Dariush Derakhshani
Dariush Derakhshani is an experimental electroacoustic composer and audio programmer based in Santa Barbara. His research focuses on what he calls ecopoietic synthesis, where the resulting digital sound waves are modelled after natural phenomena; though the sonic reality of this process is capable of producing results that cannot be replicated in the natural sound world. This method of synthesis opens the door to a peculiar corner of the infinitely vast sound universe where the local sound objects mostly behave and feel the way we expect them to… but not impeccably. Exploring a fraction of these possibilities using stochastic methods has been the stimulating force behind Derakhshani's latest acousmatic works.
Derakhshani is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at the California University of Music, Santa Barbara under the supervision of João Pedro Olivera and Curtis Roads.
