Holophon Listening Station July 15 - October 15 2024

July 15 - October 15 2024 - Holophon Listening Station Summer

Holophon and AGR's @artgalleryofregina Listening Station returns for the summer edition!

Natural Sympathies
(Amber Goodwyn)

The Love Project (2023-2024)

This informal research project seeks to gather various personal perspectives on the experience of love toward the creation of art-based "reports" including song writing and other intuitive collation methods.

Amber Goodwyn is a settler, artist, and festival organizer based in Treaty 4 territory. Her creative work includes music (Natural Sympathies, Cobra & Vulture), writing, and filmmaking practices. Her most recent project is an expanded music project for Natural Sympathies called The Love Project (working title), a multi-disciplinary exploration of the complexities, varieties, and abstractions of love.

Ian Campbell

TWENTY20THCENTURYSUMMERS (2024)

This work is a simulation of summers past through time and space arranged by a human from exclusively AI generated sounds. Our view of the past often comes from memories amplified by technology at the same time as it is tainted by that technology. Without human memory to constantly contextualize the past, we will never see the whole picture and understand where we came from.

Ian Campbell is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who works in video, installation, and performance art. His short films have been screened across Canada at film and experimental media festivals such as Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), WNDX (Winnipeg), Antimatter (Victoria), and The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). He has presented performance work using live improvised projected video at artist run centres and performance venues across western Canada. He is currently based in Saskatchewan (Treaty 4), where he teaches film at the University of Regina.

Drone Day 2024 - Saturday May 25 - Regina, SK

Droneday 2024 - Saturday May 25, 2024

Neil Balkwill Arts Centre - South Side Outdoors - Regina, SK.

diatom, Ian Campbell, Jon Vaughn, Garry Wasyliuw, Guidewire.

In partnership with the Art Gallery of Regina.

Holophon Listening Station April 15 - July 10

April 15 - July 10th 2024 - Holophon Listening Station Spring

Thaw - Jon Vaughn - 13m04

A composition in four parts using field recordings, acoustic guitar and cymbal, Thaw is multidisciplinary artist Jon Vaughn’s contribution to Holophon and Art Gallery of Regina’s Listening Station project, Seasons. Spanning a year from Autumn 2023 to Summer 2024, Vaughn’s work was made for the Spring edition. Each part of Thaw has a subtitle of 32FA, B, C, and D. Thirty two degrees fahrenheit is the temperature at which ice begins to melt, part of the multi month process of thawing what has been frozen over the winter. Field recordings were made during the spring season in four different locations, Vaughn’s own backyard in Regina, Saskatchewan, Emma Lake, Wascana Lake and the riverbanks of the South Saskatchewan River that runs through Saskatoon; their place of birth and previous residence. Instrumental parts were written for acoustic guitar and cymbal, responding to the field recordings by illustrating what is unheard in them; from the mood and vibe of the geographical location to the personal associations with memory and place. Thaw follows the process of the first drips of melting ice, to a shattered mass of fragmented ice crystal flutes, to the gushing and flowing waters that transform the prairie landscape. 

DJ Dyke Boyfriend - 009 (False Spring) - 5m45s

DJ Dyke Boyfriend makes music that delights at the frayed edges, where neon light streams in through the seams of existence. Glitchy, propulsive, and layered, her mixes radiate a fresh aliveness for dance floors, making sonic space for joy, desire and limitless dreaming.

Bio:

Jaye Kovach is a multimedia and performance artist who lives as a white Magyar/Scots settler on Treaty 4 territory (Regina, Saskatchewan). Her work, which has received local and national attention, often engages their queer and trans community, taking as its starting point his positionality as a disabled and neurodivergent, butch trans woman.

In 2019, she was featured in the spotlight section of Canadian Art’s FEMME issue. In 2020, they attended the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency. His performance work has been presented at Queer City Cinema/Performatorium, a queer media and performance art festival based in Regina that attracts international artists and filmmakers, as well as Buddies in Bad Times' Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.

Jaye is a current participant of Tender Container’s Peer Mentorship Platform, Do Trans People Dream of Non-binary Sheep?. She also facilitated the Capacitor project, a programming channel for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists with a connection to Saskatchewan, with the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Art Galleries and Collection. Most recently they have been named interim project director for Into The Streets, a Regina-based mentorship program for trans girls and youth affected by transmisogyny.

Holophon Listening Station January 10 - April 10

Holophon Listening Station January 10 - April 10

Winter by Gary Wasyliw

The quiet cold of winter is experienced as a part of the rhythm of seasons.  Again our world changes, from the magic of the first snow, to its last dull remains at the onset of spring.  It is all part of another trip around the sun.  This winter existence is made bearable by modern technologies and power systems.  We can embrace winter through its direct effect on the body, but also by immersing ourselves in its sonic imprint.  

As above, so below.  One annual sun cycle takes 365.25 days.  Every time this frequency is doubled, it represents a higher musical octave.  The frequency of the 31st octave of the earth’s rotation is 68hz which forms the base/bass note of this sound piece.  This year, the astronomically calculated winter (winter solstice to vernal equinox) lasts 88.9 days, which divides the year tone into a harmonic of 84hz.

The electricity to create this piece came from the SaskPower, Regina South Power Substation.  The sound of the prairie winter wind though the cables joins with the hum of transformers in audible frequencies, mainly at 60hz.

The frequencies of the earth, combined with the power system tones, and their octaves, are captured as electronic sounds. The power station is recorded in winter operation, as it supplies the City, and this audio playback, with electrical power.

Frost by Cam Wiest

Cam Wiest is a Saskatchewan-born sound artist, musician, and curious tinkerer. His career with music and sound grew from an interest in DJing and “in the box” electronic music production, eventually leading to a career spanning multiple industries as a sound technician, sound designer, musician, and interactive sound-artist. Wiest has recently begun collaborating with Holophon with the intent of growing the audio art community, and exploring new practices in sound art.

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