Seeing Sound presents a thirty year overview of this internationally renowned sound and multimedia artist’s career. The Blackwood will be exhibiting Aquaeolian Whirlpool (1990), a sound installation first produced at the New York Hall of Science. An approximately 10 feet high vortex of water in a Plexiglas tube is created by pumping water through the tube, and sucking it out from the bottom. An array of long piano wires are anchored to the bottom of the tube and rise vertically to a soundboard near the ceiling of the space. As the water vortex flows across the wires, 'aquaeolian tones' are induced in the piano wires. The submerged tones accompany the ebb and flow of the water vortex which resembles a mini-tornado. Other works by Monahan will be shown concurrently at the MacLaren Art Centre (February 26 – May 29) and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (April 16 – June 12).