Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His deep love for rich sounds and textures spans a diverse range of styles, from hardcore club music to collaborations blending traditional acoustic instruments with electronic elements, as well as solo experimental electronics. Over the past three decades, he has released music on labels such as Warp, Diagonal, SVBKVLT, Sub Rosa, Morphine, and Opal Tapes. On his first album of 2024, *Ministry of Tall Tales*, Ata intensifies his compositional approach, attempting to process the immense frustration, anger, confusion, helplessness, and fear he has experienced in recent years, largely due to the sociopolitical circumstances in Iran and his surroundings. His latest release, *Sound System Persepolis*, is a futuristic hardcore album featuring pummeling rhythms and harmonically complex computer music. The album draws its name from Persepolis, the historical administrative center and beating heart of the Persian Empire.

Ján Solčáni is a Slovak, Berlin-based sound artist, curator and theoretician working with the phenomena of culture that are perceivable and expressible with sound. He organises a lecture series on contemporary art practice and theory Videogram, is co-founder and curator of music label Skupina, curator of the listening archive Unseen and he organizes activities of the Roman Radkovič Collective.

tawısh (тауыш/tawış/طاويش — voice or sound in Bashqort) is a live concert series that aim to challenge the predominant listening patterns within the culture of the Far West, and focuses on music that transcends traditions and borders. Curated by HMOT. 

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