KAMRAN SADEGHI ︎ABOUT

Kamran Sadeghi is a New York City–based composer, record producer, interdisciplinary artist, and curator whose work spans electronic music, sound art, multichannel composition, and video. He has created original music for dance, film, and site-specific environments, and his work has been performed in theaters, clubs, and galleries while circulating across electronic, conceptual, ambient, and modern classical domains. Attentive to how sound inhabits space, time, and the body, Sadeghi’s practice is process-driven and deeply rooted in listening. Born in Iran and raised in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, Sadeghi’s experience of cultural dissonance shaped a nonconformist perspective that continues to inform his work.

In the early 2000s, under the moniker Son of Rose, Sadeghi developed work based on reduction—distilling recordings of instruments down to their resonant tones. His practice explored microtonality, re-synthesis, electro-acoustics, auditory perception, and computer music. His self-titled 2005 debut EP was described by The Wire as having “a unique delicacy and poise… more like digital scrims made up of fluctuating groupings of microscopic events.” Soon after, he worked as an assistant to the legendary composer Morton Subotnick while contributing to Diapason, one of the first galleries dedicated to multichannel sound art.

Sadeghi’s performances, soundtracks, collaborations and installations have been experienced at Noguchi Museum, Kraftwerk-MaersMusic(DE) Louvre Museum(FR), HKW(DE), ICA(Boston), La Gaîté Lyrique (FR), Corcoran Gallery of Art(DC), CTM Festival(DE), KOW Gallery(DE), MUDAM(Luxembourg), MuCEM(Marseille), Centre Pompidou(FR), Berghain(DE) and Berlin Biennale, Museo Madre, National Museum of Singapore, Palazzo Reale in Milan, La Triennale, Radialsystem V, Funkhaus in Berlin.  

Recordings and productions are published on Sternberg Press, Vinyl Factory, LINE, SUPERPANG, Sacred Bones, Opal Tapes, Apollo Records and Dragon's Eye Recordings. As a music curator at platforms such as Fridman Gallery, Public Records and e-flux/Bar Laika Kamran has worked with Marina Rosenfeld, Aho Ssan, DeForrest Brown Jr., Hanne Lippard, Phontom Limb, Kyoka, Unsound Festival, Gábor Lázár, Qasim Naqvi, Ghostly Int., Afrikan Sciences among others.

From 2010 to 2018, Sadeghi was vital in the transition of the audio tour guide company, Soundwalk, into the group Soundwalk Collective. As a founding member, lead composer, sound artist, live performance director, music producer and co-creative director, Kamran developed, directed and produced the companies very first live performances and official music albums. 

Since 2005, Kamran has worked as producer, mix, and mastering egnineer on nearly 1000 songs from almost every genre imaginable and has cut an equal amount of short run lathe vinyl records, one-off dubplates and acetate disks. Kamran has mastered, engineered and mixed records out of The Bunkers Studio (NY), Strongroom Studios (UK), Scape Mastering (DE), The Magic Shop (NY), Metrosonic (NY) and Strange Weather (NY).