Elevator Music at The Array Space

Shout out to Rick Sacks! Thanks again for helping with the installation of Elevator Music in The Array Space! Check him out remounting a livestream camera on the new exposed steel columns and preparing to hang the tapestry! #ElevatormusicTO

The project is complete, but the music never stops! We’d like to say thank you everyone who had joined the live broadcast and those following the project as well as a shoutout to @CanadaCouncil @Stopgapfoundation and @Arraymusic for making this project possible. For more information on the wonderful work these organizations do check out their social for more information. ... #elevatormusicto

Join us this evening at 8pm for an online stream that unveils The Elevator Music Project. You will get to see the completed photos and videos of the installation, and hear the scores in their entirety, and much more! Link in bio #ElevatorMusicTO

This is the final score of the elevator music project! Elevator historian Patrick Carrajat explains that making elevators faster would be prohibitively expensive, so they needed a cheaper method of slowing time down. He believes elevator music was created primarily as a tool of distraction. Are smart phones and screens the elevator music of today? This score is divided into 3 sections that represent different levels of cognitive perception of time of one event, such as th...e performance of this piece. In section 1, we experience a song or phrase or delay effects. In section 2 , we process tremolos and flanging. In section 3 , we hear one sample. On this particular score, the time scale is skewed. Each section, divided by 30 second increments along the horizontal axis, is of equal value in terms of seconds but it is not equally distributed along that axis, further emphasizing a shift in the perception of time. #ElevatorMusicTO

Don’t forget to tune in to the virtual launch party for more about the project! #elevatormusicto