Approximately 7000 sound events are scheduled to occur in the Spirit House each 24 hour period, distributed through 35 loudspeakers in the space. Most of these sounds happen randomly; some re-occur more often than others; and several dozen events are scheduled at specific times of the day. These are some of them:
10AMnoon horn in Charlottetown PEI
10:03Laurel MacDonald - Brightest and Best (traditional song)
10:10Qui alto (8 women singing in 8 languages, based on a 15th century motet by Josquin des Prez)
10:30Shalva Makharashvili- Urmuli Kakheti (traditional Georgian shepherd song)
10:45Philip Strong - Tone Factory (an everchanging composition of the sound of electrical current)
**:**Sashar Zarif singing the Azan (synchronized with sunset in Mecca)
11AMthe noon schoolbell in a small town in Quebec
11:11Qui Weave (29 singers singing in 29 languages)
11:30Lizzy Mahashe- Qongqothwane (African ‘click’ song)
11:45Eddie Lang - Prelude by Rachmaninof (recorded in 1927)
NoonOttawa gun and bells.
12:12Qui (10 men singing in 10 different languages)
12:30Ori Dagan Scat singing
12:45tone factory
1PMnoon in Winnipeg
1:01Qui (7 women singing in 7 languages)
1:30Pat Patrick - Wade in the Water (sung in the sub-bass register)
1:45Beniamino Gigli - Ave Maria by Strauss (recorded in 1926)
2PMnoon in Lethbridge Alberta
2:02qui Men (10 men singing in 10 different languages)
2:45tone factory
3PMnoon horn in Vancouver (plays the first four notes of Canada’s national anthem)
3:03Qui alto
3:30Narendra Datar - Alhaiyya Bilaval
3:45tone factory
**:**Northeast Australian rainforest at dawn (simulated simulcast in compressed time)
4:04Qui Weave
4:30Tanya Tagaq - solo throatsinging (this is her part in Qui)
4:45tone factory
5:05Qui All (26 voices in 26 languages all singing together- 2 different versions on alternate days)
5:30tone factory
5:45Laurel MacDonald - Nenia Sirenes