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The Radio Without Boundaries conference includes workshops on both May 28 and May 29 free for charge for those who are registered for the Radio Without Boundaries conference.
10:30 Break-out sessions:
1/ Listening Session
with Gregory Whitehead
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/ Magnetic Radio" or "Listening to Extremely Low Frequency Radiation
with Peter Courtemanche
(note space is limited)
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.
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