Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Produced by
New Adventures in Sound Art

Darren Copeland Artistic Director

May 1 to 31 2004

Toronto
Canada

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

The Deep Wireless I 2-CD set consists of pieces collected in a Canada-wide call for submissions on the theme "Radio Without Boundaries - what is your culture?" This radio art compilation was created out of a small portion of these submissions and represent the many talented radio and sound artists across the country. This set was created with the sole purpose of disseminating radio art and is for radio use only and not for re-sale.

Deep Wireless I was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art and was sponsored by the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Audio Mastering: Darren Copeland
Design & Editing: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
CD Illustrations: Prashant Miranda

Deep Wireless | CD1

1-3/ Little man in the ear (excerpts) by Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon
   1/ Austin, MB 2:00
   2/ The princess of the stars 2:19
   3/ Stampede 2:29
4/ Railway Lines by sylvi MacCormac 7:52
5-7/ Six Silk Purses (excerpts: As I Stand, A Day, She Dreams of Wild Horses)
   5/ As I Stand by Fortner Anderson/Alexander MacSween 7:50
   6/ A Day by Fortner Anderson/Sam Shalabi 10:39
   7/ She Dreams of wild Horses by Fortner Anderson/Michel Côté 7:00
8/ Waiting...for love by Nicholas Longstaff 2:53
9/ Time Tells You by Kristiana Clemens 10:35
10/ Generational Echoes (excerpt) by Audrey Churgin 4:51
11/ Hello by Nik Beeson 6:45

Deep Wireless | CD2

1/ Municipal Pier (summer 2001) by Andra McCartney 2:25
2/ Sifted Mass by Carey Dodge 4:05
3/ The Culture of my Voice by Marian van der Zon 9:18
4/ Radio what do I do? by Chandra Bulucon 5:05
5/ Pas Avec Espoir, Pas Sans Espoir by Richard Windeyer 20:42
6/ As It Happens by dreamSTATE/Lynn Harrington 2:41
7/ Cambridge Bay Soundscape by Victoria Fenner 7:47
8/ should this read ?: WITNESS: ROUND JOURNEY (excerpt) by sylvi macCormac 7:10
9/ Surface Documents (excerpt from Pacific Side) by Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon 7:21

Deep Wireless | CD1 - Program Notes and Bios

1-3/ The little man in the ear by Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon
(excerpts: Austin, MB; The princess of the stars, and Stampede)

Summer July 9 ­ September 9, 1999
20,000 km on Canadian roads and trails.

From Montreal across the Prairies to the North-Western Arctic, down to the Pacific and back through the Badlands. The Mercury minivan took to the road, loaded with recording equipment, tools, DAT cassettes, tent, Coleman burner, sleeping bags and cooking apparatus, spare tires, beer and camera, boots, books and maps.

In The little man in the ear, materials are presented with little transformation. Only to better the listening clarity did we apply some processing. On the other hand, we took at times the liberty of radically transforming the original sound materials. Thanks to Mike Krutko, Lillian Ireland, Rob Dramer and to all the anonymous voices who inspired us to create this sound travel.

1./ Austin, MB ­ 2:00
Plane and children games at the 45th Annual Threshermen's Reunion and Stampede; wind in trees and leaves at the Medicine Wheel, Spirit Sands, Manitoba; wind in a corn field near Austin, Manitoba.
2./ The princess of the stars 2:19
Ambience, voices, and fiddle competition in Austin, Manitoba.
3./ Stampede 2:29
Carriage race and voice at the Stampede in Austin, Manitoba.

Production Mario Gauthier for L'espace du son, Radio Canada. Realization Studio Blue Moose, Montreal. Received Grand Prix du documentaire Phonurgia Nova 2001.
Note: Austin, MB; The princess of the stars, and Stampede are part of a larger work called The little man in the ear which has been published on the double CD radio roadmovies (326music CD 006-007).

Christian Calon is a sound artist who lives in Montreal. His projects include sound installation, radio and concert works. Performed worldwide, he is renown for his original approach to sound shapes and narration. He has been honored in major international competitions. His works can be found on the emprientes DIGITALes label (www.electrocd.com).

Audio and radio artist Chantal Dumas uses sound to explore new possibilities for narration. Since 1993 she has produced over 23 works for radio as a freelancer; her "stories" have been broadly broadcasted on public radios and at festivals. She has received awards including EAR International Competition (Hungary) and Phonurgia Nova International (Fr.). Her works can be found on OHM editions (http:www.meduse.org/avatar) and on 326music (Fr) (www.326music.com).

