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Mobile Music; Journées de la Culture

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 Samuel Thulin, Nimalan Yoganathan, Max Stein , Julian Stein and Stéphane Claude present works related to mobility, sound, music, and urban life.

Mobile Music 
Saturday September 25, 2010
as part of Journées de la Culture
OBORO
4001 Berri #200

Montreal

2 pm    
Project launch of There to Hear: Placing Mobile Music by Samuel Thulin
A sound walk and sound creation workshop

Samuel Thulin launches the active listening project There to Hear: Placing
Mobile Music. For a four-week period, the public can download original
pieces created exclusively from audio material recorded during an excursion through Montreal. Equipped with headphones, participants are able to follow Thulin's directions and retrace his steps (on foot, by bus and by subway). The participants' audio experience will diverge from the initial audio experience. Upon each re-listening, a new musical journey unfolds as imaginary mingles with reality, as original compositions meld with street sounds, and as sound becomes music..

At the launch, Thulin will discuss the project and host a short experiment
exploring connections between sound, image, and the environment. Bring your mp3 player, Walkman, or Discman and some tunes to listen to.

Participants will also be able to download audio fragments from the artist
in order to create their own original pieces. As a follow up to the project,
these pieces will be presented on October 28, at 6 pm at OBORO

3 pm    
Interactive exhibition, Automatons & Secret Rhythms by Nimalan Yoganathan, Max Stein and Julian Stein

audio cartography and automaton orchestra
The public is invited to experience the installation Automatons & Secret
Rhythms, by Nimalan Yoganathan, Max Stein and Julian Stein, a dynamic audio environment where sounds and objects collected throughout the city come together to form a percussive automaton orchestra.

The artist collective scoured the city in order to uncover rhyth- mic
couplings and sound sequences, bringing out Montreal's hidden musicality. This acoustic content, fashioned into original pieces, will trigger electromagnetic mechanisms capable of re- producing and orchestrating recorded sounds and ambiences. Often perceived as sound pollution, urban noises reveal their "secret rhythms".

Recipients of the 2009 Caisse populaire Desjardins of Mont-Roy- al Young New Media Artists Award, Nimalan Yoganathan, Max Stein and Julian Stein made good use of OBORO's specialized audio space resources to carry out their project.

4:30 pm    Snacks

6 pm    Conference and concert with Nimalan Yoganatan, Max Stein, Julian Stein, Samuel Thulin and Stéphane Claude
Free admission

A conference on audio cartography practices will bring together Samuel
Thulin, Nimalan Yoganathan, Max Stein and Julian Stein. Stéphane Claude will join them for a group concert which will conclude this day of mobile music!



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