In this solo acoustic performance, Navid Navab improvises with Organism, an experimental instrument which dismantles the socio-historical tonality of a century-old pipe organ, in order to liberate its turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic repression. Navab surfs upon subtle material conditions through which aerodynamic energetics fall into and out of compatibility with one another to steer Organism’s unstable timbres toward sonic self-organization, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.

Navid Navab (IR/CA), winner of the 2025 Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica and the Lumen Prize, is an art-scientist and composer whose practice dissolves the boundary between scientific inquiry and sensory attunement. Navab’s art-machines draw a sense of liveliness from matter suspended in metastable states, where thermodynamic reservoirs of indeterminacy generate cybernetic intentionality.