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wade (2004)
Various wading pools in the City of Toronto

SARAH PEEBLES & ROB CRUIKSHANK

"Music for Incandescent Events: Hanlan's Sunset" highlights the daily event of sunset at the site of a wading pool which is currently filled in with earth and flowers. The sky's changing light at dusk is measured by sensors which trigger stored fragments of sound derived from the tones of the shô. (Japanese mouth organ). The piece assembles a unique audio composition with each sunset, played through loudspeakers encircling the wading pool, while rays from the sun are simultaneously fragmented and assembled via an array of small mirrors within the wading pool garden.