Downtown Calgary and the Bow River are seen from the air in a file photo from 2023.
A new public art project encourages people to phone a toll-free number and listen to the sounds of Calgary's Bow River.People can now phone the Bow River — Calgary's most famous body of water — via a toll-free number as part of a new public art project. "Thank you so much for calling. Please wait a moment while we connect the Bow River to you."
Justin Langlois, an artist and member of Broken City Lab, says the creation process involved listening to the river and finding ways to present it back to the community. Pon says that even though this project has been in the works since well before the current water supply issues in Calgary — following the June 5 rupture of the city's most critical water main — it's more relevant now than ever.
"What we wanted to do this time around was prepare a number of recordings so that, as people call over the duration of the project, they would hear some evolutions of the sound and kind of get to experience different parts of the Bow River, different expressions of it," Langlois told CBC News.
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