Electric Flute

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Alain Weber

For some urban exploration fun, I recently tagged along with TLR, a loose-knit collective of Twin Lens Reflex camera enthusiasts. These shutterbugs go where few photographers dare to go: into the depths of your urban landscape, searching out and celebrating forgotten corners of Toronto and any derelict buildings within a days’ drive.

In the last couple of weeks, there had been some e-mails flying around arranging a train trip to the Muskokas to explore an old, deserted Sanatorium near Bracebridge. This sounded pretty cool, not to mention the prospect of wonderful scenery, but this was nixed at the last minute due to inclement weather.

So when I heard about a plan to meet up and wander around the decommissioned GE Factories at Dupont and Lansdowne – right here in my own neighborhood - my imagination was fired up like a tungsten light bulb!

This is the first of a handful of soundfiles collected that day, a short excerpt of a Lecture Rythmique by Alain Weber, published by Alphonse Leduc, Paris.

Thanks, Sam, for the ‘electric’ photo!