Join us for The Glass Key a concert by Charles Stankievech, complementing the exhibition The Desert Turned to Glass at Oakville Galleries.
Accompany the Fall 2024 exhibition The Desert Turned to Glass at Oakville Galleries, The Glass Key is a sound performance by artist Charles Stankievech.
Temporality and timelessness collide in a sonic composition of field recordings and modular synth, resonating from the architecture of the Trinity Chapel.
Marshalling both subterranean and cosmic noise, the work invites viewers to meditate on deep time, deep space, and deep listening. The Glass Keycomprises original electromagnetic recordings of the ionosphere, hydrophone recordings of both Arctic ice and Yucatán cenotes, and echoes within Lanzarote's volcanic calderas. The work was originally a commission for James Turrell’s amphitheater Tree of Light, in the Yucatán.
Charles Stankievech is an artist redefining “fieldwork” at the convergence of geopolitics, deep ecologies, and sonic resonances. From the Arctic’s northernmost settlement to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, Stankievech’s practice uncovers the paradoxes of our existence on the planet by engaging with the imperceptible. As a composer he mentored under World Soundscape founder R. Murray Schafer during his graduate studies, then afterwards with Alvin Lucier at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts leading to the premiere of his work Radiance for Philip Glass’ MATA foundation at ISSUE Project Room, NYC. His compositions and perfromances are focused on site-specific acoustics and the vibrations of the natural world beyond human hearing.
DATE:
Saturday, November 23, 2024
TIME:
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
LOCATION:
Trinity College Chapel
(6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7)
PRICING:
Free Admission | Pre-Registration Required
