Sound Columns

Copeland and Kahre have worked together in a number of other contexts since 1992, including installations, radio works and performance works for Rumble Theatre, the Deep Wireless Festival, and Wireless Graffiti. Individual artists’ websites: www.darrencopeland.com www.andreaskahre.net

Sound Columns is an audio installation that uses water and underwater recordings from locations in and around Edmonton: the North Saskatchewan river valley, public pools and water parks, fish hatcheries, and even West Edmonton Mall. These recordings became the source material for a series of compositions that blend with the sounds at the site of the new Queen Elizabeth Pool. Using “audio spotlights’— speakers that create a focussed beam of sound — the work invites audiences to explore these sounds by “immersing” themselves in the audio streams located at the entrance to the Pool.