A More Beautiful Journey

Client: Intersection Festival, Music Gallery, City of Toronto
Role: Co-Creator, Creative Producer
When: 2022-2023
Where: Toronto, Canada
Partners:

TTC, ArtworksxTO The Music Gallery, Regent Park School of Music, Council Fire, The Daniels Corporation, Taxi Agency, City of Toronto, Intersection Festival, Taxi Agency, Soundways, Collectif MU, The Daniels Corporation, The Music Gallery, The Remix Project, Regent Park School of Music, Council Fire Native Cultural Centre, SKETCH, Arts Etobicoke, RISE, Long Winter, Canadian Music Centre, Ableton

Team:

CREATIVE TEAM

Amy Gottung (co-creator, creative producer) + Joseph Shabason + Dan Werb (co-creators)

Sanjeet Takhar + David Dacks (project design + development - Music Gallery)

Soundways (geolocated XR audio software)

Karen Vanderborght (creative technologist)

Intersection Festival (presenter)

CURATOR PARTNERS 

Arts Etobicoke 

Regent Park School of Music

Council Fire Native Cultural Centre

SKETCH 

RISE 

Long Winter 

The Remix Project

Canadian Music Centre

REGENT PARK NEIGHBOURHOOD SPONSOR

The Daniels Corporation

TECH PARTNERS

Ableton

Splice

PRESENTING AND PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS

City of Toronto 

ArtworksxTO

TTC

JURY

Hugh Marsh

tUkU Mathews

Cadence Weapon

Alison Cameron

Mario Anzola

An historic XR (extended reality) audio installation to transform Toronto public transit, in honour of the centennial anniversary of the TTC.

Through a web-based mobile app, riders experience an eclectic mix of site-specific ambient songs, soundscapes, and scores for over 25 discrete stretches of TTC line – written by musicians from, and for, neighbourhoods spanning the breadth of the public transit grid. These sounds can be experienced through a web-based mobile app. Musical excerpts unfold generatively for listeners travelling across streetcar or bus routes. AMBJ offers new modes of encounter with our urban geography: simultaneously public and private, intimate and communal, and accessible to millions of daily riders across the TTC.

ARTISTS included:

Absolutely Free

birthday boy

Brodie West

Casey MQ

Chelsea Stewart

chiquitamagic

Debashis Sinha

Emissive 

Felipe Sena

Jahmal Padmore

Korea Town Acid

Kind Mind

Nick Storring

OBUXUM

Prince Josh

Red Bear Singers

Stefana Fratila

+ more

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/ttc-music-app-a-more-beautiful-journey-1.6575859