a shimmering ornament of silt

SPHERE Festival - Sound installation

2022-09-22 18:00 2022-09-25 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: a shimmering ornament of silt

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31360

In-person event

When to visit:
The installation is accessible at all times during NAC opening hours. Musical activation with live performers daily:  Thursday, 6pm Friday, 1pm & 7pm Saturday, 12:30pm & 7pm Sunday, 1pm   Installation and performance work created by rebecca bruton (scores for periodic live performances) and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (electronics and visuals). Two musical creators, each with a history of working in experimental...

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Rossy Pavilion,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
September 22 - 25, 2022
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Rossy Pavilion 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada
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When to visit:
The installation is accessible at all times during NAC opening hours.

Musical activation with live performers daily: 

  • Thursday, 6pm
  • Friday, 1pm & 7pm
  • Saturday, 12:30pm & 7pm
  • Sunday, 1pm

Installation and performance work created by rebecca bruton (scores for periodic live performances) and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (electronics and visuals).

Two musical creators, each with a history of working in experimental music, sound, and ecological interdisciplinarity, attune to one another’s practices. Together they think through soil, sediment, fossilization, more-than-historic timescales, and what the silt carries when it greets us in the present. The result is an amassment, a fossiliferous shimmering of sounds, objects, poetic fragments, and music. 

The electronic installation by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir will continue throughout the duration of the SPHERE festival in the Rossy Pavilion. 

Additionally, there will be six live performances of rebecca bruton’s scores.

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Artists

  • Voices and improvisers of Stefánsdóttir’s performance score for the electronics i.e., holm’s sedimentation rebecca bruton (CA), Sofia Härdig (SE), Maja Jantar (NL/FI), Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (IS)
  • Improvisations with instruments and activations of objects Stefánsdóttir, Jantar, and Guðrún Óskarsdóttir (IS, harpsichord/clavecin)
  • Recitation Vera Hrafnsdóttir (IS, age 5) and Bjarki Hrafnsson (IS, age 8)
  • Final Mix Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Jonas Jönsson
  • Mastering Kent Olofsson
  • Live performers Renée Dahn (viola/violon), Jasmine Tsui (vibraphone/vibraphone), Cléo Palacio-Quintin (bass flute/ flûte basse), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet/ clarinette basse), Zac Pulak (marimba/marimba) and Philippe Charbonneau (bass/basse), Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (baroque violin/ violon baroque), rebecca bruton (voice/voix).
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