| Theatre Direct is proud to present two exciting interactive family-friendly installations for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011. Beginning at 6:59pm on October 1, 2011 the city is transformed by hundreds of artists for Toronto’s sixth annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art. Come and visit us at the Wychwood Theatre and Christie Studio in the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street. Admission is free. |
Night Light TravelsCreated by Playground Studios and presented in partnership with Theatre Direct. Location: Wychwood Theatre
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Audio GraffitiCreated by Mike Wozniewski and presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and Theatre Direct. Location: Christie Studio
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| Explore a child’s nighttime world in a room filled with magical objects & interactive projections. Travel through the bedsheet tunnel and journey from childhood bedrooms to beyond the moon in a room that evokes the emotion and nostalgia for what it felt like as a child when you were allowed to stay up past your bed-time. Both children and adults get to explore the secrets of that special nighttime world while interacting with, and becoming a part of the constantly shifting projections. Hidden triggers make comets, meteors, and mysterious objects appear around the room. With everyone playing together, the room becomes a beautiful dreamscape, ever evolving as people move through the space. | Audio Graffiti, a sound/music installation, explores novel modes of interaction with sound and space. Equipped with wireless headsets and various small musical instruments, each participant can “tag” or “spray” the wall with the sounds they make. As a user moves about the wall, he/she experiences a changing sonic perspective or “mixture” of the wall’s sounds. These audio tags combine with pre-existing tags, which fade out very slowly over time. A small number of pre-defined audio tags are provided with the installation, to facilitate “musical” collaboration by providing references for pitch and rhythm synchronization. The work explores sonic perspective as a listener-specific form of remixing, where people actively participate in the rendering of the music they encounter. |
