Andra McCartney is a soundscape artist, who works with her own field recordings to create websites, CD ROMs, tape works and performances that explore the social ecology of soundscapes. Her most recent project, a collaborative work involving several other sound artists and members of the public, focuses on the area surrounding the Lachine Canal in Montreal, resulting in a gallery installation in the oldest building on Montreal island, adjacent to the canal. Her sound works are available on CD anthologies produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (Montréal), Terra Nova (MIT), Musicworks (Toronto), Deep Wireless (Toronto), Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production (Ottawa), Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), and Entartete Kunst (London, Ont), as well as online. Her website, http://andrasound.org, contains many examples of sound projects and written texts. McCartney is also an associate professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Concordia University, teaching Sound in Media. She has a long-standing research interest in issues of gender, creation, sound, and technology.

Abstract

Sounding Kingston, summer 2004

This flash presentation is based on individual and group soundwalks near Lake Ontario, adjacent to Queen’s University. On one walk, many conference participants walked together to a local water treatment site. More soundwalks were done individually by Andra McCartney and Lisa Gasior during the conference. Sound editing is by Lisa Gasior and Flash programming by Annemarie Ennis.