Chandra Bulucon
Sole proprietor of audio production company Puppy Machine Productions, Chandra Bulucon is also a practicing interdisciplinary artist. She has shown her work in such places as the AGO and Art Metropole and has been featured in Eye Magazine and Lola. Chandra is also the producer and co-host of the 4.5 year running radio show Quick Stop Art Spot and continues to curate the show with artists around the world.
Chandra also integrates art-making with her strong background in community work, especially with youth-based projects such as Toronto's Graffiti Transformation Project. She continues to compose music and create sound design pieces for film, video, theatre, and television on a full-time basis, perform with bands such as "Just Like the Movies," and dress up asother people for her art practice.

Garvia Bailey is an associate producer on the CBC Radio 1 program, Outfront. She came out of a background in grassroots media and into the CBC with hopes of bringing diverse, new voices to the Corp. She was co-coordinating producer of the four part Outfront series, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: The Voices of Women of Colour. When she’s not holding court in her community, proclaiming, “no really, it’s not just for white people”, she’s drumming with West African Drum Ensemble, Bolokelen.

Chris Brookes is an independent audio producer whose audio art work has been presented at the St. John’s International Sound Symposium, Ottawa’s SAW Gallery, Amsterdam’s Boundless Sound Festival, Oslo’s RadioKino Festival, and Radiant Dissonance.
His documentary features for public radio have won over 30 awards, and have been broadcast in the U.S.A, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Canada.
He has also written and directed for television, is a published author and playwright, and has taught documentary feature-making at radio festivals and workshops across North America and Europe. He lives under the cliff in St. John’s, Newfoundland where Marconi made the world’s second radio broadcast. http://www.batteryradio.com

Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright. In 2001 he was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for his play, Monsieur d'Eon. He also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his libretto Iron Road. He last collaborated with Sound Travels on Bells and Whistles (an "annoying but strangely addictive" travelling installation piece). Other written work includes The Martha Stewart Projects (Buddies in Bad Times) and The Chevalier St. George (Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble). Mark is also co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife and partner Sue Miner. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School and has had many of his plays produced across the country and internationally.

Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer based in Toronto. He has studied electroacoustic composition at Simon Fraser University and University of Birmingham. His concert and radio works have received mentions in international competitions and appeared on CD releases including Rendu Visible on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

http://www.soundtravels.ca

Victoria Fenner is a Canadian audio artist who has spent the past two decades exploring the medium of sound. Her interest in audio art began in 1982, at Vancouver Cooperative Radio where she produced the "newsounds gallery", an exploration of the artistic possibilities of radio. Since that time, she has been produced many pieces of her own, as well as curating the nationally distributed Canadian audio art radio series "Radiant Dissonance", now in its second edition.

Her most recent work is the Ottawa-based sound suite "Capital Resoundings", which can be found on the web at www.magneticspirits.com. Victoria's style of audio art draws upon 20 years in radio, working in both radio art and current affairs. She has also been influenced by the soundscape school of composition, particularly the work of Vancouver composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp. Another significant influence on her work was the late Howard Broomfield, whose radio program "The Listener" on Vancouver Co-op Radio in the mid '80's demonstrated to her that no word, thought or sound was too trivial and unimportant to be recorded and broadcast. Consequently, her work and aesthetic is rooted in the familiar, recognizable sounds of everyday experience.

She also initiated a number of projects focused on radio as artspace, most notably the Full Moon Audio Art Camp, now in its fifth year (near Ottawa, Ontario). Her latest project is the "Creative Radio Initiative", a series of workshops focussing on radio art forms such as drama, documentary, electronic words, soundscapes and audio art. These projects are sponsored by the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production, of which Victoria is a founder

Victoria is also currently with the CBC Radio Program "Outfront" on a special series about audio art in Quebec, to be broadcast in the fall of 2003.

After two years in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, Victoria is now living in Hamilton, Ontario, where she is exploring and enjoying the dramatic contrast between the romantic soundscapes of Hamilton Harbour, the Niagara Escarpment and the gritty industrial sounds of the steel mills.

