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