This is a sound system that does not belong in a gallery.  Designed and built to weather difficult climactic condtions and curious listeners, these knots of speakers and cables comprise a long-term sound project for the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival, in Grand Métis, Québec.For the extent of this exhibition however, this equipment has been captured from it’s wilder, forest habitat and loaded into a truck to be transported to the gallery.While in the gallery, these sonic scavengers become the archive for the activities that surround the Ghost Acoustics exhibition. Beginning with only the small sounds of their internal electronics, over time they will broadcast fragmented sounds from performances, screenings and workshops as they happen over the next few weeks.In a final act, they will be loaded up again into a car and taken out into the Montreal night as workshop participants let them loose to distribute unexpected sounds into the winter night.

This is a sound system that does not belong in a gallery. 

Designed and built to weather difficult climactic condtions and curious listeners, these knots of speakers and cables comprise a long-term sound project for the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival, in Grand Métis, Québec.

For the extent of this exhibition however, this equipment has been
captured from it’s wilder, forest habitat and loaded into a truck to be transported to the gallery.

While in the gallery, these sonic scavengers become the archive for the activities that surround the Ghost Acoustics exhibition. Beginning with only the small sounds of their internal electronics, over time they will broadcast fragmented sounds from performances, screenings and workshops as they happen over the next few weeks.

In a final act, they will be loaded up again into a car and taken out into the Montreal night as workshop participants let them loose to distribute unexpected sounds into the winter night.

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AKVK is Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta and Douglas Moffat.

The exhibition GHOST ACOUSTICS is open from
February 15 to March 21, 2010
at the FOFA Gallery in Montreal.

STEVE BATES is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Receive Festival of Sound, now in its eleventh year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a graduate candidate in Studio Arts/Open Media at Concordia University.

JOSHUA BONNETTA was born in Oshawa, Ontario 1979. His body of work has exhibited cinematically, as installation and as live performance. He has shown in Russia, Columbia, U.K., Canada, Ireland, U.S., South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In 2009 he was awarded the National Film Board of Canada award for Best Emerging/Mid-career Canadian Film and Video Maker at Toronto's Images Festival. His practice combines sound and various forms of animation to consider the construction of representation within the cinematic image. He has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.

DOUGLAS MOFFAT explores the relationship between sound and the built landscape. Working with field recording, electroacoustics and landscape architecture, his projects are spaces built for listening. Trained as a landscape architect, he completed his MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. His graduate thesis project, The Love Song Effect explored the sonic environment of the Las Vegas Strip. He has presented works at the Jardin de Métis Festival international de jardins and the Send + Receive Festival.

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