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Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch Deep Wireless 2005,
a month long celebration of radio art including new commissions, special
radio broadcasts, performances and sound installations, as well as a conference
and workshops for radio and sound artists.
Radio Art on the Radio (more
details) New Adventures in Sound Art will launch a 2-CD set called the Deep Wireless II radio art compilation CD which will include radio art collected in response to our September 30, 2004 call for submissions. This two CD set will be sent to community radio stations across Canada as part of a project to disseminate radio art. The compilation CD will be launched on April 1st, 2005 and will be available for listening on-line soon. Radio art programming during Deep Wireless by several community radio stations across Ontario including Radio Art Interventions on 88.1 CKLN and broadcasts of the Deep Wireless commissioned pieces on CBC Radio 1 here in Toronto as well as special radio/net broadcasts on Resonance FM in the UK and on free103point9 in Brooklyn.
Now in its fourth year, New Adventures in Sound Art will again be producing the commissioning/residency opportunity as part of Deep Wireless, co-produced with CBC Radio's "Out Front" with some residencies at Charles Street Video, that was begun with Deep Wireless 2003. This year's artists are Yves Daoust, Milena Droumeva, Geoff Siskind, and Dragan Todorovic. The 2005 Deep Wireless commissions will be broadcast on CBC Radio 1, each week throughout the month of May 2005, with spatialized versions being presented on May 27th & 28th, 2005 as part of the "Radio Theatre" performances at the Drake Hotel. Negativland (web site) "Over the Edge" in Concert The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West Sunday May 1st 8 PM ONE SHOW ONLY $20 advance. (tickets) Negativland, while not exactly a "band' in the
normal sense, have been consistently creating a stream of 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 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. 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.
These special presentations by THE AMBiENT PiNG for Deep Wireless feature experimental artists making extensive use of radio as a live ambient sound source. 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
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 Performances (Full
Details) Matinee Performance
Evening Performances Radio Theatre 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. 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! Featuring Reverend Norm, Reverend Anna Montana, Reverend Joalien and Reverend Randy Peters. 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). Saturday May 28th @ 10
pm
O MONSTROUS VOICE LIKE MINE May 27th & 28th - stay tuned for info about the Drake's late late night Deep Wireless performances 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 FREEDOM HIGHWAY project, an
exploration of mass media and 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. Sound Installations (Full Details) The Radio Art Station
who are the people in the radio? When I was young, I half-believed that the voices emanating from the radio were the voices of the little people who lived inside. Turn on the radio, the little people begin to talk, change the station and they change their voices. I imagined the radio people waited inside while the radio was off, ever ready to perform at the click of the dial. who are the people in your radio? returns to 1950, to a world of the future as imagined by the past: when television was about to take over as the new mass medium of choice, and when there were still groups of little people in the radio, living, working, fighting, and sowing the seeds of mutiny.
Media artist Don Sinclair collaborates with Christian
Calon and
The Lecture of Comrade Stalin... (1999-2002)
Radio Without Boundaries (conference
web site) New: Single Day Rates available The Deep Wireless "Radio Without Boundaries"conference, will be from May 27-29, 2005 at the Drake Hotel. "Radio Without Boundaries" will explore the many potentials and boundaries of radio. Speakers include Lidia Camacho (Mexico), Chris Brookes (Newfoundland), Anna Friz (Montreal), Helen Thorington (USA), Steve Wadhams (Toronto), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Elizabeth Zimmerman (Austria), as well as panels including the artists from the Deep Wireless commissioning residency: Yves Daoust, Milena Droumeva, Geoff Siskind, and Dragan Todorovic. Two different workshops "Making Rain" This workshop will look at approaches to structuring
radio/sound features, i.e. taking advantage of the evocative power of
the medium and the dramatic "Amplifying the Inaudible: Making new sounds
for radio and sound art" This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to make and use contact microphones, using them to produce new and unusual sounds from readily available materials. Applying the sonic material that they create, workshop participants will have a hands-on experience in digitally recording and mixing their own sound art piece. Deep Wireless History Deep Wireless History and FAQ |
Dates and Events Negativland Radio Art on the Radio Installation
Opening & Who are the people in the radio? "Around Radio roadmovies"
CBC Radio "Out Front" RADiO iN AMBiENCE What is radio, what
is radio art? Matinee
Performance Radio Theatre Solo Performances Deep
Wireless Radioroad Mix Radio Without Boundaries Radio Without Boundaries workshops The
Drake Hotel Ticket Information Negativland
Deep
Wireless Weekend Events Advance tickets are available Our Partners and Sponsors New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Sign Waves and SOUNDplay
The Deep Wireless Commissioning and residency program is supported by NAISA and their partners.
Charles Street Video is a non-profit, artist-run centre located in downtown Toronto. Its mandate is to provide media artists with opportunities for production and to foster an environment for the advancement of the media arts practise.
Outfront is radio stories about real life on CBC Radio 1. It's all about your ideas, your experiences, your perspectives, your story. We would also like to thank
The CEC draws together like-minded people -
those interested and active in electroacoustics and computer music.
With membership from all provinces and internationally, the CEC provides
a clearly defined network for the flow and exchange of information and
ideas.
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audio-art
in performance, on record, and on their weekly radio show for the past
25 years.
This
matinee performance includes excerpts from the Radio Theatre 1 live performances
by Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, Eric Leonardson and Evalyn Parry as well
as excerpts from some of the Deep Wireless residency commissions by Yves
Daoust, Milena Droumeva, Geoff Siskind and Dragan Todorovic.
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public discourse in the post-9/11 context.
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intimate listening space to tune in to international radio art. 
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