Katayoun aka discourse is a DJ, selector, and a long-time digger of Iranian music. With a knack for excavating rarities, her mixtapes are skillfully curated, blending soothing melodies and funky rhythms with a soulful ability to shape sonically dynamic environments that exude warmth and push beyond borders. As a music archivist and activist, Katayoun curates her sound around particular themes, shedding light on underknown genres and overlooked gems in Iranian music history, markedly adding to the few existing anthologies of music from Iran. Sonic Imaginaries is a show with sounds spanning from soulful Persian Avaz to jazzy tunes, upbeat funk, Latin rhythms, and synth from Iran, and beyond. Bringing to the fore a host of underknown gems and narratives by way of musical storytelling, Katayoun’s work has long recontextualized Iranian music of the 60s and 70s from a generic and reductive realm of ‘nostalgia’ and oblivion into a specific and sonically elusive space of universality, temporality, and relationality.