navid navab
alchemist . multidisciplinary composer . tabletopCosmologist
Amsterdam, Netherlands
// May 31, 2025
// FIBER Festival
⋗ at Orgelpark
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert]
Amsterdam, Netherlands
// May 30, 2025
// Context program, FIBER Festival
⋗ at de Brakke Grond
⋗ Turbulence (in)Formation - [artist talk]
Matane, Canada
// May 16 - June 15 2025
// L'événement PHOS
// Complexe culturel Joseph-Rouleau
⋗ PLENUMOPHILEIA
⋗ [installation, tangibleFlux, Microcosm no.3]
Beijing, China
[exhibit extension 1month for Beijing Gallery Week]
// May 30 - June2, 2025
// Art, Science and Technology Biennale
// 798CUBE Museum
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [exhibit]
Zagreb, Croatia
// May 14, 2025
// Gibanja Festival + Kontejner present
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert]
Zagreb, Croatia
// April 17, 2025
// Kontejner
⋗ Transductive Resonance - [artist talk]
Zagreb, Croatia
// April 16-30, 2025
// KONTEJNER Gallery
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [solo exhibit]
The Hague, Netherlands
// April 3-6, 2025
// Rewire Festival + iii, Proximity Music
⋗ Duitse Kerk
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [solo exhibit]
The Hague, Netherlands
// March 25, 2025
// Artscience Forum + Royal Academy of Art
⋗ “Transductive Resonance” - [lecture-workshop]
The Hague, Netherlands
// March, 2025
// iii: Instrument inventors
⋗ Organism - [residency]
Beijing, 798 Art District, China
// Jan 1 - May 30, 2025
// Art, Science and Technology Biennale
// SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON
// 798CUBE Museum
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [exhibit]
Leuven, Belgium
// Nov 15, 2024
// Werktank Art Factory
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert, excerpt]
Leuven, Belgium
// Oct 28 - Nov 19, 2024
// Werktank Art Factory
⋗ [Residency]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 5, 2024
// Ars Electronica Festival
⋗ Post City
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 4-8, 2024
// Ars Electronica Festival
⋗ Theme Exhibit, Post City
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [installation]
New York, NY
// Sep, 2024
// IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
⋗ “A Framework for Multimodal Medical Image Interaction”
⋗ [Journal Article ] ch.HS / PubMed / IEEE
Montréal, Canada
// Aug 23, 2024
// MUTEK Montreal
⋗ Transductive Formations - Studio
⋗ tangibleFlux + presentation - [open studio]
Montréal, Canada
// June 20, 2024
// ELEKTRA: 25th Anniversary
⋗ Arsenal Contemporary
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert]
Montréal, Canada
// Moment Factory, June 18, 2024
⋗ Adventures in co-Creating w/ Excitable Matter [Talk]
Montréal, Canada
// May 31 -July 21, 2024
// ELEKTRA Biennale
⋗ Arsenal Contemporary Art
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [installation]
Toronto, Canada
// May 24, 2024
// Gardiner Museum
⋗ Là où cueillir la chute
⋗⋗ [gestural sound concert]
Montréal, Canada
// March 2, 2024
// Nuit Blanche Mirage
⋗ Eastern Bloc + Ateliers Bellevile
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [installation]
Québec City, Canada
// Feb 10, 2024
// Mois Multi Festival
⋗ La Nef
⋗ Organism | In Turbulence - [concert]
Québec City, Canada
// Feb 1-11, 2024
// Mois Multi Festival
⋗ La Nef
⋗ Organism + Excitable Chaos - [installation]
Namur, Belgium
// Oct 26, 2023
// KIKK TALKS
⋗ La Bourse
⋗ Adventures with Excitable Matter:
From Music to Surgery [talk]
Namur, Belgium
// Oct 26-29, 2023
// KIKK Festival
⋗ Le Delta Museum
⋗ AQUAPHONEIA - [installation]
Zurich, Switzerland
// Sept 4-9, 2023
// Medical Augmented Reality Conference
⋗ Balgrist University Hospital
⋗ Surgical Sonic Interaction Design [Keynote speech]
Montréal, Canada
// Aug 22, 2023
// MUTEK Forum
⋗ [panel discussion]
Lisbon, Portugal
// June 10-19, 2023
// Trust Collective, [residency + performance]
⋗ We Move Together or Not At All
⋗ [durational performance in sonified greenhouse]
Montréal, Canada
// April 27, 2023
// Hexagram Gala
⋗ Organism, [in progress solo concert, 30 min]
Montréal, Canada
// March 4, 2023
// Montreal / New Musics Festival (MNM)
⋗ Organism, work in progress - [solo concert, 40 min]
Montréal, Canada
// Feb 25, 2023
// GRMS + Montreal / New Musics Festival (MNM)
⋗ Organism - [in progress solo concert, 30 min]
Montréal, Canada
// Feb 24, 2023
// Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
+ GRMS
⋗ ’instrument et l’humain en mutation - [panel]
Québec City, Canada
// Feb 6-20, 2023
// Volet Pro, Espace 400e Gallery
⋗ Hybridation: écosystéms et éclatements
disciplnaiires - [artistc talk]
Québec City, Canada
// Feb 6-20, 2023
// Mois Multi Festival
⋗ AQUAPHONEIA - [alchemichal sound installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Dec 7-11, 2022
// MAI theatre
⋗ We Move Together or Not At All - [5 x performances]
⋗ [durational performance in sonified greenhouse]
Québec City, Canada
// Nov 10-24, 2022
// Salle Multi
⋗ Organism - showcase of work in progress - [concert]
Québec City, Canada
// Nov 10-24, 2022
// Recto-Verso
⋗ Creation Residency
Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard, Canada
// Sept 17, 2022
// Sociability of Sleep Research-creation Network
⋗ Sensory Attunement Workshop: From fungal
temporalities to time(s) of sleep
Barcelona, Spain
// June 11, 2022
// KonventZero + ISEA
⋗ We Move Together or Not At All
[residency + durational performance]
Victoriaville, Canada
// May 20, 2022
// Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville
⋗ Organism, In Turbulence
[comissioned ensemble composition]
Montrèal, Canada
// April 22, 2022
// Rio Tinto Planetarium
⋗ aerospace engineering, smart materials and
earth’s future [panel]
Montrèal, Canada
// Mar 24 - April 10, 2022
// Produit Rien Gallery - [group exhibition: Se Voisiner]
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
⋗ microcosm no.2: plenumélliptique périgée
Zurich, Switzeland
// Sept 3, 2022
// Medical Augmented Reality Conference
⋗Balgrist University Hospital
⋗ Surgical Sonification - [keynote]
Guelph, ON, Canada
// Aug 14, 2021
// IF (improv fest)
⋗ Rippleganger+NavidNavab
Montréal, Canada
// May 19, 2021
// Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, La Sala Rosa theatre
⋗ Rippleganger+NavidNavab
Namur, Belgium - postponed due to Covid-19
// Nov 2020
// KIKK Festival
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Oct 2020
// ISEA
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis - [installation]
⋗ Sensory Cosmologies - [panel]
Bilbao, Spain - canceled due to Covid-19
// May 27-30, 2020
// Prototipoak Festival, Azkuna
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Montréal, Canada - canceled due to Covid-19
// May 22-24, 2020
// OFTA, Edifice Wilder
⋗ Elle Barbara’s Black Space Mission:
An Afrodiasporic Odyssey
[concert + interactive av scenography]
Montréal, Canada - canceled due to Covid-19
// May 11-18, 2020
// FIMAV: Festival international de musique actuelle
de Victoriaville
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
Barcelona, Spain
// Feb 1-29, 2020
// Eufònic Festival
⋗ Exhibit at Arts Santa Mònica
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Feb 14, 2020, Casa Obscura
// IRCAM + CIRMMT w/ Diemo Schwarz, et al.
