His sound work spans installation, live electronics, improvisation, noise, electroacoustic and traditional musics from the MENA region (Arabic, Turkish and Persian). His work is concerned with (dis)embodied perceptions and how these resonate across psychological and social spaces, offering counter-narratives to current metaphors of cultural exchange and hybridity, instead foregrounding issues of friction, displacement and translation. His main focus is on listening, and investigating what a sonic assemblage can do, while drawing on psychiatry, neuroscience and sound art. Specialising in live electronics and machine-listening, Ayyaz builds custom performance ecologies for specific situations.