Ali Balighi

Publication: Article published in Metapsychosis Magazine

I am happy to share my new article, recently published in Metapsychosis Magazine.

Installation: Dastgah Excerpt at Texas Tech University

A 12-minute excerpt of Dastgah: Algorithmic Explorations of Persian Microtonality and Serialism, with video art, is playing at the Black Box theater at Texas Tech University as part of an audiovisual installation.

If you are in Lubbock, I invite you to take a listen and give me your feedback.

New Release: Dastgah

I am pleased to share a new audiovisual work, Dastgah, now available on YouTube.

New Release: Micromorphosis No. 1

The full version of Micromorphosis No. 1 is now available on YouTube.

On Air - On Site (2026)

Graphic Score No. 2

Publication: Abstract featured in Most Wanted: Music Research (MW:MR 2025)

I’m happy to share that my abstract, From Tape to AI: Tracing the Evolution of Electroacoustic Music Technologies, has been published by Most Wanted: Music Research (MW:MR 2025)!

Animated Sketch No.2

Little girl,
don’t cry.
Those beautiful stars you see in the sky
are lonelier
than you and I.

Perhaps
loneliness, darkness, and disgrace
have made them beautiful...

Little girl,
don’t cry.
Perhaps you, too, are a star.

-Ali Balighi

The Strength of Life

It was sorrow that rained down,
as I watched the slight stirring of a leaf in the storm.
Is there any return?
Will I be carried far from all that my heart longs to see again?
Will the mad wind—
clasping the small red leaf in its arms, crying out,
fleeing through mountains and cities—
ever remember our house’s small garden?

[The call of a dove drifts from behind the window;
perhaps, to her, silence means something else.]

I wanted to be a tree,
but I lacked the strength to let go of my leaves.
I wanted to be the wind,
but how could I ever, so gently, part the leaves from the tree?

[Is life not bitter,
no matter which way you look at it?]

But, but, but...
I know only one thing always
endures.
Yes, life!
Life is stronger than all the forces of evil.
This,
the weed between two concrete blocks told me.

-Ali Balighi

Animated Sketch No. 1

I’ve always loved the idea of painting and sketching—the simple magic of pulling a thought out of your head and putting it onto paper. But if I’m being honest, my hands never quite had the traditional skill to match my imagination. The passion was there, but the physical technique just wasn't.

Finding creative coding changed everything. It gave me a new way in, allowing me to use the tools I do understand—logic, math, and algorithms—as my brush and canvas. Animated Sketch No. 1 is my very first step into this world. I wanted it to capture the raw, jagged feel of a charcoal drawing, constantly shifting and breathing. It’s an imperfect, sketchy texture, but instead of relying on a steady hand, it’s brought to life entirely by the power of code.

Graphic Score No. 1

There was a voice deep within me,
That remembered not the meaning of day.
Was it night, or was it day?
As though something inside me has slipped away.

New Recording: Interwoven Soundscapes II for Flute and Fixed Media

I’m pleased to share a recording of my recent piece, Interwoven Soundscapes II for flute and fixed media (2025).

Concrete Poem No. 1

Concrete Poem No. 1 is an exploration of language as a physical, unstable force. Eight words — fragments of thought, incomplete sentences, suspended meanings — drift across the screen without resolution or destination. They can form a sentence, but never the same one twice. Each encounter with the poem is unique: the words collide, separate, and realign into endless possible readings. The piece questions the very act of reading: when words refuse to stay still, which meaning do you choose? Drawn from the vocabulary of absence and contingency — if, when, was, dead — the poem exists in the space between language and silence, between a thought that almost forms and one that dissolves before it arrives.

New Publication: Tracing Poetic Atmospheres in the Computer Music Journal

I am pleased to share that my article, Tracing Poetic Atmospheres: Multichannel Electroacoustic Soundscapes and Their Cultural Dimensions, has been published in the Computer Music Journal. This research explores the concept of “atmosphere” within multichannel soundscapes, examining how these immersive environments function as spaces that are felt and inhabited by the listener.