4/ Railway Lines: Trains of Thought (7:50) by sylvi macCormac

A Canadian story about coming home along poetic-aural-historic Railway Lines. This composition includes the recorded sounds of the Royal Hudson, an 1888 Steam Engine from the World Soundscape archives at SFU and an Antique Miniature Train.

Voices: sylvi macCormac & Gordon Cobb. Guitar: sylvi macCormac
(c/p) 1998 sylvi & see through publishing

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.

5-7/ Six Silk Purses by Fortner Anderson and various artists

Six composers were commissioned to each compose a new work using as source material recordings of the poems of Fortner Anderson. The composers were given carte blanche to do as they pleased. Fortner Anderson wrote all texts and performed the voice in all recordings.

Fortner Anderson's poems are found on several CD compilations (see www.wiredonwords.com), and have been published in Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press, 1998) and the Short Fuse anthology (Rattapallax, 2002). His own CD sometimes I think appeared in 2000 (WOW). Recent performance venues have included the Banff Centre (Alberta), Cabaret (Montreal), the Rivoli (Toronto), St-Mark's Church (New York), and Genoa, Italy where he opened the 8th edition of the Genoa International Poetry Festival. His new CD recording project, Six Silk Purses will appear in the spring of 2004.

5/ As I Stand 7:45
Voice and Text: Fortner Anderson
Music composition: Alexander MacSween

Known for his music for dance, Alexander MacSween's work as a percussionist has ranged from alternative rock to musique-actuelle. He has worked extensively creating music for theater. His performance work has been with a number of Montreal groups including Detention, and Bionic amongst others.

6/ A Day 10:32
Voice and text: Fortner Anderson
Music composition and Oud: Sam Shalabi
Ney: Ali Ashtiani

Sam Shalabi is a central node in Montréal's free improv scene. He is a member of countless groups, but he is best known as a founding member of Shalabi Effect. This group has recorded two albums on Alien8 Recordings, which have earned praise from critics and music enthusiasts alike. Apart from Shalabi Effect, he is also part of a number of bands, among which are Detention, Molasses, Balai mécanique, Po, "Gypt Gore, and a trio with David Kristian and Alexandre St-Onge. He is also known for his three solo albums, Luteness (Squint Fucker Press, deleted), On Haschisch (Alien8), and Osama (Alien8), his investigation of arabophobia in a "post-9-11 world." His style ranges from freeform psychedelic rock to the most oddball abstract performance. Although mostly known as a guitarist, the highly versatile Shalabi also performs on oud and a variety of other instruments.

7/ She Dreams of Wild Horses 7:00
Voice and Text: Fortner Anderson
Music Composition: Michel F. Côté

A composer, improviser, producer and director, Michel F. Côté approaches his art from a number of angles simultaneously, creating music for dance, theater and film. He collaborates regularly with playwright Robert Lepage (Ex Machina), and has composed and performed the music for the play Les sept branches de la rivière Ota (1995­97), the music for the film Nô (with Bernard Falaise, 1998), and for the play La Géométrie des Miracles (with Diane Labrosse, 1998­99). He also worked on the sound design and score (which he also performed) for Zulu Time, Lepage's new cabaret-theater, which had its international premiere in Zurich in August 1999. Côté founded the musical group Bruire and has since 1989 directed the group in all of its different forms. To date four recordings have testified to this craziness: Le Barman a tort de sourire, (1989); Muss Muss Hic!, (1992), which was commissioned jointly by Radio-Canada, Montreal and WDR, Cologne; Les fleurs de Léo, (1992); and L'âme de l'objet, (1995). In recent years he has been involved in a phenomenal number of varied projects, in theatre, dance, radio and film.

8/ Waiting...for Love by Nicholas Longstaff 2:53

Waiting...for Love is an excerpt from a 6-channel audio installation. Each voice is my own, altered in pitch to create the illusion of different personalities.

Nicholas Longstaff is a Toronto-based composer and audio artist who has created works for stage, screen, installation and stereo. His music and sound designs have been played across Canada and the U.S. on CBC, CIUT, CKLN, and CanStage.