⋗ Composing for materials to perform
- [lecture + workshop]
Glasgow, Scotland
// Oct 31, 2019 - Jan 6, 2020
// Sonica Biennale
// The Lighthouse: Scotland's centre for design and
architecture
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 18, 2019
// Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, La Sala Rossa
// NO HAY BANDA presents
⋗ Rippleganger - [improvised set]
⋗ Maya Kuroki (extended vocals) + Rainer Wiens
(Mbiras, prepared guitar) + Navid Navab (gestural sound)
Glasgow, Scotland
// Nov 4, 2019
// Sonica / Cryptic, Lighthouse Glasgow
⋗ Everyday Objects, Magic & Alchemy
[lecture + artist-talk]
Montréal, Canada
// Oct 24-27, 2019
// Sight & Sound Festival [DIY or Die], Eastern Bloc
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
Lunéville, France
// June 28-Oct 21, 2019
// Château de Lunéville, exhibition Experientia! curated
by Charles Carcopino
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Toronto, Canada
// Sept 28, 2019
// Helen-Gardiner Theatre, exhibit Chaosmosis
mAchInes curated by Leonardo
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
⋗ microcosm no.1: plenumeia
⋗ microcosm no.2: plenumélliptique périgée
Zürich, Switzerland
// Aug 5-16, 2019
// Balgrist Hospital campus, University Hospital of Zürich
⋗ Sonification of Surgical Procedures [lecturer + workshops]
Zürich, Switzerland
// Aug 11, 2019
// Medical Augmented Reality International Lecture Series
⋗ [keynote lecture: Surgical Sonification, towards behavioural resonance]
St. Jerome, Quebec
// June 16, 2019
// Théâtre Gilles-Vigneault w. Musée d’art
contemporain des Laurentides
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
Osnabruck, Germany
// June 15, 2019
// Morgenland Festival Osnabrück
⋗ Ville Etrange - [album launch, concert, EU premiere]
Schlossweg, Switzerland
// June 14, 2019
// DAS festival, Schlossmediale Werdenberg
⋗ Ville Etrange [concert]
Montréal, Canada
// May 22, 2019
// C2MTL conference
⋗ [panel]
Victoriaville, Canada
// May 17, 2019
// FIMAV: Festival international de musique actuelle
⋗ Mystery of Wings [concert w/ Rainer Wien, Lori
Freedman, Jean Derome, et al.]
Ljubljana, Slovenia
// Feb 22-March 29, 2019
// Galerija Kapelica / Kapelica Gallery
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [solo exhibition]
Toronto, Canada
// March, 2019
// Living Architecture Symposium
⋗ Chaosing into Balance - [proceedings + white
papers book launch + talk]
Zagreb, Croatia
// Dec.18-Feb.3, 2019
// Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU Zagreb)
// Device_art triennial: Machines Are Not Us Exhibition
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
Zagreb, Croatia
// Dec 20, 2018
// KONTEJNER @ Museum of Contemporary Art
⋗ techno-mythologies: tabletop cosmologies &
intimate vibrations [talk + panel]
Zagreb, Croatia
// Dec 17, 2018
// National tv show “Good Morning Croatia” at studio
Hrvatska Radio Televizija
⋗ performance + interview: Navab w/ curators ZHANG
Ga and Josipa Vukelic]
Split, Croatia
// Dec 5-8, 2018
// umjetnička radionica, Kino Beton, MKC
⋗ improvised play with alchemical matter [workshop]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 6-11, 2018
// Ars Electronica Festival, Post City
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis
[world premiere]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 8, 2018
// Ars Electronica Symposia, Post City
⋗ Chaosing into Balance [artist talk]
Montréal, Canada
// June 29, 2018
// MIAN, ELEKTRA Festival, Centre PHI
⋗ Plenumophilic Osmosis [artist talk]
Montréal, Canada
// June 21, 2018
// COMPOSITE #15 X ELEKTRA
⋗ “significant otherness” [presentation]
