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Iran Sanadzadeh

I'm a composer and improvising performer. I keep in touch via this newsletter, where I share work, thoughts and updates.

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Maybe September - Watercolours and Sketches

Hello Friends! I’ve loved drawing for a long time, and watercolours too. From about 2018, I started casually keeping a notebook of drawings when I travelled, and in 2021 onwards, it turned into a regular habit of sketching at gigs, hangs with friends, and then watercolours in and around the place. Pt turton Rupie Scoops Murphy D The collection of them, which I recently photographed, has come to cover all sorts of environments and encounters over the past few years, and I thought I’d share...

Hi Friends, It has been a very transit-heavy time, with lots of fun things going on. Upcoming: I’m at CCRMA, where along with Luna Valentin and Celeste Betancur I’m making a work entitled threefold, bringing our practices together in a work that uses virtual acoustics, gesture, AI and ALL SORTS OF BITS! We have things ...and maybe ourselves?? hanging from the ceiling and I can't wait to play the floors not on the ground. We’re performing on Saturday 21 June at 7:30pm PST. We’d love to see you...

Hi friends, This newsletter is coming as the end of summer is approaching and the equinox and autumn are making their imminent arrival known. This year, I’m hoping to move with more intention and clarity. I’m excited that my new work, Two Sequences, was just released by the lovely Burnt Seed Records. Made up of sounds of the space, feedback, objects, working with the Floors and the Table Floors, this work is made up of recordings of improvisations on these instruments (recorded by Hadyn...

Dwatercolour drawing showing rows of chairs, musical equipment and audience sitting from the back of the hall. One colour used on white background. Decibel Cage Variations concert.

Dear friendos, It’s been a while since I sent a newsletter, and I keep meaning to do so, wanting to encapsulate more of what’s been going on, and to recap some of the fun adventures I’ve been having. I’m giving up on that, because it’s delaying my ability to get this going. I initially wrote this on the 3rd of January and it’s taken me this long to send it. Here’s to a year of grace with the calendar. 2024 was a really big year. My musical practice changed so much with the trip to CCRMA,...

Hello friends, I’m excited to be writing again to you all, with updates and meandering thoughts, trying to get a routine around writing again. It’s come in bursts, which feel too few so far. As we settle into the colder months of this hemisphere, I’m loving the clouds and soup season, especially when it’s accompanied by updates from friends in lushous sunshine and rolling green hills. I sat on the couch for a few days with a tummy bug, and it’s been amazing so slow down enough to watch my...

Hi dear pals near and far, I'm at CCRMA with a big smile, reunited with wonderful pals to spend a week making music in a residency with the composers. Next week, we'll have a concert on the 7th of June, but in just under an hour, I'm going to play a solo show of my new set, Frames of Reference. If you're free and want to watch the livestream, the link is here. Gig starts at 7:30pm PDT You can also use this link to watch our concert on June 7. Much Love, I x

The less I write the less I feel like I can write. It’s been a while since my last newsletter to my friends, partly because I’ve been stuck away doing things and and otherwise because I’ve been hiding*. In the newsletter that follows, there are links to some fantastic musical moments and recordings of concerts that have been heart-filling since last email in January. I had a very different image of what the interim time would be like, and it's strange to think how time has gone in this...

||----------------------------------// Hi friends, It’s been a little while. I’ll be putting this longer newsletter in sections. Moving forward, for ease of reading, upcoming bits and bobs will be at the bottom, as is a link for buying music and merch etc. ----------------------------------// ---------------------------------// STORIES & UPDATES Last newsletter I sent was in advance of starting the launch tour of Ocean, Again, my recent solo Floors album. I played in Sydney, Adelaide and...

It takes a village to release an album I’ve been a little quiet, settling into the home and the studio, preparing for the album launch concerts coming up and collating my thoughts. The moment I released the album a heavy exhaustion came over me. I’d felt that so much weighed on the release and when it was done, holding the records in my hands, I was excited about how far we’ve come with this instrument (not to be Steve Jobs about the ‘we’, but it’s really not a one person endeavour!), and I...

Hi everyone, My solo album on the Floors is out now on PEOPLE SOUND. I've got the beautiful heavy vinyl, with all the little details Ollie and I poured over, sitting in my home, ready to send out to the world. I'm so excited about the sounds of the album to merge with the sounds of your listening space and living room, the crackles in the album and that of a fire stumbling over each other, and hopefully, it giving you a bit of space and joy. The digital version and the vinyl are slightly...