Researcher

Sandeep Bhagwati
Composer + Principle Investigator

Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple awardwinning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by leading performers at leading venues and festivals worldwide. He has directed international music festivals and intercultural exchange projects with Indian and Chinese musicians and leading new music ensembles. He was a Professor of Composition at Karlsruhe Music University, and Composer-in-Residence at the IRCAM Paris, ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Institute for Electronic Music Graz, CalArts Los Angeles, Heidelberg University and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow. He also was a guest professor at Heidelberg University in 2009 and has been invited as a visiting research fellow to the University of Arts Berlin in 2013/14.

As Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Arts at Concordia University Montréal since 2006 he currently directs matralab, a research/creation center for intercultural and interdisciplinary arts. His current work centers on comprovisation, intertraditional aesthetics, the aesthetics of interdisciplinarity, gestural theatre, sonic theatre and interactive visual and nonvisual scores. From 2008 to 2011, he also was the director of Hexagram Concordia, a centre for research-creation in media arts with a faculty of 45 artist-researchers and extensive state-of-the-art facilities. Since 2013, he also is the artistic director and conductor of Ensemble Extrakte Berlin.

http://matralab.hexagram.ca

Research Assistants

Navid Navab
Software Developer + Computer Musician

Navid Navab is a Montreal based media-artist, composer, interaction and sound designer. Navid studied music performance and composition for many years. Since 2005, he has been studying Electroacoustics and Computational Arts at Concordia University and Music Technology at McGill University. Currently he works as a sound designer and research assistant at both Topological Media Lab and Matralab, while pursuing his studies and various collaborations.

Navid creates real-time clouds and crystals of sound, engaging composition with interaction, improvisation, philosophy and cognition within various spaces. Often in his practice, gestures, rhythms and vibrations from everyday life are mapped dynamically to various DSP and sound synthesis parameters. Most of Navid’s creations and investigations range from fixed acousmatic compositions, to responsive architecture, interface design, theatre, and performance.

http://navidnavab.net

Julian Stein
Software Developer + Interactive Score

Julian Stein is a composer and sound artist currently residing in Montréal, QC. His work often explores musical applications of the everyday with a large focus on intuition and present-experience. Exploring both composed and realtime environments, his work has ranged from multichannel composition and theatre sound-design to collaborative performance and kinetic sound installation. In specific, his work is interested by methods of audio-visual synchronization, phonetics, animal communication, and the urban environment.