Sounding Waters: Hamilton Harbour, Lake Ontario (2019)
Forty FM radios wrapped in burlap sacks and mounted on fibreglass gardening stakes, are placed around the perimeter of the Rothsay Avenue Flood Remediation pond (Hamilton, Ontario). On-site radio transmitters deliver a multi-channel sound composition featuring underwater recordings captured in Hamilton Harbour from the QEW bridge to the ponds and creeks within the Royal Botanical Gardens (gradually cycling between summer and winter recordings).
The soundscape connects bodies of water that exist as manufactured landscapes, speaking to the attempt to both return, and preserve “nature" within them.
Sounding Waters also makes audible the complex assemblage of human and nonhuman activities that intersect within this shared medium, and investigates to the ways in which sound can act as a measure of the overall health and diversity of ecosystems.
Produced through support from Art Spin Hamilton.
Documentation from Art Spin Hamilton 2019 (Gage Park, Hamilton, Ontario)