9/ Time Tells You by Kristiana Clemens 10:35

This piece contrasts sonic experiences of rural and urban anglo-Canadian culture. The hypnotic, timeless qualities of quiet exchanges with family and the experience of nature in rural, western Canada are set against the urgency and immediacy of urban voices and sounds from the Toronto area. As we move between these realms, our experience of time changes, telling us not only where we are, but who we are.

Kristiana Clemens is a community radio worker, DJ, writer, artist and media activist. Born in Winnipeg, she currently lives in Toronto.

10/ Generational Echoes (excerpt) by Audrey Churgin 4:51

Generational Echoes is a collaborative audio play that has been musically composed to intersect with the text written for the play. The central character's thoughts of memory, from a variety of life stages, interacts with other voices, juxtaposed, emphasizing content, or destroying cohesiveness, as the composition demands.

The parts were played by Nellie Brannan (the Mother), Shaina Dubé (Child, Baby), The play, Generational Echoes, was written, produced and directed by Audrey Churgin. (Technical production also done by Audrey Churgin) The song, Double Yous, was musically composed, and lyrics written by Shaina Dubé. Performed by Audrey Churgin; Throat Singers: Celina Kalluk, Ainsley Walton.

Audrey Churgin is represented by Gallerie St. Laurent-Hill in Ottawa. Her work is an extensive collection of pastel paintings, graphite drawings, and collaborative audio and visual works produced with young children. Art that is precious and sophisticated is juxtaposed against the playful naivety of a child's artwork and writing.

11/ Hello by Nik Beeson 6:45

Bélo's fourth birthday was a rock 'n' roll party. Bélo, Leena, Jacob, Dhyani, and Sergei were let loose for about 40 minutes. Hello is a remix of these five children (and, on occasion, their parents) experimenting with various music making devices, and wondering at hearing their own voices looped and processed. All processing is by the children during the recording.

Nik Beeson has a variety of interesting pasts. He hitchhiked 70,000 miles, planted 1,000,000 trees, was caretaker for an observatory, was a civilly disobedient student of Theology, lived with monks and Christian anarchists, wrote a trail of essays on addiction and consciousness, spent a decade in palliative, street and mental health-care work, then dance, sonic and physical theatre. And at present is a web conductor, writer, music composer and producer, performer, an amour and a Poppa.

Deep Wireless | CD2 - Program Notes and Bios

1/ Municipal pier (summer 2001) by Andra McCartney 2:25

Condensed using chance operations from excerpts over one summer. The piece begins with excerpts from two remarkable days of extreme weather change in the spring. On April 13, the region came close to flooding, with water thudding against the pier overpass. The next morning, ice pellets were thrust against the shoreline by the wind and filled holes between the big rocks, waves making baroque melodies as they crashed through.

This is a piece from the soundwalk installation Journées Sonores, canal de Lachine, which was at Musée de Lachine, from September to December 2003, supported by the Fonds Québecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies.

Andra McCartney is a Soundwalk artist, whose work includes extensive field recordings, often done in collaboration with other artists and researchers. Current soundscape research, gallery and web installations focus on the area surrounding the Lachine Canal in Montreal. Andra is principal researcher for the "In and Out of the Studio" project, which focuses on the working practices of women sound producers and artists in Canada. She teaches sound in media for Communication Studies at Concordia. For more information, please visit andrasound.org.

2/ Sifted Mass by Carey Dodge 4:05

Sifted Mass is essentially an exploration into my fascination with the sound of large crowds of people: how so many people can make a sound almost like running water or wind rustling leaves but then individual voices pop out and snippets of a conversation bring the listener back to recognition, like looking at clouds and seeing animals. I was also playing with the idea of being alone in a crowd and how sometimes one can feel more alone in a crowd than by oneself.

Carey Dodge has recently finished his BFA at Concordia University and is involved in various sound design and composition projects through Concordia. He has a strong interest in community and acoustic ecology. His sound art reflects his love for these things and his love of movement in the moment.

3/ The Culture of my Voice by Marian van der Zon 9:18

This sound piece reflects on my personal relationship to both my singing and spoken voice. It traces the culture of my voice from childhood through to present day. Thanks to Eloisa Aquino, Dierdre Brown, Stevie Dam, Susan Day, Felix Odartey-Wellington, Janis Pereira, Asta Vanderzon, and Alex Witvoet for your voices. Also thanks to the karaoke crew: Helen, John, Kevin, Linda, Mike and the 'Raging Girlies.'

