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Jeremy McMullin – The Happiness Project – Mrs. Morris

Mrs. Morris captures the rich cadence and sweet abundant character that one hears in her lovely voice. The soft saxophone melody emulates her tone establishing a melody as she declares that “Happiness is love”. Jeremy re-imagined the kitchen using a fallen tree, salvaged from the ravine in my backyard. He chose to adorn the tree using the soft, ethereal and ...

Mrs. Morris (Reprise) – The Happiness Project – Crush

Mrs Morris (Reprise) Mrs. Morris is the purest reflection of what we think “The Happiness Project” is about. Mrs. Morris is an infectiously happy person. Mrs. Morris makes us think about the universality of happiness. The shared experience is what makes us all happy. We wanted to do something that visually reflected that. Our goal was to show that ultimately we all...

Mr. Gowrie – The Happiness Project – Arron Gibson

Mr. Gowrie in his interview fondly recounts his story of growing up with his 13 brothers and sisters in a small house. For his interpretation of this track, Arron Gibson has recreated this house as a pair of interactive fountains that, when the water in them is touched by a participant, activate a process that will add the music over the voice of Mr. Gowrie, allowing...

The Happiness Project : In the House at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto

The Happiness Project: In the House presented by Artist Bloc, turns the album The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin into an interactive, installation-based exhibit within the walls of a residential setting. Local artists were enlisted to interpret songs from the album and are challenged to weave their own experience of the songs, as well as their own definition of...

Jordan Scott – Stammer – Interactive for the NFB

The NFB (National Film Board of Canada) commissioned an interactive documentary on poet Jordan Scott! Scott Nihill captured Jordan reading to an audience and interviewed him on his experience growing up with a stutter and how they relate to the poems in his book Blert. All of this is weaved into a captivating audience driven experience. Check out this link to explore :...

The Happiness Project at The Apple Crisp Festival

The Happiness Project : In the House presented by Artist Bloc and Apple Crisp Festival in Kingston, Canada in March of 2010. Featuring Don Maynard Jon Claytor Nicole Aline Legault Josh Lyon Marny McDiarmid Annie Clifford Jeff Barbeau + Vince Perez Arron...

The Happiness Project in Montreal

The Happiness Project: In the House presented by Artist Bloc at POP...

Stutter on Screen

Bravo! Television has screened Stutter short nationally we can share it with you here online and in full format....

Mr. Gowrie – The Happiness Project POP – Crush

Great video from our friends at Crush Inc. featuring Mr.Gowrie’s room and describing The Happiness Project : In the House at POP Montreal.

The Happiness Project at The Music Gallery

Marianne’s and David’s piece from The Happiness Project Montreal is being displayed at the Music Gallery as part of X Avant New Music Festival. Check out more about the show at the Music Gallery...

Post-POP Happiness

Pop Montrea hosted The Happiness Project and offered us an incredible audience. Starting Wednesday September 30th to Sunday Oct 4th, each day we had a steady flow of enthusiastic music, art and happiness fans! We got hugs, thank yous and folks coming back a second time, weather it was just for the cookies or maybe the smiles we won’t ask, as we enjoyed having you...

Stutter Airdate

“Stutter” will be airing on an upcoming episode of “Bravo!FACT Presents” at 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT, Sunday 4 October 2009 on Bravo! television. The episode will be re-run at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT Friday 9 October and 8:00 am ET/5:00 am PT Saturday 10 October on Bravo!. It will also air on ‘A’ in Victoria BC on Saturday 10 October at...

Artist Bloc and The Happiness Project are off to POP Montreal

The smell of fresh baked cookies, straight out of the oven…this is happiness. This is an instant smell of home and all good things that come with it. As Mrs. Morris says: Happiness is Love. Love makes you feel happy. Every good home has plenty of love. And every good treat has lots of love in it. Let us give you a small token of our love and offer an instant...

Stutter Live at The Music Gallery

We co-presented a Live version of Stutter in the intimate setting of St.George the Martyr Church as part of The Music Gallery programming in May of 2009. Enjoy the Slideshow...

Stutter Live – BANG!

Mouth implies choir, choir mimics mouth…. The Element Choir and poet Jordan Scott collaborate for an evening of disfluency and sonic gyrations. Performing from Blert (Coach House Books, 2008), which explores the poetics of stuttering, Scott’s own disjunctive speech will collide, inhabit and wind through the rhythmical and extended voice techniques of the...

Stutter Live at The Music Gallery

THURSDAY MAY 21 2009 @ THE MUSIC GALLERY, TORONTO BE THERE TO EXPERIENCE IT LIVE! FEATURING THE POETRY OF JORDAN SCOTT & THE SOUNDS OF THE ELEMENT CHOIR. STUTTER: THE PERFORMANCE Jordan Scott is a poet who stutters. The combination of his dis-fluency and the jagged alliterations of his poetry evoke a level of communication that is beyond words. Jordan will...

Making of the Artist Bloc Doc (2007)

Artist Bloc : The Documentary (running time 48 min) a documentary following the host Jon McCurley as he entered the lives of seven emerging Toronto artists, to assist them through their artistic block. In the fall of 2007 the producers screened the documentary on the seven artists to a sold out crowd at the Theatre Centre in the Queen West Art district; which also...

Coming Up With the AB concept

In the summer of 2007 artists Jon McCurley, Agi Gutkowska and Scott Nihill got together and discussed the possibility of an experimental documentary project entirely facilitated by artists creating self portraits and documentaries on others. We whipped up a TAC application under the former name Multi-doc. The idea was a documentary following Jon McCurley as he entered the...