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Migrant Cloud is a musical exploration of Persian poetry delivered through Western operatic traditions. Four original poems. Eight tracks. Contemporary Persian verse arranged purposefully to be projected through the elaborate machinery of Western opera. The album cover captures the essence of this experiment, two traditions, two vocabularies of transcendence, engaged in a harmonious motion (read more…)

Over the past year, I’ve been working at the intersection of a peculiar creative challenge: composing contemporary Persian poetry specifically for Western operatic delivery, collaborating with AI. The technical demands were extreme: Composing and delivering sustained bel canto legato phrasing, controlled vibrato across full dynamic range (pianissimo to fortissimo), bass-baritone and tenor tessitura, cello-led orchestration with saxophone and piano, dramatic narrative arcs across (read more…)

Migrant Cloud is the first full musical album created through human-AI collaboration for Persian-speaking audiences, where original Persian poetry is rendered in Western operatic voice in collaboration with AI. To produce this album several problems were addressed: Farsi phonetics rendered through predominantly English-trained models, operatic delivery using models optimized for pop, semantic preservation (read more…)