Chris Brookes

Chris Brookes is an independent radio (and occasionally television) producer. 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, The Netherlands and Canada. He has directed and co-produced two television documentaries, and his television writing received a 1998 Gemini award nomination. He is a published author and playwright, and was the founding Artistic Director of the Newfoundland Mummers Troupe Theatre. He has taught storytelling and documentary feature-making at radio festivals and workshops across North America and Europe. His 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 '02.

Chris operates the independent production studio Battery Radio at the bottom of the cliff where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Sabine Breitsameter

Sabine Breitsameter has been working within the field of experimental radio since the mid-80s as author, director, producer at the German public radio ARD and Deutschlandradio, and - additionally to her radio work - as theoretician and festival curator (main focus: experimental radio and sonic media art) since the beginning of the 90s ("KlangUmwelten" at the Academy of Arts/Berlin 1995; "All Ear - Symposium about Listening" at Kassel, parallel to the Documenta; City Voices, Wiesbaden 1999 to name a few.

At the moment she is part of a team at the University of Arts/Berlin, co-developing the new Master-course-system "Sound Studies". On behalf of the German scientific research society Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in co-production with Art Museum Bonn she had been realizing recently the sonic component for a walkable Hypertext. For Southwestgerman Radio she has been producing since 1998 the Website "Audiohyperspace - Sonic Art in networks and multimedia dataspaces". Sabine is currently preparing a number of symposia and festivals about the shifting notions of music, language and art in the age digital and network media. http://www.swr2.de/audiohyperspace
Sabine Breitsameter's visit is sponsored by the Goethe Institute.

Marjorie Chan

Marjorie Chan is a writer and actor based in Toronto, named to the Top Ten List of Stage Personalities by Now Magazine (2000), and One to Watch by Eye Weekly (2001). After graduating from the Actor Conservatory at George Brown Theatre School (where she was awarded the John Bannerman Prize for Most Promising Performer), she went on to make her mark in her first production by garnering a nomination for the Dora Mavor Prize (Outstanding Performance in a Professional Debut.) Since then, she has continued to delight and command audiences across the country from New Brunswick to British Columbia. Some of the award-winning companies she has performed for include Daniel MacIvor's da da kamera, Nightwood Theatre, Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Grand Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Young People's Theatre, and The Vancouver Playhouse. She has voiced numerous radio dramas for CBC Radio, as well as making the occasional foray into film and television. Marjorie was the recent recipient of a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

Marjorie's writing career was sparked by the penning of radio dramas for CBC, and further developed by her inclusion in the Radiophonic Workshops held at the Banff Centre of the Arts (2002) and (2003). Her latest radio drama 'Rabbit Box' will air on CBC Radio 1 and 2 in the fall. Along with Bill Lane, Marjorie is developing a pilot radio program consistently entirely of children-generated content. Her screenplay, 'Spring Arrival' was a finalist for the Innoversity 2002 Open Door Pitch Contest and is currently in pre-production. Marjorie has been developing her first play 'China Doll' with the assistance of a Canada Council Creation Grant, as well as a residency at the Playwrights Colony 2003 (Banff Centre). Nightwood Theatre will produce 'China Doll' in February of 2004 at the Tarragon Extra Space. She has also recently attended the Librettist/Composer Laboratory with Tapestry New Opera Works. 'Persephone Calling', one of the short operas created in this workshop (with composer Wende Bartley), will be included in the arts festival 'Hysteria' at Buddies in Bad Times in October. This season, Marjorie will be part of Factory Theatre's Playwrights Lab, as well as Playwright-in-Residence for Theatre Direct Canada.

Victoria Fenner

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 works of her own, has curated two editions of the nationally distributed Canadian audio art radio series "Radiant Dissonance", and has developed many projects and performance events involving radio and sound artists. She also has worked for CBC Radio in many capacities, most notably as a researcher for a special series on the audio art of Quebec for the Radio One program "Outfront". She is the creator of the annual Full Moon Audio Art Camp, which has been held each year in Canada since1999. Her web site contains many resources on soundwalking and its relationship to radio production.

