About

Milad Khosravi Mardakheh (b.1991) is an Iranian composer, sound-artist, programmer and researcher. He has an undergraduate background in computer engineering, and has been an eclectic musician and composer of various styles and genres, namely Rock/Metal, Film/Theatre, Contemporary Classical, Acousmatic, Experimental Electronic and Computer music. Mardakheh holds an MMus degree in Composition from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (2017), and a PhD in Music Composition from the University of Birmingham (2021). His doctoral thesis features a comprehensive portfolio of electroacoustic and computer music, live performances, audiovisual works, and software interfaces reflecting cancer as a disease, written using the sonification of biomolecular data derived from research conducted at Barts Cancer Institute in London, UK.

His current practice and research interests focus on the sonification of data, machine-learning / artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and the composition / live improvisation of computer/data music using bespoke tools in Max/MSP and SuperCollider. Mardakheh’s work has been featured and published in various academic journals, International conferences/symposiums as well as music festivals, radio programs and concerts, including Leonardo Journal, NIME (International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression), ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), klingt gut! KLG (International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio), annual International BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) Music Festivals, Sound/Image Research, Reform Radio and Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Kungl. Musikhögskolan).

His debut album Random Walks is a collection of semi-improvised experimental computer music, published on the Zabte Sote label, which explores a juxtaposition of Persian Classical Music and Algorithmic Computer music. He is also one of the founding members and organisers of the Spectral Karaoke improvisers’ collective.

Mardakheh is currently Lecturing in Electronic Music Composition and Creative Music Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London & Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.