Sasan Bahrami

Sasan Bahrami (born 1988, Tehran, Iran), also known by his alias Yellow Cream, is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and interaction designer whose practice spans electronic music, new media art, speculative design, and creative technology. He has been playing guitar across multiple styles for over 18 years, and began integrating electronic music production into his work in 2010. His musical output encompasses modern jazz, experimental electronic music, electronic rock, and fusions of sounds from the 1960s–1990s with contemporary production styles. He has released music through Noise à Noise, the Berlin/Tehran independent experimental label, including the track 'Ya Rab' on the Noise à Noise 19 compilation (2022). Beyond music, Bahrami is an active new media and interactive art practitioner. His notable projects include Noise Form (2018), a tangible interface that transforms audio signals into physical wireframe structures, which was awarded the TADAGRANT at TADAEX 07 in 2018; and Tangible Noise (2015), an earlier platform for physically representing analog and digital audio. He has collaborated with institutions including Waag Society (Amsterdam), University of Tehran's FabLab (Carbon Idea), and University College London. He holds a BSc and his first Master of Technology from Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus), where he was awarded the International Scholarship and six High Honor distinctions for his work in HCI and interaction design. His second Master's degree is from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), specializing in Urban Technology, where he worked with Barcelona Municipality, MVRDV, and Foster + Partners. He is currently a Ph.D. student, Teaching Fellow, and Research Assistant at Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University (Philadelphia), with a research focus on Speculative Design, grant writing for Rehab Robotics, and collaboration with the UPenn GRASP Lab and Recupero Robotics via the enAble Games project in the rePlay Lab. His academic work has been published by IATED (Spain) and the Indian Journal of Science and Technology. He has been recognized by Iran's National Elite Foundation as a Selected Graduate for Scientific Projects, and has been featured in Zard Magazine and interviewed by Aparat Group (Tehran).