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May 04, 2009
Open Ears 2009: Installations
Whispering Room Jane Cardiff - Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
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16 speakers each play part of a dialogue in which a female voice describes an event from various viewpoints.
Frequent Mutilations: A Symphony Of Tape Loops - Andrew O’Connor - Artery Gallery
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A celebration of one of Canada’s longest running audio art programs - Frequent Mutilations - which ran on CKMS FM for close to 25 years.
Syncopated Precipitation - Gordon Monahan - Kitchener City Hall Fountain Pool
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Water drops fall onto a collection of suspended and amplified metal and plastic objects to form a playful and rhythmic percussion ensemble. [Ed:Ensemble was more playful than expected. i.e. It rained]
Spirit In Sound: Music Ecology Surround Soundscapes - James Harley - Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
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Electroacoustic music that explores a range of soundscapes evoking place and culture in ways that are real and/or fantastical
Butterflies: theatre for the ears VII (Dancing Oscilloscope and Sound) - Giorgio Magnanensi - Zero To One Gallery
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a place for things just to come and be as they are…flowing through limitless space which belongs wholly neither to sound or the imagination.
Obsolescence: Sounds Of The City From An Altered Piano - Micheline Roi - Walper Terrace Art Gallery
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In this installation, the piano is positioned as a curiosity, an antique piece of furniture by which other sounds are made, not by it but on it.
Originally posted by Miss Mussel from The Omniscient Mussel on Classical Music & Culture, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on May 4, 2009 at 08:11 AM