IRAN SANADZADEH is a musician, and the designer of the Terpsichora pressure-sensitive Floors. Their compositions and performances focuses on new possibilities of expression that an extended relationship with newly designed instruments can offer.

Iran has been continuing the development of the Floors since 2015 in collaboration with composer Sebastian Collen. The Floors was a finalist in the 2023 Guthman Prize for Musical Instruments.

Their music explores sculpting manifold parameters of sound with few levers of control. In slowly evolving music that marries synthesised round tones with manipulated sample control, her music shapes a textural evolution that invites deep listening to subtle sonic changes. Trade-offs made in performance with instruments, in negotiating limits of movement and materials shapes the slow evolution of soft sounds in Iran's work. 

(c)Alexandra Davies @flowersthroughfences