KAMRAN SADEGHI ︎ABOUT

Kamran Sadeghi is a New York City–based composer, record producer, interdisciplinary artist, and curator working across electronic music, sound art, multichannel composition, and video. His process-driven practice considers how sound inhabits space, time, and the body. He has created original music for dance, film, and site-specific environments, and his work has been performed in theaters, clubs, and galleries, circulating through electronic, avant-garde, ambient, and modern classical contexts. Born in Iran and raised in the United States during the Iranian Revolution, Sadeghi’s early 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.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, The 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, Phantom Limb, Unsound Festival, Gábor Lázár, 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, Sadeghi has worked extensively as a producer, mixing and mastering engineer across a wide range of genres, and has cut an equal number of short-run lathe records, dubplates, and acetate discs. His engineering and mastering work has taken place at studios including The Bunker Studio (NY), Strongroom Studios (UK), Scape Mastering (DE), The Magic Shop (NY), Metrosonic (NY), and Strange Weather (NY).