event

Four cross generational artists explore
Toronto's aural/ocular culture and history.

With:
Annette Mangaard, Nobuo Kubota,
Cynthia Laure Etom, Darren Copeland and Richard Windeyer

Gallery Hours
Wednesday, May 24, 12noon to 5pm
Thursday, May 25, 6pm to 9pm (Opening Reception)
Friday, May 26, 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, May 27, 12noon to 5pm

Wednesday, May 31, 12noon to 5pm
Thursday, June 1st, 6pm to 9pm
Friday, June 2, 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, June 3rd, 12noon to 5pm

Photo Credits
Top: Still from Sounds Like Kubota
by Annette Mangaard, Nobuo Kubota

Middle:  Exhibiton photo by Cynthia Laure Etom

Bottom:  Darren Copeland at work



Work and Bio's

Dialogues
photographs, audio poems
By Cynthia Laure Etom
'Dialogues' mixes photographs and poems to explore the relationship that extends out from the image. Fascinated by the metropolis in motion, from its fire escapes, buildings, and factories, the artist has made a work of personification of the city of Toronto. Thus, Toronto is given a voice that will tell its urban and multicultural side in eight audio and visual poems.

Artist Bio
Cynthia-Laure Etom is motivated to create more diversity both in front of and behind the screen in the Film and TV industry.

In 2020, she was named by the Canada International Black Women Event (CIBWE) among the 100 black women entrepreneurs with great potential (“100 Black Women to Watch”). She is an alumni of the BANFF x Netflix Diversity Of Voices Initiative 2021.

Cynthia-Laure Etom is a French media artist, journalist, and global communications consultant of Congolese origin based in Toronto. Her involvement in the Franco-Ontarian art community dates back to her arrival in Toronto in 2018.

Her artistic practice invites a change of perspective, through immersive experiences, as well as interactive storytelling. She wishes to inspire personal reflection, leading to different ways of thinking about communities, through untold stories about identity, roots, Being, and mental health. Cynthia-Laure draws her inspiration from her origins, her travels, as well as the stories told to her by the new generation of black immigrant women she met during her Canadian adventure. She exhibited her work for the first time digitally, as part of the Scotiabank - Contact 2021 photography festival: KÉLÉMA, Souvenirs de Brazza. https://www.kelema.art/

With a strong commitment to human rights and gender equality, specializing in issues related to diversity, women, and gender, her expertise extends to the place and image of women in the media. In 2016, her initiative for women screenwriters: "Le Lab Des Auteures", was awarded in Paris by the Ministry of Women's Rights, the label "Sexism not our kind". In 2020, she was named by the Canada International Black Women Event (CIBWE) as one of the "100 Black Women to Watch".

She has a degree in communication marketing and has spent several years in communication agencies. She has also worked for major French (NRJ Group, TF1, M6, France Télévisions) and Canadian (TFO Media Group, CBC - Radio Canada, CHOQ FM) audiovisual groups.


Sounds Like Kubota
Single Channel Video Installation
by Annette Mangaard, Nobuo Kubota

Sounds Like Kubota
By Annette Mangaard, Nobuo Kubota
Sounds Like Kubota is a ten-minute video that chronicles the history of free form sound art in Toronto from the 1960 through to 2006. History is told through the eyes, sounds and memories of Nobuo Kubuo who at age 91 has been, and continues to be, an active member of the sound art community.


Artist Bio
Annette Mangaard is a Danish born Canadian artist/filmmaker whose installation work has been shown around the world at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. Having completed more then 16 films in more than a decade as an independent filmmaker, Mangaard was nominated for a Gemini for Best Director of a Documentary for GENERAL IDEA: ART, AIDS, AND THE FIN DE SIECLE, while KINNGAIT: RIDING LIGHT INTO THE WORLD,
about the changing face of the Inuit artists of Cape Dorset was invited to Australia for a special screening celebrating Canada Day with the Canadian High Commission. Mangaard’s body of work has been presented at the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009) and PAFID, Patagonia, Argentina (2013).

Nobuo Kubota grew up with a strong Japanese focus in his home and with an early interest in the writings by Jack Kerouac and D. T. Suzuki. These two factors partially explain his later attraction to Zen Buddhism. He has a degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and practiced architecture for ten years. He became a sculptor in 1969, showed regularly with the Isaacs Gallery group in Toronto, and is said to have deliberately adopted a Japanese in his work whereby he alludes to Japanese aesthetics and art.[ His work often combines sound, music, installation and film, a practice that he labels. A member of the Artists Jazz Band from the late 1960s on (Kubota played alto sax) and the CCMC (Canadian Creative Music Collective) (1974-1991), and as one of the founding members of the Music Gallery, he is known for his extended vocal techniques and sound poetry. He has published two books, Phonic Slices and Deep Text (both 2001) with Coach House Books.


The Toronto Sound Mosaic
Radio Production
Darren Copeland, Conceptual Direction: Richard Windeyer

Sound Mosaic portrays 200 years of Toronto’s history through sound. Drawing upon historical radio archives, recreated environments and the first-hand accounts of local residents, the half hour soundscape documentary traces the sonic metamorphosis of the city, from Muddy York to the Megacity. It is, in a sense, a kind of sonic archeology. The Toronto Sound Mosaic plays a visionary role by challenging common perceptions of sound, silence, noise, and quiet in the urban environment. Moreover, it encourages the development of a Toronto which is as fascinating to hear as it is to see, taste, and feel.

Artist Bio
Darren Copeland
Darren Copeland is a Canadian sound artist who makes his home at Warbler’s Roost, in South River, ON. He has been active as a sound artist since 1985 and is the founding and current Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art. His sound art practice focuses on multichannel spatialization for live performance, fixed media composition, soundscape, radio art and sound installation. He studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University and Dr. Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham (UK).

Darren Copeland incorporates both abstract and referential sound materials in his fixed media compositions, and many of these works are published on the empreintes DIGITALes label. His radio art works engage in the associative qualities of environmental sounds in relation to spoken text and have been commissioned for public radio across Europe and North America. His sound installations include gallery and site-specific works which examine the relationship of sound and place.

Richard Windeyer
Most people know Richard Windyer as either a composer, a musician, a music/audio technologist, a teacher and/or a practice-based researcher. As a musician and composer, my creative output continues to include immersive and participatory performances to soundscape design and electroacoustic music for theatrical and inter(/en)active media environments. As my composition studio’s output continues to evolve and expand, most new works will be released through SoundCloud.