Montréal, Canada
// June 18, 2018
// Velours
⋗ DRIP
[solo set: concert for sonified plants and droplets]
Montréal, Canada
// May 9, 2017
// Revue Circuit, musiques contemporaines + CMM
⋗ Sound of Montréal [new music concert]
Montréal, Canada
// April 20-21, 2018
// MAI: Montréal, arts interculturels
⋗ [mise-en-scene, interactive scenography
for “Black Space Mission”]
Ljubljana, Slovenia
// April 5, 2018
// The International Centre of Graphic Arts
⋗ tangibleFlux φ plenumorphic ∴ chaosmosis [beta]
⋗⋗ microcosm no.1 plenumeia [beta 2.0]
⋗⋗ microcosm no.2 plenumélliptique périgée [alpha 1.0]
Novi Gorici, Italy
// March 16, 2018
// Akademija umetnosti Univerza v Novi Gorici
⋗ [lecture-workshop, “Future Vision of Anthropocene”]
Ljubljana, Slovenia
// Feb 13-April 10, 2018
// Svicarija Creative Centre, MGLC
⋗ [artist in residence]
St. Catharines, Canada
// Jan 20, 2018
// Robertson Theatre
⋗ STEER
Oakville, Canada
// Jan 17, 2018
// Willson Auditorium, Paradiso Dance Series
⋗ STEER [dance +interactive scenography]
Paris, France
// Dec 9, 2017-March 3, 2018
// NEMO Biennale, CENTQUATRE
l'exposition “Les faits du hasard”
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 12, 2017
// “ALVIN ALVIN…” exhibition; milieux + FOFA
⋗ tangibleFlux, microcosm no.1 [version alpha 1.0]
Montréal, Canada
// Oct 27, 2017
// Blizzarts
⋗ [vj set for live earthworms, e-waste,
and domesticated moss]
Munich, Germany
// Oct 20, 2017
// AWE - Augmented World Expo
⋗ [artist talk]
Munich, Germany
// Oct 18-21, 2017
// Computer Assisted Medical Procedures Group , TUM
⋗ Sonification of Surgical Procedures
[artist in residence]
Maribor, Slovenia
// Oct 13, 2017
// Kiblix Festival, KID KIBLA Portal
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
Milano, Italy
// Oct 11, 2017
// DanceHaus, Susanna Beltrami
⋗ [master class: Improvised Play with Alchemical Matter]
Nantes, France
// Oct 10, 2017
// ISMAR - International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
⋗ SonifEye [talk/presentation]
[ISMAR BEST PAPER AWARD}
Milano, Italy
// Oct 9, 2017
// MilanOltre Festival, Teatro Elfo Puccini
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
Montréal, Canada
// Aug 13, 2017
// Resonance Café
⋗ [improv set: Navab (gestural sound), Lori Freedman, Kohn, Tredici]
Montréal, Canada
// July 27, 2017
// Slut Island Festival + Taking What We Need
⋗ Doodool- [solo stand up comedy set]
Montréal, Canada
// June 16-18, 2017
// Hexagram, BlackBox
⋗ IN TIME [Topological Media Lab group exhibition]
Montréal, Canada
// June 7, 2017
// Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, La Sala Rosa theatre
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
Montréal, Canada
// April 27-29, 2017
// TANGENT festival, Edifice Wilder
// TranSenses [Navid Navab + Akiko Kitamura], canadian premiere
Toronto, Canada
// April 6-8, 2017
// World Stage Redux, Harbourfront Centre, Fleck Dance Theatre
⋗ STEER - [contemporary dance and interactive av scenography]
Montréal, Canada
// Feb 1-April 30, 2017
// Goethe Institute + Montréal en Lumiere
⋗ Gardens of Enchantment - [interactive public membrane]
Montréal, Canada
// March 12, 2017
// Maison de la culture Villeray, Auditorium Le Prévost
⋗ ville étrange [new music concert]
Montréal, Canada
// March 4, 2017
// Nuit Blanche + Montréal en Lumiere
⋗[interactive shadow + sound installation by Navab and Mere Phantoms]
Victoria, BC, Canada
// Feb 26, 2017
// Open Space Gallery
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking [2 concerts]
Vancouver, BC, Canada
// Feb 23-24, 2017
// Western Front
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking [2 concerts]
