big rock candy mountain – big rock candy mountain

I'll tell you 'bout a land⁋It's not so far from here⁋And every time you blink your eyes⁋The strangest things appear

Oh, the Big Rock Candy Mountain is the perfect place for kids⁋Your allowance grows on bushes⁋And the cookie jars have no lids⁋You can have your choice of any pet⁋In the Big Rock Candy Zoo⁋There's rootbeer lakes you can dive into⁋You can paddle all around in a big canoe⁋In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain you never change your socks⁋And little streams of apple juice come a bubbling down the rocks⁋There's no such thing as homework⁋It's your birthday all the time⁋You can stay up late and your folks don't care⁋You can come to lunch in your underwear⁋In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

Oh... the buzzin' of the bees in the bubblegum trees⁋And the soda water fountain⁋The lemonade springs where the bluebirds sing⁋In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

Coming soon to stores in Edmonton: POPOPOPOPOP A drinkable publication dedicated to bubbles-as-scores, carbonation-as-percussion and the many other connections between pop and sound

Big Rock Candy Mountain

bigrockcandy.mountain

“Is Ollis real or are we in a crazy dream where

“Is Ollis real or are we in a crazy dream where they kidnap us to look for *Cramp Bark*?”

A grade 6 student, reflects on a field-trip to Dawson’s Typhoid Cemetery to look for medicine. Ollis, our guide in lichen-styled drag helped us identify, give thanks, harvest and process cramp bark for a medicinal edge in our soda samples. Thanks @gay4mushrooms for the inspiring appearance and teachings.

Thank you @jeffreypixels for collecting student quotes and narrating this project originally shown at @kiacyukon in the Odd Gallery. Big point over to @lilboohiss and #craighunter at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School. An installation of prints and bottles from this project is now on view @rmgoshawa Thanks to @val_f_l for assistance printing the wing-like label of this energy gel bottle.

#sodastudiesbottleblast #crampbark #medicinalsoda

After Wrappers is an installation of leftovers, wa

After Wrappers is an installation of leftovers, warmed-up, re-processed and transformed at the Odd Gallery @kiacyukon (Fall 2023) and currently up at @rmgoshawa . Subjected to pressure and heat - plastic, foil, glass, textiles, wood and paper are revealed differently. In the making of this piece, we wondered how a small place like Dawson could impress itself on the mass-produced materials that arrive there in a constant stream.

In a series of 13 sessions with the Grade 5 & 6 students at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School we asked – Who decides on the ingredients of soda, the shape of its bottles, the persuasion of its advertising and the afterlife of its waste? This table features mono-prints of garbage picked-up from the school playground @val_f_l and glass bottles designed by students, interpreted by @goodbeast.ca Beautiful new handmade table by @pablomarianostudio (bottom right).

#sodastudies #bottledesign #pinkingindex #garbage #trash2artifact #bigrockcandymountain #afterwrappers #sodastudiesbottleblast

A collection of garbage picked during solstice, fr

A collection of garbage picked during solstice, from school grounds at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School – a kind of midnight sun inventory. Each piece was washed, dried, inked and printed with the help of @val_f_l towards the making of our installation After Wrappers (see next pic on the grid).

Mono-printed toothbrush (!!), Reece’s and other packets, zip lock bag and foil out of scale. Bottle silhouettes by Dezy, Ollie, Nico and Lyla.

#sodastudies #bottledesign #pinkingindex #garbage #trash2artifact #bigrockcandymountain #sodastudiesbottleblast

FURNACE BLAST! Foil and a chip bag paired with so

FURNACE BLAST!

