Avaaz interactive installation by Dipna Horra
April 30 - May 21 Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
Opening Day Artist Talk on Saturday April 30 @ 1:30 pm
The NAISA Space, #252
Admission by Donation

The main sculpture of the Avaaz installation is a Colonial Times table with four accompanying chairs for listeners to sit in. This sculpture plays an audio recording of the artist's father telling the story of his great-grandfather’s journey from the Punjab to Kenya and his subsequent founding of newspaper called The Colonial Times. In this work we also hear recordings of the artist as a child singing songs in English and French. In Avaaz, the artist transformed a teapot, sugar bowl, teacups, a table, a window and a vent into speakers. Sound and narrative are used in this work to transport the viewer between different historical moments and places – the Punjab, Kenya, Ottawa.

The Electrostatic Bell Choir installation by Darsha Hewitt
May 20 - 29, Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 2nd floor
Admission by Donation

The Electrostatic Bell Choir consists of small bells and pith balls suspended in front of cathode-ray tube televisions. The TVs are muted and tuned to various channels of white noise. A control circuit cycles them on and off in alternating sequences, building up static charges that attract the pith balls and cause them to waver and lightly strike the bells; resulting in quasi-melodic bell compositions. The movement of these apparatuses is subtle and the sound is delicate.

Silent Speaker interactive installation by Peter Courtemanche
May 27 - June 25, Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
The NAISA Space, #252
Admission by Donation

"The Silent Speaker" is an interactive sound installation that uses very low frequency transmitters and a receiver. The listener takes hold of a circular antenna and moves through space to "divine" or locate sounds that are transmitted as magnetic waves. The piece consists of four large circular transmitting antennas. While moving among these antennas the listener hears a mixture of noise splattered-forth from the electronic world around us, and the voices of the reborn – people who return from the dead and descend from old age into childhood.