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CBC Outfront Now in its fourth year, New
Adventures in Sound Art has once Broadcast Schedule for Deep Wireless commissioned pieces: May 4 Geoff Siskind Radio Art Interventions
Radio Broadcasts / Webcasts Thursday May 5th 12:15pm. Les Arts et Les Autres Anna Friz, artist-in-residence at the Drake for the entire month of May and Deep Wireless artist-in-residence, interview and performace on Radio-Canada. Sunday May 1st. Listen to the Negativland performance live on CKLN 88.1-FM radio from 8pm to 9:30pm Wednesday May 4, 2005. Audible Woman on CIUT - Host Sarah Peebles will interview Anna Friz and devote this show to the women included in this year's Deep Wireless festival. Tuesday May 17th. Feedback Monitor on CIUT (every Tuesday night) - host Greg Clow will be interviewing Anna Friz. Sunday, May 22nd, Electric
Storm on CKLN
88.1-FM "A Small Beam Of Light Against A Mirror" is a dense collage of "radio-related" sounds
including vintage radio dramas, found tapes from radio station archives,
and heavily processed recordings of live to Resonance-FM will be airing special radio broadcasts during Deep Wireless. Stay tuned for broadcast times and dates. Free103point9 will be web-casting the final weekend of the Deep Wireless festival including the conference and the performances May 27-29, 2005. Stay tuned for more details. Diversions on CHRY 105.5fm every Friday night midnight to 2 am Saturday Why Not? with Mike Hansen Wednesday
mornings on CKLN 88.1-FM CJSF Radio 90.1FM Wednesday afternoon show, "Esoterica," Cafe Sonore, the VPRO weekly radioplatform for Ars Acustica (Netherlands) Sonic Arts Network, The Jerwood Space, London UK 'Sounds in Space' [Ääniä tilassa] YLE Finnish Radio 1 UK Life and Living, Resonance-FM Tuesdays 6:30, Friday 11:30 MARTIAN
GARDENS WMUA
FM 91.1 Amherst, Mass Deep Wireless 2 The Deep Wireless radio art compilation was first created as part of the 2004 Deep Wireless festival with the intention of fostering both the creation of radio art through the annual call for submissions and awareness for radio art by disseminating it to the general public via radio broadcasts. Deep Wireless 2 consists of a small portion of the pieces collected in an international call for submissions on the theme Belonging and represents some of the many talented radio and sound artists from around the world. Deep Wireless 2 is for radio use only and not for re-sale. Deep Wireless 2 will be released April 15th, 2005. Stay tuned for a chance to hear samples from the CD. CD 1 Audio Mastering: Darren Copeland Programme Notes 1-2/ Deep Deep Wireless (an intro) & As We Know by Gregory Whitehead 1/ Deep Deep Wireless (0:20) This is an excerpt from a live performance at the Deep Wireless festival in 2004. 2/ As We Know (2:25) These past several years have seen the emergence of a truly great nonsense poet. His name of course is Donald Rumsfeld and he has contributed several truly exceptional works in a special genre of nonsense verse --- he calls them "press conferences." I have selected one, based on a speech in February 2002, in which he gives a little soliloquy on the deep epistemology of an American dystopia called: Gee Dubya Bushland. This version of As We Know was recorded live in Toronto at the Deep Wireless festival in 2004. 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. 3/ Losing It by Katharine Norman (4:15) Losing It .......a remixed Insomnia. Katharine Norman is a British-born composer, sound artist
and writer who lives on Pender Island, in British Columbia. She has some
work out on CD (London on NMC and Transparent things on Metier) and she
is currently experimenting with more interactive net-based work. Her recent
book of experimental essays, Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions through
Electronic Music was published by Ashgate in 2004, and is not really about
electronic music at all. For much more information visit her web page
at www.novamara.com. For works and music scores 4/ Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly by Hideko Kawamoto (8:12) Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly, composed in 1999 and dedicated to my grandmother, Tami, was inspired from Haruo Shibuya's poem, Coliseum in the Desert. The words Shibuya uses in this poem such as night, a time of music, rain, black fountain, piano string, useless choir and butterfly gave me compositional ideas. These images were developed in my imagination separately from Shibuya's poem, and they were transformed into music. To me it is very interesting that once one finishes a piece, it leaves the creator, and it flows inside somebody on its own, maybe or maybe not the same as the creator's mind. The piece has its own life. I hope my piece has left me... Hideko Kawamoto was born in Japan and started piano study at the age of nine. She studied composition with Phil Winsor and piano with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas followed by post-doctoral studies at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musicque (IRCAM) in Paris. Her international awards include Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" (1st Price, Italy), Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition (2nd Prize, Italy), Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic &Sonic Art (Mention Award, France), Ear 01 International Electroacoustic Music Composing Electronic Music Art (composition awards, USA). She explores her sound imagination in instrumental, electronic and mixed media. http://homepage.mac.com/hk0008 5/ Pants on Fire/Liar Liar by Marjorie Chan (13:17) Pants On Fire: A deconstructionist attempt to detecting
