{"id":13192,"date":"2013-06-21T06:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=13192"},"modified":"2013-06-21T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:24:54","slug":"first-day-of-summer-a-worldwide-celebration-of-all-things-musical-but-toronto-does-it-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/06\/21\/first-day-of-summer-a-worldwide-celebration-of-all-things-musical-but-toronto-does-it-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of summer a worldwide celebration of all things musical. But Toronto does it differently."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martin Messier, an imaginative young Montreal artist who can compose simultaneously with physical objects, images and sound, is celebrating today’s worldwide F\u00eate de la Musique with sewing machines in Derry, Ireland.<\/p>\n

His installation, the Sewing Machine Orchestra<\/em>, is appears today at the appropriately named, artistically repurposed Shirt Factory — after several years of making avant-garde festival rounds, including Mutek and Festival TransAm\u00e9riques in Canada.<\/p>\n

Messier created Sewing Machine Orchestra<\/em> through his music-and-movement laboratory, 14 lieux<\/a> (which translates as 14 places).<\/p>\n

This is how the artist describes what he does: “Messier doesn’t sew; he resuscitates old Singers put to sleep years ago in order to release, in magical ways, the luminous and sonorous presence of the past.”<\/p>\n

Here is a minute of Messier’s 20-minute installation show, taken last year:<\/p>\n