Subject: NAISA Sound Channel May
From: Nadene Thériault-Copeland (naisa@soundtravels.ca)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 09:03:04 EDT
NAISA Sound Channel
Newsletter for May 2007 (Vol.2; Iss.3)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
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In this issue:
1) Radio Without Boundaries conference & workshops info
Deadline to Register May 16th!
(Murray Schafer, Hans Ulrich Werner, Robyn Ravlich,
Gregory Whitehead, Heidi Grundmann + more)
2) Deep Wireless performances in May
includes comedy troup It is to Laugh & Grip Radio
3) Deep Wireless installations @ Gallery 1313
4) Deep Wireless workshop @ inter/access
How to Make a Contact Microphone
5) Deep Wireless on the Radio
Be a voice in a Harmon e Phraisyar episode
6) Deep Wireless 4 CD / help us celebrate radio art in May
Radio producers/programmers e-mail us for your free copy
7) Sound Travels festival of sound art 2007
with Randy Raine-Reusch, Mei Han, Trevor Wishart, Barry Truax,...
8) SOUNDplay 2007
9) Related News/Links
Specials offers including NAISA's _Baker's Dozen in 12.1_ pass
Feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and associates
who are looking for new arts events.
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the 5th annual RADIO WITHOUT BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
MAY 25-27, 2007 @ Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
<http://www.naisa.ca/RWB>
The fifth annual Radio Without Boundaries conference makes Deep
Wireless an internationally sought after destination for those with a
general interest in radio and transmission art and/or those who just
want something more from radio.
Register online, space is limited <http://www.community-media.com/
RWB07_Registration_Form.html>
$150/$130 (price includes conference sessions, workshops, lunches, &
performances)
$85/$75 day rate
Exploring the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of
radio and transmission art, the 2007 all-star line-up of
international radio art luminaries include: R. Murray Schafer (Can),
Robyn Ravlich (Australia; with support from the Australian council),
Hans Ulrich Werner (Germany), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Heidi
Grundmann (Austria; with support from the Austrian Cultural Forum),
Harmon e. Phraisyar (UK), Eleanor King & Stephen Kelly (Can; with
support from SOCAN Foundation). Workshops by Steve Wadhams, Andra
McCartney, Stephen Kelly with Tetsuo Kogawa (via internet) as well as
Hans Ulrich Werner with Gregory Whitehead will be offered to those
attending the conference.
Your conference registration also gets you into all Deep Wireless
performances and Radio Without Boundaries workshops
contact naisa@naisa.ca for details or go to <http://www.naisa.ca/RWB>
for full info including conference session descriptions.
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2) DEEP WIRELESS 2007 PERFORMANCES
<http://www.deepwireless.ca>
Conference pass $150/$130 gets you into all Deep WIreless
performances + Conference
Performance pass $50/$40 gets you into all Deep Wireless
performances (6 concerts)
e-mail naisa@naisa.ca for more info
TRANS-LOCAL PERFORMANCE
May 10th, 7pm @ inter/access & Gallery 1313 (simultaneously)
$5 gets you into both performances (they are a short walk from each
other)
This performance will address the various ways people can affect
radio space. How living things can manipulate electromagnetic
radiation. Contact mics can be used to get the body and human
environment into radio space. They can be thought of as reproducing
physical motion/contact instead of sound (sound is just the way we
perceive the signal they carry). For example, if you put a contact
mic up to your heart and plug it directly into a radio transmitter,
then your heartbeat is directly modulating radio waves. The piece is
about translating or 'translocating' the physical environment into
radio space, as apposed to creating new content for the radio.
Live sounds will be collected in the gallery and outside on the
street with the use of contact microphones and a cell phone. There
will be an audience participation aspect in collecting sounds
(getting folks to play with contact mics, etc.). Michelle Irving and
Stephen Kelly will be performing at Gallery 1313, Anna Friz at inter/
access and Eleanor King will be performing in the outdoor spaces in
between and Tetsuo from afar. Audience is encouraged to participate
by bringing a radio and a cell phone.
