The Iranian musician’s career has taken a fresh twist – concentrating on scale, nanotechnology and the quantum realm
If it’s love songs you’re after, Tehran-born and London-based Ash Koosha may be more fruitful for the scientifically minded music fan rather than the sentimental. The composer’s latest work, Guud, is a project in which he “deals with scientific and psychological questions”, and is inspired by an obsession with scale, nanotechnology and quantum realm. According to Koosha, the “nano-compositions” he creates are based on “the sonic behaviour of fractal patterns that exist within a stretched or rescaled sound wave but without pitch alteration”.
Guud is yet another fascinating turn in the musician’s career. He was sentenced to jail in Iran for putting on rock gigs, before he and his band Take it Easy Hospital applied for political asylum in Britain in 2009, with a Cannes award-winning film made about his journey in the process. It was in the UK that Koosha started to make this intimate, elegantly fractured, beat-driven music that he composes with classical music in mind.
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