insekt: nim

Insekt: teem

gestural sound composition for chef & enchanted kitchenette - 2015
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keywords:
perSonification, dirty-synthesis, noise, lo-fi, glitch

instrumentation:
- signal driven physical modelling synthesis shaped further by machine learning on audio-descriptors
- gesture modulated granular synthesis

scene:
mortar-and-pestle is slowly transformed into a wild noisy dirty analogue synthesizer 

2 Grind

Gestural Sound Composition for Chef and Enchanted Kitchenette
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keywords:
glitch, noise, music concrete, videomusic, infra sounds, synaesthesia

instrumentation:
- computationally augmented tools, appliances and ingredients 
- gesturally modulated audio-visual textures

scene:
as the chef mixes the last of the ingredients, seductive aromas immerse the audience. Computationally enriched ingredients fuse together to form a meal while glitches, atmospheres, drones, clicks and tones clash and develop into a thick immersive noise field.

10 gLitch

Improvising Machines Trio

Gestural sound compositions for FOLDS [interactive scenography + movement]

folds-part1

folds-part2

Audio Mosaicing Etude #1
for Improvised Bass Clarinet (Lori Freedman)
and Realtime Orchestration / Audio-Mosiacing (Navid Navab).

Realtime orchestration or audio mosaicing using Corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis:

Corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis uses a large collection of source sounds, segmented into grains or units, and a unit selection algorithm that finds the sequence of units that match best the sound or phrase to be synthesized. The selection is performed according to the descriptors of the units, which is a stream of characteristics extracted from the soloist. By modifying the algorithm and the source sounds on the fly, it is possible to move from predictable audio mosiacing to realtime orchestration or accompaniment.

Audio Mosaicing Etude #1- for Lori Freedman

Vinny Golia: Improvised Solo Soprano Sax
Navid Navab: Machine Improvisation and real-time processing (Max/MSP)

Plunge

2016 - 12 - tokyoFog

2016 - 12 - tokyoFog - Akihabara Remix

2016 - 12 - HorizonFog - Akihabara Remix - Str

2016 - 12 - postMantraFog -calmMix- Str

horizogFog-melodicHole-test

2016 - 12 - ParticleFog - TEST2 - JP - NYE

Mei Han: Guzheng (Chinese Zither)
Navid Navab: real-rime sound instruments (Omax , Nav Libraries) + Prepared player piano

Free improvisation during the Circle of Sleep concert series
Recorded live in concert at the Western Front art center, Vancouver
Jan 21 2012


Circle of Sleep: Guzheng and Electronics

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. 

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