Anna Friz is a sound artist and curator; radio artist, broadcaster and pirate. I have produced and curated
original works for ORF Kunstradio (Austria), Danmarks Radio, and campus/community stations in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal. I was programme director at CiTR FM in Vancouver from 1998-2000, where I curated events such as 24 Hours of Radio Art. Since moving to Montreal in 2000, I have been part of the collective producing the satirical religious improv show The Harvey Christ Radio Hour on CKUT FM. Among others, I have performed with the Western Front in Vancouver; Studio XX, Videographe and Silophone in Montreal; Winnipeg's send + receive festival of sound 2000 and 2001; and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. I was > co-curator of and a participating artist in Radiotopia at Ars Electronica 2002; and have curated and participated in numerous internationally networked audio events. I am the founder of the Thereminions Theremin Orchestra, and Central Dispatch improv groups. I recently completed a Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University.

http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html

Dan Hart cut his radio teeth in the Maritimes as Spoken Word Director and Program Director, a position also held at the University of Toronto (1993 to 1995 with CIUT-FM). Dan also worked as a Station Manager in Kitchener and corporate trainer, writer, and project controller here in Toronto. Last year, Dan took a course taught by Laurence Stevenson, Outfront Recording Engineer and Producer, resulting in, My Father, a reminiscence on alcoholism and divorce. Dan's subsequent radio pieces include Suspicious Fire (Producer, Lynda Shorten), seeing faith through the prism of unemployment, and Et in Arcadia Ego (Producer, Alison Moss), accepting the brutality of homelessness. In Buridan's Ass (Producer, Lynda Shorten), Dan brawls with bisexuality as he and Deborah prepare their commitment ceremony. Buridan's Ass is his fourth collaboration with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and his first for Deep Wireless.

Christos Hatzis. Born in Greece, educated in the United States and a Canadian citizen since 1985, award winning composer Christos Hatzis is “one of the most important composers in Canada” (International Musician) and is recently enjoying international recognition for his work. He is the recipient of the 1998 Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award for his composition Nunavut, the 1996 (Governor General) Jules Legér Prize for Erotikos Logos, the 1996 Prix Italia Special Prize for Footprints in New Snow (it was the first time this prestigious broadcasting award went to a Canadian composer), the 1998 Prix Bohemia Special Prize for the same work and the 2002 New Pioneer Award. He has composed major works for all media and is the recipient of numerous commissions from some of the best-known artists in Canada and abroad. Christos’ works are “brilliant, complex, and intellectually and emotionally challenging but [they] touch the heart of the average listener” (Paul Pedersen). His music has been featured in many international festivals, is being broadcast regularly by CBC and foreign networks and is frequently performed worldwide. Compact disc recordings of his works are available on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Marquis, CBC and Centrediscs labels in Canada, Cherry Red Records in the United Kingdom and Consipio in Japan with an upcoming release of his string quartets on EMI Classical. In addition to composing, Christos teaches composition full-time as a Professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chatzis/

Reena Katz began classical violin instruction at the age of four at the Guelph Suzuki School for Strings. She went on to study in Toronto with May Ing Ruehle for 11 years, and became interested in Suzuki pedagogy in her early 20‚s, studying annually at various Suzuki institutes. For the past 7 years, she has directed and instructed at the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre in Toronto, an arts centre for low-income students in Regent Park and St. Jamestown, Toronto. Her program includes private and group instruction, composition and theory classes, non-classical violin workshops with local artists, seasonal recitals, a CD lending library and free TSO concert tickets on a regular basis. Reena‚s teaching is a central part of her musical work, and she incorporates her interests in non-classical violin and audio art into her teaching.

For 10 years, Reena has been studying Klezmer fiddle as well as Klezmer arrangement and Jewish liturgical traditions through private and group study. She currently plays with the Pomegranate Squad, a nine member women‚s group which plays traditional tunes, as well as more experimental work. Her solo project Needletrade is a fusion of Klezmer tradition with samplers, sequencers, effects pedal and turntable. Using voices and instruments sampled from early Klezmer recordings; Needletrade weaves an intricate soundscape of cultural memory and haunting. It has been developing over 5 years, and Reena has performed it in Toronto, Montreal, New York and Berlin in its various manifestations.

In 2001, Reena participated in the Screams and Whispers residency with Charles Street Video. Her piece, SWEAT exhibited as part of the TransTech festival and opened many doors for Reena in terms of digital audio technology and it‚s possibilities for sound art. She has composed scores for independent film and video, working with artists Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Aleesa Cohene as well as performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross and is currently working with poet Trish Salah on music and poetry collaboration. She is also developing work with choreographer/dancer Karen Guttman.

Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist with a background classical singing. Her art practise generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also involved in community art, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX, as well as the innovative choral groups for women, Choeur Maha and Esther. Her large scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed internationally including the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library and at the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series.

