This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
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a shimmering ornament of silk
In-person
Music Sculpture & installation Visual artsDate and time
Location
National Arts Centre
1 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5W1
Ottawa, ON
Access
Free.
Offered in English and French.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
This remarkable sound installation is created by Canadian composer Rebecca Bruton and Icelandic composer Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, two musical creators attuned to one another’s practices in experimental music, sound, and the interconnectedness of art and ecological systems.
Together, they sift through ancient soil, sediment, and fossilization, and consider what the silt carries when it greets us in the present. The sound installation will run the duration of the festival, with musicians interacting live in timed musical activations.
The result? A fossiliferous shimmering of sounds, objects, poetic fragments, and music.
When to visit:
The installation is accessible at all times during NAC opening hours.
Musical activation with live performers daily:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 12:30pm and 6:30pm
Sunday at 12:30pm
Organizer
National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts. The NAC presents, creates, produces, and co-produces performing arts programming in various streams—the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre, and Popular Music and Variety—and nurtures the next generation of audiences and artists from across Canada.
The NAC is located in the National Capital Region on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation.
This event is part of a hub:
National Arts Centre
National Arts Centre Ottawa, ONThe National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts. The NAC presents, creates, produces, and co-produces performing arts programming in various streams—the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English The...