Saturday May 31

9:00 am Keynote Address: "Radio from Where I'm standing"
by Chris Brookes
Chris Brookes talks about why he makes radio in Newfoundland. How a sense of place can be a creative platform for audio work, and how his radio features try to find the magic heart of his particular landscape. How perhaps the ultimate desire of all documentary work is to invoke the magic implicit in its subject.

10:45 am Short Break

11:00 am From Radio to Multichannel Performance
Moderated by Neil Sandell and Darren Copeland with CBC Outfront artists Marjorie Chan, Tristan Whistan, Eldad Tsabary and Friendly Rich Marsella.

Every year the conference includes a panel from the artists commissioned by NAISA and CBC Outfront. This session is an opportunity to debate issues that emerged from the collaboration and for artists to provide background and additional insight on the approach they took to the work. Themes discussed elsewhere in the conference such as differences of language, artistic boundaries, and notions of what is radio will re-emerge in this discussion as well.

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Break-out sessions
(Complete workshop details)

1) Micro-Radio Transitter workshop (Part One) with Tetsuo Kogawa
2) DIY Wired Coil Recording – Peter Courtemanche
3) How to pitch - Jared Weissbrot
4) Making Rain – Chris Brookes
5) Integrating Text and Sound - Andreas Kahre
6) Listening & Recording workshops – Darren Copeland

3:00 pm Short Break

3:15 pmAre there boundaries to the wireless imagination?
Moderated by Damiano Pietropolo with Jared Weissbrot, Chantal Dumas & Anna Friz

What are the creative avenues available to the radio artist today in North America and Europe? What are the expectations and limitations in different cultural contexts?

Dinner Break

7:00 pm Portraits in Sound 2 performance

Sunday June 1

9:00 am Keynote Address
"Re-examining radio art"
by Tetsuo Kogawa
(followed by performance)

What is the difference between radio/transmission art, sound art and media art? For the audience, it is perhaps ambiguous. For the creator, however, radio/transmission art must use radiation and transmission. Then what is the difference between radiation/transmission and broadcasting? I would like to discuss the basic topics and future directions of radio art. These basic concepts will be radically re-examined.

"hand-waving play with airwaves"
In accordance with my re-examination of the concept of transmission, I would like to demonstrate a short example to 'parenthesize' the "messages" of transmission and to let the airwaves emancipate themselves.

10:45 am Short Break

11:00 am Joint session
with Anna Friz and Chantal Dumas

Radio as Instrument
by Anna Friz

Radiomaker Gregory Whitehead posits that artistic appropriations of radio "involve staging an intricate game of position, a game that unfolds among far-flung bodies, for the most part unknown to each other." Mobile and micro-radio art practices bring these formerly far-flung bodies into contact and context and allow for something unexpected to happen. This presentation explores the relations of proximity, distance, interference, and feedback invoked when radio is no longer defined in terms of senders and receivers, but operates as an instrument. Here the concept of transception (the ability to both send and receive) is realized as a musical relationship in a circuit of devices and bodies, near and far. Beginning with the Theremin, an instrument with which sound is created through the interaction of two radio frequency oscillators and the human body, I will consider contemporary radio practices that employ low- and micro-watt transmitters, receivers, and bodies to create sonic installation and performance works characterized by dynamic radiophonic feedback.

In the last few years, I have produced many works, very often as collaborations, which all related to sound and most of the time were bound also to another medium. There were those for radio - radio pieces; those using radio as part of an installation or performance; and radio waves as connectors. There were other works created for the web, as well as works based on urban soundscapes and finally, a project for the Montreal subway.

Ultimately a lot of sound.

That I will present to you.

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Break-out sessions
(Complete workshop details)

1) Micro-Radio Transitter workshop (Part Two) with Tetsuo Kogawa
2) DIY Wired Coil Recording – Peter Courtemanche
3) How to pitch with Neil Sandell
4) Making Rain – Chris Brookes
5) Integrating Text and Sound - Andreas Kahre
6) Listening & Recording workshops – Darren Copeland

3:00 pm Short Break

3:15 pm Insight to Radio on Site
Moderater: Andrew O'Connor; panelists TradeMark G (Burning Man Festival radio), Peter Courtemanche and Gabe Sawhney (murmur) How does context influence the radio content made on site? What are the unique challenges of taking broadcasting outside of the conventional studio? What are the social responsibilities of radio produced in situ?