Louder than a beating heart
Solo exhibition.
Titanik Galleria, Turku, Finland

Opening Oct 19 18h, exhibition runs Oct 20-25, 2015

Louder than a beating heart is a collection of new sound works investigating amplification as both conceptual subject matter and primary production technique. Each work strives to complicate, in its own way, the manners in which amplification operates in the acoustic, social, political, and personal spheres of life.

Through the amplification of physical relations, technological artifacts, and naive sentiment, sound and listening are observed as both isolated phenomena and carriers of content.

Pictures and video soon!

SPOROBOLE
Samedi 26 septembre 2015 – 14h à 16h30

Vous êtes cordialement invités à venir écouter les oeuvres et rencontrer les artistes qui ont pris part à l’édition 2015 de la Vitrine sonore. Table-ronde avec Hélène prévost, commissaire, Chantale Laplante et France Jobin compositeures en résidence, et les invités Nicolas Bernier et Chantal Dumas. Visite du laboratoire de spatialisation. Entrée libre.

Adam Basanta will be an artist-in-residence at Titanik Gallery in Turku, Finland for September/October 2015.

See Adam’s website for information about his work.

Adam’s recent installation “The Sound of Empty Space” was a finalist in the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2015, organized by the Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (Miami, FL).

See Adam’s website for more information about this installation.

You are cordially invited to a gathering in the matralab with wine and snacks at 18h00 on Thursday, 30 July. The multi-channel installation, “Euthymia”, will be presented in the adjacent matralab black box. There is absolutely no food or drink allowed in the box, nor any outdoor footwear. The piece has a running time of approximately twelve minutes. It will run from 18h30 until 21h30. Hope to see you there! The matralab is located in EV 4.520. Find a map here.

In medicine, euthymia refers to a reasonably happy mood, as opposed to dysthymia, depression.

Kaja Levy is a film/video maker and performer based in Montreal. Her moving image work explores the theatrics of expressing sensitivity. She has presented at the Objet Sonore lecture series, the Academy of Art Video Art, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Film Pop, and the $100 Film Festival, among elsewhere. She is a matralab research assistant.

www.kajalevy.com

Charlie Twitch has created a multi-channel audio installation for “Euthymia”. Charlie is a producer, composer, and visual artist based in Montreal. Their music draws from their work in film and live performances, moving from subtle, minimalist soundscapes to explosive swing inspired passages. Their work has been exhibited across Canada with the RVCQ, CEC, Film Pop, Objet Sonore, Fantasia, and Kino.

www.charlietwitch.com

Let This Sound Slowly Dissipate from matralab on Vimeo.

On 6 March 2015, eight student composers and sound artists from several Montreal universities performed their interpretation of Sandeep Bhagwati’s poem-score “Let This Sound Slowly Dissipate” in public space. This performance was the result of a three-month composition workshop with the students led by Adam Basanta since December 2014. Bhagwati’s original text-score was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s impermanent, site-specific environmental land art sculptures.

This public performance took place at La Cinémathèque québécoise. Video by Ralitsa Doncheva.

/// Chantale Laplante /// Présentation du projet assi/terre /// Vitrine Sonore 2015 from Sporobole on Vimeo.

Chantale Laplante est une artiste en résidence du 18 mai et 7 juin 2015 au Centre en art actuel Sporobole, Sherbrooke, QC, pour la création d’une nouvelle oeuvre pour le dispositif de diffusion sur 16 haut-parleurs de la Vitrine Sonore.