Sound has Legs (part 1)
Sound has Legs is an exhibition from the curator ERIC MATTSON, that presents sound structures and visual documents pertaining to Sonde, an interdisciplinary group that was active for the most part from 1976 to 1986. In resonance with these archival materials, Nathan McNinch, a young composer from Kingston, Ontario, will launch his first sound installation.
Opening & Concert :: Thursday May 1st at 5 pm.
With Nathan McNinch, Sonde and the kind participation of Szkieve
The SAT[Gallery] presents Sound has Legs an exhibition from the curator ERIC MATTSON, that presents sound structures and visual documents pertaining to Sonde, an interdisciplinary group that was active for the most part from 1976 to 1986. In resonance with these archival materials, Nathan McNinch, a young composer from Kingston, Ontario, will launch his first sound installation.
Sonde : Sculpture sonore
The invented “instruments” Water Tree, Plastic Would, Sahabi and Les Plaques were used in the many concerts and performances Sonde gave in the 1970s and 80s. Taken out of context and put on display, they suggest that an unusual artistic gesture was the essential preliminary to their equally singular music.
These instruments are a part of this first major exhibition of the group’s work, which also includes audio, print and photographic documents, Andrew Culver’s “interactive” structure Personal Tensegrity Cuboctahedron Sound Sphere, and Sonde tellurique, a set of environmental detectors created in 2008 by the electronics engineer Keith Daniel. Active present-day members of this group, which came out of the Electronic Music Studio in McGill University’s music department, are Charles de Mestral, Andrew Culver, Pierre Dostie and Keith Daniel.
Nathan McNinch : All We Leave Behind
The first visual and sound installation by this composer, All We Leave Behind presents a number of bottles of sparkling water which, subjected to soundtracks made up of various conversations, emit light in the manner of sea phytoplankton.
This subtle work by Nathan McNinch is a metaphor for our social relations and our isolation in de-humanised societies. Here, emitting signs of our fears becomes the mark of the distance we impose on others, of a form of protection.
Eric Mattson is an independent curator specialized in audio and sonic-art. This exhibition is it’s second project realized in partnership with the Society for Art and Technology. The first being White Line Light from the German collective Raster-Noton presented at the SAT[Gallery] summer 2007.
Contact : Eric Mattson, [email protected],
Eric Mattson would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the SAT[Gallery] for their support.
Free entrance
From May 1st to June 1st 2008
1201 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Opening & Concert :: Thursday May 1st at 5 pm.
With Nathan McNinch, Sonde and the kind participation of Szkieve
Opening hours :
Wednesday to Friday : 12 to 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday : 12 to 6 p.m.