This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
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Sonosphere
In-person
Film & video 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
WORLD PREMIERE
In a performance of synaesthesia, the Lantern features four videos of ecosystem components interacting with musical instruments that evoke an inaudible auditory imagining for the viewer.
How does a sandstorm play a trumpet? How might a moth sound a violin’s strings? How can glacial melt percuss timpani mallets? How would a fumarole play a flute?
As macro-video art created for NACO’s SPHERE Festival and the Kipnes Lantern, Sonosphere pairs Icelandic ecosystems with symphony orchestra instruments. The grand scale of the Lantern’s video façade juxtaposes with the macro-intimacy of sandstorm, moth, meltwater, geothermal steam, and musicians caressing their instruments.
Each Icelandic ecosystem emphasizes components from one of the four primary planetary systems (lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere). Selected from within each of the four orchestra instrument families (brass, strings, percussion, woodwinds), a musical instrument is then played by an ecosystem component. In situ videos are shot in summer 2022 at Icelandic geographic phenomena—black-sand beach, moss-covered lava field, melting glacier, and sulphuric fumarole.
- Discover those videos on the Kipnes Lantern during SPHERE festival -
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.
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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...