Ali Balighi

Composer & Scholar — electroacoustic, contemporary, and cross-cultural music

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.

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