Sounds Of The Grange

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Sounds of The Grange is a series of short audio responses created by fourteen youth from Harbord Collegiate and the AGO’s Teens Behind the Scenes program. Working collaboratively with House Guests artist Luis Jacob and mentors from the Ontario College of Art and Design, young people discussed, recorded, sampled, mixed, re-mixed and manipulated sounds, navigating the spaces of The Grange in relation to their lives, histories and concepts of home.

While the project developed out of time spent in physical locations in The Grange, the medium of sound allowed those involved to consider the times, places and ideas represented in the house from a broad and contemporary perspective. The resulting thirteen audio projects range from abstract experiments, to fictional stories, to critical responses, to philosophical musings, to non-linear rants. Each project and artist’s description is located inside a Virtual Grange and on a kiosk in the House Guests exhibition.
Sounds of The Grange is…
Cindy Seto – Welcome to The Grange
Liang Zhang – 2600
Sandy Smith and Lisa Bastarache – Let’s Make a Meal
Myly Pham – When No One’s Around
Maddy Beaupré – Untitled
Nico Dann – Listen to my useless noise (basement rant)
Shadya Yasin – The Power of Truth
Orest Szopiak – Tormentry to Tenebrae
Alvina Fung – Taimu
Andrea Fort – Untitled
Alex Snukal – In and Out of The Grange
Patrycja Zwierzynska – The Grange
Anna Tai – The Course of Time


Sounds of the Grange was generously supported by:

Ideas Canada Foundation

and made possible through kind gifts from:
Ontario College of Art and Design

Charles Street Video

Teens Behind the Scenes is generously supported by:

CIBC
Toronto Community Foundation
S.M. Blair Family Foundation

Special Thanks to:
Sarah Thorpe, Justin Waddell, Michael Morency-Frame and John Kissick at the Ontario College of Art and Design

the staff at Charles Street Video

Ellen Austrom at Harbord Collegiate Institute for their assistance with this project.