Navid Navab & Garnet Willis — Organism + Excitable Chaos, Aarhus 2026

A three-armed pendulum drives the airflow thresholds of a prepared pipe organ. Navid Navab and Garnet Willis do not ask it to execute a stable score: they construct the conditions for audible instability. Between gravity, pipes and electronics, every movement redistributes the possibilities of sound. The sculpture questions our desire to control matter rather than…

Pendule mécanique à trois roues devant les tuyaux de l’orgue Organism, avec des trajectoires lumineuses vertes.

Navid Navab & Garnet Willis — Organism + Excitable Chaos, documentation 2024. Photo : Miha Godec. Source : Ars Electronica / Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

A three-armed pendulum drives the airflow thresholds of a prepared pipe organ. Navid Navab and Garnet Willis do not ask it to execute a stable score: they construct the conditions for audible instability. Between gravity, pipes and electronics, every movement redistributes the possibilities of sound. The sculpture questions our desire to control matter rather than negotiate with it.

Original video jointly published by Aarhus Festuge and Navid Navab on 29 August 2026. Presented at UngK, Aarhus, from 28 August to 1 September 2026; this is a new presentation of an existing work.

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