Timothy Yanick Hunter

Toronto, ON

Granular Synthesis 

Access notes: This performance includes potentially loud volumes.

DESCRIPTION

Granular Synthesis is a reference to the computer music technique of the same name, first suggested by Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads. It is based on the production of a high density of small acoustic events called grains, which are less than 50 milliseconds in duration and typically fall within the range of 10-30 milliseconds. These grains can be manipulated in various ways by changing the pitch, duration, or position in the original sample, resulting in unique and complex sounds. In his performance, Timothy Yanick Hunter explores the idea of the grain and the manipulation of samples. Processes of stretching, looping, and rearrangement build a kaleidoscopic narrative that considers the grain as a metaphor for fragmented memory, mortality, and states of immateriality. 

In conjunction with TBA:24, Timothy Yanick Hunter has an exhibition entitled Noise / Grain at ILY2 in the Pearl District, on view September 13 through November 9. In his first solo show on the West Coast, Hunter presents an arrangement of works that contend with diaspora, memory, overlap, and oscillating realities through various experiments in digital repetition and the copy. For more information, visit ily2online.com.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Timothy Yanick Hunter (b. 1990, Toronto, ON) is an artist and curator based in Toronto. Hunter’s practice employs strategies of bricolage, archival exploration, reference, and citation, as well as remix and rearrangement as methods of practice. His approach alternates between exploratory and didactic, with a focus on the political, cultural, and social richness of the Black diaspora. Hunter’s work often delves into speculative narratives and the intersections of physical space, digital space, and the intangible.

Hunter received his BA from the University of Toronto and has been an artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, ON; and Black Rock Senegal, Dakar. He was included in the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art and longlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, New York (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2022); Bamako Encounters – The African Biennial of Photography, Mali (2022); Gallery 44, Toronto (2021); and A Space Gallery, Toronto (2020) among others.

SPONSORSHIP

Supported in part by ILY2.