An Open studio by Aida Khorsandi

Wednesday, June 15 & Friday, June 17, 2022, 7:30 – 9 pm

Room for Doubt will host an interactive sonic gathering by Aida Khorsandi
What is vital in recognition of objects in space? Their functionality, visual embodiment, or their sound? How do we encounter things to create sounds, and to what extent do we consider them to possess sonic agency? How do space-as-technology and digital technology contribute to the sounds of the objects?
Do sounds of the objects need to be recognized and investigated? Should they be sonically embodied as they usually are visually and functionally?

What is important in the recognition of objects in space? Their functionality, visual embodiment, or their sound? How do we encounter objects to create sounds, and to what extent do we consider them to possess sonic agency? How do space-as-technology and digital technology contribute to the sounds of the objects?
Do sounds of the objects need to be recognized and investigated? Should they be sonically embodied as they usually are visually and functionally?

Objects to sound is an interactive sonic gathering that invites everyone to join in collaborative listening and sounding.

About Artist:

Aida Khorsandi is a musician, researcher, and sound artist living between Toronto and Tehran. Aida is studying the onto-epistemology of haptic listening and sounding in sonic and musical interactions in her doctoral studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. Aida’s multidisciplinary research interests reside in music, sound studies, onto-epistemology, interactive art, and technology. She collaborated with Parkingallery Projects and New Media Society, an artist-run center in Tehran. She participated in talks, events, and exhibitions inside and outside Iran during 2005 – 2011. She worked as a music educator and researcher in different educational institutions in Iran and Canada. She is currently workshopping and developing her digital instrument according to various performance and site-specific situations, using physical objects, voice, and room acoustics as sound mediators.