I decided to do a recording of the 'morning after' walking down Queen Street. Everyone knows how busy and loud it is on a Saturday night, so I wanted to capture the transformation from the night life to Sunday morning. I was walking down Queen St past Spadina to get a sense of how calm the morning is compared to the night before. Walking along the street you had your city goers and locals, a few shoppers and some kids skateboarding (towards the end) as well as you could hear the streetcars and music coming from the stores..


Queen St West 01/30 - 11:30 - Nadine Singh

Sounds of Scotia Plaza

	After experiencing Janet Cardiff's audio walk A Large Slow River, it really left me speechless for a good amount of time after, it also inspired me to do my own sound piece.  The only obstacle was what would I capture?  Luckily I had time to think about it. I could not brainstorm something as personal as hers or as touching as her recording. To start I thought to record public places; sitting in Starbucks listening to my surroundings, walking down the street or waiting for a bus, none of which I found suiting for my installation. Soon enough, I decided to record various parts of different events I would attend, with hopes of finding something that would interest my ear.  Sure enough I came up with something; two different types of artists performing their two different creations. 
This sound installation is a combination of two recordings, then a recording of the final mix.  I recorded clips from two events; Denis Gagnon's (October 21 2011) Fashion Show at Toronto’s LG Fashion Week Denis At The Garden, and the second is Death From Above 1979's performance of Little Girl at the Sound Academy (October 27 2011) and an excerpt from before their performance of If We Don't Make It We'll Fake it. The two pieces were edited together in order to produce a final product, then that was played back again and recorded into another microphone. I would like to say the reason for that was being inspired by Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room, which is partly true, however, I ended up  being inspired by him because the editing program I had downloaded, was a trail, and it embedded its personal voiceover once I has exported the file. It turned out well in the end.
	The two performances could not be more different; a fashion show and a rock concert. However, the concept and ideas are the same; each showcase has artists displaying their work to an audience. The reason why I chose to combine these two recordings was to contrast the gentle and more feminine sounds of one style of performance with a much louder and raw sound of another performance.  It goes back and forth between each to depict the aural shift from a calm audience to the loud roar of drums and a bass guitar back to a calm audience and up tempo music.  It also captures the environment I was when while recording and listeners can perceive and decide on what they believe noise pollution is, and if they hear any of it in the installation. 


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