Courses Taught: SA201 Basic Recording 1, SA304 Digital Audio Workstations 1, SA308 Digital Audio Workstations 2, SA305 Audio Post Production 1, SA 407 Audio Post Production 2
Education: BAS in Sound Arts, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts

Ata is an electronic composer and sound artist. His compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary pattern of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His music has been published internationally by various companies, such as Warp Records, Sub Rosa, Sonic Arts Network, Isounderscore, Digitalis, Dielectric Records, Record Label Records plus others. Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthetics. Ebtekar’s goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. He is interested in applying micro–tonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs within a new electronic framework. He has a firm conviction that rules and formulas must be deconstructed and rethought; hence he alters some of these modal codes from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition).

He uses various recording methods such as music concrete and electro–acoustic techniques, as well as more conventional ones to challenge the way we hear, and more important how we interpret micro–tonal music within an untried and unfamiliar sonic structure. In order to accomplish dynamic expression on electronics, gesture and texture, he employs various synthesis languages and dsp techniques.

Ata ’Sote’ Ebtekar believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti–sound (silence). Therefore, he generates music without a specific culture, which he believes to be “the other sound.”