Montréal, Canada
// Feb 4, 2017
// la salle Jean-Eudes, Rosemont
⋗ ville étrange [new music concert]
Montréal, Canada
// Jan 27, 2017
// Salle Oliver Jones, Maison culturelle de Montréal-Nord
⋗ ville étrange [new music concert]
Montréal, Canada
// Jan 26, 2017
// Maison de la culture Frontenac
⋗ ville étrange [new music concert]
New York, United States
// Jan 6 and 7, 2017
// Japan Society NY
⋗ TranSenses - [Navid Navab + Akiko Kitamura], world premiere
Matsumoto, Japan
// Dec 10, 2016
// Shinshu University
⋗ [Master Class - movement in responsive environments]
Tokyo, Japan
// Dec 4-20, 2016
// Morishita
⋗ [artist in residence]
Toronto, Canada
// Nov 6, 2016
// LASG: Living Architectures Systems Group symposium
⋗ [artist talk: improvised play with alchemical matter]
Guelph, Canada
// Sep 15, 2016
// Guelph Jazz Festival
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking [2 concerts]
Guelph, Canada
// Sep 14, 2016
// International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, colloquium
⋗ [lecture/talk on playful matter]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 8-12, 2016
// Ars Electronica Festival
// Post City, Alchemists of Our Time exhibit
⋗ Aquaphoneia - [art installation, world premiere]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 12, 2016
// Ars Electronica Festival, Music Mondays
⋗ Composing for material to perform -
[lecture + performance]
Linz, Austria
// Sep 8, 2016
// Ars Electronica Festival, Opening Concert Night
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
FETA Prize in Sound Art
// Aug 6 2016, Finalist
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking
Montréal, Canada
// July 8, 2016
// perte de signal
⋗ [talk + panel]
Toronto, Canada
// May 11-14, 2016
// Harbourfront Centre's World Stage 2016
⋗ STEER - [world premiere, full version]
Montréal, Canada
// March 25, 2016
// CIRMMT + MUTEK_mtl
⋗ [talk: Navid Navab + Robert Henke + Jonathan Sterne]
Montréal, Canada
// March 17 - April 7, 2016
// Topological Media Lab
⋗ Alchemical Narratives
[workshop series on geodynamics of duration]
Quebec City, Canada
// Jan 21-23, 2016
// La Rotonde, Méduse - salle Multi
⋗ FOLDS - [contemporary dance + interactive av scenography]
Montréal, Canada
//Jan 17, 2016
// Eastern Bloc + L’Institut Genre, sexualité et féminisme
⋗ Art, Activism and the Biopolitics of Food Control - [panel+ performance]
Montréal, Canada
// Oct 9, 2015
// Gesù Theatre; La Vivier concert series
⋗ je reverrai cette ville étrange - [new music concert, gestural sound]
Berlin, Germany
// Oct 2, 2015
// studiobörne45, 100 Years of Now Festival
⋗ [solo instrument and machine-improvisation (Navab + Tredici)]
Berlin, Germany
// Oct 1, 2015
// HKW: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, “Time’s Attack on the Rest of Life”
⋗ Native Alien [new music concert, Navab + Bhagwati + Tredici]
Montréal, Canada
// Sep 13, 2015
// TML
⋗ Eternal Archives - [av concert with Peter Putz and friends]
Munich, Germany
// Sep 25-29, 2015
// Computer Aided Medical Procedures Research Centre, TUM
⋗ Biomedical Sonification - [artist in residence]
Houston, United States
// Aug 1-30, 2015
// Lawndale Art Center
⋗ Pool of Sound - [responsive sound installation]
Montréal, Canada
// June 28, 2015
// Hexagram Black Box
⋗ TranSenses [Navab + Kitamura] - version Alpha 1.0
Santa Fe, United States
// June 12-28, 2015
// CURRENTS New Media Festival
// El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
⋗ THREADS - [kinetic responsive sound sculpture]
Montréal, Canada
// June 5 , 2015
// FNC - Agora Hydro-Québec black box theatre
