Basement Bass (Boréalis) transforms a rotating floor into a bass speaker. Sounds recorded in Boréalis Museum’s sub basement, located below river level, are heard through the floor speaker (the bass end of dripping water, droning fans, etc. coloured by the architecture of the space). When a viewer stands, sits, lies on the floor, they feel the sound as much as they hear it.
Sounds of Silence plays on a record player beside and at the same height as the rotating floor, wirelessly transmitting its sound to a guitar amplifier located on the floor’s underside. The record features tracks where artists chose to have no sound or to incorporate large sections of no sound; what is heard is the sound of the material of the record itself.
Basement Bass (Boréalis) was part of the exhibition Perdre Pied… (Losing One’s Footing) for the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine (Trois-Rivieres, Quebec).
Exhibition History: 2014 Boréalis (Trois-Riviere, Canada)
Essay: Migone, Christof. “Heard and Misheard Notes.” Volumes, Blackwood Gallery, 2015.
Press: “Marla HLADY.” Vimeo, uploaded by Biennale Nationale De Sculpture Contemporaine, 2015, http://www.bnsc.ca/5226-marla_hlady.
See also: Basement Bass (Barnicke), Basement Bass (Gairloch)