Janna Graham

After completing her B.A. in literature at Mount Allison University, Janna signed her life away to the inspiring world of community radio, where she is committed to proselytizing Hildegard Westerkamp's axiom:

"Imagine radio that, instead of numbing us to sounds, strengthens our imagination and creativity; instead of manipulating us into faster work and more purchasing, it inspires us to invent...instead of silencing us, it encourages us to sing or to speak, to make radio ourselves."

For two years, Janna Graham was station manager of CHMA, the community-based /campus radio station of Sackville, New Brunswick. At present, she's a freelance producer interning in the United States.

Lynda Hill

Lynda Hill is the Artistic Director of Theatre Direct Canada, a 27-year old company devoted to theatre for young people. Over the years she has developed and directed numerous productions of new work across Canada as a freelance artist, and as the Associate Director for Nightwood Theatre and Co-Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Projects. She has also created and collaborated on a number of interdisciplinary works including Urban Tattoo by Marie Clements, No Place Like Home in Stuttgart and Berlin with Cary Gayler and her performance installation Dark Forest for New Adventures in Sound and the Music Gallery. She has directed a number of radio dramas over the years for CBC and is particularly proud of her collaboration with Darren Copeland on the Surround 5.1 adaptation of A Dream Play by August Strindberg and Terror and Erebus by Gwendolyn McEwan. Lynda is a proud parent with James Roy of two children Tessa and Quinn.

Susanna Hood

Artistic director of her interdisciplinary performance company, humdansoundart, Susanna Hood is a compelling and virtuosic performer in dance and music. Her work has been presented throughout Toronto, nationally, and internationally on stage and in film since 1991 and involves collaborations with artists from a wide variety of disciplines.

Most recently, under the umbrella of hum, Susanna co-produced a new evening-length work called feel HEaR SEEcret. The co-producer of the event was twitchLIMBic, a collective comprised of Susanna; electronics artist, Jim Ruxton; composer, Nilan Perera; and inter-disciplinary artist, Katherine Duncanson. This is a collaborative effort whose impulse has come out of an exploration of movement with interactive technology to create an aural and visual performance environment. feel HEar SEEcret made it's world premiere in October at Toronto's Theatre Centre as part of The Free Fall Festival of experimental theatre.

Other ongoing performance-based projects under the umbrella of hum include dialogues and FaMished AMerica in collaboration with Nilan Perera.

As a completely separate venture, Susanna founded LiminaL projects with fellow musician/composer/visual artist Jackson 2bears, and visual artist, Tanya Doody in December 2000. LiminaL projects is a visual and aural ongoing interdisciplinary installation performance project, using voice and sampled organic sounds through computer as its sound component, and movement, sculpture, light and video as its visual elements.

David Kattenburg

Dave Kattenburg (B.Sc. Biology, Ph.D. Medical Sciences) has been creating documentaries on global environment and development issues since 1986. His series include The Earth Chronicles, More Than Just A Dozen, Children of the Earth, Global Youthspeak, ClimateWatch and Partners in Action. Many of Dave's works are narrationless in format, and based on travels across Canada, East Africa and Central America.
Web site: Earth Chronicle Productions,

Mark Laliberte

Mark Laliberte is a project-based hybrid media artist currently working in collage, sculpture, language, and computer-based sound composition. He has exhibited and performed extensively in galleries and at festivals across Canada and the USA, most recently at 'Dangerous Currents' for Vancouver New Music. He is a founding member of Thinkbox, a unit of collaborators working exclusively on sound + video based artworks and performances. Laliberte is currently residing in Guelph, ON, in the midst of capturing an elusive MFA degree. Full view @ : www.marklaliberte.com + www.thinkbox.ca

Marilyn Lerner(website)

Montreal born pianist Marilyn Lerner is known for her work in the jazz, improvised,sound art and Yiddish music fields. She has performed and recorded extensively over the past ten years both in Canada and internationally. Marilyn has written for film, theatre, radio and television. She has performed with the likes of Tito Puente, Gerry Hemingway, and Steve Lacy. Her most recent recordings are "Special Angel,"a duo project with Sonny Greenwich, and a CD of solo improvised piano, entitled "Luminance."

