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. 

I am an art critic, radio journalism, independant curator and musician. I play turntable, handles vinyl records, and records soundscapes. I have performed in Canada, the US and France ; additionally, my works have been presented in England, Germany, Palestine, Portugal and Danemark. Improvisation allows me to create raw, non-linear music peppered with altered sonic quotes and abstracted sounds, textures mostly produced by vinyls that have undergone specific alterations (grinding, cutting, etc.). I am a member of the turntable trio Vinyl Interventions with Carrie Gates (Saskatoon) and Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines, Ontario). This outfit has been presenting its eponymous workshop since 2002. I also organize concert series devoted to improvised music for acoustic instruments. a_dontigny, Gordon Allen, Olivier Borzeix, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Adam Kinner, Léon Lo, Philippe Lauzier, Erin Sexton, Martin Tétreault and David Turgeon are some of the musicians I like working with. In 2009 I got my first composition commission from L'Ensemble Supermusique of Montreal. I am a member of CKUT radio, Montreal and had been an active member of RADIA.
These days I do radio art pieces based on field recordings.

Esther Bourdages oeuvre dans le champ des arts visuels et technologiques en tant qu'auteure, commissaire et chercheure indépendante. Sa recherche curatoriale explore des formes d'art telles que l'art in situ, l'installation et la sculpture, souvent en conjonction avec le son.
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Esther Bourdages works in the visual arts and technology art field as a writer, independent curator and scholar. Her curatorial research explores art forms such as site-specific art, installation and sculpture, often in conjunction with sound.


My blog
http://esthersophiebourdages.blogspot.com/

My master in art history on Jean Tinguely had been published:
https://www.morebooks.de/store/fr/book/les-sculptures-cinétiques-de-jean-tinguely/isbn/978-613-1-52351-9

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I am an independent art critic, curator and musician, playing experimental music with toy and portable turntables ; also composing pieces based on field recordings.

Collaborator at CKUT radio station as co-host of CAFE show 6 to 7 pm, in French every Friday where I talk about socio-political, genre/edgy cinema, visual, technologic art, experimental music.

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician, producer, composer, and instrument builder. 

Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. Alongside being a longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, he is highly prolific and has released a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few). Balancing dark ambience with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. 

Cortini was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 through his work with Nine Inch Nails, making history as the only Italian musician to have ever been honored with this recognition. 

In 2021, in collaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom-designed, semi-modular synth, “Strega” (Italian for ‘witch’). That same year, he used Strega to build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro [Mute], which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium ... consistently managing to thrill and surprise”. 

In addition to years of extensive worldwide touring, Cortini has also soundtracked fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Dior, and several of Fendi’s presentations. In 2022, he exhibited a high-concept audio installation called “Nati Infiniti” for Sonar 2022 at Museu de Lisboa’s “Fábrica de Moagem.” A live version of “Nati Infiniti” is set to debut at Berlin Atonal in 2023.

Alessandro Cortini’s music has been licensed for use in television, film and documentaries, games, and commercials, including FX’s hit show The Bear, “Thank You Very Much” a documentary about Andy Kaufman, Samsung, BMW, Sony, and Netflix. Remixes have also been a part of Cortini’s identity – remixing the likes of Depeche Mode to Mogwai to Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen to Vatican Shadow, and more between and beyond.

official soundcloud page of raster - artistic platform.

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