Sote is Ata Ebtekar, the Iranian composer who has spent three decades taking musical rules apart and rethinking them from the ground up, bending modal codes away from their tonal and rhythmic traditions toward vivid synthetic soundscapes, with releases across Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes, Diagonal and Mute along the way. Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran is an all-electronic affair, harmonically maximalist and broadly symphonic-synthetic, and it asks for active, full attention. Ebtekar describes it as a deliberately personal process, edging at times into self-therapy, a contemplating mind working through tolerance, destruction, compassion, misery, grace and tyranny in purely auditory terms. Some pieces set out to challenge structural habit and the short attention span; others pose a problem and resolve it, all through a fresh noise aesthetic and finely woven melody. Critics have heard in it a parallel Iranian science-fiction universe, the reimagining of a lost future. Green vinyl.

Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar composes music with a deeply-held conviction that rules and formulas should be deconstructed and rethought. He alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythmic tradition to achieve vivid, synthetic soundscapes. Over the last three decades, his work has been published by labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes, Diagonal, Mute and Morphine, among others. In 2018, he founded a new label called 'Zabte Sote', which focuses on releases by Iranian experimental electronic composers from around the globe.

Known for creating compositions that range from the delicate to the abrasive, using sounds both of acoustical and electronic origins, Ebtekar sees music as the expression of cultural habits in sound and anti-sound (silence). Seeking to expand such traditions he creates music that, while rooted in many cultures at once, belongs to none in particular. Sote's work deals with various blueprints, in particular his solo all synthetic music, his electroacoustic audio/visual group project, and his multi-channel sound installations. Sote is on the jury panel of The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and has created commissioned work for and performed at a.o. Berghain and CTM Festival (Berlin), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Cafe Oto (London), Jazzhouse (Copenhagen), TodaysArt Festival (The Hague), Bozar (Brussels), Ultima Festival (Oslo), Donaufestival (Krems), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Mira (Barcelona), Terraforma (Milan), and many more.