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New Adventures in Sound Art and the
Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC) present
Art’s Birthday 2008 Mississauga
 Where: at the Great Hall in the Mississauga Civic Centre (map)
and on CKLN radio
When:
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 2-10pm
What:
A celebration of Art
Who:
Artists, performers
Admission & Parking are FREE
FREE Bus transportation from downtown Toronto
– Gladstone Hotel 2:00 p.m. return 4:30 and 7:00 pm return 10 p.m.
BY RESERVATION ONLY RSVP
905 615 3200 ext 4065 or DB.Boyko@mississauga.ca
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) & the Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC) will serve up an audio feast in celebration of Art’s Birthday on Thursday, January 17. While Mississauga sound and media artists perform in the Civic Centre, special guests will be beamed in via the Internet from Japan, Vienna and other parts of the world.
“This marks the third year of celebrations by NAISA that explores Art and media within an international exchange context,” said Darren Copeland, artistic director of New Adventures in Sound Art. “Art’s Birthday encapsulates the adventure in New Adventures in Sound Art.”
The program, which spans eight hours, will feature roving reporter Darla Kitty (aka Halifax sound artist Eleanor King), who will keep guests up-to-date on happenings throughout the day; an unveiling of a Mississauga Sound Map
created by residents with recordings of environmental sounds around the City; a radio transmitter race between ‘free radio’ philosopher/pioneer media artist, Tetsuo Kogawa from Japan and sound artist Stephen King from Halifax; and improvisation, choirs and krumping. And of course, there will be cake.
International streaming will bring the sounds of Kunstradio with Vienna’s “Forever Young” to the Civic Centre, while local performers including Youth Troopers for Global Awareness, Mississauga Children’s Choir and the Back2Basics dancers entertain in the Great Hall. Sponsor CKLN radio will broadcast the day’s activities both on radio from 2 to 5 p.m. and on the Internet from 2 to 10 p.m. Information on bus transportation and the program are available at www.mississauga.ca.
Art’s Birthday 2008 Mississauga is presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and the City of Mississauga’s Office of the Arts and Culture, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels and SOUNDplay.
Programme: Performances & Telecommunications
Ongoing Events
Roving reporter Darla Kitty
(aka Halifax sound artist Eleanor King) keeps everyone abreast of happenings throughout the day, including radio on the ice rink and Internet streams from around the world.
I Want to be a Radio Announcer
a chance to experiment with the medium of radio.
Mississauga Sound Map
A sonic journey through the city of Mississauga
Art Gallery of Mississauga
What's a birthday without a birthday card? Create your own postcard and mail it on-site then celebrate by making your own commemorative button.
View a screening of Robert Filliou's work.
Gallery On Call
905-615-3200 ext. 4707: Learn about the history of Art's Birthday by calling into the gallery. (Gallery On Call is a voice-messaging system functioning as an audio guide and extended programming to the Art Gallery of Mississauga's exhibitions. Five minutes in length, the recordings provide information by bringing in new voices from the community to author interpretive resources.)
Scheduled Events
2 – 2:30 p.m.
Tetsuo Kogawa, live from Japan
via Radio Kinesonus, battles with Halifax audio artist Stephen Kelly on-site in a radio transmission race.
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Sound artists Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly
put the sounds of the Civic Centre – inside and out - under sonic microscope.
3:30 p.m.
Youth Troopers for Global Awareness
The body makes pictures and sound. This theatre troupe introduces the art of tableau accompanied by rhythm of spoken word.
3:45 p.m.
Mississauga Sound Map unveiling
Mississauga residents and visitors were invited to contribute sound recordings of places in Mississauga that were meaningful or intriguing to them. To contribute more recordings to this map, Contact: naisa@naisa.ca
4 p.m.
Mississauga Children's Choir
composes their own Happy Birthday song on the spot, conducted by vocalist Christine Duncan.
4:15 p.m.
Birthday Cake. Sound artist Rob Cruikshank provides the icing with portable NAISAtrons (sound art objects).
4:30 p.m.
Back2Basics:
energetic krumping dance is wired for sound.
5 p.m.
Soundwalk
Tour the Mississauga Civic Centre with your eyes closed. In a soundwalk, the listening "audience" moves through a place and the environment "performs." In a soundwalk, time is taken to hear the environment. Every soundwalk is a unique listening experience.
5 - 7 p.m.
New Adventures in Sound Art
scans the globe for Art's Birthday radio art including Internet streams from Kunstradio, Vienna.
7 – 10 p.m.
Mississauga DJ artists
spin to the theme of Forever Young with cameo appearances by Back2Basics dance troop. Guest artists include DJ Kurtis Lewis, comedian Matt Miller as master of ceremonies and more surprise guests.
Artist Biographies
back2basics
is Mississauga pure energy from break dancing to krumping.