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Mixology
[performative intervention for mixologist,
sonified cocktail shakers, and light sync]
Toronto, Canada
// May 24 , 2015
// CMC: Canadian Music Center: What Next Festival
⋗ gRain - [composition for 12 speakers]
Hamilton, Canada
// May 23 , 2015
// Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
- invisible orchestra concert series
⋗ gLitch - [electroacoustic composition
for 12 speakers]
Houston, United States
// May 17-18 , 2015
// Lawnddale Art Center
⋗ Pool of Sound - [responsive sound installation]
Baltimore, United States
// May 3-16 , 2015
// Computer Assisted Surgical Interventions Research Centre
⋗ [artist in residence]
Montréal, Canada
// March 5, , 2015
// Montréal/ New Musics Festival
// Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur
⋗ Decay 2.0 崩壊 - version commission to be
performed by David Taylor, Peter Evans,
and Felix del Tredici
Montréal, Canada
// March 2, 2015
// MNM: Montreal/New Musics Festival - Agora
⋗ Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking - [performance premiere]
Boston, United States
// Feb 15, 2015
// Goethe-Institut + Transcultural Exchange symposia
⋗ Native Alien - [new music concert]
Montréal, Canada
// Dec 11-14 , 2014 - (world premiere + 5 performances)
// TANGENTE :: danse contemporaine,
// Monument-National
⋗ F O L D S - [interactive scenography + gestural sound]
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 6-7, 2014
// Agora Hydro-Québec
⋗ FOLD - [performative environment / av installation]
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 27, 2014
// pre-meditations, concert series
⋗ SNEEZE - Navab (gestural sound),
Del Tredici (Bass Trombone), A.K.S. (Bass)
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 15, 2014
// CINARS Biennale
⋗ STEER
Montréal, Canada
// Nov 6-7, 2014
// matralab blackbox
⋗ Native Alien [Navab + Bhagwatti + solo musicians]
Copenhagen, Denmark
// August, 2014
// CIID - Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
⋗ [artist in residence]
London, United Kingdom
// June 28, 2014
// NIME conference
⋗ A Material Computational Perspective
on Audio-Mosaicing [paper+demo]
Montréal, Canada
// June 25-26, 2014
// Encuentro: Movement ManiFest
⋗ Gesture Bending - [performance + workshop]
⋗ Enchanted Objects - [workshop]
Montréal, Canada
// June 14, 2014
// Suoni per Il Popolo Festival
⋗ Improvising Machine Systems
⋗ Navid Navab + George Lewis + Michael Yong
Vitasaari, Finland
// June 5, 2014
// Musiikin Aika festival
⋗ Native Alien - [machine improvisation conceert]
Montréal, Canada
// May 21, 2014
// Usine C + Senselab
⋗ Knots of Thought: Navab + Thain + Preston
Montréal, Canada
// May 14, 2014
// Museum of Contemporary Art
// Printemps Numérique
⋗ Spiral - [commissioned in-situ av installation]
Montréal, Canada
// May 3-25 , 2014
// BIAN: Biennale Internationale Art Numérique
// Centre Phi
⋗ THREADS - [kinetic responsive sound sculpture]
Montréal, Canada
// May 6, 2014
// Mardi Spaghetti - Le Cagibi
⋗ [Music Actuelle improvisations: Navab + Eric Lewis]
Montréal, Canada
// April 17, 2014
// Le Cagibi
⋗ BASS FACE [improv concert:
Navab + del Triddici + Alex K Smibert]
Windsor, Ontario
// March 29, 2014
// Staford Hall
⋗ [concerto for enchanted sticks and ensemble]
Montréal, Canada
// March 26, 2014
// Oscar Peterson Hall
⋗ Native Alien
[new music, concert for solo performer and AI]
Chicago, United States
// March 15-30, 2014
// Museum of Fine Arts
⋗ Hirsch - [responsive sound installation]
Chicago, United States
// March 10-22, 2014
// Gray Center for Arts
⋗ Time-Machines
{time-conditioned responsive environments]