Jim Metzner is a sound recordist disguised as a radio producer. He's kept up this flimsy charade for the past 25 years, beginning his career with a piece for NPR's Voices in the Wind - the predecessor to All Things Considered, followed by his first short format series - You're Hearing Boston, produced for CBS station WEEI-FM. Metzner's other award-winning series include You're Hearing San Francisco, You're Hearing America, The Sounds of Science, and Pulse of the Planet, now it in its fourteenth year and 2700th broadcast. He's received major grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and his work has been featured in Wired Magazine, the New York Times, Audio Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and on CBS television.

Following "the bread crumb trail of sounds," Metzner has recorded all over the world and produced features for Marketplace, All Things Considered, and The Savvy Traveler. He regularly appears as a commentator on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. Jim's CD, also titled Pulse of the Planet, is available at Amazon.com.

Jim Metzner's twenty-five year career as a radio producer has garnered him numerous broadcasting honors, including the Grand Award and four gold medals at the International Radio Festival of New York, the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities, two Gabriel Awards, the National Society of Professional Engineers Electronic Media Award, the National Psychology Award for Excellence in Media, the First Prize Media Award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences, a Silver Medal from the United Nations Department of Public Information, and a Silver Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).

A graduate of Yale Drama School ('69) and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst ('75, BA), Jim Metzner resides in Westchester County, NY, with his wife Dolores and their two children, Sarah and Lucas.

Julie Shapiro has been with the Third Coast International Audio Festival since its inaugural year (2000), and is currently Managing Director. Before coming to Chicago she was the Public Programs Coordinator for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 1999 she produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature from that region of the United States. She was assistant director of Transmissions, an annual experimental, minimal, electronic sound and art festival from 1998-2001. Shapiro makes audio art for public presentation and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves.

Steve Wadhams got his start in radio fresh out of University as a BBC studio technician and then as a producer in the BBC's Overseas services. He moved to Canada in 1974, where he help found Sunday Morning in 1976. He spent a decade making documentaries for that program before moving to CBC TV in 1987 where he spent three years as a documentary producer, two of them with The Journal.

Back to CBC radio in 1990 as a "producer at large", Steve spent time as a producer/consultant working with colleagues on a variety of projects. Part of his work involved helping producers use advanced digital sound technology, having helped develop CBC Radio's EAR (Experimental Audio Room) in the Toronto Broadcasting Centre. He also produced many documentaries, including highly acclaimed specials on Mozart and Handel's "Messiah". At present he spends part of his time as a senior producer for "Outfront" - a forum for Canadians to tell their own stories - and the rest on a new series of experimental audio pieces for CBC.

One of the radio achievements Steve is most proud of occurred during a stint at educational radio in Malawi in the early '70's. Steve, a long-time soccer fan, was thrilled to be drafted as the soccer commentator for all international games broadcast.

Steve has won many honours for his work. Among them are two ACTRA national radio awards, two "Major Armstrong" awards (U.S.), two B'Nai Brith's for human rights journalism, a New York radio award, a Gabriel, two Canadian Association of Journalists awards, a Premios Ondas from Spain for innovative radio and the one he treasures most - a Prix Italia for a documentary he produced for Outfront in 1999.

His other hobbies and passions include French Horn playing and choral singing (tenor).

Barb Woolner was until recently the Program Director at Trent Radio in Peterborough. She also has a long and history in the Girl Guide movement, and is a thoughtful observer of radio – and radio art - in Canada. Barb is a past participant in the Thailand-British Columbia Youth Exchange Program, and the following reminiscence sums up her radio philosophy:

From a contemporary Christian folk/rock radio station in a B.C. milking parlour to a music and news radio station in a dry rice field outside of Korat, Thailand, radio bridged the distance in geography and lifestyles between my two Canada World Youth host families. Radio waves have brought to life the sounds and ideas of other places, and, although I had always been fascinated with the immediacy and intimacy of radio, I never thought I would be working in radio as I am today.

After my Canada World Youth exchange, I returned to Thailand to complete my university degree on a Year Abroad Program at Chiang Mai University. I took seven years to complete my university degree in anthropology - as a firm believer in the non-formal approach to learning, I was more interested in learning along the way. While in Thailand, I had the great fortune to work for Radio Thailand as an English language newscaster. When I returned to Peterborough, I also returned to Trent Radio, this time as Program Director rather than as a volunteer.

While we often see media as a tool of the elite, Trent Radio is different in that it is controlled by everyday people in our community. Trent Radio has a broadcast licence as an educational and cultural organization. As a grass-roots organization, it provides space for the public to create their own idea of radio with the help of staff.

Persistence, consultation, cross-cultural communication and problem solving are skills that I began to cultivate through Canada World Youth and now use daily in my work and personal life. In my work at Trent Radio, I am able to see participants in Peterborough developing the tools of independence, leadership, partnership and responsibility.