KAMRAN SADEGHI ︎ABOUT

Artist Statement:
I am interested in sound and music for their impermanence, non-object nature, physicality, and architectural integrity. My work explores the materiality of sound, its interaction within physical space to create sensory environments that play with our awareness and human perception.  

My discipline is often site-specific and guided by thematic research, using controlled experimentation, abstraction, and intuition while working with synthesis, acoustics, sound, light, and video. I draw from a wide range of topics, including environmental issues, nature, biology, socio-political events, subculture, historic events, literature, and human perception.

Biogrophy:
Kamran Sadeghi is a composer, record producer, interdisciplinary artist, and curator based in New York City. His work incorporates sound art, multi-channel composition, architecture, moving image, modular synthesis, and field recordings. This layered practice explores the intersection of interior and exterior worlds—physical, cultural, and psychological. Born in Iran and raised in the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution, Sadeghi’s experience of cultural dissonance shaped a nonconformist perspective that resonates throughout his work.

Extremely process-driven, with a catalogue built on live takes and custom-designed sounds, Sadeghi emerged in the ’00s improv, electro-acoustic, and electronic-music scene under the moniker Son of Rose, sharing the stage with artists such as Fennesz, Tim Hecker, and Vladislav Delay. His self-titled debut EP was described as “..digital scrims made up of fluctuating groupings of microscopic events”- The WIRE. Sadeghi went on to work as an assistant to legendary composer Morton Subotnick and at Diapason, one of the first galleries dedicated to multi-channel sound art.

Kamran’s album Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik) was recorded while using the Paik/Abe “Wobbulator”. “Loss Less” was recorded live inside a defunct nuclear cooling tower and the audiovisual installation premiered at the Louvre Museum (Paris) and HKW (Berlin). Kamran’s soundtrack “Approximation” was in the group show 'Broken Music Vol.2' at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Kamran’s collaborative album, ’42.41’ is with installation artist Zimoun. Other distinguished collaborations include Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard Archives, Nan Goldin, Matthew Herbert and Sasha Waltz.

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.

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.

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 Sadeghi 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).