Foil and a chip bag paired with some bottle silhouettes by Sam, Abel, Sara and James, (Grade 6 students at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School), that were interpreted by Jesse @goodbeast.ca for our exhibition PINKING INDEX at the Odd Gallery @kiacyukon

Additionally, Whitehorse-based glassblowers @lumelstudios towed their baby dragon furnace up the Klondike Highway to demonstrate glass blowing and sculpting with students. They also hosted a conversation about the complete lack of glass recycling in the territory and the plans they're hatching for reworking consumer glass in the furnaces. Co-hosted by RSS & @KIAC - thank you #petermenzies and @goforasofa

#sodastudies #consumerglass #garbage #bottledesign #pinkingindex

HOT SODA dispenser at @dawsoncitymuseum with a ver

HOT SODA dispenser at @dawsoncitymuseum with a very, ummmmmmm refreshing, HOT SODA recipe (circa turn of the last century), below provided by @agswenz :

“Hot Alaska Toddy

Into a hot soda mug draw ½ to 1 ounce of clam bouillon, 1 dram of liquid beef and ½ ounce of sweet cream. Add 4 dashes of essence of celery, a dash of extract of spices, fill with hot water and serve with hot crackers. This is also served under the name of “Klondike Hot.”

With bottle designs by Piper, Lyla, Taliyah, Sam interpreted and realized by @goodbeast.ca and photographed by @miri_behman

Paper straws, plastic stir stick, freezie wrapper and nicely deteriorated duct-tape scrounged on school grounds and mono-printed with the help of @val_f_l

#hotsoda

A visit to @dawsoncitymuseum provided inspiration

A visit to @dawsoncitymuseum provided inspiration for some bottle designs by the Grade 5 & 6 students at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School. Trash becomes artifact!

#bottledesign #garbage #trash2artifact #bigrockcandymountain #sodastudiesbottleblast

Hi everyone, we’re firing up this grid again! Th

Hi everyone, we’re firing up this grid again! These two bottles (lower left) are stand-ins for Hannah and Reed, the lead artists behind Big Rock Candy Mountain. Since early 2022 we have been working with collography, mono-printing, plate lithography and screen-printing to produce images of things that orbit the periphery of our projects with kids in schools.

At the top, imagine the bigger grouping of bottles as a proxy for the Grade 5 & 6 students at Hätrʼunohtän zho/Robert Service School who joined us in visiting old bottles at @dawsoncitymuseum and further-developing new designs as part of an installation at the Odd Gallery @kiacyukon here in Dawson, Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Territory. More images to come!

Thank you to @malaspinaprintmakers @val_f_l @goodbeast.ca @lumelstudios for so much support with production. @kelownaartgallery commissioned our project, ZIG ZAG ZILLIONAIRES, an edition of posters and workshop material, designed to move between classroom and gallery spaces.

#zigzagzillionaires #bottledesign #garbage #afterwrappers #strangebrew #bandaids #bigrockcandymountain #sodastudies #sodastudiesbottleblast

BUBBLE ALERT 🟣🔴🟠🔵🟤⚪️🟢🟡 L

BUBBLE ALERT
🟣🔴🟠🔵🟤⚪️🟢🟡

Last June we launched #popopopopop a sound-based soda developed with artists, musicians and grade 6 students at @johnamcdougall with support from @mitchellartgallery @yegarts and @boochayeg

Since then, #popopopopop has been sold at neighborhood stores, school events, holiday fairs, pop-up events and in this current double-entendre setting, the POPWAY (pedway) on MacEwan University Campus.

Thanks to curator @carolyn_______jo for your words about the development of #popopopopop and the pop-way "...students created drawings inspired by the percussive sounds of the carbonated drink. Designer @jeff.kulak has pulled elements of these drawings into a wild magnum opus of soda sound-as-visual score--as if you are walking through a bottle of POPOPOPOPOP in the collective imagination of our neighbourhood grade six students."

If you're in Edmonton and on @macewanu campus, check it out and pick up a bottle of #popopopopop at the campus store, Griffin's Landing. We’ll be announcing out-of-edmo ordering info soon.