"Jamming with the past," will be an audio exploration of Marilyn's family and Jewish roots from her perspective as a musician.

 
sylvi macCormac
(website)

sylvi macCormac works with voices, instruments and environmental recordings from her own library as well as the archives of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, where she studied composition with Barry Truax. In 1999 sylvi received the Marcia Award for Electroacoustic Art at SFU and honourable mention at the 26e Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique in Bourges France for 'Waves of Kokoro'.

"Deconstructing Abuse"- Disdainful voices worm their way inside my head till out in the open they are revealed to have no substance and I find the strength of my own spirit soaring in the soundscape.

Tim May

Tim May has been a student of the art of radio and recorded and performed noise both musical and otherwise since as long as he can remember. Though usually drawn to polyrythmic adventures under various titles (including a three year gig at the Rivoli sidebar in Toronto as well as various resident underground locations) he has also fostered a background in audio engineering and radio programming at the infamous X-IT studios and CKLN 88.1 FM espectively.

Michelle Nagai

Michelle Nagai is a composer who makes site-specific performances, radio broadcasts and installations for acoustic instruments, live electronics, found objects, natural elements and costume constructions. She is the founder of Treetheater Projects and the creator of EC(h)OLOCATOR, a touring soundscape project for community radio stations across North America. An active member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, she is also working toward a certificate in Deep Listening® from the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She has received awards from Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Foundation and has completed artist residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Center in New York City and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's iEAR Studios, in Troy NY. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, cat and dog. www.treetheater.org

Evalyn Parry

In her compelling combination of music and spoken-word, Evalyn Parry seamlessly weaves together the political, the personal, the poetic and the hilarious, capturing the human experience with "relevance, intensity and wit".

Whether she's costumed as a life-sized, singing maxi-pad, ranting and rhyming her savvy poetic commentaries, or playing the concertina, Evalyn's live performances are as intimate as they are bold and thought-provoking. Her unabashedly queer perspective and her assured, arresting voice are winning her an enthusiastic, loyal following where ever she performs.

Evalyn's distinctive spoken word pieces have been commissioned and broadcast on numerous CBC Radio programs, and she was one of five Toronto poets chosen to compete in CBC Radio's National Poetry Face Off in 2002. Performances over the past two years include being featured across Canada and the USA at music festivals, colleges and universities, political events, poetry slams and theatrical cabarets. Since the release of her debut album things that should be warnings (Ponygirl Records, 2001) Evalyn was chosen as the 2001 recipient of the Beth Ferguson Award for Upcoming Songwriter (Ottawa Folk Festival); the album was chosen as a CBC Radio "Disc of the Week", and has charted in the top 10 on campus and community radio stations around the country. Her new album of music and spoken word, Unreasonable, is produced by acclaimed Canadian roots music producer Ken Whiteley, released on her own Outspoke label (March 2003).

When she's not on the road, Evalyn makes her home in Toronto, where she is active in the alternative theatre scene; she has written/created and performed in four independent theatre productions in the last 5 years: Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine (co-written with Anna Chatterton), The Freelance Lover (a gay comic musical), "The Great Canadian Whore" and "The Former Republic of Poetry." She also teaches drama at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in Toronto, and leads a drama-based workshop about body image for young women.

