NUM
interdisciplinary duo, focusing on sound art, audio visual performance, and sound design, consisting of Maryam Sirvan and Milad Bagheri, founded in 2010 in northern Iran.
NUM is an interdisciplinary duo, consisting of Maryam Sirvan and Milad Bagheri, founded in 2010 in northern Iran. NUM’s concentration is on electroacoustic music, sound art, and multimedia performance/installation, where they can create immersive audio (video) compositions with the help of digital signal processing and data manipulation. Throughout the years of their activity, NUM have participated in several festivals, art residencies, interdisciplinary projects, and exhibitions in west Asia, Europe, and Canada. The duo/couple moved to Calgary in 2021.
MARYAM SIRVAN
Maryam Sirvan is an Iranian sound artist, vocalist, and composer based in Calgary. Her works explore different possibilities of blending noise, processed voice, field recordings, and electronics. She has been half of the multidisciplinary duo NUM since 2010. She has released three solo albums as well as several releases with NUM.
MILAD BAGHERI
Milad Bagheri is an Iranian music technologist, sound artist, electroacoustic music composer, and audio engineer. He has been a composer, performer, producer, sound artist, coder, visual artist, and sound engineer in the duo NUM (since 2010). He is based in Calgary, Alberta.