A Case for Sound: Nina is used to construct the sound work Nina using audio from Nina Simone’s performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976.

A Case for Sound is a sound object made to look somewhere between a suitcase/carrying case, record album box, instrument and portable record player. The object is constructed with wood and finished to a high gloss, holes are cut in each side for the speakers. Inside an MP3 player loops an audio segment. A motion switch interrupts the audio when the object is tilted. If repeatedly tilted, the interrupted audio can sound similar to a skipping record.

Exhibition History: 2014 Idea Exchange (Cambridge, Canada); 2012 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, United States); 2011 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto, Canada)

Publication: Migone, Christof. “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhe: Silence and Sound in Performance.” More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, YYZBooks, 2016, pp. 56-73.

See also: A Case for Sound, Case for Sound: Nite Ride

A Case for Sound: Nina, 2010
sound sculpture, performance, recordings
13 min. 22 sec.

Performed by: Allison Cameron, Stephen Parkinson and Martin Arnold