Artist’s Statement

infinity — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:33:24 +0000

The Listening Line is an award winning, collaborative, new media art project. Its purpose is to create an experience that invokes a feeling of connectedness in a world of disconnection using the element of life that makes up the majority of our fragile shells, Water.

Simply touch any of the flowing water in the room and you will activate another layer of the song.

The Listening Line is a vessel. It has many shapes and forms but always involves making physical contact with water. Today, The Listening Line tells the music of Charles Spearin. When it tells its own stories, TLL speaks of the duality between a connected and a disconnected ethos.

Listen. Touch. Water.

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This project is a perfect match with the Listening Line. An experiment in human / sound interaction, with its heart in the sky and it’s feet planted in collaboration and connectivity.

When I first heard Vittoria it was a transcendent experience. I felt so alive. I was hearing something truly new and I was adoring it. The joyous horn track a completely infectious experience.

The way that this layers in with what The Listening Line was previously doing is fantastic.

The Listening Line has had several incarnations over the years, The most recent of which involves a collaboration with Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think.

As a part of the AppleCrisp festival, The Listening Line will be on display providing a vessel for the track Vittoria from Spearin’s incredible Juno nominated album, The Happiness Project.

Friday March 12 to Saturday March 20th: Daily Exhibits from 4pm – 7pm
#108 Charles Street, Kingston ON