Born in Tehran in 1983 to world-renowned composer and performer Hossein Alizadeh, Saba studied the Iranian Kamancheh with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor, as well as photography and later experimental sound art with Mark Trayle at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Influenced by the conceptual approaches taught there, Saba Alizadeh’s music is based on Iranian traditions and scales, only to deconstruct and abstract them in the next step.