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Milad Mardakheh shares ‘Random Walks’ album
” Bringing us perhaps the best example of his creativity and experimental flair, Milad Mardakheh shares his recent record, the aptly titled Random Walks, released via the Zabte Sote imprint. The album is a seven-track exploration of the intersections between improvisation, computer-generated randomness and Persian classical music. This work stands as an incredible representation of his creative vision, showcasing his ability to merge the worlds of algorithmic computer music with the modal traditions of Persian classical music…” Read more
Milad Mardakheh’s “Improvisation in Rāst Panjgāh”: A Fusion of Tradition and Technology
” Milad Mardakheh’s “Improvisation in Rāst Panjgāh” is an engaging track that combines ambient sounds, feedback, and drone elements to create a captivating auditory experience. Experimental in nature, the track serves as the opening piece for his album Random Walks, which delves into the realms of improvisation, random number generators, computer music, and Persian classical music…” Read more
Milad Mardakheh’s Random Walks – A Complex Interplay of Tradition and Technology
” In Random Walks, Milad Mardakheh, the Iranian-born, UK-based composer and sound artist, offers an innovative and deeply introspective journey through the convergence of Persian classical music and algorithmic computer music. Released on October 10th, 2023, this album is an exploration of the profound relationship between human creativity and computer-generated randomness, embodying the artist’s personal and cultural struggles, and the unpredictable nature of both art and life….” Read more
Random Walks by Milad Mardakheh
” The advent of powerful computers is upon us. No doubt. Many are terrified – terrified about what it means for humanity, but also concerned with how technology impacts the art of composition. But for computer engineer-composer Milad Mardakheh, who has completed a PhD in handling cancer data and presenting it as a sonic portfolio, he has taken this dichotomy of the blitz of technology obliterating art; he did what other people wouldn’t dare – marrying them together to forge a whole new sound world…” Read more
Interview with Canvas Rebel magazine
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ECLIPSE
‘Eclipse’ is an interactive, immersive sound installation which explores spatial perception, human-computer interaction and audio processing. The key objectives of this project are to promote listening, spatial and self-awareness, and present an innovative application of machine learning and UWB indoor positioning technology in Music/Sound Art… Read more
The installation was hosted at the Dome Room, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, UK.
Spectral Karaoke @ Pan–Pan
Red Snapper + Spectral Karaoke
Spectral Karaoke Collective supporting Red Snapper @ Rich Mix, London + The remix of Red Snapper’s Space Sickness, published by Lo Recordings.
Random Walks Album
Instincts and Archetypes
FluCoMa Podcast
Sound Bar – Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Live-improvised solo performance as part of the Sound Bar concert series, exploring new music from the students and staff at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff UK.
Chaos?@theNLT presents: Spectral Karaoke
Live-improvised performances with Simon Smith, John Rivera Pico, and group improvisations with the Spectral Karaoke collective as part of the Chaos? Electronic Experiments nights at the North London Tavern, London UK.
BMO Xmas Party
December 22nd 2022 – 7:00 PM
Live-improvised audiovisual performance as part of the Birmingham Modular Organisation’s Christmas Party, at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham UK.
RISE
December 11th 2022
Rise is an electroacoustic work about the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran. Almost all the used sounds, apart from some synthesised material, were gathered from videos of protests, news reports and talks circulating on social media platforms (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) during the first 3 months of the uprising: October-December 2022.
EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) Birmingham
October 27th 2022 – 6:30 PM
Live-improvised performance with Simon Smith, at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham UK.
DRONE Bath
September 10th 2022 – 6:00 PM
Live-improvised performance of ambient drone as part of a large contingent of musicians, at the Moseley Baths, Birmingham UK.
BEAST FEaST 2022: Resonances
June 29th 2022 – 3:00 PM
Premiere of the fixed ambisonic work, Immortality, featured in Concert 2 of BEAST FEaST 2022: Resonances, at the University of Birmingham (UK). This science-art, computer music/acousmatic piece explores the concept of immortalization in cancer cells and was composed using the sonification of protein/RNA data derived from cancer research, utilising custom-built, Max/MSP sonification patches.
Photo by BEAST
June 28th 2022 – 7:30 PM
Live improvised, multichannel performance with Simon Smith, featured in Concert 1 of BEAST FEaST 2022: Resonances, at the University of Birmingham (UK).
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Eastern Incantations
March 19th 2022 – 8:00 PM
Live, audiovisual, group improvisation by BEER (Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research) featured in the Eastern Incantations concert series at Centrala Gallery (UK).
Performers:
Scott Wilson
Milad Mardakheh
Simon Smith
Norah Lorway
Visuals:
Milad Mardakheh
BEAST@Centrala
March 11th 2022 – 7:30 PM
Data Dialogues – 8-channel, live-improvised computer music performance at Centrala Gallery (UK), exploring the relationship between the performer and AI-based, data-driven processes, using an ensemble of Max/MSP patches and the Makenoise modular synthesizer.
Photos and video by BEAST
BEASTdome
November 6th 2021 – 7:30 PM
The first in-person BEAST concert since the pandemic, featuring live diffusion of Sustaining (An Ecological Neoplasm), at the Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham.
Photo by BEAST
Responses X Closing Night of ‘Modal Interlacement’ Exhibition
July 30th 2021 – 8:00 PM
Live performance of the improvised work, Modulating the Modular, using A setup of data-driven modulated Make Noise Tape & Microsound Music Machine, concatenative synthesis and binaural spatialization. featured at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham UK.
ICMC 2021 – International Computer Music Conference
July 25th-31st 2021
Live performance of the improvised work, Modulating the Modular, using A setup of data-driven modulated Make Noise Tape & Microsound Music Machine, concatenative synthesis and binaural spatialization. featured at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham UK.
klingt gut! KLG 2020/21, 5th International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio
May 12th-15th 2021
Online feature of the fixed work Evading, alongside a paper presentation on composing Electroacoustic/Computer-music about cancer using the sonification of Protein/RNA data in cancer cells @ klingt gut! KLG 2020/21, HAW Hamburg, Germany.
Photo by KLG 2020/21 – HAW Hamburg
BEAST FEaST 2021 Recalibration
April 22nd-24th 2021
The premiere of the work Malignant Angiogenesis – a collaboration between Milad Mardakheh and Ehsan Hemmati-Farāz, resulting in a live-improvised, data-driven audiovisual piece exploring the ability of cancer cells to create new blood vessels. The work utilizes Protein/RNA data derived from cancer cells to generate sounds and real-time visuals.
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January 29th 2021 – 7:00 PM
The fixed stereo work, Cell Death by Apoptosis, is featured alongside the works of other Experimental Electroacoustic composers and sound-artists on Twitch and YouTube. The piece explores the death of cells in normal vs. cancerous cells, and uses sounds generated by the sonification of Protein/RNA data derived from cancer cells.
Photos: further_in x BEAST Concert Poster
The Takeover w/ Wetlocker on Reform Radio
September 8th 2020 – 9:00 PM
The fixed stereo work, Cell Death by Apoptosis, is featured on Reform Radio’s online streaming programme The Takeover w/ Wetlocker. The piece explores the death of cells in normal vs. cancerous cells, and uses sounds generated by the sonification of Protein/RNA data derived from cancer cells.
Photo: The Takeover w/ Wetlocker Poster
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