Dyslexiscope

A composition For Piano and Fixed media by Habib Rahimi

Developed through the 2025 Summer Composing Mentorship

Mentored by Soheil Shirangi

Piano:Qin Lan Zhang

Published by Zang Records in August 2026

Dyslexiscope grew out of an inner confusion —a desire to make sense of things that resist
reading. The piece unfolds in two layers: one made from field recordings I captured during the 12-day war and transformed, and
another, voiced through the piano, that later begins to retell those same sounds in a dyslexic, distorted way. As it moves forward, the
background and foreground constantly exchange roles; what was clear becomes blurred, and what was distant suddenly feels too
close. The result is a fragile sonic landscape — somewhere between war, memory, and the instability of perception. Musically, the
work draws from Persian modes, especially Shur and Homayun, and from rhythmic patterns that pulse beneath traditional Iranian
music. These materials are reshaped into clustered textures and tempered harmonic colors, forming a tension between the natural and
the artificial, between clarity and collapse.
Dyslexiscope is not just a piece about distortion; it is about learning to listen through distortion — about seeing sound, and perhaps
the world, through a cracked lens that still reflects a strange kind of beauty.