Prints of Persia

Persian traditional music, as indian classical, has always seduced me. Hypnotic harmonics of the santoor, narrow melodies and repetitive patterns. You can definitely feel a past rich in culture and emotion in it.

I've been following the protest events after Iran election on the 12th of june, on Twitter. It's been very reactive, hundreds of tweets per minute on average. Iranian students were twitting from universities. And then, thousands of people from anywhere in the world were forwarding the updates, live pictures or mobile videos.

At some moments, the network was really acting as an organized team of co-workers. As social websites were censored in the country, iranians had to access it via proxies. So some Twitter users were posting valid adresses of proxies, from where others could also connect and access site to spread their updates.



So let's meditate on that and finish by plungeing into the stunning persian-jazz of Dr LLoyd Miller. He was a multi-instrumentist who used to perform often on Iranian TV in the 70's, when western music was still not banned from the country. Definitely worth a dig.