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 A Celebration of Radio Art Produced
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1-31 The Drake Hotel Toronto
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Negativland
Presents:
Negativland, while not exactly a "band' in the normal sense, have been consistently creating a stream of audio-art in performance, on record, and on their weekly radio show for the past 25 years. Using found sound, sampled media, and their own music,
Negativland's "illegal" collage and appropriation-based audio
and visual works have touched on many things -- pranks, media hoaxes,
media literacy, the evolving This show will feature a real time performance of a new "Over the Edge" radio performance piece, which will be recorded for later broadcast on their weekly KPFA (Berkeley, California) radio show. Listen to Negativland perform The Gun and The Bible (excerpt).
RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part ! This evening features live radio as part of a freely improvising ensemble. Experimental looping cellist cheryl o is joined by the innovative Rob Piilonen with his extended flute techniques and treatments, the very funky Jennifer Gillmor on kamel n'goni and bass guitar and sound artist and Hurdy Gurdy Man Ben Grossman on short-wave radio/live sampling w/ effects. Ben will be pulling sound 'out of the air' in the moment to add to the unexpected improvisatory nature of the process. RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 Montreal radio artist Anna Friz presents a radio solo for all things transmissable-- live and treated. Tactile transmissions of piezo mics and theremin, with an accompanying buzz of shortwave. Allison
Cameron uses contact mics to amplify small things. She creates textured
pieces with radios, samplers, tapes, Casio Sax and various toys. She has
been the artistic director of Arraymusic and has been improvising in collaboration
with Martin Arnold, Éric Chenaux, the Draperies, Ryan Driver, What is radio, what
is radio art? Where: The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St W), Toronto What is radio, what is radio art? A bit of the nuts and bolts of radio transmission, and some central issues at stake for the art: i.e. access to airwaves, creative appropriation of a mass medium (rethinking radio), and development and celebration of sound culture. Will include audio examples and a low-watt FM transmitter show n' tell. A tour of the Deep Wireless sound installations will
follow. Mat 27th to 29th Deep Wireless Weekend Matinee
Performance This matinee performance includes excerpts from
the Radio Theatre 1 Evening Performances
(Radio Theatre and Late Night Solos) Radio Theatre performances Two different evening performances, complete with live music and radioscapes, that bring back the spontaneity of live radio with performances by Eric Leonardson, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and Evalyn Parry, alongside world premieres of radio works by Yves Daoust, Milena Droumeva, Geoff Siskind, and Dragan Todorovic commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video as well as new works by Helen Thorington and Steve Wadhams. Directed by Darren Copeland and Mark Cassidy, "Radio Theatre" promises to keep you on the edge of your seat with all the conventions of radio (past and present) turned upside-down. Late Night Solos Friday
May 27th @ 10 pm Taste the Zeal! True Tales of Triumph over Trial and Tribulation! Holy Headgear! Hymns and sermons! Barns Burnt! Fear not the Apocalypse, come and get Left Behind with the Church of Harvey Christ!
This performance will also be the Toronto launch of "The Dead Beat Scrolls: The Largely Incomprehensible Teachings of Harvey Christ" book and CD (Cumulus Press 2005). Brought to you by the creators of the Harvey Christ
Radio Hour: a live weekly radio show produced by Reverends of the Church
of Harvey Christ, heard every
O MONSTROUS VOICE LIKE MINE Stay tuned for more of the Drake's late-late night solos... Deep
Wireless Radioroad Mix Includes a presentation of "The little man in the ear" from radio roadmovies by Chantal Dumas and Christian Calon as well as a live performance of "FREEDOM HIGHWAY" by Emmanuel Madan. The little man in the ear July 9th, 1999 - September 9th, 1999, 20000 km on Canadian
roads and From Montreal across the prairies the the North Western Arctic, down to the Pacific and back through the Badlands. The Mercury minivan took the road, loaded with recording equipment, tools, DAT cassettes, tent, Coleman burner, sleeping bags ad cooking apparatus, spare tires, beer and camera, boots, books and maps. In "The little man in the ear," the 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 to radically transform the original sound materials. FREEDOM
HIGHWAY In September 2002, Emmanuel Madan went on a road trip
through the eastern United States. The journey of 3000 miles had no precise
destination; its goal was to listen to and record programming in the radio
format known as talk radio. Thus began the Madan has continued monitoring and intercepting talk radio broadcasts intensively since fall 2002, . The FREEDOM HIGHWAY performance draws from this material to generate a live mix which is at once musical and documentary in nature. |
Negativland Deep Wireless Weekend Events Advance tickets are available |
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art
of collage, creative anti-corporate activism in a media saturated, multi-national
world, the bizarre banality of suburban existence, file sharing, intellectual
property issues, wacky surrealism, evolving notions of art and ownership
and law in a digital age, artistic and humorous critiques of mass media
and culture.
Featuring
Reverend Norm, Reverend Anna Montana, Reverend Joalien and Reverend Randy
Peters.
FREEDOM
HIGHWAY project, an exploration of mass media and American public discourse
in the post-9/11 context.
