Seth Ayyaz
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Seth Ayyaz is a composer-performer, sound artist and transdisciplinary theorist based in London. He makes exploratory musics with listening machines, human or otherwise.
He holds a PhD in electroacoustic composition (City University London) and researches the biological, psychological, and social conditions of listening. His sonic thinking spans spatial & algorithmic composition, live electronics &, improvisation, installation, diasporic Islamic musics, neurosciences, computer technologies, and materialist philosophy.
Of Mauritian heritage, he studied Islamic traditions across the MENASA. His work offers counter-narratives to metaphors of cultural exchange and hybridity, instead foregrounding areas of friction, displacement, and translation.
He has published and spoken widely (includingThe Wire, Organised Sound and Afterall) and presented work internationally (including at Cafe Oto and ICA (London), Maerz Music and Frankfurt Opera House (Germany), Sharjah Biennale (UAE), Irtijal (Lebanon), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki).
