ODG232 : Arash Azadi / Eerie
“Eerie” is the new album from Arash Azadi, composed during the Autumn of 2025 in Yerevan, Armenia.
Here is his artist statement:
"Eerie is the record of a compositional loop between human intuition and algorithmic transformation. I begin each piece with free improvisations on digital piano—gestures, harmonies, and micro-rhythms that emerge from embodied practice. I then re-enter this material through AI systems using my own text-scores: prompts that specify instrumentation, style, genre, and form. The machine’s outputs are not endpoints but raw matter. I subject them to electro-acoustic procedures—slicing, re-arrangement, time-stretching, granulation, and other techniques from the lineage of musique concrète—until a new organism appears.
The resulting works move along a porous border where avant-garde construction meets popular idioms. You will hear collisions and fusions with EDM, hip-hop, trap, djent, and metal—not as pastiche, but as a deliberate grammar for contact. My question throughout has been: how might we carry the formal and timbral experiments of the avant-garde toward listeners who recognize themselves in more familiar soundworlds? Eerie proposes a vocabulary in which extended techniques, dissonant harmonies, and acousmatic textures converse naturally with beat-driven architectures.
My stance toward AI is instrumental, not devotional. Technology, used with care, can extend the radius of human attention and imagination; used carelessly, it can flatten them. I treat AI as an esoteric tool in the original sense—an instrument for inward inquiry as much as outward effect. By redirecting the systems with my own materials and constraints, I seek access to a wider field of the musical collective subconscious: patterns we half-remember, affects we haven’t yet named.
The “eerie” in this music is not horror for its own sake, but a productive uncanniness—the feeling of moving between the known and the unknown, of returning changed. Each piece traces that passage: from improvisation to algorithmic mediation, from opaque texture to shared pulse, from private intuition to public address. If the music occasionally feels like a dream that suddenly clicks into focus, that is by design; it aims to stage recognition without surrendering ambiguity.
Eerie is therefore both experiment and invitation. It argues that avant-garde practice can be legible without compromise, that complexity can meet immediacy, and that new tools need not sever us from human stakes. I hope the album helps loosen the bottleneck between experimental music and broader publics—bypassing academic gatekeeping where necessary—so that our common listening can expand alongside our means of making."
Enjoy this incroyable journey!
Digital release on the 30th of January 2026.
Track listing:
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