ALT Iranian Label Noise à Noise is releasing their compilation Noise à Noise 23: Noise Against the Silence in four volumes: Noise and Glitch, Contemporary and Avant-Garde, Ambient and Drone, and Field Recordings. This compilation opens the Western calendar year 2023 with contributions from Iranian artists living in Iran and abroad, and with pieces submitted by colleagues near and far. We wish everyone a year with more peace, more equality, physical and emotional safety, and the right to speak your mind wherever you are. ***We are experiencing upload issue, yet working on replacing the small-duration excerpts with the full-length for at least of the tracks here shortly. As of January 17th, 2023, the album is live on Bandcamp. It will be on Spotify, Apple Music, and similar online-music distribution platforms a week to two after the preorder ends on Bandcamp, while excerpts of the pieces are considered as a preview on Soundcloud.

ALT Noise à Noise proudly presents “Politics-Aesthetics II” by Ehsan Saboohi. This is the second collection among a few albums with similar titles and numbers in sequence that he has composed, or have planned for composition throughout the next season; similar to the previous album, it is an ongoing project, too. An album that is under development, but won't be pending the release as the pieces are going to gradually appear here on Bandcamp on a weekly basis during the pre-order period. Read more: ehsansaboohi.musicaneo.com postorientalism.com This collection is twenty-four variations of ‘Quad’, a Television play by Beckett. A piece for four players, light and percussion. Sounds find their ways throughout the performance according to its script. Here a portion of the play’s instructions: ‘....Four types of percussion, say drum, gong, triangle, wood block. Each player has his particular percussion, to sound when he enters, continue while he paces, cease when he exits…..”.