espaceSONO :: audio.lab

from Wednesday 05 September 2007 to Friday 05 October 2007

The espaceSONO audio.listening.lab is a headphone listening space, a sound-installation, and a global curatorial project that reflects the diversity of approaches and practices in sound-art today.

Some fourty artists from ten countries are represented, each offering a unique foray into sound. All works are designed to be heard in a focused listening environment over headphones. Two installations open new ways of containing sound-art while a series of performances demonstrate the versatility of artists engaged in sound exploration as they move from being composers to performers.

Many of the artists are affiliated with a local node of the international Upgrade network, an organisation of artists and practitioners in the technology and media arts.

As a global curatorial project, the audio.lab reflects the themes of self-organisation and DiY (Do-It-Yourself) that drives the Upgrade network.

As a collection of sound works, the audio.lab enters into a world of challenging listening that touches upon a multiplicity of practices, from the electro-acoustic to field recordings, acousmatic approaches to microsound, contact microphones to remixes, sine wave explorations to granular synthesis, home-built turntables to circuit-bending, customized software patches to noise, explorations of the body to abstract principles, found sounds to interventions in video gaming and the political sphere….

The exhibition also features a series of four performances, from the free events of the opening vernissage and a dedicated, deep.listening,session featuring international guests to a free soundwalk and an intimate gallery performance. - tobias c. van Veen, August 2007 Guest currator

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Exhibition artists:

Alexis O’Hara & Mankind (MTL) Andra McCartney (MTL) Andrew Brouse (UK) Anna Friz (TO) Carrie Gates (SK) Charles Stankievich (MTL) Doug Van Nort (MTL) ERUPTION (SP) Esther Bourdages (MTL) FISHEAD (MTL) Francisco Lopez (ES) HarS / ookoi (NL) Helen Thorington (MA) hellothisisalex (NL, CA) I8U (MTL) Jamie Allen (NYC) Jim Bell (MTL) Katarina Zdjelar (NL) Katherine Liberovskaya (NYC) Kathy Kennedy (MTL) Marlena Corcoan (DE) Martha CC. Gabriel (BR) Martijn Tellinga / BOCA RATON (NL) Martin Tétreault (MTL) Mike Hansen (TO) Nathan McNinch (MTL) Nebojsa Andjelkovic (SP) o.blaat (NYC) onetoofreefor (BE) Phill Niblock (NYC) Scant Intone & Celine Beyond (MTL) Shona J. Dietz & Eveline Boudreau (SK) Silvester Stöger (AT) sound_00 (MK) Tim Hecker (MTL) tobias c. van Veen (MTL) tomas phillips (US)