Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist, composer, and performer who creates sensory environments at the intersection of sound, light, acoustics, and technology. Sadeghi draws from these elements to accentuate time and space, and to play with the awareness that can materialize between their physical properties and the human perception.
Sadeghi has used prepared piano, 12 string guitar, found objects, electronics and sound reactive light and video during performances and gallery exhibitions. Sadeghi describes his sound and video works as "animated graphical scores" in which image and sound are created in tandem through a finely tuned generative process, leaving both sources with the capacity to dictate the outcome of one another. His ongoing work with contemporary dance has made use of the spacialization of sound by playing through up to 12 speakers individually. In 2008 Sadeghi used the inside of a defunct nuclear cooling tower as a resonant chamber, amplifying and reshaping his sounds for a final composition.
Kamran Sadeghi's work has received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire Magazine, Signal To Noise, e/i and several international online publications. Sadeghi’s performances, collaborations and installations have been experienced at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), ICA (Boston), Diapason Gallery (New York), 4Culture (Seattle), Staalplaat (Berlin), Decibel Festival (Seattle), DTW (New York), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), RAM (Rome), SICMF (Seoul) and others. Kamran Sadeghi currently lives and works in New York City.
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-January.01.2010 | Happy New Year!
-December 09 | online release | label: contour editions | title: "voltagemotion_1" | type: video | play it
-December 09 | Son of Rose | interview + review on tokafi
-December 09 | Performance | Kamran Sadeghi, Phil Niblock, David Linton, Katherine Liberovskaya
Monday 12/7, 8:00pm | 139 Eldrige St. New York NY | LMAKseries: "exploring ongoing inter-relationships between digital media , film, and music" |
-November 09 | Screening | SICMF (Souel, Korea) | Monday 11/30 | "Kha Variations-ETC" |
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-November 09 | Exhibition | at: Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia | Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue | Saturdays 11/7, 14, 21, 28 | 2-8pm | Kamran Sadeghi: "Sound + Video Works" using modular synthesis and the Nam June Paik "Wobulator" | Nicolas Collins: "Tall Poppies" multi channel sound and video | artist in attendance on 11/21
-October 09 | 10ms Perspectives on Microsound | at: Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia | Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue | group exhibition featuring multi-channel installations, sound objects, performances, lectures, texts, and other media. | details: here
Participating artists: Brett Ian Balogh, Riccardo Benassi, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, Rob Curgenven, Taylor Deupree, Ian Epps, Patrick Franke, Heribert Friedl, Richard Garet, Sarah Karp, Kenneth Kirschner, Thomas Köner, Tomas Korber, Damian Marhulets, Mamoru Okuno,
Kamran Sadeghi, Erik Schoster, Phillip Schulze, Bernd Schurer, Keiko Uenishi and Tamara Yadao.
Curated by Daniel Neumann
-September 09 | Experimental Television Center residency | ETC houses historically important equipment built by the late Nam June Paik and others
-September 09 | Governors Island Art Fair | New York, NY| sound and video exhibition | September 5 - 27 every weekend | 11am - 6pm | details coming soon
-May 09 | Kamran Sadeghi releases new record "All In" under the moniker Son of Rose through his label
Blanket Fields | www.blanketfields.com for reviews, info, and shop | www.sonofrose.com for project info
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-April 09 | LIVE // Saturday . April 18th . 12 midnight // WFMU Radio or 91.1FM // tune in // archived after the 18th
-April 09 | LIVE // sound + video // Thursday. April. 23rd at LISTEN SPACE // 195 Skillman Avenue . Brooklyn NY // Richard Garet // Kamran Sadeghi
-March 09 | now available // "Translations Of Opacity - For Michelangelo Antonioni" // Various Artists // and/OAR // including "16:9" by Kamran Sadeghi // FREE mp3 download // here
-Saturday 12.27.o8 // Portland OR // Someday Lounge // live adio video performance //
Kamran Sadeghi and DER artist Wyndel Hunt // map
- Seattle Post Intelligencer writes about "Kha Variations / Passing" installation at 4Culture // full article
"Perhaps the strongest piece in this exhibit, certainly the one best suited for the venue, is Kamran Sadeghi's musical bands of color. Color and sound are used to best effect here, with visual patterns generated by the music. The piece begins with fat bands of primary color, punctuated with each individual note. As the music becomes more complex and speeds up, the lines of horizontal pigment become thinner, piling up in skinny lines of pink and blue until a visual crescendo is reached. The piece ends with a monochrome hum, depicted in grayscale."
