[microsound-announce] Reminder: Guest Lecturer Navid Navab at Concordia University Today - Wednesday, November 28 - 6pm

[Michael Palumbo]

Hello all,

Just a friendly reminder that today, Wednesday, November 28, CESSA will be presenting its second lecture of the year, with Navid Navab on "Realtime Alkemie and the Transformation of Everyday Situations". Navid will discuss his portfolio, present excerpts from his pieces and conduct demonstrations. 

Here is some updated information on Navid's lecture and Bio:

Programme Note:

"Three-hundred years ago, alchemy was a practical and magical art, transmuting bodies and materials. Under the prism of the Enlightenment, such practices split into the practical (e.g. engineering or medicine), the scientific, and the art of the imaginary." (alkemieAtelier.com) As a sonic alchemist, Navid fuses these arts together again to recast the material transmutation of social relations expressed in the form of movement and sound."

Schizo-phonia and the Acousmatic all around us, inhibit us from hearing both the sound object and its contextual origin. Using technology, Navid re-invents the electroacoustic sound-event as a gesture and its subsequent noise. While interacting with these real-time sound systems, one discovers how nuances in physical movement can create intricate sonic textures. Gestures and actions are manifested into sound, agitating the materiality of movement, and matter. Through interactively varied augmentation of the world's natural acoustical response, the built and the found collapse in a performative sonics, leading to narratives about shaping fresh relationships with the world.

+ Bio:

Navid Navab is a Montreal based ‘media-alkemist,’ composer, improvisor, programmer, and sound designer. Currently an artist and researcher at Topological Media Lab, Matralab, and Alkemie Atelier, he studied Electroacoustics and Computational Arts at Concordia University as well as Music Technology at McGill University. Navid has collaborated with many of today’s greatest improvisors and artists including Jean Derome, Bozzini Quartet, Constantinople Ensemble, Lori Freedman, Vinny Golia, Pierre Tanguay, Coat Cooke, Rohan de Saram, Mei Han, Lan Tung , Dhruba Ghosh, Zata Omm Dance Project, Sinha Danse, Alexander Wang, and many others.

Navid uses gestures and vibrations from everyday life as basis for real-time sound generation, resulting in augmented acoustical-poetry. His investigations, which range from compositions to responsive architecture, interface design, theatrical interactive installations, and improv-based performances, have been presented at various festivals and events in many countries. Some venues include Canadian Center for Architecture, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Electric Eclectics Festival Meaford, Shanghai eArts Festival China, Mixology Festival at Roulette New York, Western Front Vancouver, CMS Black Box Cambridge UK, StudentFest Romania, CCRMA Palo Alto, Box13 Houston, La Société des Arts Technologiques [SAT], Galleri Monopoli ChampLibre Montreal, les Territoires Gallery Montreal, Agora Montreal, Fashion Night Out [FNO] New York, Pop Montreal, Eastern Bloc, and L’enver Montreal.

http://navidnavab.net/index.html

The event is free to attend, and open to students and faculty from all departments, and to the public. The lecture begins at 6pm. Please do not be late. 

Location: Concordia University. MB Building, 1450 Guy Street; Room 8.245; Montreal, Quebec

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Cost: Free

URL: http://cessa.music.concordia.ca/blog/

Live Stream available at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cessa-live


Best regards,

Michael

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Michael Palumbo

514-945-5023
michaelpalumbo at gmx.com

Director of External Affairs
Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Students' Association (CESSA)

Electroacoustic Studies Major
Department of Music, Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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