Performing Sunday 5 April

Ata Ebtekar AKA Sote is one of the leading figures in Iran’s electro-acoustic scene. Co-founder of Tehran’s experimental music festival SET, and with releases on revered labels like Warp, Sub Rosa and Morphine, Ebtekar has devoted a career to exposing and challenging the notion of music as an expression of cultural habits. Through his compositions, multi-channel installations and live performances, Ebtekar alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythmic tradition to achieve vivid soundscapes. At Rewire 2020 he’ll present a synthetic “Persian” experience in the form of his latest work, ‘Parallel Persia’, created in collaboration with santour player Arash Bolouri and tar player Pouya Damadi. Both musicians will join Ebtekar live on stage.