Music, Memory, and the Crisis of Meaning in Today's Iran

At the intersection of World Music Day and the realities of today's Iran, one must ask: Do our sounds still reflect our collective spirit? Anoushiravan Pouyan, a musician, in a note captures the turbulent pulse of the country's art scene and warns that our main crisis, beyond economic and executive constraints, is the struggle for the survival of meaning and the danger of music being transformed from a living, memory-rich language into empty entertainment.