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sound field: nearshore (excerpt II)

by Anne Bourne

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Imagining rivers capped by the rushing concrete highway in cross motion, I play with the perception of time and space, using gesture and magnification of sound. Slowed pace and subsonic, in particle form. Listening through the concrete for resonance and a geological imprint of the underground tributaries.
The nearshore, where land meets water, a vibrant more-than-human sound field, inspires a careless song. Cello microtones emulate the sound of trucks passing, to embrace the perpetual tone of the Gardiner, which plays through the heart of our city, as music.
Imagine the resonance of this site, in eons, when rivers flow into the great lake system, that opens brackish to deep ocean. What do the underground rivers sound like clear?
Walking the nearshore, listening through the concrete, an immersive array of sonics becomes something not heard before, the underground lines of intention, of water.

Anne Bourne


sound field: nearshore was commissioned by Anna Gallagher-Ross,
Dave Carey and Ilana Altman for the Bentway, Toronto, to sonify the space around a significant sculptural installation by Striped Canary, Stephen B. Nguyen and Wade Kavanagh US. I was asked to create a durational sonic experience that enlivened the sculpture, which depicted the underground river system capped by concrete, that appeared to burst into the massive shed. And to make the sound of the 401 Highway that was the ceiling of the extreme site, 81 feet long and three storey's high, so the rushing cars become part of the creative sound field. The spatialized composition was diffused into 15 speakers, with two subwoofers, and a transducer resonating trucks into an eyebeam, and ran for one hour, looping throughout the open hours.

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released November 27, 2023
Anne Bourne composer/ performer, field recordings, cello, piano
Brandon Valdivia tambora
cello microtones produced by seraphim
cello ensemble recorded by Graham Walsh
spatial design John Gzowski,
with thanks to Tom Kuo, Mitchell Akiyama
WHGunn vintage field recordings with thanks to Matt Rogalsky,
courtesy of Cornell Archive.

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Anne Bourne

Artist composer improvises emergent streams of sonics, field recordings and text, for spatial installation in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and all living beings. Anne explores themes of equanimity, translation, microtonal sound, listening, walking as embodied sonic archiving, collective creative expression, and composes in attunement to the wave patterns of water. ... more

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