Tomorrow: Charles Harding - Hum
8-channel soundscape performance at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Hello friends,
Our final performance for our 2025-26 series takes place tomorrow night at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Absolutely pumped to be presenting Charles Harding’s Hum — a special acousmatic performance presented through 8-channels of surround-sound audio. This is possibly the first time Fredericton has had a multichannel performance like this! Seating is very very limited due to intimate and immersive nature of the show, so be sure to grab an advance ticket (hint hint, there are only 4 left).
Più presents: Charles Harding - Hum
Saturday June 27th
Charlotte Street Arts Centre - 732 Charlotte St, Fredericton
Doors: 7:00PM, Show: 7:30PM*
Tickets: $15
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/piumusicandsound/2060382
**Heads up! Due to the immersive nature of this performance, the doors will be closed once the show begins. Be sure to not be late!**
Charles Harding
Charles Harding is a sound artist and composer based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His work grows out of a deep listening practice and a desire to build empathy toward natural spaces and more-than-human interconnections. Often working with field recordings and environmental sound as a way of mapping memory and place, Harding finds himself taking on projects that frequently lead him into rural and remote settings.
His solo releases include Rain Beast (Patient Records, 2022), which layered recordings from Fredericton and Montréal into collages that examined how urban environments echo and resist the natural world, and Hellsö (Patient Records, 2024), created during a residency on the Finnish island of Kökar. Built from pipe-organ improvisations and field recordings, Hellsö reflects on specific island sites and themes of vulnerability, energy, and climate. His work on Hellsö and the collaborative album Quiet on Kökar was featured in Musicworks Magazine (Issue 148, 2024). His ongoing project Hum began during an eight-month residency at Fredericton’s Charlotte Street Arts Centre and has since expanded into multichannel and improvisatory performances, debuting at RE:FLUX 20 (May 2025) and later presented at Schhh Vardagsrummet in Sweden (Sept. 2025).
Hum
Developed during a residency at Fredericton’s Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Hum is a soundscape performance that draws on months of field recording inside the 140-year-old building, documenting its creaking floorboards, resonant stairwells, rehearsal rhythms, and subtle seasonal shifts. These recordings are transformed live through real-time electronic processing into a sound collage that centres the abstracted, resonant stories embedded in this community hub. By treating the building as both instrument and archive, Hum seeks meaning in acts of attentive listening—revealing how place, memory, and community are inscribed in sound. Presented through 8-channels of surround-sound audio, this acousmatic performance is meant to push beyond passive hearing, encouraging deep listening as a way of engaging with surroundings and the textures they hold. Hum opens a space for reflection on how sound can alter our understanding of where we are and where we’ve been.
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Big thank you to the City of Fredericton & Arts Culture NB for supporting these events!