SCAMP

SCAMP: Mont Royal is an interactive, non-linear and geolocalized sound work composed for a mobile applications. This is the 2nd site-specific version of SCAMP created by Heimbecker. Initially produced by Sporobole, SCAMP: Lac des Nations was commissioned for the event Espace [IM] Média that took place in the summer of 2019. Heimbecker created the interactive concept of the project, as well as the detailed and unique ambisonic sound, which is composed like a palindrome. SCAMP was composed to be "played" in both directions of the recording – forward and backward – quickly and slowly, depending on the GPS movement of the participants moving around the site. The work consists of 40 layers of stereo field recordings recorded in a boreal shield forest similar to that of Mount-Royal Park. The composition uses sound filters and layers of harmonic processing, conveying a synthesized sense of nature and abstraction, together with the companionship of a family dog, her heartbeat and her voice.

Scamp was my dog.
She loved to run.
If I ran, she ran.
If I walked, she walked.
If I stopped, she stopped.
She was a good dog.
She loved to play.
She loved to be outdoors.
She loved to be at the lake.
She loved to be in the forest.
She loved the sounds of nature.
Would you like to go for a tour with Scamp in the park?
She would like that too!

Walk or ride your bike… Just take the path (with your mobile and headphones). SCAMP “forward play” starts at the Cartier Monument on ave. du Parc. “Reverse play” begins at Le Serpentin path on ave du Pin O. between Redpath Crescent and rue Peel.