Radio Theatre 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 world premieres of radio works by Marilyn Lerner, Richard Windeyer, Sylvi MacCormac, and Marian van der Zon commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video. 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.

Book Launch 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)

Late Night Solos
May 28th and 29th @ 10pm

May 28th
Pamela Z (website)
co-presented by Subtle Technologies

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. This performance is co-presented by Subtle Technologies - A multi-disciplinary festival exploring the relationships between art and science

May 29th
Gregory Whitehead

Book Launch
Friday May 28th

Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art
Edited by Nicole Gingras
Published by Artextes Editions

Orchestrating key critical essays and never before published texts by 19 authors on events, exhibitions and individual practices, this anthology uncovers and examines the presence of sound and its listening spaces in contemporary Canadian art since the mid-eighties. A CD produced by Éditions Nicole Gingras accompanies the book.

Texts by: Diana Burgoyne, Tagny Duff, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Raymond Gervais, Nicole Gingras, Colin Griffiths, Steve Heimbecker, Christof Migone, Gordon Monahan, James Partaik, Hélène Prévost, Nicolas Reeves, Jocelyn Robert, R. Murray Schafer, Tom Sherman, Alexandre St-Onge, Michèle Waquant, Hildegard Westerkamp and Gayle Young.

Sound works and excerpts by: Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Ken Gregory, Diane Landry, Hugh Le Caine, Emmanuel Madan, Rita McKeough, Bill Mullan, Daniel Olson, Rober
Racine, Jean Routhier, Michael Snow, Martin Tétreault, Hildegard Westerkamp.