stridulant insectivore
.
numb germs
full of frozen micro daze
.
swarming insekts
bound by a viscous blizzard
.

An ongoing series of pieces, Insekt is born out of the composer's aesthetic fascination with cognitive relations between density, sleep, thresholds of musical perception and background noise. Densely layered, and subtly crafted, these compositions offer simply too many details to one's perception and therefore result in fluid states of perception that undulate between deep listening and unconscious background noise subtraction. While creatively engaging with many sound events and extracting form from the dense wall of sound our cognition has a lazy tendency to simply shot itself off. 

Recommended use: before sleep with headphones. 
Dosage: start with one pieces at a time and gradually increase dosage until sleep is achieved.

Insekt

insekt: nim

Insekt: teem

Vinny Golia: improvisation on Piccolo and Soprano Sax
Navid Navab: Live digital manipulation (Max/MSP), Tape

The third piece of the Insekt series, RelaxSea is a multi-layered composition incorporating live improvised woodwinds and realtime processing.

About the Insekt  Series:
An ongoing series of pieces, Insekt is born out of the composer's aesthetic fascination with cognitive relations between density, sleep, thresholds of musical perception and background noise. Densely layered, and subtly crafted, these compositions offer simply too many details to one's perception and therefore result in fluid states of perception that undulate between deep listening and unconscious background noise subtraction. While creatively engaging with many sound events and extracting form from the dense wall of sound our cognition has a lazy tendency to simply shot itself off. 

Recommended use: before sleep with headphones. 
Dosage: start with one pieces at a time and gradually increase dosage until sleep is achieved.



Insekt - relaxSea

Coat Cooke :: Saxophones
Rainer Wiens :: Prepared Guitar + Mbira
Navid Navab :: Real-time sound instruments (Max/MSP)

The fourth piece of the Insekt series; an improvised and spacious soundscape.

Electroacoustic Improvisation
Recorded Dec 6 2012 @ Matralab, Montreal
Post Production by NavidNavab.net

About the Insekt Series:
An ongoing series of pieces, Insekt is born out of the composer's aesthetic fascination with cognitive relations between density, sleep, thresholds of musical perception and background noise. Densely layered, and subtly crafted, these compositions offer simply too many details to one's perception and therefore result in fluid states of perception that undulate between deep listening and unconscious background noise subtraction. While creatively engaging with many sound events and extracting form from the dense wall of sound our cognition has a lazy tendency to simply shot itself off.

Cooke/Weins/Navab VII.ii insekt

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. 