Having made music through various means over the course of his long career – including electroacoustic music rooted in Iranian instrumentation, pure noise music, and analogue synthesis – since he and his family returned to Iran ten years ago, Ebtekar has made music purely inside a computer: "My family moved to Tehran with three suitcases each, so now I just use a computer – sanctions meant I couldn't ship anything back. If you have the skills and knowledge, you can achieve any sound you want."