Second Floor Window Fill 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. For this work, the calculated average square footage of the rooms on the second floor of the Gairloch estate is scaled down to a 1:4.5 ratio and reshaped to fit the gallery window. The same logic determined the sculptural volume of the piece: the total cubic area of all the second-floor rooms is added together and reduced using a 1:4.5 ratio.
Collected sounds from the second floor are edited to a length in proportion to the room size in which they were originally recorded. These sound clips are then strung together consecutively and fade in and out of one another. All of the sounds of the rooms on the second floor are edited to a proportion that relates to the size of the room they were recorded in. These sound clips are then strung together consecutively; the clips fade in and out of each other.
Exhibition History: 2011 Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gardens (Oakville, Canada)
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
