Octaphonic Sound Installation

August 17-19, 2001 - 11 AM to 4 PM, Free Admission

Metro Square, 155 John Street

Toronto, ON

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A MEDIA RECEPTION AT NOON, AUG 17TH, 2001

ARTIST WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE. 

Composed specifically for Metro Square Response Time makes use of a set of auditory warnings that explore the dividing line between ignoring something because we hear it all the time and listening because it signifies something directly applicable to ourselves.

Response Time will work with, rather than against, the ambient sound environment and sonic rhythm of the space. Its aim is to promote a long-term qualitative change in the way people experience the urban sound environment as well as an awareness of the value of silence.

John Wynne is a visiting artist at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Art and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sound at the London Institute's LCP School of Media.

Response to John Wynne's recent works:

"John Wynne's Cry Wolf dramatically increased the nervous pressure by occupying the space with a series of specially constructed 'false alarms' that provoke a new appreciation of the city as one (in)tensely saturated by unstable electronic signals."

Angus Carlyle, The Wire

"(Panic and Depression) affirms the communicative possibilities offered by new media."

Ed Baxter, Variant

"John Wynne kept the modernist banner flying high. His piece C90.RTS5.L1-37 used electronics not as a pretty and exotic backdrop but to explore pure noise."

Adam Lively, The Independent

John Wynne wishes to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Section