Work with Sound
Field-recordings, home-made instruments and other sounds, have been another way of reimagining the world around me. The chatter of radio or people talking amongst each other, phone recordings and voicemails. Here, I am looking for ways to share treasured moments from within my own personal archive. Sound offers an alternative value system, one that replaces the monetary with the sentimental. I use sound to memorialize small moments buried in time, and look forward into the future. Compiled here, are some of my recent projects involving sound.
Yorath House Artist Residency with Anna Wildish
We use sound to connect and to communicate with our environment. During our time at Yorath we are conducting a series of “collaborations” with not only each other, but with the North Saskatchewan River, White Mud drive, Buena Vista Park, Sir Wilfred Laurier Park and the surrounding grounds of the river valley. In staging and conducting these actions, our aim is to develop a greater sense of our connectedness to the land. Deep listening is integral to our practice, in listening, we open ourselves up to discovery. In listening, we converse with the river, its histories and possible futures.
August 25 - play the xylophone on the river, using the rocks and stones surrounding the shore of the water. Play thoughtfully and quietly, listen to the river and the rhythms already in motion.
“I Can Barely Hear You” is the culmination of many recordings taken over the month of September. These recordings began when Anna would call me when leaving the studio after dark. Early autumn and the onset of nightfall.
These recordings are paired with layers of improvised guitar I would play while waiting for Anna’s calls.
These next two durational pieces were also recorded at the Yorath House. Each was played on a loop, from within the walls of “plinths” that we had built during our residency. The plinths were situated around the Yorath House in Buena Vista for park goers to stumble across.
an afternoon of deep listening and sound at Yorath House
Listening to Many Voices Speaking at Once, several radios, an electric bass and other sounds, DOPPLER
“Listening to Many Voices Speaking at Once, is an exercise in deep listening driven by our reverence for radio and rhythm. Sound alone is both expansive and unbound. With an electric thread we pluck, pick and stitch together sound from its infinite expanse and key into our own inner-tuning. Using rhythm and repetition, we activate a state of listening that allows us to be present, opening us up to new information, sensations, and truths. Listening to each other's frequencies, we conduct a live transmission of our imaginary sonic broadcast. While weaving through static, noise, the crackling voices of FM, and the hiss and hum of the radio, we aim to connect you to the perpetual progression that we all participate in.”
Listening to Many Voices Speaking at Once, performed at DC3 Projects as part of blur - Mile Zero Dance “Sitelines”