Nilan Perera

Nilan Perera has been an active member of the Canadian creative music and performance scene since 1983. He has been involved in some of the most forward looking, influential and radical ensembles of the past 19 years including NOMA, Bill Grove's Not King Fudge, Handslang and the Excalceolators. He has also performed and recorded with Evan Parker, John Butcher, Vinnie Golia, Don Preston, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Glen Hall, John Oswald, Vinx, and Michael Ondaatje. His decade long association with guitarist/composer and iconoclast, Rainer Wiens has led him into the world of Dance/Theatre as a composer/performer/instrumentalist with Wiens and Jan Komarek in 'Sound Image Theatre' and ,most recently, with Susanna Hood's 'Humprojects'. He is currently a member of trip-hop group 'LAL',prepared guitar trio 'Ferrobaci' (with Wiens and Bill Parsons), electroacoustic/improv duo 'Smash and Teeny' (with Sara Peebles), Susanna Hood's 'Humprojects' and radio art duo 'FaMished AMerika' (w/Susanna Hood) as well as performing and composing as a soloist on guitar.

Janet Russell

Janet (B.Sc. Biology, M.Sc. Biopsychology) is an independent biologist and audio producer based in Newfoundland where she co-produces Open Air: Natural History Radio from Newfoundland and Labrador with Rachel Bryant. Her radio work has also been heard on CBC (Outfront, Ideas, Quirks & Quarks, Fisheries Broadcast) and she is one of 10 Canadian audio artists featured on Radiant Dissonance Vol 2, 2003. Her most recent audio series is an audience development project, A Natural History of Sound, funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts and featuring interviews with four Canadian artists (Hildegard Westerkamp, Murray Schafer, Gordon Monahan and Janet Cardiff). Janet is a founding director of the non-profit collective, the Alder Institute and in 2003 she launched Rattling Books, an audio book publishing venture (rattlingbooks.com). Janet recuperates from too much time at a computer during Census & Sounds, a long-term Alder Institute collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Service to monitor populations of seabirds breeding on islands off the coast of Newfoundland.

Open Air: Natural History Radio from Newfoundland and Labrador is produced by the Alder Institute, a non-profit collective based in Newfoundland . Open Air interprets natural history broadly to include, well, everything. You'll hear many voices on Open Air, not all of them human. Heard weekly for one hour on CHMR-FM, St. John's; CIUT-FM, Toronto and CHSR-FM, Fredericton and eventually found in an audio archive on Alder's website.

Marian van der Zon

Marian van der Zon is a multi-disciplinary artist who delves into sound art, sound documentary, writing and spoken word performance. She has a background in Women's Studies and is presently concluding a Master's degree in Mass Media Studies at Concordia University. Marian's interests are varied, but often return to an examination of voice,
morality, and women's issues. Marian hosted and contributed to Victoria radio station CFUV's Stirfry (VIPIRG) for several years, and produced pieces for Montreal's CKUT and CBC radio in Victoria. She continues to experiment with low wattage transmitters, broadcasting through TAR (Temporary Autonomous Radio) and encouraging "Radio Karaoke." When she is not dabbling with the musical stylings of Victoria basement bands Tailgate Party or Five Year Plan, she is usually found wandering the mountains of British Columbia.

"Speaking the Truth of the Moment"- a quest to discover the ethics and effects of using brute honesty to negotiate the complexity of sexual and non-sexual relationships: Is the truth of the moment sufficient? Where do my moral boundaries lie?

Tom Wallace

Sound artist Tom Wallace completed an M.mus with Denis Smalley at the University of East Anglia. His solo work is primarily in the acousmatic medium and has been performed all over the world and the UK. Recent work has included sound design for the architects Foster and Partners. In 2000 he collaborated with director Peter Reder on an theatre piece in Singapore sponsored by the British Council. Other collaborations have been with the
Sonic Arts Network running 'Diffusion' a monthly electroacoustic listening space in London. As a sound engineer with the London Musician's Collective he helped set up LMC Sound, a dedicated facility for London's experimental sound community and more recently Resonance104.4FM the UK's first radio art station. He DJs regularly in London and on the station.

