In the first half of the thirteenth century the palaces located in the northern area between
Euphrates and Tigris were managed by robots and machines.Cezari's work Kitab Fi Marifat El-Hayal
El-Handasiya (the book of mechanical knowledge about automatons) unites scientific knowledge
with practical application and is useful for the discovery of mechanical frauds.
The figure on the cover of the album represents an automatic construction which served its owner
during his ablutions. Similar automatons could perform music on numerous instruments.
On this album, Murat Ses performs his impressions of the timeless and boundless context of the
civilization
Some technical and structural information:
The self-programmed sounds on the synthesizers base on the typical characteristics of local
Levantine instruments as zurna, mey (low-key-zurna), ney and kanun.
Some solo passages use typical timbral colors of Mehter ensembles consisting of numerous wind
and percussion instruments (wood/brass) which are also composer's own programs.
The scales in the compositions contain 1/4 tones of micro-tonal areas, which give the original
authentic flair of the Levant.
The rhythmes are as diverse as 9/8 and 4/4.
Some parts of the music have Central Asian roots and structures of the historical Levant.
Mehter:Musical ensemble playing Ottoman military music of the Janizaries that had
immense influence on Mozart and Beethoven.
Levant: Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions in part
(e.g. Anatolia/Mesopotamia)
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