*Done in collaboration with students from University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Music

"ís" was a walk-through interactive gallery exhibit made by myself and eleven others from the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. The exhibit was inspired by a studio trip to Icelands West Fjords and was meant to invoke the melting Icelandic glaciers. As you entered the exhibit you step onto a one-directional narrow platform path. You are surrounded by suspended white mesh, illuminated with distorted and abstract footage of rugged, desolate, and sometimes violent Icelandic landscapes. Each step you take triggers the sound of a footstep that transitions from crunchy ice to wet slushy snow as you progress through the path. Sounds that were sampled, programmed, and re-produced from orchestral instruments by the talented Master of Composition students.  

My involvement was leading the exhibit layout, and constructing the interactive path, which was built using rigid insulation boards and OSB sandwiching sensitive piezo pick-ups. The gritty texture of the OSB helped the Composition students detect footsteps which then linked to their triggered sounds.