Making Media, Week 3

3 ECHOES

Location: Toronto

Angus W

This is a cool project for my school: I chose three coordinates and added 30-second sound bites for people to discover. These locations are inspired from places in the city of Toronto.

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Why did I choose the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant? Well, it's a stunning building with a great view of the lake, which I visited when go to the Beaches in summer.

This recording reflects a time I visited once school had finished and I had a entire summer to myself, and I was feeling optimistic and cheery.

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I was hiking in the Don Valley when I came across a doe. We watched each other until eventually it walked away. I think it's incredible how a doe survived away from people, in the city. I made this recording to remind the viewer of a time when deer outnumbered people.

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When school ended in December I took a walk downtown to see the seasonal decorations. I ended my walk at Union station where it connects to the CN tower. Toronto has a series of underground tunnels called "the path" where theme music and decorations are showcased. Hearing this song reminds me of a nice experience to relive around December.

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Other walks nearby

Are skateparks louder than everything else?

Are skateparks louder than everything else?

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

After attending multiple community consultations related to skatepark development/planning, I have decided to put together a sound walk that attempts to shape a soundscape for Ashbridges Bay Skatepark

The Danforth Lady

The Danforth Lady

Join us for a murder mystery, based on the real disappearance of "The Danforth Lady"

Currents / Correnti

Currents / Correnti

Why here? Since I arrived in Canada, the lake has always been a place where I felt at home. During the summer months I come to this very beach, slowly dip my feet into the water and then walk a couple of steps until the water reaches my knees. With my back towards the sandy beach, I face the horizon - if I just focus my gaze on that horizon - all I can see is sky and water, blue on blue, and I keep telling myself: this could be Italy. It does look exactly like this. The horizon between the sea and the sky is the same. Everything about the city behinds me is blocked out of my sight. I completely loose myself in the reveries of being home for those brief moments. Who's here? In this walk I have disseminated sounds and voices of Italian immigrants who came to America and North America long before me, from one shore to the other.Their voices are left untranslated on purpose.

as the mouth speaks

as the mouth speaks

As the mouth speaks tends to relations-in-process during the revitalization of former marshland today known as Biidaasige Park on Ookwemin Minising. Complicating colonial conceptualizations of Land as ‘resource’ and ‘sink’ that move through the past, present and future, this soundwalk weaves together histories, notes from the field and field recordings to compose a sonic collage. Presented through a singular voice recorded on site the soundwalk embraces the glitchy and disruptive interruptions from the field—such as wind and construction noise—to expose the performativity of listening and recording which are not universal, neutral or objective acts. Geolocated ‘echoes’ overlap, tangling temporalities to disrupt a singular linear narrative of how the artificial island Ookwemin Minising came to be. The soundwalk conjures multiple temporalities of the park as marsh, infilled industrial site, dump, revitalized public space and its possible futures. Listeners are invited to oscillate between knowing and unknowing—what they are hearing, understanding and experiencing—to think critically about the spatial politics of urban change. Without a defined beginning or end As the mouth speaks invites multiple and differing approaches to listening in/to place.

Forgotten Rivers - East Core

Forgotten Rivers - East Core

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This sound map is based on data from lostrivers.ca and illustrates underground waterways not seen on local maps in decades. Varying sounds are used based on century. “Lost River Walks” is a joint project of The Toronto Green Community, The Toronto Field Naturalists and community partners including Hike Ontario.

Miscellaneous Adventures

Miscellaneous Adventures

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A throwback memory to when life was a bit simpler. This is the short take of how I felt some of the worst pain in my life. Pretty much was a hit and run with myself as many unfortunate events folded in on themselves for me to end up colliding with the pointy end of a handlebar. This is that story and the aftermath therein.

On The March

On The March

Audio test route

KPOP Experience

KPOP Experience

2300 Pharmacy Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M1W, Canada

Hello people, this is my history lesson and experience with Kpop and how and why I fell in love with this genre of music. This is placed in Phoenix Concert Theatre because this is where BTS did their first and only concert so far in Canada. It is a special place for all Kpop fans

Four Rooms

Four Rooms

A conversation between inside and outside, inspired by our longing for home. The Brick Works connects us to home: the clay from the quarry became the buildings and houses of Toronto. In Four Rooms the space left behind acts as a portal between the worlds of inside and outside. Enter four imaginary rooms — the bedroom, the bath, the kitchen, the stairs. Featuring audio collages by a virtual choir from across Turtle Island led by Juliet Palmer Urbanvessel and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Orchard of Pomegranates. View Four Rooms, four new dance films by Aria Evans, online: Kitchen Bath Stairs Bedroom Thanks to the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Evergreen Brick Works for supporting the Homing Project. Vocalists: Steve Deutsch, Soressa Gardner, Jennifer Gasoi, Joyce Glasgow, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Julie Mack, Juliet Palmer, Jean Ramirez, Gretchen Schwarz, Ruth Saphir Schwarz, Pyeng Threadgill, Lana Turner, Ruiqi Wang Field recording of Sphagnum moss bog: filipmu Photos: Dahlia Katz Video stills: Aria Evans Dancers: Raelyn Metcalfe, Peggy Margarita Soria, Francesca Chudnoff & Sierra Chin Sawdy

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