Mehdi Behbudi (Sound Artist) (b. 1982) is a sound artist and performer based in Tehran. He started to work and experiment with computer music since 1999 and from 2007 put more concentration on live performances in different spaces; indoors or outdoors. He studied composition in Tehran conservatory of music and is self educated in mathematics, physics, and electronics. He not only made performances and installations but also worked on realization and performance of pieces by Alvin Lucier, James Tenney, John Cage, Nader Mashayekhi, Peter Ablinger, and Georg Nussbaumer. In last ten years he has participated in more than 100 sonic projects in different cities of Iran and also in Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, and United States. In 2012 he founded Radical Tehran events and worked as an artistic director in different events like Sound-Tehran-Music.
I his works he’s not only working on sound as an auditory phenomenon with different physical aspects but also works on social and moral aspects of sound as material for artistic creation.

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