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a shimmering ornament of silk

In-person

Music Sculpture & installation Visual arts
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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

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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.

Contact

Centre national des Arts – National Arts Centre

info@nac-cna.ca

613-947-7000

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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 The...