Artists in Residence: Julia Dyck & Amanda Harvey

Artists in Residence: Julia Dyck & Amanda Harvey (Belgium and Montreal)

Meet the Artists: Thursday, July 25, 6 p.m.

Closing Event/Performance: Thursday, August 15, 6 p.m.

You are invited to a free spoken word and audio performance with Artists in Residence, Julia Dyck and Amanda Harvey. The performance is based on interviews, recordings and sound creations that the Artists have collected from the Edmonton community during their residency. The collected sound will be processed live through electronic hardware, effects, looping pedals and dispersed using multiple speakers and FM transmission. 

You can also be a part of Julia and Amanda's residency project. During their residency, Julia and Amanda are looking for soundbites from the Edmonton community. Visit the MAG Thursday 2 - 4 p.m. and Saturday 12 - 3 p.m. to contribute anecdotes, quips, rants, jokes, performances and musings. Tune in to their Internet Transmission Wednesdays and Fridays, 1 - 3 p.m.

While in residence, Amanda Harvey and Julia Dyck will be developing a multi-channel interactive installation and performance work through research, interviews, recordings and sound creations shared with them by Edmontonians.

This project seeks to explore radio and sound as a community tool in a time of technological change, as well as to promote the transformative practices of storytelling and listening as a way of understanding the other… This project will look to sound culture as a pure, ontological source by examining the ways in which aurality offers something vision cannot. It will explore and engage with a developing sonic environment, using a variety of formal and stylistic techniques to illustrate the expanding scope of the audible, capturing the exchange between the auditory environment of modern cities and the people who inhabit them. Specifically, we’ll focus on the urban city sidewalk as a place of aural exchange and engagement. - Amanda Harvey and Julia Dyck