Pics courtesy of @mitchellartgallery and @bblaineccampbell

POPOPOPOPOP is launching publicly today! A sound-b

POPOPOPOPOP is launching publicly today! A sound-based soda developed by grade 6 students at @johnamcdougall and @bigrockcandy.mountain!

The soda features QR links to sound and animation files by the students of @thisiswherewejam and @mustafarafiqq @butterlvr69 @biboye.onanuga @itsgarethg @carla_jayne_ @andreashipka and @charmainelee 🎉🎉🎉
@furiousgreencloud laid the foundation for deep listening in her 👂 opening workshop. @ginapasaran was a behind the scenes wizard helping this project get off the ground. @carolyn_______jo supported this project in innumerable ways.

The soda is available @tixonthesquare @hideoutdistro @coffee.bureau @latitude_53 with more locations to be announced! Students from @johnamcdougall will be selling the soda at pop up markets hosted by @habesha_yeg on Thursdays throughout the summer. All proceeds from the soda support future art and music programming at John A McDougall School.

POPOPOPOPOP was co-funded by @mitchellartgallery and @yegarts. The soda was manufactured by Byron @boochayeg.

Check our website for more details!
📷courtesy of @macewanu 🔈is a clip of SIP SOUND 🥤🎼💦🧊🥤
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#POPOPOPOPOP #sodasounds #popercussion #BRCMxYEG #sipsound #popcast #bubblescore

Tomorrow we celebrate the launch of POPOPOPOPOP wi

Tomorrow we celebrate the launch of POPOPOPOPOP with @thisiswherewejam and @johnamcdougall with a celebration on the last day of classes and during a record breaking heatwave! 🥵 We’re so excited to launch this to the broader public in a couple of weeks time! Stay tuned here for retail locations!

POPOPOPOPOP is a drinkable publication dedicated to bubbles-as-scores, carbonation-as-percussion and the many other connections between pop and sound.

POPOPOPOPOP is a @bigrockcandy.mountain project created in partnership with @johnamcdougall, @thisiswherewejam, and @boochayeg, funded by @yegarts and @mitchellartgallery. We are bubbling-over with amazement for
all the artists who contributed to this work: @andreashipka, @furiousgreencloud, @biboye.onanuga, @butterlvr69, @itsgarethg, @carla_jayne_, @charmainelee, @ginapasaran, @jeff.kulak, @mustafarafiqq.

Though much of this project took shape on-line, it’s development was grounded in the many lands our contributors and supporters gratefully inhabit: Treaty 6,
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Territories, and
xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh.

📷 @ginapasaran

#POPOPOPOPOP #BRCMxYEG #popercussion #sodasounds

by Edmonton-based musician Mustafa Rafiq @mustafar

by Edmonton-based musician Mustafa Rafiq @mustafarafiqq and Vancouver-based animator Chhaya Naran @butterlvr69 , with drawings by students in Melissa Andrews and Veronica Chong’s classes at @johnamcdougall school.

POPOPOPOPOP is a drinkable publication dedicated to bubbles-as-scores, carbonation-as-percussion and the many other connections between pop and sound. Stay-tuned for retail locations and shipping possibilities (for those outside of YEG).

POPOPOPOPOP is a @bigrockcandy.mountain project created in partnership with @johnamcdougall @thisiswherewejam @boochayeg @mitchellartgallery @yegarts We are bubbling-over with amazement for all the artists who contributed to this work: @andreashipka @furiousgreencloud @biboye.onanuga @jeff.kulak @butterlvr69 @itsgarethg @carla_jayne_ @charmainelee @ginapasaran @mustafarafiqq

Though much of this project took shape on-line, it’s development was grounded in the many lands our contributors and supporters gratefully inhabit: Treaty 6, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Territories.

