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Ata Ebtekar
12+ albums
contemporary classicalelectronicAllcomposermusique concrete
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Ata Ebtekar aka Sote (b. Hamburg, Germany) is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His music has been published by various companies, such as Warp Records, Sub Rosa, Digitalis, Morphine, Sonic Arts Network plus others. Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthetics. Sote's goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. His compositions and multi-channel installations are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary pattern of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His passion for all music especially, all forms of electronic music, and his extensive involvement in the sound art academia world, has led him to compose in a wide variety of musical styles with a strong emphasis in electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs. He has a firm conviction that rules and formulas must be deconstructed and rethought; hence he alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition) to achieve vivid synthetic soundscapes. In order to accomplish dynamic expression on electronics, gesture and texture, he employs various synthesis languages and dsp techniques in a modular sound environment. Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar believes that music is a cultural h
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An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 6
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Persian Electronic Music Yesterday And Today1966-2006
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Drinking The Goat's Blood
Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966-2006
Ornamentalism
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Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966 - 2006
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An Anthology of Noise Electronic Music, Vol. 6
Dear Iran, Miniature Engines Throb In Time For Your Beating Heart
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Persian Electronic Music, Yesterday And Today 1966-2006
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An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music /6- Sixth A-Chronology 1957-2010 [Disc 1]
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an anthology of noise & electronic music / sixth a-chronology 1957 – 2010
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Ornamentalism : Sote / Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra