Organism: In Turbulence

Organism: In Turbulence / Navid Navab - Photo: Angelina Nikolayeva

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Organism: In Turbulence

Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent patterning

Navid Navab (IR/CA)

Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of the organ to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression. In concerts, Organism’s shifting metastable states allow for its energetic thresholds to fall into and out of compatibility with one another. Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.

St. Mary's Cathedral
Sat 6. Sep 2025 12:30 – 13:30
Sat 6. Sep 2025 20:00 – 21:00

Language //

EN

Max. Participants //

500

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  • Navid Navab

    Navid Navab is an antidisciplinary composer with a background in contemporary music, biomedical sonification, and philosophical biology. Navab’s recent creations meticulously stage uncanny forms of order by imbuing machines with a sense of liveliness through fusion with the excitable dynamics of matter. These investigative works orchestrate sensory attunement to forms of life, at the pre-metabolic border between breathing and not breathing, while cybernetically enfolding their excitable dynamics.

Credits

Concept, direction, composition, sculpture, programming, design, electronics, performance: Navid Navab Engineering, sculpture, lead design, electronics: Garnet Willis Production: Transductive Formations (www.navidnavab.com/company) | Assistance: Camille Desjardins, Jean-Michaël Celerier, Philippe Vandal, Evan Montpellier, Eric L'Ecuyer | Research partners: Topological Media Lab with Fonds de Recherche du Québec, SAT Montréal with Québec Ministry of Innovation | Residencies: Werktank, Recto-Verso, Hexagram, Milieux, III + FIBER With support from: Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal

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