Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation

The outcome is, therefore, presented in the form of a portfolio of original works along with this thesis that is produced to contextualise the project’s concurrently theoretical and practical engagement with and investigation of the case at hand. <br><br>Furthermore, through a grounding in personal experience, this text provides reflections on the author’s relevant backgrounds and in-volvements, both inside and outside Iran, to further uncover the com-mon processes of production-consumption within experimental elec-tronic music networks in Iran.

It investigates how his own practice has performatively taken shape in contact with, while mutually influencing, the material subject to scrutiny in this work. In so doing, the thesis aims to balance the particularities of practice-led (practice-based or artistic) research with generalities of engaging with histories and sto-ries, while highlighting the perspectives through which the author, as a situated embodied agent, was afforded a particular understanding of the ‘emergent’ forms of experimental electronic music practice in Iran.