Sote presents Sound System Persepolis

25th Nov 2024 25th Nov 2024 20:00 open end

Support: Behrooz Moosavi

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Sote

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Morphine RaumTickets 14€

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Under the moniker Sote, Ata Ebtekar deftly weaves the rich sounds and textures of hardcore club sounds and acoustic and electronic instrumentation both futurist and traditional. Opening the night, the woozy rhythmic noise and sonic manipulations of Behrooz Moosavi react to memory warp and societal dissolution. 

 

Photo: courtesy of the artist

A driving force behind Tehran’s vibrant electronic music scene, Ata Ebtekar is the founder of the Zabte Sote label, a platform to promote experimental and electronic music in and across the Iranian diaspora. His latest LP Sound System Persepolis on Diagonal revisits and actualizes his unique take on synthetic hardcore to once again push the very limits of underground brain/body music. 

  • Sound System Persepolis [DIAG065], by Sote

  • Sound System Persepolis [DIAG065], by Sote

Taking its name from the beating heart and administrative center of the historical Persian Empire, the harmonics, rhythmic textures and buffeting decay conjure the sense of a monumental sound rig playing at earth-shaking volume—capable of displacing huge volumes of atmosphere, yet with barely a kick or a snare in sight. This music is not only meant to be heard but physically felt by the listener, its brutalist vibrational polyrhythms acting as a high-velocity, high-resolution sensory overload that is at once cathartic and ecstatic: a medium for both escape and release for the body and the brain.

Behrooz Moosavi’s work spreads across the multidisciplinary; aside from his skills as a musician, producer, DJ, songwriter and performer, he’s also a concept designer, video/projection mapping expert, and curator, initiating the Tehran Contemporary Sounds arts and music festival, collective and label in Berlin in 2015. Ever-evolving, his music lurks uneasily through the grimy pummel of rhythmic noise, woozy ambience and mind-warping loops. His 2022 release On Ontological Death breaths heavily an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist edge honed razor-sharp and an outlook of dissolution that blurs memory and sound at the center.

  • On Ontological Death, by Behrooz Moosavi

  • On Ontological Death, by Behrooz Moosavi

His follow-up to that album, the upcoming Zabte Sote release On Schizophrenic Ears and Amnesic Listening, is an auditory memory in becoming. Inspired by Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and their Schizo-analysis of politics, culture and subjectivity, the album is the result and a continuation of Behrooz Moosavi's »schizo-listening« in his auditory memory since moving to Berlin from Tehran. Made up of tape manipulations, loops, and other digital / analogue techniques, it attempts to dehistoricize and re-historicize the musical heritage that he has brought with him to Berlin.

Live visuals will be performed through the evening by Janna Heiß (Mmaria).

Accessibility

Youth 16–18 years of age can join unaccompanied by an adult. Young children should be accompanied by an adult. 

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