image: "Holophon Listening Station" Jon Vaughn, 2023
"Sound art can stand alone as an artwork or be one part of a whole. Sound is essential to our experience of the world, and these artists use the creation & manipulation of sound as their artistic medium."- from the Listening Station didactic text
The Listening Station: Seasons
Seasons, the inaugural project of Holophon and AGR's Listening Station, is a year long soundscape project featuring four members of the Holophon collective and four guests from the Regina sound art community. Each pairing individually presents their unique response to that season, potentially incorporating field recordings, sonic experimentation and journalistic composition.
The Listening Station is located at the Art Gallery of Regina, in the Neil Balkwill Community Arts Centre.
Schedule of Programs for Seasons
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October 5th, 2023 - January 5th, 2024
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Hilarey Cowan and Cat Haines
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January 10th, 2024 - April 10th, 2024
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Cameron Wiest and Gary Wasyliw
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April 15th, 2024 - July 10th, 2024
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Jon Vaughn and Jaye Kovach
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July 15th, 2024 - October 15th, 2024
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Ian Campbell and Amber Goodwyn
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Artist Introductions
TWENTY20THCENTURYSUMMERS by Ian Campbell (10:00)
This work is a simulation of summers past through time and space arranged by a human from exclusively AI generated sounds. Our view of the past often comes from memories amplified by technology at the same time as it is tainted by that technology. Without human memory to constantly contextualize the past, we will never see the whole picture and understand where we come from.
Ian Campbell is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who works in video, installation and performance art. His short films have been screened across Canada at film and experimental media festivals such as Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), WNDX (Winnipeg), Antimatter (Victoria), and The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). He has presented performance work using live improvised projected video at artist run centres and performance venues across western Canada. He is currently based in Saskatchewan (Treaty 4) where he teaches film at the University of Regina.
The Love Project by Natural Sympathies (Amber Goodwyn) (32:55)
This informal research project seeks to gather various personal perspectives on the experience of love toward the creation of art-based "reports" including song writing and other intuitive collation methods.
Amber Goodwyn is a settler, artist, and festival organizer based in Treaty 4 territory. Her creative work includes music (Natural Sympathies, Cobra & Vulture), writing, and filmmaking practices. Her most recent project is an expanded music project for Natural Sympathies called The Love Project (working title), a multi-disciplinary exploration of the complexities, varieties and abstractions of love.
Holophon Audio Arts is a non-profit organization supporting sound art and experimental music in Saskatchewan. The organization was founded in 2008 and is centered in Treaty 4 Territory/Regina.
Holophon engages communities using sound as an artistic medium, promoting sound art and experimental music through live performances, concerts, workshops, community events, and educational programming. In our projects we look for ways to unite artists and audiences across disciplines and specializations using sound as an integral artistic component.
Holophon works to increase awareness of and to develop sound art practices in the province of Saskatchewan and on the Great Plains of Canada, and to encourage and facilitate discussion around critical and creative listening.
To learn more about Holophon Audio Arts, and to see other Holophon events, please visit:
Holophon Audio Arts and the Art Gallery of Regina wish to acknowledge our funders for this project:
