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Saturday May 28th
9:00 am Keynote Address with Jonathan Goldstein (CBC radio’s Wiretap)
Making use of clips from his own work and others, Jonathan will discuss unconventional story telling/making techniques.
10:15 am Short Break
10:30 am Break-out sessions:
1/ Listening Session
with Gregory Whitehead and Carma Jolly
This session is full.
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderator Gregory Whitehead (USA).
2/ Magnetic Radio" or "Listening to Extremely Low Frequency Radiation
with Peter Couremanche
This session is full.
Peter Courtemanche will take a group out into the street to do some listening on a magnetic radio receiver. The receiver picks up radiation in the ELF (extrememly low frequency) to VLF (very low frequency) range. This corresponds with the frequencies of the audio spectrum - the range that the human ear can perceive (20 Hz to 20,000 Hz). The receiver picks up magnetic radiation given off by power-lines, transformers, cars driving by, street signs, lighting, cell phones, and other electronic devices.
3/ Big Shed Square Dance
Big Shed is bringing their unique aural hospitality to Radio Without
Boundaries. Get ready for this choreographed, storytelling fandango.
You bring your boots, they call the dance, and together you’ll
document a landscape of sound and stories. By the time it’s over, they
promise to bring you to an exhausted state of documentary bliss. Shea Shackelford will be your caller.
4/ Recycling Sonic Energy
by Victoria Fenner/Andrea Dancer
Victoria Fenner and Andrea Dancer's works are both grounded in radio documentary, soundwalking and poetry. Their process is a fusing of external with internal worlds and then letting the composition emerge from the experience of listening. In this session, participants will explore how to take an idea, infuse it with sonic energy, meditate on what those sounds means in terms of compostiion and narrative and how this is turned into a radio art work or documentary that engages the listener in much the same way the the artist / producer was engaged with the sounds in the first place. It's about taking the documentary to the poetic level, and that requires not just thinking of the sounds as artifacts, but as springboards to launch us into our collective imaginations.
noon Lunch provided
1:00 pm Dual Session with Sarah Boothroyd & Shea Shackelford
Tangible plot elements versus conceptual abstraction.
Voice as musical instrument versus voice as conveyer of information.
Journalistic concerns versus aesthetic concerns.
Sarah Boothroyd will guide a sonic safari of her attempts to balance these themes, drawing on her 2011 Luc Ferrari Broadcast Arts Commission, All In Time. She'll also chronicle her experiments in time-lapse phonography, applying film sound techniques to radio, and layering together a diverse array of sources – from field recordings to creative commons samples and archival audio clips.
Place + Memory Project by Shea Shackelford
We each have places in our pasts that were important to us, which
remind us of who we were at those moments. They become touchstones
for understanding how we became the people we are today. But what
happens when those places disappear? The Place + Memory Project
explores this question, mapping a remembered landscape in sound and
stories. Shea Shackelford will share audio and insights from the
project, along with other adventures from Big Shed, the audio and
media production behind the project.
2:45 pm Short Break
3:00 pm REMIX Radio with Roman Mars
PRX’s Public Radio Remix is an experimental radio stream hosted by Public Radio Exchange to showcase pieces from PRX.org and develop new approaches to public radio formats and sounds. It’s 24-hour semi-formatless remix of the best radio stories, radiophonic docs, amazing podcasts, cool ideas, fascinating interviews, found tape and intriguing sounds.
8:00 pm Deep Wireless Ensemble performance #2 + Philosophie zoologique by Jocelyn Robert + Colin Black + CBC radio’s commissioned artists
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Sunday May 29th
9:00 am Keynote address
Frequency Oz: An Australian Radio Art Historical Background
by Colin Black
This session aims to give an insight into the rich and varied radio art practices emanating out of Australia. Works that explore radio as a creative means of artistic expression dating back as far as the 1920s to the present will be discussed with audio extracts.
10:15 am Short Break
10:30 am Break-out sessions:
1/ Listening Session
with Gregory Whitehead and Carma Jolly
NOTE: This session has limited spots available.
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderator Gregory Whitehead (USA).
2/ Wireless Imagination workshop
with Hector Centeno
This session is full.
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination
3/ Big Shed Square Dance
Big Shed is bringing their unique aural hospitality to Radio Without
Boundaries. Get ready for this choreographed, storytelling fandango.
You bring your boots, they call the dance, and together you’ll
document a landscape of sound and stories. By the time it’s over, they
promise to bring you to an exhausted state of documentary bliss. Shea Shackelford will be your caller.
4/ Recycling Sonic Energy
by Victoria Fenner/Andrea Dancer
Victoria Fenner and Andrea Dancer's works are both grounded in radio documentary, soundwalking and poetry. Their process is a fusing of external with internal worlds and then letting the composition emerge from the experience of listening. In this session, participants will explore how to take an idea, infuse it with sonic energy, meditate on what those sounds means in terms of compostiion and narrative and how this is turned into a radio art work or documentary that engages the listener in much the same way the the artist / producer was engaged with the sounds in the first place. It's about taking the documentary to the poetic level, and that requires not just thinking of the sounds as artifacts, but as springboards to launch us into our collective imaginations.
noon Lunch provided
1:00 pm Radio Past, Present & Future by Nora Young & Matt Smith
Nora Young: Traditionally, radio is a medium shaped by time. It unfolds in linear fashion over time, the listener needs to be at her radio at the time a show airs. Now, podcasting allows for time-shifting, and the web allows us to add to the audio experience with non-linear content from multiple sources. Nora Young talks about some of the lessons of the Spark experience.
Matt Smith will talk about the history and future of radio as a technology and delivery format in the context of a paradigmatic shift in the way of how media are contextualized and received by the audience 15 years after the advent of a generally accessible many-to-many communication infrastructure, the internet.
3:00 pm The Art of Transmission with Erin Gee, Peter Courtemanche and Darsha Hewitt with moderator Darren Copeland
If you touch your radio receiver or radio transmitter you physically become part of the transmission - a human conductor of electromagnetic energy. Erin Gee, Peter Courtemanche and Darsha Hewitt with moderator Darren Copeland share their different approaches to connecting radio and wireless technology with the human body.
4:30 pm RWB remix + performance TBA
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