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A new way of experiencing your public transit commute is coming to Toronto this year. A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> is an upcoming public art project that will provide TTC riders with soundtracks of ambient music that evolve and change as you travel between neighbourhoods along streetcar and bus lines. As a part of ArtworxTO: Toronto\u2019s Year of Public Art<\/a> and the celebration of the TTC\u2019s centennial, A More Beautiful Journey<\/em><\/a> is currently in the process of reviewing applications by artists to create customized, GPS-based audio compositions that will be available to transit riders via a mobile app called Soundways. Different artists\u2019 work will be grounded in specific locations and connected together into a unique soundscape that shifts with the city\u2019s geography.<\/p>\n

A jury of Toronto-based artists will choose the final group of artists, who will then have from March until May of this year to put together their compositions for their neighbourhoods. Joseph Shabason, a Toronto-based saxophonist and one of A More Beautiful Journey<\/em>\u2019s founders, stresses the project\u2019s open definition of ambient music: \u201cIt can feel like a bit of an isolating genre term, but the way we\u2019re viewing it is instrumental music that doesn\u2019t have specific song forms, so that can be anything and can be rooted in any genre culture.\u201d The call for submissions similarly highlighted interest in compositions from a wide variety of styles and influences.<\/p>\n

A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> was initially conceived by Shabason and Dan Werb, an epidemiologist and fellow musician. They were inspired by Japanese musician and composer Hiroshi Yoshimura, known for his soft, ambient electronic music. His work included music for train stations and other public spaces. Originally the concept for A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> was to similarly provide ambient music in TTC subway stations, but safety concerns and limitations such as being unable to have station-specific music without lots of technological complications led the project back above ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was amazing about that was suddenly we weren\u2019t constrained by these specific subway routes,\u201d says Werb. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about turning the city itself into the canvas for this huge public art project.\u201d Bringing the focus out of the subway tunnels to the surface allows for composers to interact with the neighbourhood and its landmarks. In the words of Amy Gottung, a creative producer for A More Beautiful Journey<\/em>, \u201cIt yielded lots of opportunities for responsiveness between sound and environment, which is the thrust of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

An important goal for A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> is to create a meaningful representation of different communities across Toronto, through composers and musicians who know their space in detail. \u201cWho better to write music for a neighbourhood than the people who are heavily embedded in that neighbourhood, have skin in the game, know the nooks and crannies, and can think about the neighbourhood in a deep and critical way?\u201d asks Shabason. In addition to covering over thirty streetcar and bus lines, A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> has also partnered with several local arts and cultural organizations based in different areas of Toronto, including Council Fire<\/a>, the Regent Park School of Music<\/a>, SKETCH<\/a>, Arts Etobicoke<\/a>, The Remix Project<\/a>, RISE<\/a>, and Long Winter<\/a>, in order to commission neighbourhood compositions.<\/p>\n

It may be too early to say what the future of the project will be after the initial launch this year, but Shabason, Werb, and Gottung are far from short on ideas. \u201cI think what’s interesting about this project is that it’s not permanent; it’s constantly shifting, it’s constantly open to interpretation, and the whole city can engage with it city-wide,\u201d Shabason says, referring to the lack of physical infrastructure and installation involved. \u201cThere\u2019s really endless possibility.\u201d This flexibility allows the founders to imagine the project expanding beyond its current scope to include multiple compositions and interpretations of a given neighbourhood, and serving as an archive of musical representations of the city as it evolves over time.<\/p>\n

After being in the works for several years, A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> offers a new way of connecting a city through public art, and the project aims to merge the private and public experience in Toronto. It also represents how an individual idea can develop into a much larger effort that links diverse artists and neighbourhoods, and makes them accessible to Torontonians from all sorts of backgrounds and walks of life. Werb expresses his delight in seeing A More Beautiful Journey<\/em> come together from his and Shabason\u2019s original inspiration, saying, \u201cThis is a project that encapsulates the journey from a total kernel of a \u2018what if?\u2019 idea into something that is actually real.\u201d<\/p>\n

photo by Mark Giles<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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