On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 9 PM at KONTEJNER (Odranska 1/1), Canadian artist Navid Navab will perform a solo concert on robotically prepared century-old pipe organ.
A 1910 Casavant pipe organ is rescued from impending gentrification at a heritage site in Montréal and brought back to life as Organism, an experimental instrument and investigative platform for stochastic patterning via turbulent processes of formation. In this acoustic solo performance, Navid Navab improvises with Organism to explore ways in which its turbulent thresholds manifest unstable timbres and intricate sonic self-organization. With no digital sounds, Navab aerodynamically shapes the resulting ecology of interdependent timbres into emergent realms, traversing microsonic polyrhythms, post-rock overspill and swampy soundscapes.
Organism destabilizes the socio-historical tonality of the organ to liberate and sound its hidden turbulent materiality, robotically unleashing timbres unheard after centuries of sonic restraint.
Tickets at a presale price of 4,00 EUR can be purchased through the Entrio system. On the day of the concert they can be purchased at KONTEJNER for 6,00 EUR.
Navid Navab: concept, composition, sculpture, programming, design, electronics, performance
Garnet Willis: engineering, design, sculpture, electronics
Production: Transductive Formations
Assistance: Jean-Michaël Celerier, Camille Desjardins, Evan Montpellier, Philippe Vandal, Pipo Pierre-Louis
Research Collaborations: SAT Montréal with Québec Ministry of Innovation, Topological Media Lab with Fonds de Recherche du Québec
Support: Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Le Salon 1861
Organization: KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
Curators: Davorka Begović & Tereza Teklić | KONTEJNER
Technical realisation: Jakov Habjan, Filip Pacak
Design: Kuna zlatica
PR and communication: Inesa Antić
