Brenda  Brown
LANDSCAPE DESIGN ART RESEARCH

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Red River Ice, Winnipeg Forks, April, 2008, photo BJB
Red River ice-melt, April, 2008, photo by Brenda Brown
Seine River Ice, 2008, photo by Brenda Brown
In 2008 and 2009 I recorded sounds and images of the spring ice breakup on the Red, Seine, and Assinoboine rivers.  Roughly coinciding with the ice breakup in spring 2010, sound and video composed from these documentations were projected onto architectural surfaces in installations in downtown Winnipeg and at the University of Manitoba. New music, collaborations with composers Richard Festinger and Michael Matthews, premiered at a special concert on March 30.
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Installation sites included the outdoor entry to Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art in downtown Winnipeg (below), and, at the University of Manitoba, the Engineering Building’s atrium stairway (above left) and the J.A. Russell Building’s foyers (above right).  Five sound-and-image videos, with working titles of "ice intact," "chasms and drips," "09 drive," "candled ice drive," and "Seine," each 12 to 55 minutes long (see video links below), alternated at each site. The intention was to bring attention to the rich phenomena of the ice breakup (Winnipeg’s great harbinger of spring) in places where it would be otherwise far from signt and hearing, and also to create something luminously and aurally beautiful, arresting and revealing.  The concert Ice, performed in Eva Clare Hall of the University of Manitoba’s Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music, was devoted to Matthews’s winter is when snakes and Festinger’s Spring Ice (see link below.)  In both compositions, my recorded ice breakup sounds were incorporated and manipulated so that they became in a sense an additional instrument.
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