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Award-winning Montreal-based art and design studio Daily tous les jours’ slow communication device was created for the iconic atrium of the National Gallery in Canada’s capital.
Presented from December 20th 2024 to March 30th 2025, Spaghetti Chorus transformed voice messages into music and light, intermingling along a winding, luminous thread. Following the resounding success of this first presentation, the artwork will return to the National Gallery for the winter season of 2025/2026.
How it works
Two microphones are connected by 140 continuous meters of intertwined, glowing LED tubes, suspended from the vaulted ceiling of the Scotiabank Great Hall. Visitors speak into one of the microphones and watch their voices slowly transform into music and light, traveling in shafts of colour, while creating singular melodic moments.
Spaghetti Chorus is a new edition of Daily tous les jours’ Hello series, which emphasizes the music and harmonics of human speech through poetic messaging systems. Created for a world so often confined to the size of a screen, this series creates musical bridges between people in real life, offering an invitation to connect in person, beyond words.
"We're very proud to offer this dazzling interactive experience adapted to our iconic Scotiabank Great Hall," said Jean-François Bélisle, Director and CEO, National Gallery of Canada. "Daily tous les jours is a Canadian studio with an international reputation. Homegrown creativity has its perfect setting with the Gallery. We invite people and families to come, together, and share magical moments in words, music, colour, and light."
“There is so much technology trying to connect us these days, yet we have never felt so lonely. Someone on the other side of the street might as well be on the other side of the world," adds Mouna Andraos, Daily tous les jours cofounder. "We move around stuck in our heads, on our phones, socializing with images of people. Can technology help create moments for strangers to connect in the flesh? Moments strange enough for strangers to feel a sense of connection to each other?”
“There is something innate, even physical, about music that transcends age, culture, and language," emphasizes Melissa Mongiat, Daily tous les jours cofounder. "When music becomes a collective experience—whether you’re there as a spectator or part of the performance—a kind of magic happens. Individuals become present with each other, grounded for a moment in time and place alongside a group of strangers.”
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Spaghetti Chorus
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Photography: Maryn Devine
About Daily tous les jours
Daily tous les jours is leading an emergent field of practice that combines interactive art, storytelling, performance, and urban design to reinvent living together in the 21st century.
Founded in 2010 by Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, the award-winning Tiohtia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal-based studio has presented works in over 60 cities around the world. Their work has been described as “infrastructure for the human spirit.”
Other artworks from Daily tous les jours include Musical Swings (2011-2014-2021), a series of swing sets which unlock sequenced melodies; musical pavements Cimbalom Circle (2022) for Budapest’s House of Music, and Riverlines (2023), for the Gaslight District in Cambridge in Canada, as well as Duetti (2024) presented in Milan’s 5Vie District during Fuorisalone.
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