-11.06.08 | 6-8pm | installation "Kha Variations \ Passing" | reception \ premiere | 4Culture | press release
-09.20.08 | recording residency | environmental aesthetics | info *
* 420 feet across at the base, and rising to a height of nearly 500 feet,
this now defunct nuclear cooling tower will be the location for recordings
which will be used to create a 45 minute composition.
-09.27.08 | live audio video performance | decibel festival 'optical showcase' | info
-09.18-20, 25&26.08 | "the snow project" an evening length work of sculptured movement, live electronic score, interactive set and lights | tickets | location | website
-08.05.08 | video works "kha variations" will soon be showing at 4Culture's "e4c" gallery
-08.01.08 | new record "through thickness" is now available on d.e. records | details
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-Friday March 08 // real-time sound reactive video performance // BYDESIGN Festival at Northwest Film Forum //
-Feb. 27th 08 / Friday / 8pm // $5 // LIVE // The Chapel Perfromance Space // Son of Rose // Wyndel Hunt // Morgan Henderson
-Monday Feb. 9th 2008, 8pm // Diapason Gallery // 882 Third Ave. Brooklyn, NY //
and/OAR Label Showcase # 2 // Kamran Sadeghi, Ernst Karel, Richard Garet, Dale Lloyd, Ben Owen
-10.01.08 | "Through Thickness" review | The WIRE #296
"On the face of it, Through Thickness would appear to be another installment of impeccably high-minded electronic composition for Yann Novak's Seattle based Dragon's Eye label. And so it is – all obsessively-honed digitalia and crisp, ultra-percice editing. But the austerity of the conception and rigor of the sonic processing is counterbalanced by a satisfyingly physical thrust; Through Thickness forms part of Sadeghi's Kha series, which sets out to explore the possibilities of rhythm. The polyrhythmic complexity on display here is strangely reminiscent of the tabla patterns of indian classical music – firm downbeat buffeted by a stream of lighter accents, occasional pulseless longeurs suddenly revitalized by a flurry of perfectly calibrated and finely modulated impacts." -Chris Sharp
-08.1,2.08 | sound design for zoe scofield and juniper shuey dance co. | bates dance festival, Maine
-07.21.08 | new record 'through thickness' will be available in august on d.e. recordings | details
-07.18.08 | dragons eye recordings 3rd yr. anniversarry show | fr. july 18th 8-11 (early show) |
chapel performance space | kamran sadeghi 9:45 | wyndel hunt 9:00 | yann novak 8:15
-04.24 - 04.26 | "the devil you now is better than the devil you don't" | tickets + info *
* Kamran Sadeghi has been 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. The original score by Morgan Henderson will be used as source material through which Sadeghi will create an immersive aural foundation for Scofield's "feral ballet" technique and Shuey's twisted-yet-clean visual design.
-03.06.08 | performing kha variations | BYDESIGN festival | northwest film forum
-01.29.08 | new video excerpts posted + notes on audio production
-01.19.08 | live | audio video installation | kha variations | okok gallery
-02.22.08 | live | audio video performance | w/ yann novak + wyndel hunt | chapel space
-10.31.07 | 'Untitled (kha series)' | The WIRE #285 review | listen
"the wait of silence is integral to Kamran Sadeghi's "untitled" (from his Kha series), which proceeds initially in tightly honed fits and starts, with pauses of various durations between sections, before eventually coming together as a funky, slinky piece"
-09.27.07 | son of rose | new reviews posted | info
-09.08.07 | performance | percussions for alex martin dance co. | info
-06.27.07 | ColorFieldRemix, Washington, DC.
-09.04.07 | 'Untitled (kha series)' | 'cotton' compilation - DER | info