The Art Gallery of Alberta is proud to present the North American premier of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Millers installation: The Murder of Crows, their largest sound installation to date. The work has been shown in Sydney, Berlin and Brazil, but comes to Canadian audiences for the first time as part of the AGA’s opening exhibitions.

The work will occupy the entire third floor of the new Art Gallery of Alberta. Consisting of 98 speakers, The Murder of Crows is a complex interweaving of voice, music and sound that have generated a profound physical impact on the listener. The work has been conceived in acts, but one whose images and narratives structures are created by sound alone. The three-part work, composed in collaboration with Freida Abtan, Tilman Ritter and Titus Maderlechner, is 30 minutes in duration.

Join Anik See, Aritha, Romy, and Chris Tenz at Cantos Music Foundation for a fun, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary evening. A wine and cheese reception will follow the readings. This is a free event and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 7 at Cantos Music Foundation, 134 11 Ave SE, 2nd Floor Calgary, AB
Exhibition opens at 7:00 p.m.

Anik See is coming to Calgary all the way from Amsterdam to launch her new collection of short fiction, Postcard and Other Stories. To celebrate, Freehand Books has invited a trio of Calgary-based artists to respond to and engage with Anik’s work in various mediums. Aritha van Herk, renowned scholar and author, will be performing a special reading response, textile artist Romy Straafhof will expand on Anik’s interrogation of place in a visual exhibition entitled strata, layers and strands, and electronic musician Chris Tenz will provide a fitting soundtrack to the evening – soundscapes inspired by postcard and other stories.