September 27 – October 12 2025

Guelph Youth Music Centre (75 Cardigan St.)

Opening Reception: Saturday September 27, 2-6pm

Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm

*To access the installation, please press the buzzer to the left of the interior access door.

Ed Video Media Arts Centre and the Guelph Youth Music Centre are pleased to present Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories by Dave Riedstra in the GYMC Atrium from September 27th to October 12th, 2025. Please join us on Saturday September 27th from 2-6pm for an opening reception as part of Culture Days: Canada’s annual celebration of arts, culture, and heritage. The GYMC is located at 75 Cardigan St and the 2nd floor Atrium is physically accessible by elevator. Refreshments will be served.

Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories is a sound installation in which hanging wooden forms resonate with the acoustic space and ongoing activity of the Guelph Youth Music Centre atrium. Sounds and movement in the space interact with the position of the hanging objects, changing the patterns of resonance that ring out through their quiet feedback. Audio processing monitors these changes and incorporates their movement into its own generative system, further interacting with the sound. Gently incorporating human, arboreal, machine, and other processes and histories into a mixture of present sound, Folds in… weaves its own trajectory among those in the atrium’s ecosystem.

Artist Bio

Dave Riedstra is a Guelph-based artist who works with quiet sound. A long-time composer and performer of experimental music, over the past 10 years his work increasingly incorporates sound sculpture, transient public art, instrument building, coding, circuit building, and other activities. Throughout all of these, he uses sound to generate arrangements that respond to those listening to them in order to cultivate sensitivity to everyday entanglement. Riedstra is a frequent technical and artistic collaborator; recent projects include the creation of a new string resonator instrument with Gayle Young and Mitch Renaud and the development of software for gestural control of live audio spatialization with James Harley. The design and code for these can be found alongside scores, recordings, text, and interactive works at daveriedstra.com. Riedstra’s artistic and academic work has been presented across Canada, the UK, Europe, and online.