Sound of the Sun, Volume I is the weird, entrancing, celebratory, sometimes gloomy, and somewhat euphoric summer mixtape of planetary travel, solar interventions, story telling, and frog choruses you didn’t know you needed for summer 2023.

As UNIT/PITT's first iteration of a multi-part project of sonic-celestial explorations connecting with the seasons, the Sound of the Sun project asks participants to consider their relationship to cycles of solar movement as the days lengthen on this half of the planet—to observe, respond, record, and retell through music, poetry, field recordings, storytelling, and any other audio-based methods in order to speak to this important time of the solar year.

Featuring sound works by 10 artists, Sound of the Sun, Volume I beckons the promise of sun-worship, long beach days, A/C, forest fires, and excess levels of Vitamin D.

Curated by Catherine de Montreuil and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes
Recording (tracks 1 & 4), mastering, and project support from Nick Short
Artwork collab by Martin Steuck, Catherine de Montreuil, and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes

Read the artists' bios and track descriptions on our website: https://www.unitpitt.ca/portfolio/sun-2/

Sound of the Sun, Volume I

Sound of the Sun, Volume I is the weird, entrancing, celebratory, sometimes gloomy, and somewhat euphoric summer mixtape of planetary travel, solar interventions, story telling, and frog choruses you didn’t know you needed for summer 2023.

As UNIT/PITT's first iteration of a multi-part project of sonic-celestial explorations, the Sound of the Sun project asks participants to consider their relationship to cycles of solar movement as the days lengthen on this half of the planet—to observe, respond, record, and retell through music, poetry, field recordings, storytelling, and any other audio-based methods in order to speak to this important time of the solar year.

Featuring sound works by 10 artists, Sound of the Sun, Volume I beckons the promise of sun-worship, long beach days, A/C, forest fires, and excess levels of Vitamin D.

Curated by Catherine de Montreuil and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes Recording, mastering, and project support from Nick Short
Artwork by Martin Steuck, Catherine de Montreuil, and Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes

Jami Reimer - Lost in the antiphon

Manuel Muñoz - Distorty’s Like A Melody In My Head

Stefana Fratila - Feat. Tess Degenstein - “I Want To Leave This Earth Behind” (Short Story)

Absolute Value Of Noise - Circuits That Wake Up With The Sun

Lida Pawliuk - Feat. B. WEST - Cruel Summer

Jane Harms - The Weekend of the Year

Ogheneofegor Obuwoma - Feat. Onosholema Ikhwolegbe - In conversation with time

B.Michaael - 21/21

Atama Itai - Osaka Sun

Pari - A radiant resonance

Artist-run center on unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples