KAMRAN SADEGHI ︎︎︎VIDEO
Loss Less /live audiovisual performance excerpt / 2022 - currentLoss Less is a site-specific audiovisual work recorded inside the
defunct nuclear cooling tower Satsop in Washington State. It is an
exploration of sound and image while creating awareness of the use and
abuse of our natural resources. The video installation premiered at the
Louvre Museum, Paris and HKW, Berlin. The live performance consists of
single or multichannel real-time video processing combined with
location recordings and modular synthesis processed through an acoustic
replica using the natural resonance of the cooling tower.
Dissapearing Music ( for Nam June Paik )
In order to generate patterns you need to send it control voltage and the only way to record the image displayed is by rescanning the screen with a video camera. Inspired by the Wobbulator’s minimalistic design and Paik’s own work with the physicality of sound, Kamran decided to forego traditional musical notation and create pulses, clicks and pops using the E.T.C. studios Doepfer A-100 system and Korg MS-20 synthesizer.
These sounds were used to activate the the Wobbulator and generate electromagnetic patterns. For 5 days Sadeghi lived inside of the E.T.C. studio full of cultural history, 50 years of artistic legacy and inventive electricity. This release contains selected parts recorded live in 2009, mixed in 2022 and shared for the first time.
“I think sound is time sequence. And then if it contains content, like narratives, then it becomes movie, theater… if music has no power to let you enjoy it without seeing, then it’s not great music.”
—Nam June Paik, 1983
Magnetic Moments
Experimental Television Center
Recorded during my Experimental Television Center Residency using the Wobbulator and other video synthesizers made by Nam June Paik and video engineer Shuya Abe.
2009
"Kha Variations / Passing" - 2008
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Multi display public video installation with stereo audio Commissioned by e4c, Gallery4Culture, Seattle Wa.
"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, pil ing up in skinny lines of pink and blue until a visual crescendo is reached. The piece ends with a monochrome hum, depicted in grayscale." - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Multi display public video installation with stereo audio Commissioned by e4c, Gallery4Culture, Seattle Wa.
"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, pil ing up in skinny lines of pink and blue until a visual crescendo is reached. The piece ends with a monochrome hum, depicted in grayscale." - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Melting Point
Cohesion
single channel video w/ stereo soundOriginally screened in 2011 at Ende Tymes : 'Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation'
NYCulture - ETC