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Studio 303 Performance With Clara Furey (Ice Xylophone Design by Michel Duvernet)
Jan 24th, 2009

The Icebreaker is a musical instrument, performance piece and interactive installation made from piezo microphones frozen into different pieces of ice. Our performance for Verni 142: Ground will also include the use of a few specially-selected guitar effects pedals. A space is created that highlights sounds well known to those who live through sub-zero winters, or who cool their drinks with ice cubes. These everyday, elemental utterances are often heard, but rarely listened to. Ideas, concepts and memories are evoked by the sounds we encounter going about our lives. Making sense out of such immediate experience is often an unconscious process. Attending to this activity allows us to reflect on the ephemeral and fluid foundations of our sense of self.

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Carleton Architecture Department - “The Pit” Residency - May 4-10. 2008

Part One - Opening Sequence: The Fossil Horn and Ice Flats - 9m47s

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Part Two - The Ice Xylophone (partially functional) - 4m33s

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Part Three - Conversation with Thea (to be added)

Part Four - Shadow Swim - 2m18s

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Part Five - Squid to Seaboat - 1m52s

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Part Six - TBA