lies. This piece was recorded live at the Deep Wireless festival on May 29, 2004. Performers include Marjorie Chan, Evalyn Parry, Susanna Hood and Nilan Perera. Marjorie Chan is a writer and performer based in Toronto and working in stage, screen and radio. Her debut as a playwright was the acclaimed drama China Doll. Plays for CBC Radio include In a Heartbeat, Rabbit Box and Spring Arrival. Marjorie is the recipient of a Dora award (Outstanding Performance) as well as the prestigious K.M. Hunter Artists Award in Theatre . 6/ Walking in Bad Circles by Joan Schuman (3:26) Walking in Bad Circles follows the geographies of a long-lost Mexican man, caught throwing stones at a city police car, his schizophrenic ramblings revealing bits and pieces of a nomadic history. The short excerpt is part of Travels in Stasis, an exploration of the nomad in mind, geography and art. Joan Schuman has been making radio documentaries since
1986 and audio art since 7/ J'apprivoise La Rue Saint-André by Andrea-jane Cornell 7:20 This composition accompanied an acoustic ecology research project on the sonic environment present on Saint André Street, and my desire to cultivate a sense of belonging to the public space, a through-way between brick and stone buildings. I wished to apprivoise the street, thus creating a give and take relationship with a dynamic space, making it my own, while giving it a piece of me. Andrea-jane Cornell has two ears which she often engages in the act of Focused listening to the unfathomable boundaries of her immediate environments. She is presently pursuing her Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University where she has embarked on a quest in search of the Sharawadji effect in the natural soundscape. 8/ Tuning In (Section 1) by Linda OKeeffe (9:02) First I recorded the sound of radio waves from space, quasars etc. pulsars and planetary sounds, then I interlaced this with a composition I had written. Under the sounds of spatial particles a sound eerily like voices out of sync could be heard. It was about the millions of sounds floating around us that if we could record it would contain multiple layers of known themes, that would be understood globally. Linda OKeeffe just finished her Masters in Fine Art, virtual realities. For the past several years she has worked towards a goal of making sound sculpture and has had two shows this year in Ireland. 9/ The Harvey Christ Radio Hour presents: The Big Baptizing! (13:36) Live baptism in the genuine bath water of Harvey. Miracles performed in studio. Lick your radio and taste the zeal! Recorded live at CKUT radio, Montreal, on June 29, 2004. The Harvey Christ Radio Hour is a live weekly radio show produced by a motley band of Reverends and heard on CKUT 90.3-FM in Montreal since October 2000. The core group of Rev. Randy Peters, Rev. Anna Montana, Rev. Norm and Rev. Joalien are also the authors of The Dead Beat Scrolls: The Incomprehensible Teachings of Harvey Christ-- a fully-illustrated compendium of Harvey Christian lore to be published in spring 2005 by Cumulus Press, Montreal. www.geocities.com/harvey_christ 10/ The Soul of the City by Eldad Tsabary (7:58) The musical glue of this piece is not the development of the sounds themselves (voices, traffic, machines, etc.), but rather the way in which they are processed. Although the effects themselves change - sweep delay, mega-trancer, chopper, and ring modulator - the effect automation-patterns remain recognizably similar - representing the life-force of the city to which the sounds belong; this makes for a rather abstract listening experience. Israeli-Canadian Eldad Tsabary composes instrumental, electroacoustic and experimental ambient music, performed worldwide at venues such as Carnegie Hall and CCRMA, published by Editions BIM and released by ERMMedia, Capstone Records, JAZZIS and Infinite Sector. His music was performed and recorded by Philharmonia Bulgarica, among others. Eldad received his education at CUNY's GSUC, Mannes, Rimon School (Israel) and Musitechnic (Montreal). He studied composition under David Loeb, David Del Trdici, David Olan, and Tim Brady. 11/ FREEDOM HIGHWAY (excerpt) by Emmanuel Madan (6:46) In September 2002, I went on a road trip through the United States. In ten days I covered 3000 miles, burning tank loads of cheap American gasoline, surveying the mono-form landscape the U.S. interstate system has inscribed onto the American landmass. I sat alone in my car, sharing the road with truck drivers, commuters, vacationers and highway police troopers. Without a particular destination in mind, my goal was to listen to and record programming in the radio format known as talk radio. Thus began the FREEDOM HIGHWAY project, an exploration of mass media and American public discourse in the post-9/11 context. 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 an 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. CD 2 1/ Soundbite Society by Milena Droumeva (10:05) This piece explores my fascination (obsession) with the sounds of cell phones when I first moved to Canada in 1999. In it I discuss the various connotations and reactions that this world produced in me, and the humorous situations that may arise from it. Milena Droumeva is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Interactive Arts & Technologies at Simon Fraser University and she is interested in the cultural and ecological implications of soundscape and audio display design for interactive systems. 2/ redo / speaking song by Debashis Sinha (4:49) redo and speaking song were created separately but made for each other, an exploration of the many dualities that manifest themselves in my life: musician/technician, South Asian Canadian, ancient/modern, dust and concrete. Debashis Sinha is a percussionist who specializes in the instruments of the Arab world, Greece, Turkey and Persia. One of the emerging new wave of Canadian trans-cultural musicians, he is a member of Juno nominated world music groups Maza Mezé and autorickshaw, and has appeared with many of the foremost traditional/post traditional world music ensembles across Canada. His continued interest in improvised music and sound design finds expression through his solo recorded work, with his own group Ima Ensemble, and with a variety of dance and theatre artists in Toronto and across Canada. www.debsinha.com 3/ Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
