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http://www.naisa.ca/art_birthday/
Art's Birthday at the Stop's Farmer's Market
Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street)
January 14, 2012, 10am - noon (free)
Watch Rob Cruickshank create a Carrot slide whistle and perform using it! Check out a video of Rob's vegetable art at http://vimeo.com/23924913. Robert Cruickshank is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who works in various media including electronic, kinetic, and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography.
Art's Birthday in the NAISA Space
601 Christie St #252
January 15, 2012, noon - 5pm (free)
Craving a Sunday afternoon with lots of cake and fun things to do in Toronto? New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) proudly presents Art’s Birthday at the NAISA Space. Sunday, January 15th is the perfect day to make and enjoy Art upstairs in the Artscape Wychwood Barns. From Noon to 5pm, there will be hands on art-making, interactive activities, and lots of fun things to hear and see. And of course there will be cake!
Art’s Birthday is a celebration of ART of all kinds and NAISA has organized a chance for the entire family to experience and create it. Events include: performances by MiMo, a Toronto-based duo featuring multi-instrumentalists Matt Miller (laptop, electronics) and Samuel Morgenstein (percussionist) using re-purposed toys and found objects; a performance by Rob Cruickshank using his Carrot slide whistle; Make your own Art’s Birthday cards; Build your own music instruments with Tilly Kooyman; Try our scary voice machine and make your own scary sounds with Darren Copeland.
Art's Birthday web-cast live
January 17, 2012, 9-11pm
on-line at www.naisa.ca/webcast
NAISA will present a live re-mix of NAISA’s January 15th activities plus recordings of other Art’s Birthday broadcasts from around the world. Also, included are Art’s Birthday gifts by artists uploaded to Kunstradio. To send your own birthday gift for Art upload pictures, video or sound to http://www.kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2012/presents-call.php
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Rob Cruickshank
Robert Cruickshank is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His work in various media including electronic, kinetic, and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography have been exhibited in Toronto and internationally. He has developed many technical workshops for artists, some of which have been featured in NAISA's Sound Travels Intensives.
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MiMo
Samuel Morgenstein, a classically trained percussionist from New York, specializes in the new, the untried, and the experimental.  He enjoys creating music from found objects and materials.  With his laptop and percussion duo MiMo, he incorporates both new and vintage electronics as part of his unique sonic arsenal.
Matt Miller is an electro-acoustic musician, composer and  sound designer, whose work has beed heard on TVs around the globe. He regularly performs live improvised music using found sounds, DIY synths and laptop. An avid field recordist, Matt can almost always be found with a portable recording device close by. The sounds that he captures invariably end up as the raw material for new musical concepts.
MiMo is a duo featuring multi-instrumentalists Matt Miller (laptop, electronics) and Samuel Morgenstein (percussion).  Their live performances combine stripped down compositions and skeletal arrangements to create wide-open soundscapes for improvisation.  This improvisation can take many forms: solos, the laying down of a spontaneous groove, or an act of inspiration whereby sounds, rhythms and phrases are captured in real-time then deconstructed, manipulated and re-organized.
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Tilly Kooyman
Tilly Kooyman is a professional clarinetist and educator who has collaborated for over twenty years with celebrated Canadian composer and pioneer of acoustic ecology R. Murray Schafer. She has also studied 'Deep Listening' with Pauline Oliveros, a practice that differentiates between the involuntary nature of hearing and the art of listening.
Art's Birthday was proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. It has since been celebrated on January 17 as an annual exchange-art event by a collection of artists and artist organizations around the world. Happy 1,000,049th Birthday, Art!
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