Sound recording tests
Today’s meeting was primarily devoted to gathering sound data in order to test out a variety of microphones. Andrew Harder arrived in time to set up a number of different possibilities. We recorded some conversation and singing outdoors in the park (alongside the gallery’s trailer) and then moved ‘indoors’ to the entry-way of the Atwater Metro Station where we encountered a young man who is currently living in Montreal who offered to sing for us as a test. Without any preamble, this young man began to rap in French about displacement, the loss of home and the challenges of being accepted as the son of an Algerian born in France. He could not have sung anything more appropriate even had he known something of our project!
Amongst the other things we discussed was how to frame the questions that we would work with in the reading sessions related to this project. So far we have identified a core set of three questions and are looking to add an additional two or three before posting them all on this site.