Montréal, Canada
// Sep 19, 2013
// Time Forms, CITMMT
⋗ [performance + talk]
Montréal, Canada
// Oct, 2013
// Jeanne-Renaud Theater
⋗ FOLDS - [performance - interactive scenography]
Montréal, Canada
// May 13, 2013
// Hexagram Black Box
⋗ Beneath the Pavement, An Ocean
[interactive scenography + dance]
Houston, United States
// Sep 3-29, 2013
// Lawndale Art Center
⋗ Murmuration - [installation]
Toronto, Canada
// Aug 13-15, 2013 - 3 performances
// d:mic/fac festival, Betty Oliphant Theatre
⋗ STEER [world premiere, short-version]
[interactive scenography + dance]
Graz, Austria
// April, 2013
// MUMUTH, Ligeti Hall; Signale Fest
⋗ Native Alien - [concert]
[version for Mike Svoboda + AI ensemble]
Chicago, United States
// April, 2013
// Logan Center for Arts
⋗ The Project - [performative intervention]
Montréal, Canada
// March 20 - April 4 , 2013
// Hexagram Black Box
⋗ Einstein Dreams
[performative time-conditioning installation]
Montréal, Canada
// March 26, 2013
// Moving Image Research Laboratory
⋗ [roundtable w/ Alana Thain]
Chicago, United States
// March 10-22, 2014
// Gray Center for Arts
⋗ Time-Machines - [time-conditioning responsive environments]
Montréal, Canada
// March 2-21, 2013
// Goethe Institute
⋗ Les persiennes at les sortilgès - [responsive public-space membrane]
Montréal, Canada
// March 2, 2013
// McCord Museum
⋗ Suspended Narratives - [performative installation, sonified shadow puppetry]
Montréal, Canada
// Dec 4, 2012
// Mardi Spaghetti concert series, Le Cagibi
⋗ Navab (Gestural Sound) + Rainer Weins (Mbira)
+ Coat Cooke (Sax)
Montréal, Canada
// Sep 12, 2012
// Pop Montreal, Quartiers Pop
⋗ [discussion-panel w/ Navab + Vincent Morisset
+ Damian Taylor + Melissa Weigel]
Montréal, Canada
// June 12, 2012
// Mardi Spaghetti, Le Cagibi
⋗ [concert: Navab (gestural sound) + Tung (erhu)
+ Menegon (prepared guitar)]
Montréal, Canada
// May 24-26, 2012
// Comprovisations symposia/festival
⋗24⋗ [concert- Native Alien (machine improv)
+ David Rosenboom (piano)]
⋗25⋗ [+ Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)]
⋗25⋗ [Navab (movement sonification)
+ Roger Sinha (dance)]
⋗26⋗ [concert: Monochrom (Bhagwatti),
Navab (spatialized sound) + Bozzini Quartet]
New York, United States
// May 18, 2012
// ImproTech Paris-NY
⋗ [concert: Navab (machine improv)
+ Lori Freedman (bass clarinet)]
San Francisco, United States
// April 12, 2012
// Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, UCDavis
⋗ Play & Morphogenisis -
[performative talk w/ sonified objects]
Vancouver, Canada
// Jan 20-22
// Western Front Centre for Performing Arts; Circle of Sleep
⋗ Debut Concerts
⋗⋗ Hifumi Bagaku | returning the bowl
[electroacoustic Gagaku composition]
⋗⋗ [3 x machine improv live sets
for responsive 3d-sound environment,
AI-driven play piano, and solo musicians
(Mei Han: Zheng, Coat Cooke:
Sax, Cheryl L’Hirondelle: Waynohtêw)]
Montréal, Canada
// April 9, 2011
// La Société des arts technologiques [SAT]
⋗ Decay 手向け TAMUKE - [installation + performance]
New York, United States
// April 22, 2011
// FNO NY
⋗ Alexander Wang runway show -
[commissioned responsive membrane]
Montréal, Canada
// March 26, 2011
// CLEIC electroacoustic colloquium
⋗ [concert: Navab (gestural sound) + Adams (Flutes),
Reimer (Piano)]
Montréal, Canada
// October, 2010
// FNC: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma,
⋗ Constellation 2.2 - [installation: responsive architecture]
Montréal, Canada
// October, 2010
// FNC: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma,
⋗ Hybridization II - [concert
Navab (Gestural Sound)
+ Jean Derome (sax, etc.)