RADIO _KONTAKTE_ CONCERT
May 24th, 8pm @ the Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Alumni Room)
$15/$10 (free for conference registrants)
Karlheinz Stockhausen's classic work _Kontakte_ will be presented by
Kevin Austin (Montreal) in its original 4-channel version, a rare
treat, alongside _Figures de la Nuit / Faces of the Night_ by Francis
Dhomont and other works included on the newly released Deep Wireless
4 radio art compilation CD. Kontakte predates many trends in
electronic music by decades and was produced at the famous WDR
studios in Koln, Germany in 1959.
Francis Dhomont's lush bilingual radiophonic work _Figures de la
Nuit / Faces of the Night_ was commissioned by CKLN, Toronto in 1991
for the radio program Transfigured Night hosted by David Olds. Other
pieces include _L_ by Elsa Justel and an excerpt from Martine
Crispo's _Transitive Property of Equailty_. This concert will be
spatialized by NAISA artistic director Darren Copeland. Free CD with
admission.
RADIO THEATRE 1 (with It Is To Laugh)
May 25 @ the Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Alumni Room)
55 Gould Street, doors open 7:30pm show start 8pm
$15/$10 (free for conference registrants)
The "It is to Laugh" radio comedy series creators Dan Bernard &
Michael Townsend from Portland, Maine team up with Toronto actors/
performers for a trans-comedy extravaganza. Also included in the
evenings are the works commissioned for CBC Outfront by Steve Wadhams
and Sarah Boothroyd.
A surreal, stream-of-consciousness mix of comedic vignettes, clips,
commercials and cast-off synapse firings, fulfilling the festival’s
Trans-X framework with fervor and tongue firmly in cheek - ITL
RADIO THEATRE 2 (with It Is To Laugh)
May 26th @ the Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Alumni Room)
55 Gould Street, doors open 7:30pm show start 8pm
$15/$10 (free for conference registrants)
Same zany group as on May 25th performing a very different show of
"It is to Laugh" radio trans-comedy. Also included in the evenings
are the works commissioned for CBC Outfront by Robert Hoare and
Thelon Oeming.
Chock-full of music, satire and outrageous political satire, IITL
examines Mr. bin Laden's love of all things Canadian. A trans-
national current-affairs gag-fest gauged to stimulate gi-normous
guffaws.-ITL
RADiO iN AMBiENCE @ THE AMBiENT PiNG
May 29 @ 8pm, $5
The Drake Hotel, Underground
The Ambient Ping presents Radio in Ambience once again. Listen to
Toronto/Berlin sound artist Robert Hoare and the Halifax duo Stephen
Kelly and Eleanor King as they coax the radio ether into an outer-
worldly electro ambient chill.
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3) DEEP WIRELESS INSTALLATIONS:
May 2-27@ Gallery 1313, Process Gallery
1313 Queen Street West, Toronto
_Radio Roam_ by Eleanor King & Stephen Kelly
_Radio Art Salon_ curated by Darren Copeland
Recline in an alternate sounding universe in 50's style hair salon
chairs transformed into radio art listening lounges. Running for the
entire month of May, the _Radio Art_ Salon includes a program of
radio art works curated by Darren Copeland that includes
contributions from Resonance FM in the UK, from Kunstradio in Austria
(sponsored by the Austria Cultural Forum) and content drawn from the
Deep Wireless international call for submissions on the theme of
Trans-X.
_Radio Roam_ is a radio transmission installation work. It uses many
radios installed in the gallery space, each tuned to a different
frequency on the FM dial. A variable transmitter sends out an audio
signal and automatically changes the broadcasting frequency based on
motion activity within the space. The audio signal "jumps" from one
radio to another, creating a surround sound experience for the
gallery visitor. It is intended that the transmitted audio blend with
the bleed from other high power FM stations, to create an ever
changing collage of radio sounds, in real time. - Eleanor King &
Stephen King.
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4) DEEP WIRELESS WORKSHOP
HOW TO MAKE A CONTACT MIC by STEPHEN KELLY
May 9th @ 6pm, $35 (must pre-register naisa@naisa.ca)
@ inter/access, 9 Ossington Ave., Toronto
(only 2 spots left in this workshop)
Contact Microphones respond to vibrations through physical surfaces
and translate that motion into sound. Contact mics can be used to
capture various sounds such as a heart beat, the sound of pencil on
paper, or vibrations from a musical instrument. These mics are cheap,
easy to build, and can be a source for fun and experimental ways of
creating new sounds for radio, installations or performances. For
this workshop, Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King will facilitate making
simple yet effective contact microphones from singing greeting cards.
