6:00 pm Registration at the Rivoli, 334 Queen St W, Toronto

8:00 pm Radio-a-Mock 1 (double bill 8:00 - 9:30 pm & 10:30 - 11:30 pm)
at the Rivoli, 334 Queen St W, Toronto

Kristiana Clemens - host of live & recorded experimental sound and
radio art performances creating the world of radio on stage.
Featuring Steve Wadhams, Reena Katz, Mark Brownell, Gregg Williard,
Gregory Whitehead, Dan Lander, and Marcus Youssef. Live performances
by Susanna Hood and Zev Asher

9:00 am Registration and Start

Welcome!

9:15 The Idea of North/The Idea of Canada
Steve Wadhams, CBC Documentary producer; and Christos Hatzis, composer
In 1967, Glenn Gould composed his landmark composition "The Idea of North". "What we've tried to do", said Gould in his essay "Radio as Music", "is to create what I have grown rather fond of calling 'contrapuntal radio" … and tried, rather arbitrarily, to attach it to another medium, where it has not belonged in the past”. In 1992, ten years after Gould’s death, Steve Wadhams, Christos Hatzis and Laurence Stevenson were asked to revisit the “Idea of North”. The resulting composition was “The Idea of Canada”. Find out what happened when music met documentary on the radio.

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 am Quick Stop Art Spot
Chandra Bulucon, interdisciplinary artist
Created in 1998, Quick Stop Art Spot's producer and host Chandra Bulucon gives a history of this 1/2 hour radio show that started from talk radio and went to performance radio art.

The name delineates fast & spontaneous coverage of local heroes that make art for radio play. Here you'll find the sound art of the century: techno groundhogs, subway yoga, 20 minutes of feedback, an interaction with an artist taking blood pressure of mall patrons with a bicycle pump, and find treats like irregular contests to win a roll of toilet paper or a subscription to a magazine. Find out how this show has lasted on quirky critiques and special tidbits of art nonsense and has been quoted as "the original art noise program." Excerpts of work from the series Ossicles: little bones and
amplification and performance as intervention where endurance and structured improv was a focus.

12:00 - 1 pm Lunch

1:15 pm short address

1:30 pm The Ear is a Question Mark
Jim Metzner
Since the 1970's, Jim Metzner has pursued a quest, microphone in hand, searching for sounds which enlighten, inform and celebrate life, sounds which carry a special quality that no other medium can convey. He has produced records and multimedia productions (including features for National Geographic Online), but most of his work has been shared through radio. With examples from short format series such as "You're Hearing America, The Sounds of Science" and "Pulse of the Planet" and longer format series produced for National Public Radio and Public Radio International, Jim will demonstrate how he continues to explore the soundscape through the medium of radio.

3:00 Coffee Break

3:30 Pushing Boundaries in Radio
Julie Shapiro,Third Coast International Audio Festival; Barb Woolner, former Program Director at Trent Radio; Anna Friz, sound artist and curator
In the tightly controlled world of of radio, it's a constant challenge to break beyond traditional formats and present works with provide a different kind of listening experience. For this session, three radio producers will talk about how they're creating space for adventurous radio. Shapiro will explain how the Third Coast Festival is incorporating an increasing amount of innovative and sound-rich work into its overall structure, Woolner will be presenting ideas and experiences about creativity in local programming and Friz will talk about radio art in the context of big network projects, pirate radio and campus/community station airwaves.

5:00 pm End of day sessions

8:00 pm Radio-a-Mock 2 (double bill 8:00 - 9:30 pm & 10:30 - 11:30 pm) at the Rivoli, 334 Queen St W, Toronto

Chandra Bulucon - live host of live and recorded experimental sound and radio art performances that create the world of radio on stage. Featuring John Oswald, Kathy Kennedy, Jim Metzner, Dan Hart, Egils Bebris, Victoria Fenner, and Joan Schumann. Live performances by Matt Rogalsky, and Jeremy Mimnagh

9:00 am Welcome

9:15 am The Medium is the Media
Anna Friz, sound artist and curator
This session considers radio as both the subject of and the medium for artistic interventions and collaborations. Anna Friz presents two examples of self-reflexive radio play: Radiotopia (Ars Electronica 2002), a temporary audio-based international
telecommunications art project; and The Clandestine Transmissions of Pirate Jenny, an independent radio art project constructed from detuned radio signals.

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 am Unlocking the Transmitter
Victoria Fenner, sound artist; Garvia Bailey, CBC "Outfront"; Chris Brookes, Independent producer, Battery Radio
How can we expand the range of programming on radio if only a small number of people have access to the airwaves? This session will focus on strategies to create radio spaces which encourage creative expression and makes room for authentic voices of all sizes, shapes and colours.

noon - 1 pm Lunch

1:15 short address

1:30 Deep Wireless
Dan Hart, Kathy Kennedy, Reena Katz
This spring, the CBC Radio 1 program “Outfront”, New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video, collaborated on a unique residency. Four artists were chosen to produce radiophonic artworks for broadcast on Outfront, and in performance as part of the Deep Wireless Festival. During this session, the participating artists will play their artworks and talk about what they discovered about creating works that will work on the radio and in live performance.

3:00 coffee break

3:30 WRITING WITH SOUNDS
Chantal Dumas - Sound and radio artist
For 10 years now Chantal Dumas has been conceiving narrative radio pieces where sound occupies a central place. In fact, it is the driving element
of her production. Her definition of the "sound" is very broad, it encompasses every sound which could be generated or emitted - ambient
sounds, words, noises, music of all kinds, radio, short waves, tv - for her, every sound contains its own potential of fiction.

This is a way to listen to the contemporary world.

Chantal will present some excerpts of her latest works : "In the pale grey days," "many many places," and "The little man in the ear."

5:00 Wrap up and Goodbyes

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