Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik), by KAMRAN SADEGHI

Video by Kamran Sadeghi using custom-built software and Nam June Paik’s original Wobbulator

Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik)

by KAMRAN SADEGHI

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////4 Lots going on here with macro, and micro dynamics. I’d believe a good headphone amp will fully illustrate the intricacies of this production. Digging it. Favorite track: Day Four.

Julia Govor One of the most beautiful work out there and here! And probably everywhere!!! Favorite track: Day One.

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1.	Day One 06:54	buy track
2.	Day One Part Two 03:08	buy track
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4.	Day Three Part Two 03:06 video	buy track
5.	Day Four 10:03	buy track
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8.	Day Five Part Three 01:36

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Kamran Sadeghi returns to LINE with a work utilizing the Wobbulator, a 1970s video synthesizer of the founder of video art, Nam June Paik. Sadeghi's previous LINE release was 2020's Loss Less (LINE_110).

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Soon after screening audiovisual works in the Seoul International Computer Music Festival in 2009, Kamran began his first artist residency at the Experimental Television Center (E.T.C.) in New York using the Nam June Paik’s Wobbulator—a video synthesizer made out of a modified black and white television monitor. A kind of prepared TV with its coils and tubes exposed.

In order to generate patterns you need to send it control voltage and the only way to record the image displayed is by rescanning the screen with a video camera. Inspired by the Wobbulator's minimalistic design and Paik’s own work with the physicality of sound, Kamran decided to forego traditional musical notation and create pulses, clicks and pops using the E.T.C. studios Doepfer A-100 system and Korg MS-20 synthesizer.

These sounds were used to activate the the Wobbulator and generate electromagnetic patterns. For 5 days Sadeghi lived inside of the E.T.C. studio full of cultural history, 50 years of artistic legacy and inventive electricity. This release contains selected parts recorded live in 2009, mixed in 2022 and shared for the first time.

"I think sound is time sequence. And then if it contains content, like narratives, then it becomes movie, theater... if music has no power to let you enjoy it without seeing, then it's not great music."
—Nam June Paik, 1983

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Kamran Sadeghi creates at the confluence of music and art. His compositions are distinguished by their penchant for intense focus, moments of profound elevation, unexpected transitions, and precise punctuations, all of which evoke the notion of crafting auditory pathways in the spatial realm. Kamran employs unconventional methodologies, including multi-channel composition, improvisation and moving image, in conjunction with custom-designed instruments, field recordings, and acoustic techniques. These multifaceted approaches converge to create visceral narratives within his work.

Sadeghi’s album "Loss Less" was recorded live inside a defunct nuclear cooling tower. The audiovisual installation premiered at the Louvre Museum (Paris) and HKW (Berlin). Kamran’s soundtrack "Approximation" was in the group show 'Broken Music Vol.2' at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. His collaborative album, "42.41" is with installation artist Zimoun. He contributed to the sound design with Matthew Herbert on the UK series TEMPLE. Other distinguished collaborations include Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Nan Goldin and Sasha Waltz.

Recordings and productions are published on Sternberg Press, LINE, Vinyl Factory, SUPERPANG, Sacred Bones, Opal Tapes and Apollo Records. As a music curator for Fridman Gallery, Public Records and e-flux/Bar Laika Kamran has worked with Marina Rosenfeld, Aho Ssan, DeForrest Brown Jr., Unsound Festival, Gábor Lázár, Qasim Naqvi, Afrikan Sciences among others. As a solo performer he has shared the bill with Vladislov Delay, Tim Hecker, Moritz von Oswald and Richard Devine.

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released October 13, 2023

Performed, Mixed, Mastered: Kamran Sadeghi
Made possible by the Experimental Television Center

Cover image: Wobbulator video stills

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