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SOUNDplay Installations
Sound(e)scape preview curated by Darren Copeland
various artists
September 28, 10am - 9pm FREE
Eaton's Centre in the atrium in front of Sears near the entrance from Trinity (on Street Level - near City Grill)
Sound(e)scape is an immersive experience that surrounds the participant with the sounds of water, air, and natural soundscapes from around the world curated by NAISA's Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The works will be spatialized live with NAISA's unique realtime spatialization controller and software by Andrew Stewart, Hector Centeno and Darren Copeland and will include performances of works by the angelusnovus.net collective who will use this occasion to launch a six month residency at the NAISA Space.
Sound(e)scape curated by Darren Copeland
presented as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
various artists
October 3-4, 7pm - 7am, FREE
The NAISA Space (#252), Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
Sound(e)scape is an immersive experience that surrounds the participant with the sounds of water, air, and natural soundscapes from around the world curated by NAISA's Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The works will be spatialized live with NAISA's unique realtime spatialization controller and software by Andrew Stewart, Hector Centeno and Darren Copeland and will include performances of works by the angelusnovus.net collective who will use this occasion to launch a six month residency at the NAISA Space.
Plant(ipod)Installation
by Jane Tingley
Opening during Nuit Blanche from 7 pm to 7 am - FREE
continues to October 25 on weekends only
(Saturday 9 am - 1 pm, Sundays 1 - 4 pm)
Have a school class that would like to visit? Call 416-652-5115 to book an appointment or email naisa@naisa.ca
@ Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #170, Toronto
Plant(ipod)Installation explores the poetics involved in creating new relationships between human and plant life, and subverts the traditional hierarchy, which positions plant life below human life. The installation evokes the possibility of developing technologies that are nature-centric rather than human-centric - and breath life back into the idea of the enchanted forest. The installation invites the viewer to walk through an environment, where the location of the body as it moves through the installation space triggers new auditory experiences for both plant and viewer.
"Plant(ipod)Installation reflects my interest in exploring the active relationship between objects in the space of the gallery, and the body of the viewer. Predominantly sculptural in nature, the installation is comprised of twelve plant/prosthetic objects of various shapes and sizes, spread out in a grid like fashion throughout the gallery, and spaced about one and a half meters apart. The organically shaped objects house embedded houseplants. They visually reference tree like forms, or, more specifically trees that have been coppiced, or pollarded, which are forms of pruning that encourage new growth. Each of the sculptural objects include a built in subwoofer with metal branches rising from it, to hold the two small speakers close to the leafy part of the plant, and function as a sound system. Individually, the objects contain both sensors and speakers, so that the sound being played to the plants is directly affected by the viewer's location and proximity.
The sound component of the work is also sculptural in nature, and has two modes - one for when there is a viewer and another for when there isn't. In "rest" mode, the speakers play the sounds of many different types of breathing, as though the space is filled with many people. As the viewer moves throughout the space, coming into range of the individual plants, the sounds transform into quiet whispering, evoking the theory that plants respond to people speaking to them, growing stronger and healthier. For the breathing sound, I have taken field recordings of mechanical noise - such as recordings of fans, the sounds of hinges, and motors. I have made sound control patches that allow me to adjust the speed, directionality, and length of the clips being played, as well as layer the sound files together. Once the files are layered, I convolve them with sound files of breathing to create a sound that is clearly breath, but with a feel that isn't quite natural - a sound that alludes to the breath of both the plants and the technological components. The "active" mode consists of recorded stories, and cultural tales that come from a web site of folktales and stories about trees. Individually the sounds played to the plants are not loud, but together fill the gallery space with collective breathing. As the viewer moves through the space, the sounds of the plants that s/he is closest to drifts in and out of stories told in multiple languages.
This work explores the poetics involved in creating new relationships between human and plant life, and subverts the traditional hierarchy, which positions plant life below human life. The installation evokes the possibility of developing technologies that are nature-centric rather than human-centric - and breath life back into the idea of the enchanted forest. The installation invites the viewer to walk through a sensorial environment, where the movement of the body collaborates with the objects in the space, and creates new auditory experiences for both plant and viewer." - Jane Tingley
Les Puits
by Marie Côté and Olivier Girouard
@ Gladstone Hotel, 2nd floor gallery, 1214 Queen St. West
presented in collaboration with the Gladstone Hotel as part of UpArt!
Thursday October 22 to Sunday October 25, 2009
(Event coincides with 10th Anniversary of Art Toronto (formerly TIAF))
Exhibition hours:
Thurs Oct 22 4pm - 8pm PREVIEW
Fri Oct 23 12pm - 11pm
Sat Oct 24 12pm - 7pm
Sun Oct 25 12pm - 5pm
Gala Reception Fri Oct 23 7-11pm - with live performances and DJ
Intrinsically silent ceramic bowls surprise the viewer in Les Puits by simply the act of making sound. As there is nothing to reveal the speakers hidden within the bowls, the imagination of the audience member must discover the source of the music. Sounds from a studio transport audiences to the very location where the bowls were created. The installation's poetic resonance carries them through a place and time that wouldn't be possible without the intersection of the bowls on display and the sound projected through them. The wonder is in this intersection, when the viewer identifies the source of the sound and suddenly, the ceramic bowls are singing.
Sounds Scary
October 29 to 31, 2009
Oct 29 and 30 for schools please contact naisa@naisa.ca
for booking
Oct 31, 2009, 9 am to 5 pm, for the public, FREE
Various locations at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., Toronto
Go on a Halloween sound treasure hunt at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and then learn about the secrets behind how sounds are made in the movies.
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September 28, 10am - 9pm FREE
Sound(e)scape preview
Eaton's Centre in the atrium in front of Sears near the entrance from Trinity (on Street Level - near City Grill)
Saturday October 3 to Sunday October 4 (7 PM to 7 AM)
Sound(e)scape
presented as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
October 3 to 25
Plant(ipod)Installation
(also part of Nuit Blanche)
by Jane Tingley
October 22 to 25
Les Puits
by Marie Côté and Olivier Girouard
October 29 & 31
Sounds Scary
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