Listen to the Sonic Board walk.

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This year’s Sign Waves installation series will open the eighth annual Sound Travels event with the first of its semi-permanent outdoor site-specific interactive installations. Synthecycletron, by Barry Prophet, is a site-specific sound sculpture on which participants will generate power by pedaling which will in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds; Sonic Boardwalk, by Robert Mulder and Kristi Allik, is a sound installation located on the Ward Island boardwalk that generates a microsound landscape activated by the kinetic imprint of passing visitors.

Sign Waves Indoor interactive Installations
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church
Sundays 2-6 pm July 23 - September 3
PWYC (recommended admission $5)

Two interactive sound installations will be included in the indoor portion of Sign Waves 2006 at St. Andrew-by-the-Lake on Centre Island. Lori Beckstead’s Aur(e)ality touches on themes of location/dislocation and nature/culture. Listeners control their own listening experience by moving through a space wearing wireless headphones that allow for soundscapes to change according to the physical location of the listener.

Andra McCartney’s Journées Sonores: Canal de Lachine is an interactive installation that documents a soundscape project based on soundwalks, historical research and interviews with earwitnesses in the neighbourhood of the Lachine Canal in Montreal, from 1999-2003. Also included is a Listening Gallery allowing gallery goers to listen to past Sound Travels performances while viewing the "Sound Travels Documents" Photo Exhibit by Stefan Rose.

Also included each Sunday afternoon in and around the church will be Reena Katz's Air Born, an audio installation in which listeners will tune into a history in reverse of the Toronto Islands and the urban development issues that have marked their existence as part of our city.