Michael Waterman

Michael Waterman is an audio and visual artist who works in radio, sound installation, and improvisational performance. A founding member of the audio collage ensemble Mannlicher Carcano, Michael created the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour in 1998 at Trent Radio in Peterborough, where he was audio artist-in-residence from 1999 through 2002. Since fall of 2002 the show has aired on CFRU.FM 93.3 at the University of Guelph on Saturdays from 3 to 4 p.m. EST. Members of Mannlicher Carcano in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Guelph perform live weekly audio improvisations via telephone conferencing and web streaming. The group was profiled in Musicworks 84, and the show may be heard at http://uoguelph.ca/cfru/listen.shtml

Michael was artist-in-residence at Full Moon Over Killaloe in 1999 and 2000. His work has also been heard at Sound Escape: an international conference on acoustic ecology (Trent University, 2000), Sound Unbound (Ottawa 2001), the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and Beyond Baroque Gallery in Los Angeles. His sound installations have been featured at Cal State University, Long Beach, and at Ed Video in Guelph (as part of the 2003 Guelph Jazz Festival). Michael's recordings include two programs on Radiant Dissonance I, a five-CD compilation of 10 audio art radio programs published by CSIRP. With Mannlicher Carcano he has also released works on Chicago's FDR Recordings Time Capsule 5 (2000) and Belgium's RRs.R lable (Difficult Music for Difficult People II, 2002). In 2004 Michael will present both his installation Robochorus and a performance piece based on Nanook of the North with Mannlicher Carcano at the Sound Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland. Michael is currently completing his M.F.A. at the University of Guelph.

Hildegard Westerkamp

Composer of soundscapes, soundwalks, film soundtracks, and radio art, Hildegard Westerkamp is one of the most widely known champions of acoustic ecology. She was born in Osnabrück, Germany in 1946 and immigrated to Canada in 1968. Whether as a composer, educator, or radio artist, most of her work since the mid-seventies has centred around environmental sound and acoustic ecology. She has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and has conducted soundscape workshops internationally. She is a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and is a co-editor of its journal Soundscape. http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka

Gregory Whitehead

Gregory Whitehead is a distinguished writer and producer of radio plays and essays, and periodic reports from the Laboratory of Innovation and Acoustic Research (LIAR). He is the winner of numerous awards, including a Prix Futura BBC Award, and a Prix Italia, which he was relieved to discover is not a formula racing event. His voiceworks and audio castaways have been performed worldwide, in spaces ranging from moldy basements to the most elegant concert halls. He is also the co-editor of Wireless Imagination: sound, radio and the avant garde (MIT Press), and the author of numerous essays on subjects relating to broadcast media, politics, the body and cultural memory.

Richard Windeyer creates music, sound and visuals for experimental theatre and integrated media projects. When not working with performance group Bluemouth Inc. Presents, he collaborates with laptop trio FINGER, and the Open Ears Music Festival. In 2000, he co-directed The Toronto Sound Mosiac with Darren Copeland. Richard is currently working on a set of pieces for live percussion and laptop.

"In Silent Time" will be a study in contrasts, contemplating the different forms of "silence" experienced by my Great Uncle (a 1920's movie house "trap" drummer) and myself, a shy teenager who used drumming as a means of escape. On the one hand, silent movies: On the other hand, silent nephew.

Pamela Z

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, "MAX MSP" on a PowerBook, and sampled concrête sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures.

Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang On A Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, Other Minds in San Francisco, and Pina Bausch Tanztheater's 25 Jahre Fest in Wuppertal, Germany. She has composed, recorded and performed original scores for choreographers and for film and video artists, and has done vocal work for other composers (including Charles Amirkhanian, and Henry Brant). Her large-scale, multi-media performance works, Parts of Speech and Gaijin, have been presented at Theater Artaud in San Francisco, and her audio works have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in Cologne.