Soheil Soheili

Soheil Soheili (b.1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and a researcher from Iran. His experiences have converged toward the field of humanities and culture. He started learning and playing music in the early 90s, attending a music institute for ‘Tombak’ in 1991. His paternal family includes passionate learners and admirers of Persian literature and music.
He later became associated both with the punk-rock and hip-hop sub-culture through playing in a jam band with his friends ‘Zartosht’ [prior to] “Patriam” (2002). Being present during the proliferation of art-movements in Iran and establishment of critical art forms, e.g. graffiti art, hip-hop, skating and gaining experiences from a small circle of supporting artists, he and his friends found their ways to adjust and renovate an abandoned swimming pool into the a cement-skatepark to also practice graffiti; the “Street Rats” became known as the first graffiti crew in Tehran back in 2005. (The collaboration and the label became defunct on 2009). While many of the stories and primary arrangement of those meetings are not to be disclosed to the public anymore, the whole effort was rewarded with a ‘reputation’ in Tehran, something which is kept to this date. His skating career became an alibi to also prepare live sets for the skatepark, and of course as an entry to electronic music in 2008, you may be able to guess the rest of story with the names lie Parkingallery, Saroseda, et al., In the meanwhile, the community of friends in ‘Patriam’ was developing into more bands and gained accolades, before reaching a bitter closure as the ‘Free Keys’ in Brooklyn, NY (2013)….
Soheil holds a B. A. in English language and Literature (2015) and has been active as a translator for a number of scholars, academic research projects and journals since then, with articles ranging from Urban Studies to Sound Theory, and music. Being a drop-out student of engineering, and a keen learner of mathematics and electronics, he is interested in and employs coding and microcontrollers to make his own DIY devices. He now works as a record producer (mixing specialist and mastering advisor) and a private promotion agent. He owns a private post-production space ‘Studio A Tehran’, and works with a team for supporting truly independent artistic-music movements in Iran (Classical, Jazz, Electronic and Contemporary music).