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A Sound That Never Was
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Curated by The Dim Coast
Online at asoundthatneverwas.net

Remai Modern
March 1 - September 22, 2024
As part of Other Arrangements: Poetics of the Performance Score curated by Troy Gronsdahl.

15 sound artists respond to a book with sound, noise, gesture, utterance, music.

A Sound That Never Was is a new digital instrument that operates a score writ from software code that is modulated by weather data and seismic activity. The score parses the library’s sound files authored by a chorus of artists, played out in arrangements determined by the vibrancy of the world in the particular place at the moment of selection. The precise arrangements understood as relationality between the world, the machines of production, transmission, and reception, and the artists original gestures - perform a sound that never was before and never will assemble exactly the same again.

You can listen to a streaming version, and find out more about the project here:
asoundthatneverwas.net

You can read an interview with The Dim Coast and see images of the exhibition at the Remai Modern here.

Félicia Atkinson (France) / Matthew Cardinal (Canada) / Raven Chacon (USA) / crys cole (Canada) / Isabella Forciniti (Austria/Italy) / David Grubbs (USA) / Timothy Herzog (Canada/USA) - Sasha J. Langford (Canada) / Mani Mazinani (Canada/Iran) / Christof Migone (Canada) / Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt (Canada) / respectfulchild (Canada) / Anju Singh (Canada) / Aho Ssan (France) / Mark Templeton (Canada).

Inspired by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski's book, Voice of Hearing
Republished by Squint Press
Original text by Daniela Cascella
Digital Instrument by Alexandre Burton / artificiel
Digital and Infrastructure Support by Sporobole and 0/1 - Hub numerique Estrie

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.