Donna Legault is an experimental artist based in Ottawa, Canada. Her work explores opportunities afforded by technology to acknowledge human/non-human relations through gesture and resonance. Her research is disseminated through modalities of motion and sound via electronic installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
April 2010. shotgun microphones, computer, custom Pure Data program, amplifiers, speakers, metal ball chains, dust-free sand.
In this multi-sensory installation, a custom Pure Data program transforms live sound into silent speaker motion by transposing the pitch of ambient sound to sub-audible levels. The resulting movements generate visual and sonic variations through the oscillation of fine ball chains. As the ends of the extensions make contact with the floor they produce an audible and visual interpretation of the sonic field by displacing and redrawing remnants of activity through the gradual erosion of piles of white sand. In this way, the work renders the immateriality of sound as a tangible event by silencing and reinterpreting the data of everyday life.
2013: Interview with Donna in Calgary.
2012 Espace F, Matane Qc
Cymatic Imprints featured in interview with Alexandre Désilets on ReliefTV.
July 12 - Aug 10, 2013
Truck Gallery,
Calgary Alberta
Aug 10 - Sept 16, 2012
Espace F,
Matane Qc
Jan 9 - Mar 30, 2012
City Hall Art Gallery,
Ottawa ON
Aug 2 - 5, 2011
PDCON Exhibition,
Weimar/Berlin
Germany
July 29 - 31, 2011
Electric Eclectics Festival,
Meaford ON
July 29 - 31, 2011
Meaford Museum,
Meaford ON
Nov 3 - Dec 5, 2010
Galerie AXENÉO7,
Gatineau QC
