On view in the Main Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from January 19 to March 2, 2024 is The Noisebau by Puppets Forsaken, an acoustic noise band comprised of David Gifford and Natali Leduc.

Boundless inquisitiveness sits at the very heart of award-winning cellist Marina Hasselberg's rich artistic practice. Over the past decade, she has traveled a distinctive route that has variously led her through early music, free improvisation, the fringes of pop songcraft, electronics, contemporary chamber music, and an array of interdisciplinary collaborations that resist classification.

With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a sensual and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life-cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison.