Chris Brookes
(web site)

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 volume two.

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.

Christian Calon

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.

Lidia Camacho
(web site)

Lidia Camacho has a bachelor degree in Communication Sciences by the Anáhuac University, she has earned a Master of Art history at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, doctorate in Communications at the Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences of the UNAM and has studied with the National Institute of Audiovisual of France. She has been teaching development of treatments and scripts and radiophonic production in different national and international institutions of higher education.

In her capacity as a specialist in the field of communications, Lidia Camacho has participated in various national and international forums. She was manager of the College of Communication of the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, and since 1991 also the manager of the department for University Extension. Until her appointment as general manager of Radio Educación, she worked there since 1984 as a producer, host and scriptwriter. Lidia Camacho has played an important role in the development of the radiophonic field as a promoter of creativity and especially in her work as founder and director of the International Biennial of Radio. Lidia Camacho is the author of the book "The radiophonic image", edited by McGraw-Hill Interamerican and won the Award of Journalism José Pagés Llergo in 1999. She is the founder of the Laboratory of Artistic Sound Experimentation (LEAS) of Radio Educación.

Church of Harvey Christ Redeemer

The creators of the Harvey Christ Radio Hour: a live weekly radio show produced by Reverends of the Church of Harvey Christ, heard every Tuesday night 11-12AM on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal since October 2000. The show is loosely inspired by evangelical radio formats and features storytelling and sermons, hymns played live in studio, baptisms,exorcisms, etc. Harvey Christians satirize dogmatic beliefs - whether religious, political or pop cultural - and mix the serious with the bizarre as an antidote to mainstream radio and religion.

Yves Daoust

Yves Daoust studied music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, with further studies in electroacoustic composition at IMEB, from 1973 to 1975. A pioneer of electroacoustic music in Québec, Yves Daoust has contributed to the foundation and development of various organizations dedicated to the promotion of this type of music, such as the ACREQ (Association pour la Création et la Recherche électroacoustiques du Québec), which he headed for nearly ten years. Since 1980, Daoust has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Musique et d'art dramatique du Québec where he runs the electroacoustic composition program.

His work touches on virtually all facets of the medium: music for film, stage, and multidisciplinary events; concert works (electroacoustic studio works, instrumental and mixed music, live electroacoustic music) as well as works for the radio. He received the Euphonie d'Or prize (Festival de Bourges 1993) for Quatuor, a work he composed in 1979.

Cinema has clearly had as great an influence on the evolution of Yves Daoust's compositional style as has his study of the musical repertoire. To begin with, there were the soundtracks made using the family tape-recorder for amateur filmmaker friends; these awakened in Daoust a fascination for the relationship between sound and image, and revealed to him the extraordinary expressive potential of the electroacoustic medium. Then came his encounter with Maurice Blackburn, with whom he worked for a number of years as a sound designer at the National Film Board of Canada. His stay there marked an important turning point in his artistic career: as a result, he decided to focus primarily on electroacoustic music, at the same time developing in his work a style highly influenced by film soundtrack principles.

He describes himself as a 'figurative' composer, preferring to work with natural sounds, sound archives, and musical quotes. His is a visual music that freely explores the boundaries between genres.

Paul DeMarinis
(web site)

Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz and created music for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His interactive audio artworks have been shown at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York and The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Exploratorium and at Xerox PARC and has received major awards and fellowships in both Visual Arts and Music from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A., N.Y.S.C.A., the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Much of his work involves speech processed and synthesized by computers, available on the Lovely Music Ltd. compact disc "Music as a Second Language", and the Apollohuis CD "A Listener's Companion" Major installation works include "The Edison Effect" that uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers, "Gray Matter" that uses the interaction of body and electricity to make music, and "The Messenger" that examines the myths of electricity in communication. Public artworks include large scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon and an interactive audio environment at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport in 2003.

Milena Droumeva

Milena has a Bachelors degree in communication from Simon Fraser University, and is now pursuing a graduate degree at the School for Interactive Arts and Technologies, SFU. Her research interests include interactive soundscape design, electroacoustic composition, cultural and gender studies. Milena has been a sound artist since 2001 and her compositions have been featured in Electro Voices 2003 at SFU, Sonic Boom 2004, ElectroCurrents 2004 at SFU, and in the EuCuE 2004-2005 XXIII at Concordia, Montreal.

Chantal Dumas

Chantal Dumas is an audio and radio artist who 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 widely broadcast on public radio and at festivals. She has received awards including EAR International Competition (Hungary) and Phonurgia Nova International (France). Her works can be found on OHM editions and on 326music

Anna Friz

Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist living in Montreal. For the past six years Anna has created self-reflexive radio works where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She has presented installation and solo performance works incorporating low-watt FM transmission at the Western Front in Vancouver, Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg (2000, 2004), Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston, Studio XX and the SociÈtÈ des arts technologiques in MontrÈal; as well as at free103point9 gallery in Brooklyn, PS 122 in New York City, the Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago, Ars Electronica 2002 in Linz, and at the Akademie der K¸nste, Berlin. She has produced numerous original radio works for Kunstradio, Austria, for campus/community radio stations across Canada and the U.S.; and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Denmark and Mexico. Together with Annabelle Chvostek, Anna toured The Automated Prayer Machine in winter 2004 across Europe and Canada.

Current projects include the group residency Reverie: Noise City at the Western Front, touring the NRRF Radio Roadshow together with MontrÈal artists ChantalDumas and Emmanuel Madan, and various projects related to the Harvey Christ Radio Hour and Medicine Show.

Anna is grateful for the support of the Canada Councilfor the Arts, New Media and Audio Art programme.

Eric Leonardson

Eric Leonardson is an electroacoustic composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor and improvisor. Over the past decade he has produced, toured, and performed in hundreds of experimental sound and music concerts throughout North America, Japan, and Germany. In the early-80s he received an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and later co-founded the Experimental Sound Studio, where he coordinated "Sounds From Chicago," one of the city's first internationally broadcast radio art programs.

Leonardson's interest in creating new sounds for performance and studio composition led to the invention of the Springboard, an electroacoustic percussion instrument made from found objects and recycled materials. Its sounds belie its humble origins. Combining his percussion techniques with the rich enharmonic timbres of coil springs, plastic combs, pocket radio, and crude wooden daxophones, Leonardson's work has been described as "...ritualistic music, electronically synthesized industrial vibrations miraculously created with ordinary household objects...."?Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader

Since 1992 Leonardson has created numerous sound scores for South African choreographer Robyn Orlin whose award-winning works have been performed worldwide. In the mid-90s Leonardson was a member of the experimental sound trio Wormwood with Spencer Sundell and Dylan Posa. More recently he performs and tours often with experimental vocalist Carol Genetti, and with Philadelphia percussionist Toshi Makihara, as Oe (formerly the GLM Trio). His other collaborators include artists from Chicago, Oakland, Seattle, Pistoia, and Tokyo: percussionist Michael Zerang; computer musique concrète artist Yasuhiro Otani; avant-bassist Tatsu Aoki; audio artist Steven A. Barsotti; guitarist John Shiurba; composer Jacopo Andreini; and multi-instrumentalists Jim Baker and Bob Marsh.

Leonardson is a co-founder of the physical theater company Plasticene, designing and performing sound and music for all its productions since 1995. He also teaches in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Leonardson's own compositions are featured on 'Radio Reverie in the Waiting Place,' his solo CD distributed by Asian Improv Records.

Emmanuel Madan

Emmanuel Madan is a musician, composer, and sound artist based in Montreal. Apart from FREEDOM HIGHWAY, his main focus for the last six years has been artistic collaboration with Thomas McIntosh known as [The User]. With this collaboration , he has produced two major projects: "Symphony for dot matrix printers", an audiovisual composition for obsolete office equipment, and "Silophone", the inhabitation of an abandoned industrial building using internet technology and sound.

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.

James Roy

James Roy began his theatrical career in 1975 at the age of twenty-two when he founded the Blyth Summer Festival. This theatre in small town Ontario was one of the first to specialize in producing new Canadian works, and remains one of the most successful theatres in Canada today.  Between 1980 and 1986 James was Artistic Director of the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia and the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg. As a freelance director, he has staged plays for many theatres across the country, including Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and the Centaur Theatre in Montreal.

James joined CBC Radio Arts and Entertainment in 1990, where he is currently the Area Executive Producer, with responsibility for radio drama. Among the writers he has produced in recent years are Beverley Cooper, Judith Thompson, George F. Walker, Michel Tremblay and Emil Sher. In 1996, with Alison Hindell of BBC Wales and David Britton and Gillian Berry of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he co-produced a six-part mystery entitled Losing Paradise. The production utilized new ISDN technology, allowing actors to participate simultaneously in all three countries; the finished drama won a gold medal at the New York International Radio Festival. In 1999 he also won a Gold Medal in New York for directing the radio play, Big Box.

In his spare time, James has co-translated (with Yoshi Yoshihara) three contemporary Japanese plays into English. Two of these, KANISHIBETSU and NINGULS, by renowned Japanese playwright, Mr. Soh Kuramoto, have toured across Canada in productions by Kuramoto's Japanese company, The Furano Natural Studio.  The third, FUNNY-FACED OGRE, was produced in 2003 by the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, B.C.

Don Sinclair

Don Sinclair is a new media artist, professor, parent, and cyclist residing in Toronto. His creative work revolves around exploring interactive interfaces. Drawing from his diverse background in music, mathematics, computer science, and interdisciplinary studies, Don works in a variety of contexts including gallery installations, interactive dance, and the web. Don teaches New Media Art in the Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program at York University. In 2003 Don created Nanovideo, 10 Second OTES a series of nine very short videos exploring different locations from OTES. Oh, those everyday spaces (OTES), is a collection of 25,000 images gathered while cycling. Don also created the Interactive Art Web Site Variations / Variantes a database art interface to OTES. Also in 2003 Don collaborated with sound artist Andra McCartney to create the Installation Journées Sonores, Canal de Lachine an interactive installation at La Musée de Lachine from September to December 2003.

Geoff Siskind

Geoff Siskind is a Toronto-born filmmaker and broadcaster who has an appetite for the strange. Two years after finishing his Communications degree from Concordia University, his first feature film Monkeydance premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London, England. After logging many hours doing grunt work on many Canadian independent films, Geoff decided to pursue a residency at the Canadian Film Centre. At the CFC, Geoff experimented with new forms of storytelling and produced a prototype for an interactive film called Tightrope, which has been invited to many festivals, including SXSW, IDFA, and Hot Docs. This success has led to a second interactive film, Somnambulism, currently in development, which is being produced with Microsoft Game Studios and the Canadian Film Centre. In 2001, Geoff helped to found his company, Tightrope Entertainment. Their first project a co-production with the Tlicho, an Aboriginal group from the North West Territories. Part moving family album, part fable, part truth, Gonaewo ­ Our Way of Life, is an oral history told through film. It became part of the Assembly in August 2003 when the historical Tlicho Land Claim and Self-Government Agreement was signed. Geoff has also made numerous documentaries for CBC Radio, including The Phone Book Stories, a series of documentaries made about people selected at random from the phone book. He recently completed his first television documentary, The Mantelpiece, a film all about the bizarre migratory route of a taxidermied caribou.

Helen Thorington

Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her radio documentary, dramatic work, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. She has also created compositions for film and installation that have been premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum's annual Performance series.

Her web work includes 'Solitaire' (1998) with Marianne Petit and John Neilson, an experimental narrative and card game;and 'Adrift' (1997-2002), an evolving multi-location Internet performance collaboration with Marek Walczak and Jesse Gilbert. Adrift was presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria in September 1997; in Vienna, Austria on the occasion of the ten-year celebration of ORF's 'KunstRadio/RadioKunst'; and on numerous occasions for Internet audiences. Its most recent and final performance was given at the New Museum in New York City (October 19, 2001). Her award-winning composition, 9.11 Scapes, is part of an in-progress collaboration with visual artist Jo-Anne Green. Thorington has also taken part as a composer in a number of national and transatlantic webcasts.

Thorington is the recipient of a 1995 and 1997 Meet the Composer grant, and Music Commissions (1995 and 1998) from the New York State Council on the Arts. . She is also a 2001 recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in Emerging Forms for Digital Art. She is a published author and a frequently requested speaker on radio and Internet arts.

She is also the Co- Director of the independent media organization, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) with offices in New York City and Boston, the founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1987-98), and founder and current co-producer of somewhere.org and the Turbulence web site (1996-present). Turbulence commissions and exhibits net art.

Helen's blog is at http://turbulence.org/blog

Dragan Todorovic

Dragan Todorovic is an artist living in Toronto. He has published four books in Serbia and one in Canada. His next book will be published by Random House Canada in spring 2006. For his multimedia work, Dragan won awards at the New York Festivals, John Caples International Awards, and Astound International Competition.

Steve Wadhams

Steve Wadhams got his start in radio fresh out of University as a BBC studio technician and then as a producer in the BBC's Overseas services. He moved to Canada in 1974, where he help found Sunday Morning in 1976. He spent a decade making documentaries for that program before moving to CBC TV in 1987 where he spent three years as a documentary producer, two of them with The Journal.

Back to CBC radio in 1990 as a "producer at large", Steve spent time as a producer/consultant working with colleagues on a variety of projects. Part of his work involved helping producers use advanced digital sound technology, having helped develop CBC Radio's EAR (Experimental Audio Room) in the Toronto Broadcasting Centre. He also produced many documentaries, including highly acclaimed specials on Mozart and Handel's "Messiah". At present he spends part of his time as a senior producer for "Outfront" - a forum for Canadians to tell their own stories - and the rest on a new series of experimental audio pieces for CBC.

One of the radio achievements Steve is most proud of occurred during a stint at educational radio in Malawi in the early '70's. Steve, a long-time soccer fan, was thrilled to be drafted as the soccer commentator for all international games broadcast.

Steve has won many honours for his work. Among them are two ACTRA national radio awards, two "Major Armstrong" awards (U.S.), two B'Nai Brith's for human rights journalism, a New York radio award, a Gabriel, two Canadian Association of Journalists awards, a Premios Ondas from Spain for innovative radio and the one he treasures most - a Prix Italia for a documentary he produced for Outfront in 1999.

His other hobbies and passions include French Horn playing and choral singing (tenor).

Gregory Whitehead
(website)

For close to two decades, Gregory Whitehead has been exploring -- and occasionally collapsing --- the boundaries between fact and fiction, creating a new kind of radio play, often staged via imaginary research entities such as the International Institute For Screamscape Studies and The Laboratory for Innovation and Acoustic Research (LIAR). While these works often venture into American schizopolitics and noir philosophy, they are always infused with the spirit of play. Many of these works are archived on the ubuweb at www.ubu.com. Awards include a Sony Gold for his play The Loneliest Road; a Prix Futura BBC Award for his performed manifesto Shake, Rattle, Roll; and a Prix Italia for the Australian screamscape documented in Pressures of the Unspeakable. Gregory is also the co-editor of Wireless Imagination: sound radio and the avant-garde, and the author of numerous essays and stories that investigate and inhabit the odd psychic and aesthetic space of radiophony.

"Possibly, and only possibly, because I am searching for an art of radio I have yet to hear, the future of broadcast radiophony is not to beat the tribal drum, or even one of the drums, for the branded electronic village, but rather to recompose, one by one, all those countless voices and ears, including our own, that have, for so many good reasons, gone to pieces; radiophony not as an art of direct transmission, but rather as the journey of an acoustic nobody that produces silence through echolocation, an art of listening through the dark, of knowing where you are, who you are, when there is nothing to see, nobody at home. Listen.... and repeat."

