Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park is a manmade spit that snakes its way from where Leslie Street meets Lake Ontario to a lighthouse out beyond the Toronto islands. This work is based on field recordings made in the park, a location I first discovered in 2001, sometime during my first year living in Toronto. It became a place towards which I gravitated - not just as a place to escape the bustle of the city, but as a heightened example of what one might call "second nature" - nature as a construct of mankind, as a reflection of mankind's activity.

This soundscape composition was created during an August 2005 residency with Toronto's Sound Travels (New Adventures in Sound Art). Special thanks to Darren Copeland, Yves Daoust, Charlie Fox, and the InterAccess gallery for their assistance in the creation of this piece.

David Ogborn. [email: david.ogborn (at) utoronto.ca]