Kamyar Karimi^IR+CA/QC

Kamyar “noak” Karimi is an Iranian-Canadian digital storyteller and sound artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His practice begins from the idea that stories do not belong to a single medium. Within dynamic human networks, narratives circulate, fragment, and re-form through different platforms, and the tools we use to tell stories shape what becomes legible, shareable, or erased.

This perspective runs through his background in programming, game design, and sound design, where he has worked with interactive systems and audio to build narrative experiences that move between technical structure and lived affect.

His recent work extends this approach through research-creation design, interaction design, and urban space. Using field recording, sampling, electroacoustic processing, and custom-built digital systems, he investigates listening as a situated practice. His current projects draw on acoustic justice and evidentiary listening, working with politicized sound environments to ask how voices are framed, filtered, and carried in public space. These works often take the form of immersive listening pieces or installations that position presence and attention as part of the work’s meaning.

Across formats, he treats making as inquiry: recording, prototyping, and staging encounters that test how sound can function as story, evidence, and collective memory.