Sound Art Performances by Ava Koohbor

I don’t perform on a stage; I enter a field. A field built from memory, resistance, and touch. As an instrument builder, my creations are not for display, but for relation. They vibrate with the histories I carry, the questions I live. For me, sound is not merely form but force. It is not harmony, but texture. It transcends performance art; it embodies presence. Each piece I create is a ritual of listening, a reckoning in resonance, a gesture toward becoming. Textural sound, as explored in my sound installations, is not experimental; it is empirical. It is not a test, but a touch. It does not ask what if - it asks what is. Sound arrives not as meaning but as surface: rough, soft, unstable. It grazes the listener, not to explain, but to remind them that they, too, are made of waves. I compose not with rules but with residue: the lingering shimmer of metal, the broken line of breath, the friction between material and memory. This is not sound to be understood. It is sound to be witnessed.