Soundfull: A Wall Speaks, A Door Shakes, A Floor Trembles

Authors

  • Marla Hlady University of Toronto
  • Christof Migone University of Western Ontario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i3.372

Keywords:

Soundfilling, aural architecture, memory, institutionalization

Abstract

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. 

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Published

2017-08-21

How to Cite

Hlady, M., & Migone, C. (2017). Soundfull: A Wall Speaks, A Door Shakes, A Floor Trembles. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6(3), 215–228. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i3.372

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Creative Works

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