Darren Copeland
is the Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art. He is also a sound artist that has received international attention, including solo releases DVD-A Perdu et retrouvé and the CD release Rendu Visible on empreintes DIGITALes (www.electrocd.com).
He has created work for many media: radio art, installation sound art, theatre, and concert music. Recent highlights include his radiophonic adaptation for ZKM of Berger Sellin's book ich will kein inmich mehr sein and his long distance cellphone collaboration with Annette Finnsdottir in Copenhagen for AGM.
A musical chameleon with a near five octave range, Christine Duncan has an unorthodox repertoire that spans improvisation. opera, rhythm and blues, pop and folkloric music. She has collaborated with Bob Murphy, Hugh Fraser, Miles Black, Jean Martin,Veda Hille, Paul Plimley, Danielle Palardy Roger, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Young, P.J. Perry, Ray Charles, Linton Garner, Paul Horn, Jeff Healey, Andre Crouch, Sabeer Mateen, John Oswald, Paul Dutton, Nobuo Kabota and many others.
Stephen Kelly
works with sound sculpture and site-specific audio installation and do-it-yourself electronics. Interested in intersections between audio art and music he creates kinetic, viewer responsive audio exhibitions and has built several unique musical instruments. Stephen has recorded, produced, and released over 14 musical albums on his independent label Dead Bum.
Eleanor King
works with site-specific installation incorporating elements of audio, video, photography and sculpture. Eleanor often uses radio as a medium for audio performance, she hosts a regular radio program on CKDU 97.5 FM in Halifax. Her work incorporates humorous elements to critique social behaviors, investigating consumer and tourist culture.
Tetsuo Kogawa
introduced micro free radio to Japan, and is widely known for his blend of criticism, performance and activism. He has written over 30 books on media culture, film, the city and urban space, and micro politics. He has been teaching at Tokyo-Keizai University and demonstrating radio-art experiments in various countries.
Kurtis Lewis
is Mississauga based DJ who explores the boundaries of house, jazz, afrobeat, trip hop, electro, and techno.
Matt. Miller
currently resides in Mississauga, a graduate of Humber College School of Comedy has performed at Yuk Yuks, Second City, and the Alt.Lounge at the Rivoli. Recently nominated for Tim Sims Fresh Meet Showcase – top 20 comedians in Ontario.
Celebrating over 25 years of choral excellence, the Mississauga Children's Choir
is a treble voiced choir of over 125 children from 6-17 years of age. Under the leadership of Music Director Thomas Bell, the choir has grown to include three graded ensembles – Training, Intermediate, and Concert. The MCC is dedicated to providing young singers with exceptional musical experiences through excellence in performance, music education, recording, touring and service to the community, The MCC has toured across Canada and in Europe.
Youth Troopers for Global Awareness
are a group of very passionate high school students, determined to bring about awareness of global and local social issues through writing, visual art and theatre. Tired of feeling helpless about the injustices occurring in the world, they began writing about issues they are passionate about in the summer of 2006. Their ultimate goal is to spread awareness which they feel is the initial action that creates the reaction. Only through awareness of what the problem is, can the solutions come to light. YTGA recognizes the suffering and torment the unfortunates and underserved are going through and they dedicate their efforts to them, for if they are unable to speak for themselves, YTGA will be their voice. For further information go to http://www.ytga.com
City of Mississauga staff: Zainub Verjee - Director, Office of Arts and Culture, Jennifer Kaye - Manager Arts Initiatives, DB Boyko - Supervisor, Arts, Sandra Desrochers - Public Affairs Specialist, Richard Stone - A.V. Systems Technician, Jim Morley (title), Steve Draper - Manager IT, Corporate Services
Art Gallery of Mississauga: Susanne Carte-Blanchenot - Outreach Coordinator
New Adventures in Sound Art:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland - Managing Director
Darren Copeland - Artistic Director
Hector Centeno - Soundmap Programmer
CKLN Radio:
Mike Phillips - Station Manager, CKLN
Special thanks to Don Sinclair - Professor & Coordinator, Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program, York University
Background
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.
This marks the first year of Art's Birthday celebrations in Mississauga that explores performance, installations and exchange-art. Explorations with telecommunications have long been part of this event in which artists from around the world unite over radio waves, via the Internet, and through mail art. As Mississauga forges its new identity for the 21 st century, communications are key to its development, and the activities for Art's Birthday are a perfect forum for exploring creative ways to interface with local and global communities.
Presented by the Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture and New Adventures in Sound Art in partnership with the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canadian Association for Sound Ecology and in conjunction with Kunstradio - Vienna, Western Front – Vancouver, and Radio Kinesonus – Japan. Many thanks to CKLN Toronto for their sponsorship and broadcast of Art's Birthday.
The Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture positions itself on the cusp of arts, culture, technology, architecture and urban design. It will play an integral and strategic role in the growth plan of the city for the 21st century. For further information go to http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/discover/artsandculture
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