#POPOPOPOPOP #BRCMxYEG #popercussion #sodasounds

👀COMING SOON 👀 sparkling pink mystery water

👀COMING SOON 👀 sparkling pink mystery water 💦💦💦
Developed with @thisiswherewejam students, including bubbly percussive elements! Thanks to @boochayeg for development and production and this video! Pop n fizz drum roll by @biboye.onanuga
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#BRCMxYEG #popnfizz #mysterywater #drumrollplease

@thisiswherewejam school’s own Melissa Andrews t

@thisiswherewejam school’s own Melissa Andrews teaches an ostinato workshop to the grade 6’s using glass vessels and pop related sounds 🔊🥤🧊⚪️👍
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#BRCMxYEG #experimentsinrhythm #criticalsodastudies #ostinato #poppercussion

Final prototypes by our buddies @boochayeg are goi

Final prototypes by our buddies @boochayeg are going out to the @thisiswherewejam students tomorrow! Byron experimented with four different natural colours including ebony carrot and pandan extract.
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#BRCMxYEG #bubbleaesthetics #discerningkids #criticalsodastudies #smallbatchsoda #boocha #colourtheory

Sound on for bottle clinking chaos! Swipe right fo

Sound on for bottle clinking chaos! Swipe right for musical masterminds! Big thank you to Biboye Onanuga @biboye.onanuga and Gareth Gilliland @itsgarethg for facilitating this workshop on musical conversations And for sharing about their artistic process!
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#BRCMxYEG #sodasounds #biboyeonanuga #garethgilliland #pandemicprojects #musicalconversation

Searching for silence! Thanks to @furiousgreenclou

Searching for silence! Thanks to @furiousgreencloud Brady Marks for kicking off our online visiting artist series back in February with a series of 👂 ear opening activities 👂! Brady also shared some of her sound art projects including #thewetlandproject.
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#BRCMxYEG #soundart #bradymarks #silence #feelingsound

Sound on! Visiting artist @mustafarafiqq created t

Sound on! Visiting artist @mustafarafiqq created this perfectly bubbly sound composition based on the animated drawings of @johnamcdougall’s grade 6 students. Thank you Mustafa for spending time and sharing your practice!

The brilliant @charmainelee beamed in from NYC to

The brilliant @charmainelee beamed in from NYC to YEG as a virtual guest performer for @johnamcdougall @thisiswherewejam.
We are excited to be hosting a series of sound artists and musicians to explore the audio potential of soda, liquids, bodies and bubbles. Stay tuned for more guest artists!
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#soundstudies #soundart #charmainelee #pandemicprojects #edibleresearch #BRCMxYEG

We have been airing a weekly BUBBLE BROADCAST as p

We have been airing a weekly BUBBLE BROADCAST as part of @artspeakartspeak Artspeak Radio Digest: Proximities and as behind-the-scenes research for an upcoming @bigrockcandy.mountain project. This week we are interpreting this drawing of bubbles with @melsmandrews , made by Thea, a Grade 6 student in Edmonton at @johnamcdougall . Scroll through for our zoom-vessel-jam-band and for Melissa's pics of the vessels she played to represent the big dots in the drawing. All other audio interpretations of the drawing are described in tonight's episode... tune in on Vancouver's Co-op radio, CFRO 100.5FM. 9 pm PST!

Our guest is Melissa Andrews, who is a Music and Literacy teacher at John A. McDougall School. Fun fact, she started her teaching career at that school and loves the community there so much, she has never left! She received her Elementary Music Education degree from the University of Alberta. Outside of teaching, Melissa sits on the Board of Directors for Free Footie, an organization committed to providing free after school programming using physical activity for school aged children. She also serves as a member of the Executive team for the Alberta Orff Chapter which provides quality music PD and workshops for elementary music teachers in Edmonton and Northern Alberta. In her spare time, Melissa likes to spend time with her family and friends, play the ukelele and percussion, do escape rooms, binge watch Netflix and read great books!

This project is also supported by @mitchellartgallery and @yegarts #BRCMxYEG

ORANGE MAJESTIC & MONSTER FRUIT are prototypes for

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