A closeted shower singer for the past 30 years, Marian van der Zon is a multi-disciplinary artist who delves into sound art, sound documentary, writing, and spoken word performance. She is currently completing a Masters degree in Mass Media Studies at Concordia University and has a background in Women's Studies. She has recently completed a residency with Deep Wireless 2004, and continues to explore the possibilities of sound and radio.

4/ Radio what do I do? by Chandra Bulucon 5:05

I have taken a 45-minute phone conversation discussing my questions and concerns around my hosting and producing capabilities for my (at the time) radio show, Quick Stop Art Spot. I then edited the conversation into a 5-minute piece that excludes all the content and leaves only the hesitations. You are left with an evolved conversation with no conversation.
Sole proprietor of audio production company Puppy Machine Productions, Chandra Bulucon is also an interdisciplinary artist and musician and integrates these practices with her strong background in community work. Chandra finished a five-year term as producer and host of radio show Quick Stop Art Spot in 2003. She has been showing her work for almost ten years in places such as the AGO, Art Metropole, and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal, and has given talks at Transmissions sans Frontièrs and Mercer Union. She is a member of LIFT and is on the board of directors of FADO. Chandra is currently creating a new body of work for which she received her first grant from the Toronto Arts Council. Chandra would like to thank New Adventures in Sound Art for their continued support and interest in her work.

5/ Pas Avec Espoir, Pas Sans Espoir (2003) by Richard Windeyer 20:42

Pas Avec Espoir, Pas Sans Espoir was created in the wake of 9/11, as part of an audio-visual poem by Toronto performance group Bluemouth Inc. Presents. Commissioned for the Theatre Centre's production of Body Geometry - The Seventh Angel (2002), this work is a sonic meditation on the underlying atmosphere and emotional aftermath of these events. The text fragment was written by Bluemouth Inc. collaborators Stephen O'Connell and Sabrina Reeves (voice), in the style of W. H. Auden.

Richard Windeyer creates music, sound and visuals for integrated media and performance projects. He currently collaborates with experimental theatre group Bluemouth Inc. Presents, a laptop trio called 'FINGER', and the Open Ears Music Festival. In 2000, he co-directed The Toronto Sound Mosaic with Darren Copeland.

6/ As It Happens by dreamSTATE and Lynn Harrigan 2:41

Thoughts and emotions are triggered through time and space by radio broadcasts about "The Montreal Massacre" in this merging of poetry and soundscape.

Poet Lynn Harrigan's most recent projects have included collaborations with musicians and visual artists from haiku/art exhibits to a forthcoming multimedia installation.

Ambient soundscape artists dreamSTATE (Scott McGregor Moore and Jamie Todd) are best known for Between Realities (a recording of their ambient installation), for their many live soundscape performances and for curating The Ambient Ping, Toronto's long-running weekly live ambient and experimental music event.

7/ Cambridge Bay Soundscape (October 2003) by Victoria Fenner 7:47

In September 2003 Victoria Fenner visited the town of Cambridge Bay. The town is on the southern shores of Victoria Island, far above the Arctic Circle. This recording captures the essence of the soundscape in this small remote town. In it you hear the people, the music, the sounds, and the environment of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Harmonica, Fiddle, and singing included in the soundscape were recorded on site and feature Anthony and Ashley Otokiak, two local teenagers. Drum Dances, song, and associated commentary were by teacher Julia Ogina.

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 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. She also has worked for CBC Radio in many capacities, most recently as researcher for Ultrasonique, a special series on the audio art of Quebec for the Radio One program "Outfront." She was also the creator of the annual Full Moon Audio Art Camp, which has been held each year in Canada since 1999. www.magneticspirits.com.

8/ should this read ? : WITNESS : ROUND JOURNEY (excerpt) by sylvi macCormac 7:10

Journey from Vancouver to Squamish and beyond into the heart of wilderness where spirits of the forest and voices of conscience speak with Squamish Spirit, Journey and Honour Songs. This is my attempt at an expression of the essence of Witness through sound.

Wilderness Soundscapes and Voices were recorded around the Elaho River, the Carnegie & Roundhouse Community Centres Vancouver BC Canada 1997-99.

Voices : Telálsemkin Siyám, Nancy Bleck Slhalnãy Sp?ãkwus, John Clarke Xwexwsélkn, Amir Ali Alibhai, Paul Hundal, Joan, Drew Leetham, William Nahanee, Aaron Nelson-Moody, Shel Neufeld, a young english boy, Marie Preissl, Bob Turner, Cease Wyss and a young Squamish girl et al.

