 The Silophone makes use of Montréal’s
Silo #5 by broadcasting sounds, collected from around the world
via telephone or internet, into the grain storage chambers inside
the silo, where they are “transformed, reverberated, and
coloured by the remarkable acoustics of the structure, yielding
a stunningly beautiful echo. This sound is captured by microphones
and rebroadcast back to its sender, to other listeners and to
a sound installation outside the building. Anyone may contribute
material of their own, filling the instrument with increasingly
varied sounds.” |
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