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Invoking Beaconsfield Wetland
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This event is part of Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival.
Meetup location: Beaconsfield Park, southeast field (East 17th Avenue, between Slocan St. and Penticton St.) [map]
With the incoming creation of a wetland at Beaconsfield Park, this Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival event will be an evening to invoke the spirit of wetlands through sound. We gather to celebrate this and welcome this important green infrastructure in the neighborhood.
The evening will present a unique and immersive sound installation brought to you by a collaboration of local sound artists Brady Marks + Mark Timmings (Wetland Project) and Giorgio Magnanensi (West Coast Radians). This is an opportunity to listen to a high fidelity multi-channel recording of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh soundscape (Wetland Project) emitted by flat audio panels made of native wood reclaimed from discard piles from mill operations on the Sunshine Coast of BC (West Coast Radians). In addition, there will be a presentation of the ecological importance of wetlands and the process of creating a new urban wetland by representatives from the Strathcona Community Gardens; and an active listening activity facilitated by Brady Marks. We encourage you to bring a blanket / chair to sit in while we take in the sounds and teachings of our wonderful guests. There will be warm beverages and a light snack to share.
All ages welcome!
Hear how these unique resonators sound in an entirely different location at soundgarden – Hadden Park on September 24 + 25.
This event takes place on the unceded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Brady Marks is a computational artist working primarily in audiovisual practices, new media and kinect art. Thematically her work engages critically with the fallibility and promise of technology, perspectives of place – virtual/actual, ecological and narratives of self orientation in the sciences.
Brady is concerned with how we live our lives in the face of technological encroachment; to that end, she experiments with media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies. Along this way she takes her audiences behind the curtain, provides tools for technological play, educates and explores hypothetical new relationships for us with our tech. This is what she means when she calls herself a Cultural Prototyper.
She obtained an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Masters in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. As a graduate of Simon Fraser University taught by faculty including original members of the World Soundscape Project (WSP), and as a member of the Soundscape Collective at Vancouver Co-operative Radio, Brady Marks is an inheritor of the WSP legacy of Acoustic Ecology. She is a frequent host of Soundscape on Co-op Radio, member of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble, curator of the Coda series of live coding events and DJs Queer Dance Music.
Vancouver is situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently lives in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. His diverse artistic practice includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit bending, video art and sonic and spatial explorations. He is artistic director of Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio, and lecturer at the School of Music of the Vancouver Community College.
