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Presented by InterAccess and VibraFusionLab, Orchestra of the Tactile is an innovative audio/tactile concert presenting new experimental compositions and works that explore tactile or vibratory modalities of sound and music.
Included in the performance are Canadian artists Marla Hlady (Toronto), Gordon Monahan (Meaford, ON), and VibraFusionLab director, David Bobier (London, ON), and Los Angeles-based Alison O’Daniel, a highly respected filmmaker and installation artist. Both O’Daniel’s and Bobier’s work is influenced by the experience of partial deafness. All four artists have worked both independently and collaboratively to compose and perform a rotational, orchestrated performance that considers the foundational nature of vibration in all sonic forms and music.
A number of diverse tactile systems will be set up at the Music Gallery to offer a fully accessible vibrational experience of the entire audio visual presentation. Monahan invites us into his magical world of invention through the innovation of seeing, hearing and feeling the heating up and boiling of water particles; Hlady presents the opportunity of feeling the manipulation of sound distortion through a variable-speed rotating microphone and her signature technical craft; through heightened colour and carefully emphasized sounds O’Daniel intensifies her film presentation to provide the unique additional emphasis of the vibratactile; Bobier’s ‘faux’ projection/sound instruments, through the employment of programmable music boxes, ‘punchable’ music score strips and LED helmet lights, transform braille script into modes of vibration, visualization and sound.
Tickets are $15 and are available in advance on the InterAccess website, or at the door beginning at 7PM on the day of the event.
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