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Habitat Sonore: A Kind of Harmony

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PHI Centre Listening room
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3

Monday to Friday:
Closed

Saturday & Sunday: 
12 PM to 7:30 PM (Last entry at 6 PM)

Duration: 1 hour

All ages

General admission: $10
Price including service fees, excluding taxes

It is important to note that the conversations will take place either in French or in English. Transcripts in the other language will be available on-site.

We invite you to remove your shoes before entering the listening room and ask that you please wear socks on the day.

A series of immersive interviews and sound pieces exploring the transformative powers of sound.

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What is Habitat Sonore? ↓

A Kind of Harmony explores sound in the context of its social, political, and environmental implications. This series of immersive conversations investigate the ways that sound and listening can shape and inform our daily interactions. Through six interviews and accompanying sound pieces, hosts Julia and Amanda invite us to reconsider our relationship with sound; how can we resonate with what’s around us?

AKOH is a project by Julia E Dyck and Amanda Harvey. As long term collaborators, they’ve co-created works including radio productions, a/v performances, installations, interventions, workshops and events. Although the breadth of their work is far-reaching, the crux remains an exploration of the transformation powers of sound.

The first 45 minutes of the experience is dedicated to an immersive interview with the guest, followed by a sound piece created by them.

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6 EPISODES TO CHOOSE FROM

EPISODE 1:
Amanda Gutierréz, Feminist Sonographies and Decolonial Listening

September 21 & 22:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: English & some Spanish*

*French transcript available

EPISODE 2:
Chantal Dumas, publique et intime

September 28 & 29:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: French*

*English transcript available

EPISODE 3:
Rehab Nazzal, Listening to Occupation and Sounding Resistance

October 12 & 13:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: English*

*French transcript available

EPISODE 4:
Sandra Volny, sonores matérielles, sensorielles et sociales

October 19 & 20:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: Bilingual format*

*Bilingual transcript available

EPISODE 5:
AM Kanngieser, Listening as coming to

October 26 & 27:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: English*

*French transcript available

EPISODE 6:
Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse, Land and radio waves

November 2 & 3:
12 PM, 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM

Language: English*

*French transcript available

EPISODE 1:
Amanda Gutierréz, Feminist Sonographies and Decolonial Listening

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Amanda Gutierréz is an artist and researcher who uses sound and performance art to investigate how aural conditions affect everyday life. She describes her soundwalking practice from a decolonial and feminist approach and shares how oral history, recording and producing sound can offer the potential to take back and to resist.

Amanda’s soundpiece retraces her grandmother's steps while in dialogue about indigenous traditions of rootness, and her ancestors' experience of migration

The interview is offered in English. French transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

EPISODE 2:
Chantal Dumas, publique et intime

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Montréal based sound artist Chantal Dumas has been exploring the medium of sound for over 30 years. The years have brought to light a thematic recurrence (space, time, territory) underlining an environmental awareness that combines with a pronounced interest in listening. Chantal shares her knowledge of perception and interaction with public space, as well as her research into the sounds of refuge.

Her work, Un après-midi au rythme des oiseaux, features recordings made one October afternoon at the Lac-Saint-François National Wildlife Area in Quebec. She couldn't see the birds, but she discovered their presence through their song. They were hidden behind groups of sedge and cattail plants. Canada geese, sandhill cranes and mallard ducks can all be heard.

The interview is offered in French. English transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

Photo: Scott Duncan Baie

EPISODE 3:
Rehab Nazzal, Listening to Occupation and Sounding Resistance

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Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada and Bethlehem, Palestine. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples, on the land and on other non-human life. She describes the sonic environment of living in occupied Palestine and discusses sounds of resistance and the implications of silence.

Rehab’s soundpiece is made of coexisting and contradictory sounds of the Palestinian soundscape.

The interview is offered in English. French transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

EPISODE 4:
Sandra Volny, sonores matérielles, sensorielles et sociales

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Sandra Volny is an artist and researcher interested in the perception of sound spaces. Her work takes the form of installations, videos, instruments, collective situations and performative journeys. Her approach combines listening, scientific research and field investigation to reveal structures inaudible to the naked ear, and give voice to what is disappearing. She speaks about her work on perception and sound spaces, and shares the results of her collaborations with scientists and the ways in which sound influences our relationship with the natural environment.

Sandra's sound piece is composed of seismic vibrations captured by seismographs in the Antarctic ice. 

The interview is offered in bilingual format. Transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

EPISODE 5:
AM Kanngieser, Listening as coming to

Headshot of AM Kanngieser

AM Kanngieser is an award-winning geographer, sound artist and Research Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. Their practice engages listening and attunement to approach how people collectively determine conditions of liberation and care in the face of ecocide and environmental change. In this interview, Kanngieser re-frames listening as a practice that is embodied, confrontational, challenging and truly transformative, and discusses how one can enter into dialogue with the environment. 

Their commissioned soundpiece is an experience of a place, across Nauru, over time.

The interview is offered in English. French transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

Photo: Laisiasa Dave Lavaki

EPISODE 6:
Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse, Land and radio waves

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Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse is a multidisciplinary artist, Prairie Chicken Dancer, experimental musician, and cultural researcher. They grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on their family’s ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation. In 2014, their family was forcibly removed from their homes and land for the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. This life changing event has been the focus of their creative work. [In this interview] Seth shares their practice of translating displacement into performance, and dreaming through pirate radio

Seth’s soundpiece is an ambient guitar composition.

The interview is offered in English. French transcripts will be available at the reception of the PHI Centre.

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ABOUT HABITAT SONORE

Habitat Sonore is an intimate listening space designed to accommodate up to 10 people. This small capacity enhances total immersion into the sound world of artists from here and elsewhere. The experience unfolds in near darkness, which helps to emphasize the sound. We invite you to settle in comfortably, let your mind wander, close your eyes if you wish, and be carried away by a unique and captivating auditory journey.

Learn more about the listening room and its programming here ↓

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