written and performed by Audrey Churgin (4:46) Arctic Sun Arctic Wind is a reflection of nature and
events encountered by a woman-artist traveling alone on the summer's solstice
in Canada's Arctic territory, Nunavut. It is an experience of 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 with the playful naivety of a child's artwork and writing. 4/ Esquizofrénia (Schizophrenia) by Alexis Perepelycia (9:59) I had the idea of writing a piece of music inspired by the behavior of the human mind, trying to find a connection between music and Psychology. I began creating this piece after reading an analysis on a soldier diagnosed Schizophrenic when returned from war. My first reaction was fear. This was reflected by noises in my head, situations sonically unpleasant and other atmospheres that I've tried to reflect as precisely as I could. I've used just generated sounds using Max/MSP to represent the environment and to contrast, I did micro sampling of trash sounds, glitches, clicks and clips to try to represent the errors or mistakes that happen in an schizophrenic's mind. Born in 1979, San Nicolás, Bs.As., Argentina, Alexis Perepelycia received his Bachelor Degree in Music, (U.N.R.) in 2004. He has studied with Carmelo Saitta (Aesthetics), Dante Grela (Composition), Gabriel Data (Harmony), Francisco Colasanto (Max/Msp), and Pedro Rebelo (Electroacoustic Composition). His music has been premiered at major festivals in Argentina, France, USA and Northern Ireland. In 2002, he founded "hiss?" a live-electronics duo and is also a founder of the arts collective "knob," which combined different artistic expressions like dance, acting, video and music with new technologies. He is currently doing a Masters in Sonic Arts at S.A.R.C. in Belfast, Northern Ireland. www.alexisperepelycia.com 5/ Loud Is Paramount by Lisa Glasior (6:01) Let's take a walk through one of Montreal's largest movie theatres. I will lead you through the box office, lobby (stopping for popcorn, of course!) and to your seat. From there, you will be transported into the projection booth and other places you never see, hear or feel. Enjoy the low frequencies, vibrations and other voices of the Paramount, Montreal. Lisa Gasior has been hearing since birth but started listening about four years ago. She is cur rently pursuing a Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University and she devotes spare time to sound design for film and finding beautiful soundscapes wherever she goes. 6/ In Silent Time by Richard Windeyer (12:21) In Silent Time is a sonic portrait of two contrasting personalities - an extroverted Uncle who played drums in a 1920's silent movie house, and a shy nephew who used drumming as a means of escape. In this family portrait, drumming and silence become an unspoken inheritance. Composed in loving memory of Margaret and John ('Pete') Windeyer. Richard Windeyer creates music, sound and visuals for experimental theatre, radio, film, and integrated media projects. He is a member of interdisciplinary performance collective Bluemouth Inc. Presents, and collaborates with a laptop music trio called Finger. His work has been heard across Canada, Europe, the UK, and on the Internet. 7/ Pop Titles 'You' by Pamela Z (3:42) Pop Titles 'You' is a 1986 found text work created entirely from listings on one page of the Phonolog Report (a large yellow catalog found in most record stores before the advent of the now prevalent computer-based catalogs.) This version was recorded live in Toronto at the Deep Wireless festival in 2004. A studio version (which includes a layer of whispered artist names) is available on my solo CD A Delay is Better on the Starkland label. Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer who's work combines a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, and sampled sounds. Her audio works and performances have been presented in Europe, Africa, Asia, and throughout the US in concerts, festivals, and exhibitions including Bang on a Can, Other Minds, the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She is a recipient of numerous awards including a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship. For information visit www.pamelaz.com 8/ Rocket by Aura Bogado (6:20) Where is freedom? And can a girl get there on a rocket? Aura Bogado is a journalist for Pacifica Radio. In her
spare time, she records noises for pieces 9/ 9.17.2003 by Mike McFerron (4:47) For this composition, I invited the Lewis University community to contribute to my orchestra of sounds. I placed a microphone in a busy hallway at Lewis University and recorded sound for twenty-four continuous hours. This work was composed using only the sounds recorded from that installation. For me, this reflects the attitudes, emotions, and interactions of this day - a summary that documents September 17, 2003 at Lewis University. Mike McFerron is Composer-in-Residence at Lewis University and founder of the Electronic Music Midwest Festival. His compositions have been featured around the world on various concerts and radio broadcasts. www.bigcomposer.com 10/ Blacktop by Jay Needham (12:41) Blacktop is a narrative work for radio and its winding narrative structure is intended to mimic a journey on the road, taking us to places both new and old. We all seek inclusion, to be a part of something greater. This story describes a trip of dreams, one in which the character is searching to find meaning in his words and travels. Jay Needham is a media artist, writer and composer who's work has been exhibited globally. He embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to arts practice. Jay is a faculty member in the Program in Audio, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Cabondale.
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