Deep Wireless News

New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch Deep Wireless 2004, a month long celebration of radio art including new commissions, special radio broadcasts, performances and sound installations, SOUNDwalks, as well as a conference and a workshop for radio and sound artists.

Radio Art on the Radio (more details)
May 1 to 31, 2004

Works from the Deep Wireless CD are now available for listening on-line. Click here.

Radio art programming during Deep Wireless by several community radio stations across Ontario including Radio Art Interventions on 88.1 CKLN and broadcasts on CBC Radio 1 here in Toronto as well as Resonance FM in the UK.

New Adventures in Sound Art will launch a 2-CD set called: Deep Wireless I which includes radio art collected in response to our on September 30, 2003 call for submissions. This two CD set will be sent to community radio stations across the country in as part of a project to disseminate radio art.

Deep Wireless commission/residency (more details)

Now in its third year, New Adventures in Sound Art will again be producing the commissioning/residency opportunity as part of Deep Wireless, co-produced with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video, that was begun with Deep Wireless 2003. This year's artists are Marilyn Lerner, sylvi macCormac, Marian van der Zon, and Richard Windeyer. The 2004 Deep Wireless commissions will be broadcast on CBC Radio Thursday May 20th, Monday May 24th, Tuesday May 25th, and Wednesday May 26th, with spatialized versions being presented on May 28th & 29th, 2004 as part of the "Radio Theatre" performances at the Latvian House.

RADiO iN AMBiENCE @ THE AMBiENT PiNG
May 4 & 11 @ 9:30 pm (admission free)

These special presentations by THE AMBiENT PiNG for Deep Wireless feature experimental artists making extensive use of radio as a live ambient sound source.

Deep Wireless Performances (Full Details)
Latvian House, 491 College Street
May 28 & 29 - each night a double bill
$10 advance / $15 at the door
Ticket includes both early and late night performances

Friday evening join us for the launch of Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, a new book Edited by Nicole Gingras and
Published by Artextes Editions. (details)

Radio Theatre
Early evening performances May 28 & May 29 @ 8 PM.

Re-creating the live radio of 50 years ago with a present-day twist.
Two different evening performances, complete with live music and sound effects, that bring back the spontaneity of live radio and respond to current events with performances by Marjarie Chan, Nilan Perera, Susanna Hood, and Evalyn Parry, alongside spatialized versions of newly commissioned radio works by Marilyn Lerner, Richard Windeyer, Sylvi MacCormac, and Marian van der Zon. Directed by Darren Copeland and Lynda Hill, "Radio Theatre"promises to keep you on the edge of your seat with all the conventions of radio (past and present) turned upside-down. Radio Theatre is funded in part by the Laidlaw Foundation.

Late night Solos
May 28th @ 10 pm - Pamela Z (co-presented by Subtle Technologies)
Pamela Z, a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist, uses her well-honed classical voice, processors, and samples activated by the BodySynth, an instrument that allows the performer to trigger sound with physical gestures by means of electrodes taped to the body. "She is a sound sculptor, a sonic explorer, an aural architect. Creating loops so that she can accompany herself with own voice, she seems to pull sounds out of thin air with her graceful, tai chi-like vocabulary of hand and arm movements, building musical collages that play with language, or that simply explore the shape of sound." (Andrew Gilbert: Special to the Mercury News).

May 29th @ 10 pm - Gregory Whitehead
Gregory Whitehead will be performing an assortment of live radio art pieces including a live-to-air docudrama about how Prescott Bush stole the skull of the apache leader Geronimo in "Toyu Theater"style.

Deep Wireless SOUNDwalks (Full Details)

By letting in familiar sounds and actively seeking out what we have not heard before, we might discover something completely unexpected! During this year's SOUNDwalks we'll concentrate on opening our ears to the Toronto cityscape. What might we hear? Changes in acoustic space as we move from one place to the next; Voices speaking in many different languages; Tiny sounds, loud sounds, very far away sounds? Different spaces, different soundscapes. Led by Hildegard Westerkamp, Victoria Fenner, and Michelle Nagai.

Sound Installations (Full Details)

The Radio Art Listening Room
May 28-30, 2004
noon-10 pm @ Latvian House

An intimate listening space to tune in to international radio art. This installation will include German works curated by German media artist Sabine Breitsameter (co-produced with the Goethe Institute) along with various works submitted by Resonance FM in the UK and Canadian works collected in New Adventures in Sound Art's "Radio Without Boundaries" call for submissions.

Threetimesfalling
by Mark Laliberte

"Threetimesfalling" is a work about deceptive listening, narrative decay, the overbearing weight of gravity on physical &emotional states, containment & leakage, junk culture and technological destruction. It is a work designed to capture, dissect and manipulate a single sonic radio event, sculpting new degraded realities from an original source (a short psycho-drama that depicts a heated argument between a man and a woman resulting in a violent tumble down the stairs - complete with its own background soundtrack).

Radio Without Boundaries (Full Details) (Registration Form)

The Deep Wireless "Radio Without Boundaries"conference, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production, will be from May 28-30, 2004 at the Latvian House. "Radio Without Boundaries" will explore the many potentials and boundaries of radio. Sessions include "Ears that Compose - Compositions that Listen" by Hildegard Westerkamp, "Fogbound: radio utopia in time of war" by Gregory Whitehead, "Is there a Sonic Media Art?" by Sabine Breitsameter, as well as panels that include Janna Graham, Janet Russell, Michelle Nagai, Tim May, and Michael Waterman.

Saying it with Sound (full details)
May 31st (the Monday following the conference)
Hosted by Darren Copeland
Sound design workshop for radio producers attending RWB. (Additional Registration $65.00)

This workshop will introduce tools, (technical, aesthetic, and analytical) to express ideas in radio not just with words but with sounds as well. It will explore the sonic dimensions of stories and introduce ways to elevate the compositional dimension of an effective listening experience over the radio. The workshop is broken into two parts. The first part will analyze and discuss existing radio works that use sound in a compelling way, and that find interesting balances between verbal and non-verbal elements. The second part will introduce production techniques common in electroacoustic sound practice but not commonly known in radio. These techniques do not always require a study in music or computational mathematics to use them, and often can be manipulated very intuitively once their basic parameters are understood.

They host workshops, and sponsor projects. including an annual week long"Full Moon" audio art camp each year and several series of weekend workshops.

The Goethe-Institut is a non-profit organization with more than 125 institutes in 76 countries. Its task is to promote the German Language and to foster International Cultural Cooperation. The Head Office is located in Munich and Bonn, Germany. One important goal of the GIIN Toronto is to promote international cultural cooperation by organizing a broad variety of events to present German culture.