University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

The producer Sote makes mind-melting electronic music at the center of a vital scene in Tehran. On his latest record, he applies his customary digital processing to traditional Persian instruments.