Open AccessSoundfull: A Wall Speaks, A Door Shakes, A Floor Trembles
Author(s) -
Marla Hlady,
Christof Migone
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v6i3.372
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , citizen journalism , sound (geography) , architecture , institution , microphone , work (physics) , sociology , media studies , visual arts , acoustics , computer science , telecommunications , art , engineering , world wide web , physics , mechanical engineering , social science , chemistry , sound pressure , crystallography
What if you could use your voice to move the room you are standing in? What if your voice could crumble down walls? When the researchers of Recounting Huronia invited us to conceive of a participatory, sited sound work in the Huronia Regional Centre for the last three days of public tours October 16-18, 2014, we devised a purpose-built mobile sound-amplifying cart. It functioned as the nerve center for a solitary stereo microphone feeding an array of speakers spread over five rooms that formally constituted the first-aid nursing station of the Centre’s B- Wing. With this instrument we were able to amplify the resonances, physical and beyond, of the institution. In other words, by deploying this instrument we intended to both convey its architecture and conjure its past.