Press Kit | no. 1851-04
Gentle Exercises in Cooperation Through Interactive Public Art
Daily tous les jours
Daily tous les jours brings two permanent artworks with healing powers to a museum’s park.
Presented for the first time together, Daily tous les jours’ Musical Swings and Daydreamer benches bring their therapeutic qualities to the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) by integrating collaborative musical creation and soothing collective motions.
Living works of art at the park
The NCMA is renowned for its galleries featuring filtered natural light, landscaped sculpture gardens, and reflecting pools. Its 164-acre park enhances the seamless integration of art and nature. The sculpture park is now comprised of two new additions by Daily tous les jours, aiming to foster communal experiences that deepen connections to nature and among park dwellers.
Musical Swings
Imagined as a collective experience, the Musical Swings invite people of all ages and backgrounds to make music together. It’s an intuitive game, where people revel at the magic of making music with their entire bodies, while cooperation between participants unlocks secret melodies.
The artwork is a studio staple project that has toured the world and won international recognition. A set of ten swings is now permanently installed at NCMA’s park, featuring a classical ensemble comprising piano, guitar, vibraphone, and harp.
Daydreamer
The studio’s new sculptural series of interactive, slowly rocking benches, Daydreamer, composes gentle music while stimulating synced up choreographies. When people sit and push the benches to rock or spin, music and light animations are triggered through motion detection, merging analog and digital movements. Each bench features recordings of human voices, with soprano, alto, and tenor registers. The ensemble weaves an evolutive tapestry of tension, release, motion, and stillness.
Therapeutic qualities
Both artworks play with soothing motions that reduce stress and anxiety. The harmonious interplay between the classical ensemble of Musical Swings and the human voice recordings of Daydreamer creates an ever-evolving calming soundscape. Played by the public as they swing, rock, or spin, harmonies respond to the height of swings, the direction of bench movements, and the rhythms of concerted actions.
Moreover, when participants play in synchronicity, more complex harmonies are produced, fostering awareness and collaboration among players. According to various studies, synchronous movements strengthen social attachment and empathy within a group, extending well beyond the moment of coming together.
At night, integrated lights in the interactive pieces elevate the performance to mesmerizing visual heights.
Technical sheet
Musical Swings
- Aluminum and steel structure
- Color coded seats in rubber with aluminum structure
- Sensing system and LED lights hosted in swing seat
- Sound system hosted in structure
- Custom software and soundtrack
Daydreamer
- Finished in Canadian white oak, with a powder-coated aluminum arch
- Sound and sensing system hosted in bench structure
- Interactive LED lights hosted in arch and under seat
- Custom software and soundtrack
- Custom pivot mechanism ensures slow movement
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/Montréal-based studio has been producing projects in over 60 cities around the world.
Working in partnership with municipalities, public realm programmers, and private sector clients, Daily tous les jours' interventions are designed to create unexpected experiences that bring strangers together in a spirit of play, cooperation, and creativity.
The scenarios they create put the human back at the centre of strategies for urban development, engaging the public with ideas about mobility, resilience, social connection, and civic engagement. Their work has been described as “infrastructure for the human spirit.”
Daily tous les jours’ previous projects include: Giant Sing Along (2011), a field of microphones inviting crowds to sing their heart out karaoke style; Cimbalom Circle (2022) for Budapest’s House of Music, part of Daily tous les jours’ series of musical pavements; Bouchées Sonores (2022), a curation of sound experiences to accompany those eating in public settings, and Walk Walk Dance (2021-2023), a series of musical lines that encourage new pedestrians choreographies.
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Daily tous les jours
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Leyla Nahas
- hello@dailytlj.com
- (514) 942-3210
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