SALAR ANSARI

Salar Ansari is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, sound engineer, producer, DJ,  and educator. He is the Director of Resonance at POETIC SOCIETIES, Co-founder of Feeder Loft in Detroit, and Co-founder of Analog Room, an international music residency in Iran and UAE. His work is focused on the intersections of analog and digital production, sonic and musical curation, site-specific sound installation, community-based collaboration, underground space-making, and professional exchange-based studio recording for black and brown musicians.

Through the 15 years of his professional career, Salar has worked to entangle the chaotically resonating sounds and struggles of distant minorities at their fullest, free from the stereotypical cultural impositions, mainstream reductions, and succumbing of the global capitalist music industry. In 2012, he co-founded Analog Room, the first electronic music residency that nurtured and connected the electronic sounds of the Middle East to the globe. Since he migrated to the US in 2015, he has been a vibrant contributor to the new wave of sounds in Detroit.  So far, he has recorded and produced over 50 productions in collaboration with an incredible array of musicians in this music capital  of the globe.

Salar’s work is a reflection of his life’s poetries and struggles across delicacies, distances, arrangements, and concealments. Coming from the oppressed ancient traditions of poetry, dance, and music of Iran, he uses his craft to help himself and his audience to cope and grow beyond the systematic global censorships and oppressions of expression. As an educator, Salar has lectured at The Interlochen Center for the Arts, SAE, and Red Bull Music Academy.

Among his collaborative acts are “DETE” with Ian Fink and Rafael Leafar and “Everyday Crisis” with Luis Resto and George Rahme. 

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