commissions



year: 2008
title: "kha variations | passing"
linfo: 4Culture / e4c | press release
description: A site specific four channel audio video installation creating a visual representation of sound. The amplitude and frequency of the artist-created soundscape generates data that then determines the color, motion and depth within a digital graphics environment. One part of this 4 channel installation can be viewed on the video section of this site.


year: 2008
title: "reflectons capture playback"
link: environmental aesthetics | gallery website
description: In the late 1970’s, the U.S. was more than 20 years into its nuclear power program. In Washington State, a consortium of public utilities began what was to be the largest single nuclear power project in the country’s history. Five reactors, divided between sites located near the cities of Hanford and Satsop, were intended to be a solution to projected energy demands of the rapidly growing region. The construction was suspended shortly before the facility was completed and what remains is a structure 420 feet across at the base, and rising to a height of nearly 500 feet with an uncanny acoustic experience quality. Over the past four years, a small team has worked to open the space to artistic interpretation. In 2008 Kamran Sadeghi was selected resident artist at Satsop in which he amplified a short electronic music passage into the open aired structure, recording the result of the tower's acoustic response. This result was played back into the space and captured over and over again, with each cycle the natural acoustics of the tower began to reshape the original passage. This approach captured the architectural integrity and holistic immediacy of the space while revealing the structural integrity of sound itself. The work was created on location and in real-time, allowing all natural elements such as wind and rain to play a part in the process. The result is a unique 25 minute sonic composition full of audible artifacts that document space, time and the environment surrounding the location.


year:2008
title: "the snow project"
iinfo: website | gallery website
description: electronic score and live performance with intergrated video and lights for coreographer Allison Van Dyck's "the snow project". Performed at the Lawrimore Project Gallery.


year: 2008
title: "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't"
info: Kamran Sadeghi was commissioned by Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey to create a live six channel sonic environment that will accompany "The Devil You Know Is Better Than The Devil You Don’t" at On The Boards and The Bates Dance Festival. The original score by Morgan Henderson was used as source material through which Sadeghi created an immersive aural foundation for Scofield's "feral ballet" technique and Shuey's twisted-yet-clean visual design.


year: 2007
title: "inner animal"
info: okok gallery
description: quadraphonic sound installation. the composition used sounds from the recordings of visual/ installation artist gregory euclide at work with various mediums installing, “I Have Been Remembering: Half-Lives & Half-Truths" at the okok gallery.
notes: in composing "inner animal' the emphasis was on the natural rhythm of the artists movements while working with different materials. the sounds were treated in direct response to the way in which the materials used in the installation were treated.