+ Pierre Tanguay (drums, etc.)
+ Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven (piano)]
San Francisco, United States
// Sep 11-20, 2010
// CCRMA, Transitions Festival
⋗ ILYA - [responsive av membrane]
San Francisco, United States
// Sep 17, 2010
// CNMAT, Lecture
⋗ spatial sound from HOA ro structure-borne-sound
Montréal, Canada
// June 3-4, 2010
// Hexagram Black Box Theatre
⋗ Frankenstein’s Ghosts - version Beta
Timisara, Romania
// March 23 - April 26, 2010
// ISWinT Festival, D-arc
⋗ Constellation 2.1 - [installation: responsive architecture]
Montréal, Canada
// March 17, 2010
// Eastern Bloc, Synchresis
⋗ Interstitial [av performance for dancer and
responsive elastic membrane]
Montréal, Canada
// March 11, 2010
// Theatre la grand biblioteque de Montreal
⋗ River of Poetry - [performance: poetry
+ interactive av scenography]
Montréal, Canada
// April 13, 2010
// L’envers
⋗ Journey Within - [av performance]
Paris, France
// Feb 12-17, 2010
// IRCAM
⋗ artist in residence
⋗ Feb 16: [talk at machine-improvisation forum]
Montréal, Canada
// Dec 3-18, 2009 - vernissage Dec 3
// Les Territoires Gallery, Belgo
⋗ cAvA - [installation: sound-responsive textiles]
⋗ Dec 17: cAvA performance, for dancer Soo Yeon Cho
Montréal, Canada
// Dec 12, 2009
// Interstice Art Space, “Sou nd E 12/12” Fest
⋗ [improv live av set, cAvA 2.0]
Toronto, Canada
// Oct 22, 2009
// Big Arts Festival
⋗ cAvA - [dance in responsive environment]
Meaford, Canada
// Aug 2-5, 2009
// Electric Eclectics Festival
⋗ Constellation 2.0
- [installation: responsive architecture]
Montréal, Canada
// May 2-15, 2009
// CCA: Canadian Centre for Architecture
⋗ Responsive Sunlight CCA 20/20
Montréal, Canada
// March 19-21, 2009
// Guy Concordia metro- public space
⋗ BUBBLEPop - [in-situ responsive sound installation]
Shanghai, China
// Nov 12-18, 2008
// E-arts
⋗ Pneus
- [installation: responsive-pneumatic sculpture]
Montréal, Canada
// Sep 1-29, 2008
// Champ Libre 2008, Monopoli Architecture Gallery
⋗ Pneus
- [installation: responsive-pneumatic sculpture]
Montréal, Canada
// June 11, 2008
// TJ Contemporary Dance Theatre
⋗ Interstitial
[for responsive tensile membrane and dancer]
Montréal, Canada
// June 7, 2008
// TJ Contemporary Dance Theatre
⋗ Gemini II
[performance: movement in responsive environment]
New York, United States
// May 18, 2008
// Roulette
⋗ Gestural Sound Environment no. 2 -
[av performance]
Montréal, Canada
// June 18, 2007
// Exposed exhibition
⋗ Enactive Walkway - [responsive architecture]