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Daily tous les jours experiments once more with new ways to ignite social interaction. Hello, Hello, a poetic messaging system inside a luminescent arch turns people’s voices into a lyrical spectacle.
With its five-story reflective façade overlooking the banks of the Grand River, the artwork serves as the front yard and welcome mat for a new district revitalising the edge of Cambridge, Ontario, inviting people to engage creatively with their surroundings and each other.
Interaction
Passers-by are invited to deliver a greeting or message at one of the three microphones at the base of the installation. Their voices slowly become music and shafts of colour that travel up and over the 13-metre luminescent arch. In transforming messages, Hello, Hello accounts for a speaker’s tone, cadence, and duration, rendering every melody unique.
When voices from multiple microphones meet, they interact with one another to create a singular harmonic moment. The wave-sculpted mirror façade amplifies the resonance of the constantly evolving scene before it.
The harmonics of communication
Inspired by a kids’ game of broken telephones, where the inputs and outputs don’t always exactly match, Hello, Hello is all about presence, the non-verbal, and what’s missing from our online communications.
“By using the human voice to create musical bridges between people, it’s an invitation to connect beyond words.”
Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, co-founders of Daily tous les jours
In our times of unprecedented population growth and division in urban areas, the artwork forges new modes of interaction for public spaces.
