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Commissioning and Residency Program New Adventures
in Sound Art is once again presenting the Deep Wireless The 2004 Deep Wireless commissions will be broadcast on CBC Radio in May 2005, with spatialized versions being presented on May 27th & 28th, 2005 as part of the "Radio Theatre" performances at the Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto. The four commissioned artists will also be giving a short artist talk at the Deep Wireless "Radio Without Boundaries" conference (May 27-29, 2005). Artists in Residence 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 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. La Machine à remonter le temps For the past thirty years the tape recorder was the essential tool in the sound studio. Paradoxically, it became obsolete, replaced by the digital technologies, when it was at the highest point of its performance. In this short sound documentary, I would like the tape recorder to be brought back to life. The tape recorder will be presented as the machine helping to go back in the past (remonter le temps, which in French means to go back but also to brake the natural order of things by cutting the tape and editing the fragments of time in an artificial order). Of course one can do all this today using digital technology. But with the analog equipment one could manipulate directly and physically the sound (the time), fixed on tape: for instance, to reverse the sound one had to inverse the reels. There was a more immediate, physical and symbolical relation with the matter, the time. Dragan Todorovic is an artist living in Toronto. He
has published four books in In my language I am smart The process of learning a new language is not rounded and simple: at first, it is not the language as a whole that is acquired, but a series of foreign words is superimposed onto mother's tongue. Unavoidably, one has to go through a mutation that is both painful and funny. I would like to try and present this process in the language of sound. 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 Snooze Between the waking world and the dreaming one lies an alarm clock induced state where realities mix and mingle and dance and play. This world is neither pure dream nor pure walking life. It is something altogether different. It is a world called snooze.
I Do Something borrowed. Something new. Something from eBay. Something stolen (but not really). Something blue. Something like a rose. Rainbow-coloured unicycles. Welcome to my wedding! |
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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.
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.
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.
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. 