Each person will take home their own contact microphone, no
experience in electronics required.
NOTE: There are four other workshops included during the Deep
Wireless 2007 festival which are scheduled during the Radio Without
Boundaries conference May 26th & 27th. Go to <http://www.naisa.ca/
RWB/sessions.html#listeining> for more information.
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5) DEEP WIRELESS ON THE RADIO
CBC RADIO OUTFRONT Deep Wireless broadcasts
May 4, 11, 18, 31 @ 8:43pm 99.1-FM
Deep Wireless/Outfront commissions broadcast
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and CBC Radio's Outfront, for the
fifth year in a row, is presenting the Deep Wireless commissioning
and residency program. This residency program allows both
experimental sound artists and radio producers outside of the
experimental realm to approach the form of personal narrative from a
perspective that combines words and sounds in a fresh and innovative
fashion. Four Canadian artists - Sarah Boothroyd, Steve Wadhams,
Thelon Oeming and Robert Hoare - were selected from a Canada-wide
call for submissions to produce a work for both CBC's Outfront radio
broadcast and for presentation during Deep Wireless 2007 festival of
radio and transmission art. The four commissioned works will be
broadcast in May 2007 and will also be presented during the
conference weekend performances.
DEEP WIRELESS on CKLN 88.1FM (www.ckln.fm)
performances and special broadcasts including HARMON E. PHRAISYAR
May 10, 17, 24 and 31 from 2 to 3 pm
MAY 10, 17, 24 and 31
Each week a different focus including performances and interviews
with various radio art luminaries including Heidi Grundmann and Robyn
Ravlich followed by the World's zaniest radio art comedian. Jim
Whelton (aka Harmon e Phraisyar) comes to Toronto for an extended
stay in May to comb the streets of Toronto for material for his
weekly radio art show that is normally heard on Resonance FM in
London (UK), but for the month of May during Deep Wireless will be
heard on CKLN 88.1 FM. A not to be missed highlight of the festival!
Be a voice in a Harmon e Phraisyar episode
Just e-mail naisa@naisa.ca if you are interested and we'll send you
the recording dates.
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6) DW 4 RADIO ART Compilation CD
Release date April 12th
The DW 4 CDs consist of a small portion of the pieces collected in an
international call for submissions on the theme Trans-X and
represents some of the many talented radio and sound artists from
around the world. Artist include Thomas Gerwin, Elsa Justel, Francis
Dhomont, Sarah Boothroyd, Ailís Ní Riaín, Michael Dobinson, Martine
H. Crispo, Joel Beauchamp, Anne-François Jacques, Christian Banasik,
Stephanie Rowden & Anne Carson, Nicolas Dion, and many more...
If you are a radio programmer/producer and would like to obtain your
own copy of the Deep Wireless 4 CD, please contact naisa@naisa.ca
with your program info and snail mail address and a copy will be
mailed to you. You can also have a listen by going to <http://
www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Radio.html#CD> and clicking on the word
listen next to each piece (thanks to Sonus.ca for making this possible).
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7) SOUND TRAVELS FESTIVAL OF SOUND ART 2007
Toronto Island
June 1 - October 1, 2007
Performance pass $45/$35 gets you into all Sound Travels
performances (4 concerts & includes ferry passes)
e-mail naisa@naisa.ca for more info
Sound Travels brings sound art to the outdoors on Toronto Island in a
way that entices the curious and provides a unique experience each
and every year. This 9th edition of the annual festival will once
again feature the Sign Waves installation series of sound sculptures
and sound installations as well as outdoor and indoor concerts, site-
specific performances, soundwalks, artist talks and workshops.
Our Sound Travels 2007 plans include Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax
as composers-in-residence whose music will be featured in Sound
Travels. Barry and Trevor will mentor the creation of 4 new works by
local emerging artists Hector Centeno, Tony Leung, Charlotte Scott
and Monica Clorey in our emerging artist residency. Their works will
be presented during the Sound Travels concert weekend alongside world
premieres by Trevor Wishart and Rose Bolton, Barry Truax, Randy Raine
Reusch and Mei Han.
