Iku Sakan (JPN) / Babak Ahteshamipour (GR/IR) / Apu Nanu (GR)
Three sets of electronic and experimental sound by Iku Sakan (Japan), Babak Ahteshamipour (Greece/Iran) and Apu Nanu (Greece).
Iku Sakan is a electronic musician from Osaka, Japan. his music focuses predominantly on the potential of emotional developments through the repetitive rhythmic patterns, rotating harmonics, and resonating melodies. The decades of collecting constantly shifting sound materials, melding improvisation, and DJ’ing practices, has led him to create his own unique niche of organic music in the late 2010s. his most recent works incl. a remix for the French composer Yann Tiersen (via Mute Records) and the forthcoming musique-concrete-inspired tone poem LP “OMNITOPOEIA”.
www.ikusakan.bandcamp.com/album/human-wave-music
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and musician based in Athens, Greece. His practice is based on the collision of the virtual vs the actual, exploring topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity. His work has been presented and featured at venues, festivals and spaces such as Centre Pompidou, New Art City, The Wrong, Ametric Festival, Biquini Wax ESP, Experimental Sound Studio, Milan Machinima Festival, CTM Festival’s magazine, KIBLIND, [ANTI]MATERIA, und. Athens, Our Culture Magazine, ATTN: Magazine and elsewhere. He has released music on the labels Industrial Coast and Jollies, has shared the stage with artists such as HELM, Zoviet France, The Nam Shub of Enki, Gaël Segalen and has created video clips for artists such as Fire-Toolz, Digifae, B.MICHAEEL.
Known for his textural, deconstructed, and elegantly crafted compositions, Athens based artist and producer Apu Nanu blends complex harmonies and rhythms, showcasing his unique approach to sound design.
Artwork by Babak Ahteshamipour.