Basement Bass was part of the solo exhibition Rooms at Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gardens exhibition space, a site-related collection of works. The building’s architecture was used as a departure point for designing audio playback systems for sound compositions using field recordings made in the building itself.
In the basement right below the room where Basement Bass is installed, there is another room almost identical in shape and size. Unlike the other works presented in the exhibition Rooms, Basement Bass has no scale or ratio change but rather draws attention to the similarity of the rooms through the floor: it’s as if the basement floor is brought up into this gallery. Bass audio drivers attached to the raised floor construction allow the new floor to act as a speaker for playing back the recordings of all rooms in the basement simultaneously.
Exhibition History: 2011 Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gardens (Oakville, Canada)
Publication: Fleming, Marnie, John Massier, Martin Arnold. Marla Hlady: Rooms & Walls. Oakville Galleries and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 2013.
Migone, Christof. “Heard and Misheard Notes.” Volumes, Blackwood Gallery, 2015.
Press: Anderson, Shannon. “Marla Hlady: The Art of Noise.” Canadian Art. Spring: 2013. 92-97.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council
See also: First Floor Cubed, Second Floor Window Fill, Third Floor Radiator, Basement Bass (Borealis), Basement Bass (Barnicke)
