Songs to my Ancestors

2020

Media: Sound (21 min 14 sec), radio show/podcast, call for song requests and dedications, playlist, digital archive.

For the presentation of the work with DARE-DARE (Montréal, 2023), the project was managed and visually designed with Janis Cheung.

In the past, Songs to my Ancestors has been presented in collaboration with local radio shows with coordination by host arts organizations. Recently, Snack Witch Joni Cheung expanded on their sonic project through a site-specific zine commissioned by CAFKA in the Waterloo Region, (Ontario, 2024). While getting to know Cambridge and its neighbouring cities, they became interested in the ways these towns have always been sites for connection, through bridges, automobiles, electric rail systems turned bike trails, and the confluence of the Grand and Speed Rivers. waves that can carry your voice and thoughts is a free publication that could be found at locations throughout Cambridge, including all Idea Exchange locations and the Cambridge Centre for the Arts. Using fleeting materials—radio signals and sound; risograph printing and zines—Cheung reflects on the ephemeral ways places, people, and the more-than-human bridge relations across space and time. She hopes these audio and textual expanses can prompt us to think about gentler ways of archiving geographical spaces, as well as the (hi)stories of different lands, waters, and communities.

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