A Case for Sound is a set of sound objects made to look somewhere between a suitcase, a record album box, an instrument and a portable record player. Constructed from wood and finished to a high gloss, each object’s speakers play a looping audio segment from an embedded MP3 player. Each of the eight cases plays one looping segment from a larger sound work composition. A motion switch interrupts the audio when the object is tilted, and if repeatedly moved, the interrupted audio can sound similar to a skipping record.
Exhibition History: 2019 fluff (Avatar, Quebec City, Canada), 2018 SINCE Performance Series (Somatische Akademie Berlin), 2018 MKG127 (Toronto, Canada), 2018 Toronto Dance Community Summer Love-In (Toronto, Canada); 2015 Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, Canada); 2015 dc3 art projects (Edmonton, Alberta); 2014 IDEA|EXCHANGE (Cambridge, Canada); 2013 Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga, Canada); 2012 WBNY (Buffalo, NY), 2012 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, United States); 2011 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto, Canada); 2009 Artengine (Ottawa, Canada)
Publication: Fleming, Marnie, John Massier, Martin Arnold. Marla Hlady: Rooms & Walls. Oakville Galleries and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 2013.
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.
Press: Dick, Terence. “Akimblog.” Akimbo 29 March, 2011, http://akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=452