OUTDOOR SOUND SCULPTURES on Toronto Island
June 1st - October 1st open 24/7 FREE
Special performance/reception June 24th at 1pm
+ more performances each month TBA
Two semi-permanent outdoor sound sculptures will be featured as part
of Sound Travels: Barry Prophet’s "Synthecycletron" on which
participants will generate power by pedaling which will in turn
activate synthesizers and generate sounds; "Sonic Boardwalk", by
Robert Mulder and Kristi Allik, located on the Ward's Island
boardwalk, that generates a microsound landscape activated by the
kinetic imprint of passing visitors. There are several performances
scheduled to happen using the sound sculptures as instruments.
Thanks to the City of Toronto for supporting the presentation of
these sound sculptures once again on Toronto Island.
INDOOR SOUND INSTALLATIONS
July 22 - Sept 2, 2007 Sundays only 2-6pm
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
PWYC (recommended $5)
with special performance on July 22 ($15/10)
Special opening performance/reception July 22nd 2pm with a
performance by Christine Duncan, James Bailey and Rob Piilonen.
Two interactive sound installations will be included in the indoor
portion of Sign Waves 2007 at St. Andrew-by-the-Lake on Centre
Island. Lori Beckstead and David Rose's "The Whispering Tree" is an
interactive sound sculpture that absorbs the sound around it, and
then retransmits those sounds. Secrets told to the tree become part
of a continuous soundscape emitted by the tree, but the secrets are
only partly revealed, as secrets are veiled and mixed together. Over
time, the tree becomes a wise old repository of all that has happened
around it, containing and sometimes revealing all that it has
learned. Also included on an interactive computer are the Toronto
Island Sound Map (Don Sinclair and Darren Copeland), Around Radio
Roadmovies (Chantal Dumas, Charistian Calon and Don Sinclair) as well
as a Listening Gallery allowing gallery goers to listen to past Sound
Travels performances while viewing the "Sound Travels Documents"
Photo Exhibit by Stefan Rose.
SOUND TRAVELS PERFORMANCES
Composers in Residence Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax will present
concerts of their work while mentoring the work of four emerging
Canadian sound artists also featured at Sound Travels 2007 (Charlotte
Scott, Monica Clorey, Hector Centeno and Tony Leung). Also featured
will be performances of new works by Rose Bolton, Randy Raine-Reusch
and Mei Han.
THEREMINS with AIM
July 22 begins with outdoor concert on Synthecycletron @ 1pm
continues @ 2pm, St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
$15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
The concert begins with a Synthecycletron performance led by Barry
Prophet followed by an AIM collaboration with performers Christine
Duncan, James Bailey and Rob Piilonen using theremins, voice and
electronics.
BARRY TRUAX in CONCERT
Aug 10, 8pm, $15//$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
Meet at Ferry dock at 7pm for SOUNDwalk and a chance to perform on
the outdoor sound sculptures.
Barry Truax performs a set of solo and collaborative works with multi-
instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch combining Asian instruments and
electroacoustics. Also included are world premières of works by
Hector Centeno and Tony Leung created under the mentorship of Barry
and Trevor Wishart through the Sound Travels emerging artists residency.
TREVOR WISHART in CONCERT
Aug 11, 8pm, $15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
Meet at Ferry dock at 7pm for SOUNDwalk and a chance to perform on
the outdoor sound sculptures.
World première of "Angel" by Trevor Wishart commissioned by NAISA for
Sound Travels, part of a trilogy of works including "Division of
Labour" and "Fabulous Paris" will be presented at this concert. Also
included are world premières of works by Monica Clorey, Charlotte
Scott and Rose Bolton created under the mentorship of Trevor and
Barry Truax through the Sound Travels emerging artists residency.
RANDY RAINE-REUSCH and MEI HAN in CONCERT
Aug 12, 2pm, $15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
Meet at Ferry dock at 1pm for SOUNDwalk and a chance to perform on
the outdoor sound sculptures.
A performer on over 700 world music instruments Randy Raine-Reusch
performs outdoors on the lawns of St. Andrew by the Lake Church with
Zheng virtuoso dynamo Mei Han.
