I originally recorded the speakers that appear in this piece - Chief Kim Recalma-Clutesi of the Qualicum Band, Richard Day, and Arthur Manuel - at the conference "The Wars at Home, the Wars Abroad, Imperialism and the everyday" at the University of Victoria in 2005 - and appear chronologically 

The sounds of Heli-jets and float planes were recorded in Victoria BC, in sites that were chosen for their relationship to Indigenous history in Victoria. Sacred sites that are now used predominantly as airports. originally micro broadcast in 2005 at the Commons Conference, and Interactive Futures.

The Acoustic Commons

This piece was used in 605 Collectives Inheritor project in 2012.

performances in 2012:

    * Canada Dance Festival - NAC,  Ottawa
    * Dancing on the Edge – Vancouver Playhouse
    * Festival International de Danse Encore, Trois-Rivières
    * Timms Centre for the Arts, Edmonton


shore

Apollo atmospheres & soundtracks - an ending ascent (low speed)
Mariah - Shishen (low speed)
Mountains - Choral - Add Infinity (backwards low speed)
Oval - systemech - textuel
Francesco Messina - prati bagnati del analogo
Laraaji - Ambient 3 - Meditation 2 (low speed)
Steve Hauschildt - Sequitor - Constant reminder (low speed)
Giusto Pio - per uno altro futura 2
Autechre - Amber - Pine (slow speed)
William Basinski - The Deluge
Hiroshima Yoshimura - Pier & Pine - Horizon I've ever seen before

ambient/textural/atmospheric mix

K. Leimer - Land of Look Behind: the outpost
Ichiko: Opening the Door of the Heaven, There Overflowed the Orange Shine 
(very low speed)
Seigen Ono:Seigen:Mallets
Dune Soundtrack:Prophecy theme (very low speed)
Seigen Ono: Seigen: Shikaruni part 1
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Esperanto: Rain Song: Dolphins

1982-1985 japan/canada/usa - ambient/4th world/minimalist

thanks to Hethre Contant for making these sounds a reality. All the sounds were collected from the Surrey Art Gallery in 2012 and audio recorder and a snuff box (scene in photo) built by Hethre Contant in a workshop created by:  http://r-aw.cc/-/

0.1 GHz - 2.5 GHz

Underground is a sound sculpture that takes the form of two couches inside the foyer of the Surrey Art Gallery.  Inside each of the couches are small loudspeakers and tactile transducers, which convert sound into vibrations that the body can feel and touch as well as hear.  The speakers and tactile transducers are playing a droning soundscape derived from recordings made in the electrical and mechanical rooms inside of the basement of the Surrey Art Gallery.  You can sit on either of the two couches, which literally vibrate your body with sound, becoming louder and more tactile once you physically connect with them.

Essay by Ross Birdwise, the curator of On Air: Making the Inaudible Audible: 
http://birdwise.tumblr.com/inaudible

Underground

sol o tri o

live recording of this yamaha organ with pedals. January 2013.
Special thanks to Frederick Brummer for the organ donation. http://overmindproductions.com/

electone bk-5

Sounds from the Neuroethology Lab at Carleton University are used as material for a quintet of caterpillar scratches and thumps. This is a rough sketch for future multichannel video work with audio and video. Thanks to Jayne Yack for letting me have access to these sounds.

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