Dave Riedstra - Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories

September 27 – October 12 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday September 27, 2-6pm

Dave Riedstra is a Guelph-based artist who works with quiet sound. Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories is a sound installation in which hanging wooden forms resonate with the acoustic space and ongoing activity of the Guelph Youth Music Centre atrium. Sounds and movement in the space interact with the position of the hanging objects, changing the patterns of resonance that ring out through their quiet feedback. Audio processing monitors these changes and incorporates their movement into its own generative system, further interacting with the sound. Gently incorporating human, arboreal, machine, and other processes and histories into a mixture of present sound, Folds in… weaves its own trajectory among those in the atrium’s ecosystem.

This installation is proudly presented in partnership with Ed Video Media Arts Centre and the Guelph Youth Music Centre as part of Ontario Culture Days, Canada’s annual celebration of arts, culture and heritage. The GYMC’s 2nd floor Atrium is physically accessible by elevator.

The artist acknowledges the support of the Guelph Arts Council in the development of this work.