Sound curation for Impostor Cities at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale
I am collaborating with Florian Grond in designing the sound component of the Impostor Cities project, Canada’s official selection for the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale, opening August 29th. The project represents Canadian architecture through the myriad films in which famous sites are disguised as other places. The exhibit will feature a layer of unique sound design, comprised of a 15 channel ambisonic presentation of Canadian site-specific sound recordings. This layer of audio will soundtrack the exhibition alongside their impostorized versions appearing on-screen. As visitors move through the Canada Pavilion, they will hear what it sounds like to stand in the spots where these films were shot while visually witnessing their transformation into other spaces.
About Me
I teach full time in the Humanities department at Champlain College in Montreal. My research, pedagogy, and creative practice reside at the intersections of soundscape research, media studies, and critical geography. I have previously taught in the cinema departments at Concordia University and Toronto Metropolitan University, and in the Humanities departments at Lasalle College and Dawson College. I have presented and published extensively on film sound, media geography, and acoustic ecology. My sound compositions, photographs and films have been exhibited internationally. See bio for more details.