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A 1910 Casavant pipe organ is rescued from impending gentrification at a heritage site in Montréal and brought back to life as Organism, an experimental instrument and investigative platform for stochastic patterning via turbulent processes of formation. In this acoustic solo performance, Navid Navab improvises with Organism to explore ways in which its turbulent thresholds manifest unstable timbres and intricate sonic self-organization. With no digital sounds, Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.

Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of the organ to liberate and sound its hidden turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic restraint.

Navid Navab (IR/CA) is recognized as a media alchemist and antidisciplinary composer with a background in contemporary music and biomedical sonification. His work illuminates the intersection of investigative artistic practices, media archaeology, and philosophical biology and is characterized by sculptural machines that engage with transductive structures of liveliness. Navab’s recent artistic works orchestrate sensory attunement to dissipative formations and uncanny forms of order that emerge from machinic engagement with the excitable dynamics of matter.

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