Elisabeth Zimmermann

Elisabeth Zimmermann was born in Vienna where she lives and works today. She has edited and produced Cds, publications and exhibition catalogues since 1994 and has produced the weekly radio-art programme "Kunstradio - Radiokunst" and Kunstradio's homepage: http://kunstradio.at Since 1998. In 1999 she founded "werks - Verein zur Realisierung von künstlerischen Projekten in den Telekommunikationsmedien" - an art association dedicated to the realization of artistic projects in telecommunication media.

She is a Representative of the ORF in the Ars Acustica Group of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and in 2000 and 2001 has been a member of the managerial committee of this group.

She has given presentations and lectures on the position and work of ORF Kunstradio and on radio-art projects at national and international festivals. She has also Developed and realized international discussion panels and forums linking up theorists and artists, e.g. RE-INVENTING RADIO I, Stralsund (2004).

New Adventures in Sound Art - personnel

Darren Copeland - Artistic Director
(website)

Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer. He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham). His concert works have received mentions in competitions (Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en Circuit, and Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases (Storm of Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu - Non Lieu, and Soundscape Vancouver). Rendu Visible, a CD devoted to his work, is available on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

Other works combine his electroacoustic and theatrical backgrounds to break open disciplinary boundaries between electroacoustics, radio art, and theatre. Highlights include the adaptation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play (first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1), the soundscape documentaries Life Unseen and The Toronto Sound Mosaic, and a DORA nominated soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's That Time.

In addition to composing, he has written articles about listening and environmental sounds for Electronic Cottage, Musicworks, Contact! (CEC), Soundscape: Journal of Acoustic Ecology, and The Journal for Electroacoustic Music (Sonic Arts Network) as well as CD, concert and book reviews for Musicworks, The Whole Note, and Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.

Has a producer and administrator, fond memories lie with Wireless Graffiti, a live-to-air radio extravaganza in 1993 co-produced by Rumble Theatre and Vancouver Pro Musica. After active histories with Vancouver Pro Musica, the Standing Wave Ensemble, and the Communauté électroacoustique Canadienne/Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) from 1990 to 1996, he now serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) and is the Artistic Director for New Adventures in Sound Art.

Nadene Thériault-Copeland

Nadene Thériault-Copeland is Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Business Manager of Musicworks Magazine and Financial Coordinator for Charles Street Video. Nadene is also on the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. She promotes the dissemination of new and experimental sound art through her work with New Adventures in Sound Art, and recently edited three educational booklets published by NAISA: Radio Art Companion (2002), Sign Waves Companion (2002) and Sound in Space (2003). Nadene received her B.F.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney.

Barry Rueger
(website)

Barry Rueger is the NAISA webmaster and helps with the RWB Publicity. Barry has worked with non-profit organizations for nearly 20 years, with a particular focus on non-commercial radio. In the past he has sat on the Board of Appalshop, an Appalachian media arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and is currently a Board member of The Association of Independents In Radio (AIR). Previously Barry worked at CKCU Radio Carleton in Ottawa, Canada, guiding a major restructuring and financial overhaul. He has also been involved in leadership roles at CFMU, at McMaster University in Hamilton and Vancouver Co-op Radio in Vancouver. In 1996 he managed the National Campus and Community Radio Conference in Hamilton, Ontario.

In recent years Barry has become recognized for his ongoing work with new and emerging community radio broadcasters, and received a "People Who Make A Difference" award from the Community Foundation of Ottawa. He continues to guide and shape the direction of campus and community radio in Canada. He can always be counted on by novice broadcasters to provide guidance on the business of radio.

Barry's current projects include "Moving Words", a 24/7 satellite radio channel devoted to storytelling, and his blog Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker.