As Sote, Ebtekar is equally at home in concert halls, galleries, or clubs. Over the last two decades, he has released on labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Morphine, Diagonal, and Opal Tapes. Ebtekar’s compositions and installations weave expansive sonic tales that exhibit a strong engagement with electro-acoustic techniques, sound design, microtonal systems, and polyrhythmic motifs. His vivid soundscapes employ various synthesis strategies and DSP techniques, both in analogue and digital environments.

Ebtekar composes music with a deeply-held conviction that rules and formulas should be deconstructed and rethought. A pivotal figure of the electronic music scene in Iran, he alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythmic tradition to achieve vivid synthetic soundscapes.

His acclaimed electro-acoustic albums Sacred Horror in Design (2017) and Parallel Persia (2019) are testament to Sote’s unique capacity as a composer with both acoustic instrumentation and synthetic material. 2020 saw the release of the five-track album Moscels (Opal Tapes), described by Boomkat as »daringly iconoclastic and ravishingly future-curious.« His new album Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran drops this spring on Sub Rosa, with an accompanying live AV show created with Tarik Barri.

A driving force behind Tehran’s vibrant electronic music scene, Ebtekar is also founder of Zabte Sote, a sub-label of Opal Tapes focussing on Iranian electronic composers, as well as co-founder of the SET Festival in Tehran.