SOUNDwalks & WORKSHOP dates and venue TBA - see www.soundtravels.ca
for updates
SOUNDwalks led by Nadene Thériault-Copeland (some dates included
above and more TBA)
co-produced with the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology
In a soundwalk, the listening “audience” moves through a place and
the environment “performs.” The walking listener and the environment
create a unique piece together that can only occur during the time of
the walk. In a soundwalk we take the time to hear the environment: we
are its true ear witnesses. And like any musician, the environment
offers us its sounds for our consideration. Participants should be
sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for any weather
condition.
What Zen - A World of Improvisation
Mei Han, Randy Raine-Reusch
A dual perspective on improvisation from a traditionally trained
Chinese performer learning to play jazz and free improv, and to a
westerner’s exploration of Asian instruments as vehicles for his
expression. We will explore ancient Asian musical aesthetics and
musical forms like those in the Taoist and Zen inspired musics of
Japn and China that are a constant wellspring of inspiration for
contemporary artists from Debussey, to Cage, to Coltrane, to today’s
emerging artists. This will be an interactive workshop, so
instruments are welcome.
Vocal(eze) workshops by Trevor Wishart
Workshops designed to teach you the basics of vocal improvisation.
If you are a vocal performer and someone with and interest in
creating sound with your voice, this workshop is designed to work
with you no matter what your level of training. Special workshop for
children and families as well.
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8) SOUNDplay 2007
Sept 29 - Oct 28, 2007
Performance pass $25/$20 gets you into all SOUNDplay performances
(3 concerts)
e-mail naisa@naisa.ca
SOUNDplay is a meeting point for experimentation in new media and
sound art pushing the boundaries and encouraging new fusions of
image, sound and text.
Plans are in the works to feature two world premières in SOUNDplay
2007 by François Girouard and Monique Jean as well as a Toronto
premiere of David Lang's "Elevated" co-produced with CONTACT and
Pleasure Dome. It will once again include a weekend of concerts and
screenings co-presented with Pleasure Dome along with gallery
installations in the month leading up to the final weekend of
performances.
SOUNDplay 2007 dates to put on your calendars:
Weekend of performances October 26, 27, 28
Stay tuned for more info in an upcoming NAISA Sound Channel.
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9) RELATED NEWS / LINKS
NEWS
1) NAISA is pleased to announce its 2007 season performance pass
_Baker's Dozen in 12.1_ for $95/$85 (that's 58% off the full ticket
price). The _Baker's Dozen in 12.1_ gets you into all 13 shows
programmed throughout 2007 during Deep Wireless, Sound Travels and
SOUNDplay. Every show utilizes the new real-time spatialization
system in 12.1 and provides you with a unique listening experience.
To order your 2007 season pass you can either request a copy of the
NAISA 2007 brochure be mailed to you or e-mail naisa@naisa.ca to
request a pdf.
2)NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland will be an artist-in-
residence at the The Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 in Regina
Saskatchewan along with Hildegard Westerkamp, Gordan Monahan, Steve
Heimbecker, Ellen Waterman, Barry Truax and more. For more info, go
to <http://uregina.ca/soundscape>.
3) The 2007 Leonardo da Vinci Awards Selection Panel selected New
Adventures in Sound Art as one of the finalists in the Arts
category. It was an honour to have become a finalist!
4/ Stay Tuned for our annual call for submissions to be announced in
June 2007 with a September 30, 2007 deadline.
LINKS
For info on many of the composers programmed by NAISA visit
electrocd.com, one of the best sources on Canadian and international
electroacoustic sound art <http://www.electrocd.com>
For information about the upcoming Third Coast International Audio
Festival <http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org>
For a chance to listen and download radio pieces check out the public
radio exchange <www.prx.org>
To listen to sound works of all stripes go to <wwwsonus.ca>
For listings of most Toronto and area events <http://
www.upcoming.org>; <http://www.livewithculture.ca>; <http://
www.torontoartsonline.org>
For listings of Montréal events (http://www.laliste.qc.ca)
For listings of Vancouver events <http://www.oscillations.ca>
For info on the speakers used by New Adventures in Sound Art visit
Tannoy's web site <http://www.tannoy.com/Ellipse8>
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