Piper (Nottawasaga Bay 1 & 2), 2022
Piper (Nottawasaga Bay) follows the lineage of sound sculptures, where play and discovery set the stage for improvisation, and both sound and viewer “perform.” The sited sounds originate from Nottawasaga Bay, a large inlet of Georgian Bay near Tiny, Ontario. Using a two-sound, chance composition approach, each switch randomly activates a sound from a selection stored on its corresponding audio board, allowing for a range of sound combinations between the two sources. The sounds were variously processed electronically and materially as performative gestures — either in the studio or on-site at Nottawasaga Bay. The resonant character of a pipe is visually at play — think also of pipe-as-sea-shell.
Exhibition History: 2023 Plural Contemporary Art Fair (Montreal, Canada); 2022 Art Toronto (Canada).
See also: Piper (Instrument), 2022; Piper (Home Recordings), 2025
