Press Kit | no. 1851-08
Spaghetti Chorus Returns to the National Gallery of Canada
Daily tous les jours
An interactive artwork by Daily tous les jours takes center stage in the Scotiabank Great Hall for a second year, reimagining human communication through luminous melodies.
Spaghetti Chorus, created by award-winning Montreal-based art and design studio Daily tous les jours, transforms voice messages into music and light along a winding, luminous thread. The artwork will be open to the public during the Gallery’s regular opening hours, starting December 19, 2025.
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 travel across the Hall in shafts of colour while creating singular melodic moments.
Tailored to the National Gallery, Spaghetti Chorus is an 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.
A word from the Gallery and artists
"We're very proud to offer this dazzling interactive experience adapted to our iconic Scotiabank Great Hall. 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."
— Jean-François Bélisle, Director and CEO, National Gallery of Canada
“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. Our muscles for civic life are in atrophy as 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?”
— Mouna Andraos, Daily tous les jours cofounder
“There is something innate, even physical, about music that transcends age, culture, and language. 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.”
— Melissa Mongiat, Daily tous les jours cofounder
About Daily tous les jours
Daily tous les jours leads 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/Montreal-based studio has presented works in over 60 cities around the world. Their work has been described as "infrastructure for the human spirit".
Daily tous les jours’ other artworks 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.
About the National Gallery of Canada
Founded in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada is among the world’s most respected art institutions. As a national museum, it exists to serve all Canadians, no matter where they live. They do that by sharing their collection, exhibitions, and public programming widely. They create dynamic experiences that allow for new ways of seeing ourselves and each other through the visual arts, while centering Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
The mandate of the National Gallery of Canada is to develop, preserve, and present a collection for the learning and enjoyment of all—now and for generations to come. The institution is home to more than 90,000 works, including one of the finest collections of Indigenous and Canadian art, major works from the 14th to the 21st century, and extensive library and archival holdings.
For more information
Media contact
- Daily tous les jours
- Claire Lecker, Communications Coordinator
- claire@dailytlj.com
- 514-830-2820
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