Navid Navab is a Montreal based alkemist, composer/improvisor, programmer, and sound designer. A graduate of Ontario Royal Conservatory of Music, Concordia University’s Electroacoustics and Computational Arts program, and McGill Music Technology, he has been working for the past several years creating deeply expressive media instruments synthesizing research at IRCAM, CRIMMT, CNMAT, Topological Media Lab and Matralab. 

Interested in the poetics of gesture, and embodiment, his work explores the social lives of objects and the enrichment of their embedded performative qualities. Navid uses gestures, rhythms and vibrations from everyday life as basis for real-time sound generation, resulting in augmented acoustical-poetry that enchants improvisational and pedestrian movements. 

Navid has collaborated with many great improvisers and artists including Jean Derome, Constantinople Ensemble, Lori Freedman, Vinny Golia, Pierre Tanguay, Coat Cooke, Rainer Weins, Rohan de Saram, Mei Han, Lan Tung , Zata Omm Dance Project. His investigations, which range from compositions to responsive architecture, urban interventions, theatrical interactive installations, and improv-based performances, have been presented at various festivals and events in Vancouver, Austria, Canada, UK, California, Paris, Romania, Paris, New York, Houston, and Chicago. 

soundscapes, ambient, experimental music, polyphonic music, plant-based generative sound, generative sound based on mushrooms, experimental music, sound art, non-human sounds, postlocative sounds

I am a French singer and songwriter based in Montreal, Canada. Initially trained in street jazz and classical music with piano and clarinet during my childhood, I started to seek a more sensitive and personal form of expression in my twenties and turned to singing and improvisation. 

At 23, I left France and began a journey that would last 10 years. My album "Quest" was born on an acoustic piano in Lithuania; as I traveled to places like Berlin, Brighton and Montreal, the album's repertoire evolved with my encounters and interests. 

The album "Quest" was recorded in 432 Hz and lies at the intersection of intimate acoustics, electronics, and film music. It was produced by Canadian artist Maysun and mixed by sound engineer Charles-Émile Beaudin.

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