Whispers of the Dastgah New York Performances

At Roulette, Amir Nojan and Tehran-born tonbak player Pejman Hadadi present *Whispers of the Dastgah*, a set rooted in the modal architecture of Persian classical music. The program centers on how melody moves through dastgah frameworks while percussion shapes time, tension, and release. Hadadi, who has lived in the United States since 1990, brings a diasporic continuity to a tradition often transmitted through apprenticeship rather than notation. One clear takeaway is how the duo treats rhythm as structure, not accompaniment, letting form emerge in real time.