Ny-Ålesund is the title of the first sound composition made by Amélie Laurence Fortin, and was produced with the recorded sounds of her five kinetic sculptures: Envoy, Decade, 2RPM, Two Revolutions Per Minute and Cloud Nine as well as field recordings she made in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. The epic sound journey is a 21-minute journey into an unknown landscape open to the imagination of every listener.
In 2024, for a second residency at Avatar (CAN), Fortin immersed herself in composing, mixing and spatializing her recordings, to produce a first sound composition with the with the recorded sounds of her five kinetic sculptures and she drafts a spatialized installation that was publicly presented, in collaboration with centre Oboro (CAN).
To illustrate the sound experience, for the group exhibition Materialities at Das Esszimmer - Raum Für Kunst (DE), Fortin added a printed collage and a long colorful hair tail entitled Siren. The 3 art pieces presented at Das Esszimmer gallery are remixes, an experimental way for the artist to activate the full potential of every materiality explored in her practice and to push the meaning of these to another level. It forces her to explore the boundaries of the materials and of her imagination. The collage was then decomposed for the presentation at centre Clark (CAN) in 2025 and only the sound composition was exhibited in the performance of Younes Baba-Ali at Express Newark (USA) in 2025.
