice and education that appears throughout my work. Teaching composition, performance, and musicianship creates a further environment in which musical ideas are tested, communicated, interpreted, and developed by others. In this sense, the university activity forms part of the wider educational dimension of my artistic research.
University of Guilan Laptop Orchestra
The University of Guilan Laptop Orchestra (UGLO) was founded in 2012 by me, together with some students of the Music Department at University of Guilan in Rasht. Conceived as a computer ensemble, UGLO explored new musical ideas through the combination of emerging software, different musical contexts, and collective performance. Rather than treating computers merely as tools for reproducing predetermined musical materials, the ensemble created an experimental environment in which technology could become part of the compositional and performative process itself.
UGLO is particularly significant in relation to my concept of Controlled Random Event. In this context, the laptop becomes an active component of the musical system, allowing sonic events to emerge through controlled processes rather than through a completely fixed sequence. UGLO therefore represents an important practical extension of my compositional thinking: a collective laboratory in which software, performers, structure, and controlled uncertainty interact to produce a new sonic world.
Musikdatenbank von Mica – Music Austria
My entry in the mica – music austria database provides a professional record of my artistic and academic identity. The database identifies me as a composer, performer, educator, music educator, musicologist, and author, and places the works within the fields of contemporary and classical music. It also records my education, awards, guitar activity, and position at University of Guilan.
Its importance therefore lies partly in its function as an external professional reference. Unlike a personal website, the mica entry situates me within a broader music-information network and confirms the multidimensional character of the career: composition, performance, education, research, and writing. The database itself describes its purpose as documenting contemporary musical life and provides a substantial searchable resource for composers, performers, works, and related activities.
The Development of Textbook Eyes and Ears
The inclusion of Eyes and Ears: An Anthology of Melodies for Sight-Singing documents a particularly concrete aspect of my educational practice. The book is an open educational resource containing approximately 400 systematically arranged melodies for sight-singing, originally designed for musicianship education. The project specifically identifies my solfege course at University of Guilan among its educational uses.
Its significance is therefore it demonstrates my engagement with structured music education and practical musicianship, alongside my activities as a composer and researcher. In the context of the broader work, teaching becomes another way of examining how musical structures are perceived, understood, and communicated, an educational dimension that complements my interest in making musical processes and relationships perceptible.
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