Huy chewx a / Thank you ... for the honour and for listening ...

Witness Project: www.utsam-witness.ca / wepbc.ca / nancybleck.com with thanks to Barry Truax www.sfu.ca/~truax and www.richmondsounddesign.com. Songs & voices used with permission (c)(p) 2000 sylvi & see through publishing.

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'.

9/ Surface Documents (excerpt from Pacific Side) by Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon 7:21

Minimalist, hyperrealistic, Surface Documents glides over the surface of the earth, very close as would a zoomed in camera, or on the contrary in wide panoramas, that is where narrative dissolves in the sound material.

Production : DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Künstlerisches Feature, Dr. Robert Matejka

(Surface Documents: Pacific side excerpt)
Evening train, Goldstream Provincial Park, BC; Pacific Ocean, Capilano Beach, Vancouver Island, BC; Fog Horn on the Pacific, Bella Pacifica Beach, BC.

Note: Pacific Side is part of a larger work called Surface documents which has been published on the double CD radio roadmovies (326music CD 006-007).

Christian Calon is a sound artist who lives in Montreal. His projects include sound installation, radio and concert works. Performed worldwide, he is renown for his original approach to sound shapes and narration. He has been honored in major international competitions. His works can be found on the emprientes DIGITALes label (www.electrocd.com).

Audio and radio artist Chantal Dumas uses sound to explore new possibilities for narration. Since 1993 she has produced over 23 works for radio as a freelancer; her "stories" have been broadly broadcasted on public radios and at festivals. She has received awards including EAR International Competition (Hungary) and Phonurgia Nova International (Fr.). Her works can be found on OHM editions (http:www.meduse.org/avatar) and on 326music (Fr) (www.326music.com).

Radio Broadcast Details
Check with your local station for the most up to date times.

CBC Radio 1 99.1-FM (Toronto)

Definitely Not the Opera (DNTO) Saturday May 22 sometime between 1 & 5 pm will play excerpts from "Hello" by Nik Beeson, "Waiting...For Love" by Nicholas Longstaff and "Stampede" by Chantal Dumas and Christian Calon.

CIUT 89.5 FM Toronto (listen here)

Audible Woman May 5 6-8 pm featured Deep Wireless artists Pamela Z and Hildegard Westerkamp

Feedback Monitor (Greg Clow) May 11 @ 10-midnight will be playing pieces from the Deep Wireless 1 CD and the sounds from the show will be re-mixed and processed live at the AMBiENT PiNG during RADiO AMBiENCE 2.

CSCR 90.3 Cable FM Scarborough (listen here)

CSRC will be airing a special 3-hour Deep Wireless segment playing the Deep Wireless 1 CDs and various other Canadian radio art May 13th 2-5 pm

Resonance FM 104.4 FM London UK (listen here)

Resonance-FM will be airing two 90-minute Deep Wireless segments playing the Deep Wireless 1 CDs and various other Canadian radio art May 24th and May 28th at 7 - 8:30 pm (GMT + 1) .

CKLN 88.1 FM Toronto (listen here)

Deep Wireless radio show May 13 2-2:30pm radio interview with two of the Deep Wireless commissioned artists Richard Windeyer (commissioned by CBC Radio's Out Front) and Susanna Hood (one of the Radio Theatre artists commissioned through the Laidlaw Foundation).

Ear Piece May 20 2-2:30pm - an interview with Michelle Nagai with a focus on SOUNDwalking

Deep Ears May 27 2-2:30pm - interviews in rehearsal with the Radio Theatre performers

Electric Storm May 1, 9, 16, 23, 30 11:30-2am will play various pieces from the DW 1 CD each Sunday night

CHRY 105.5 FM Toronto (listen here)

Diversions May 14, 21, 28 midnight (Friday) - 2am (Saturday) will be playing pieces from the Deep Wireless CDs each week from 1:15 am onward.

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CSIRP was founded in order to introduce artists and others to sound-art; and the radio arts in general; to train artists and radio producers in the skills and techniques associated with the production and broadcast performance of audio material; to facilitate the production and dissemination of new audio material; to support the independent radio producer and sound artist community; and form liaisons with organizations which serve their membership. They host workshops, and sponsor projects. including an annual week long"Full Moon" audio art camp each year and several series of weekend workshops.

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