Artist Biographies Chris Brookes website
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.
Mark Cassidy is co-artistic director of Threshold Theater along with Suzanne Hersh. For Threshold, Mark has devised and directed a number of innovative projects including, As I Lay Dying, In The Language of Love, Beautiful Losers, That Time, Howl, The Hairy Ape, Forms of Devotion and Kafka and Son. Free lance ventures include, The Demonstration-- Theatre Direct, The Secret of Gabi's Dresser--Te-Amim Theatre, The Lost Supper—Shadowland Theatre, Tunnel—Platform 9, Borderline and The Dershowitz Protocol--DMT Productions. Mark has been involved in two previous incarnations of Deep Wireless where he has had the pleasure of meeting and working with such sound art afficionados as Anna Friz, Eric Leonardson, Evalyn Parry, Chris Brookes, Nilan Perera, Susannah Hood and Marjorie Chan. Christine Duncan website Christine has been singing professionally since the age of 15. She began performing on stage when she was 5 years old, with her family The Duncans and toured N. America extensively until the age of 19. |
Chris Brookes New Adventures in Sound Art personnel Darren Copeland |
Paul Dutton is a writer and musician who has been publishing and performing for close to forty years. He has appeared in literary and music festivals and events throughout North America and Europe. His most recent book is a novel, Several Women Dancing (Mercury Press, 2002), and his most recent recording is Oralizations (Ambiance Magnétiques. 2005).
Godfathers of Mash-up? Plunderphonics? Bastard Pop? Plagiarhythm? Collage? Many of those terms suggest a boring laptop show coming up, and yet nothing could be further from the truth. For nearly 20 years, The Evolution Control Committee has been combining new technology with old-fashioned showmanship to produce internationally acclaimed performances. Long before the sampler and computers made it easy, The ECC was infringing copyright laws the hard way. "COPYRIGHT VIOLATION FOR THE NATION." When was the last time you saw a whole show performed by a guy wearing 10 ordinary sewing thimbles wired into some electronics, triggering the whole show? The ECC performs with custom-made equipment and videos to give the audience a truly original show. As for the music, in the world of The ECC, Public Enemy duke it out with Herb Alpert while Dan Rather is the new frontman for AC/DC. It's fun without being comedy, sample-based without being techno, and brainy without being arty. Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Montreal and Toronto. For the past eight years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Anna has presented installation and performance works across Canada and in international media art contexts such as the Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago; Digitales, Brussels; Club Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; the Fifth International Biennial of Radio, Mexico City; and Arte Nuevo Interactiva, Yucatan. Last year, she was the Deep Wireless artist in residence at the Drake Hotel. She has produced numerous original radio works for independent radio across Canada and the U.S., and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Denmark and Mexico. Anna is a free103point9.org transmission artist, and a doctoral candidate in the Communications and Culture programme at York University, Toronto. Ben Grossman website Ben Grossman is a vielle à roue player, percussionist, composer and improviser living in Elora Ontario. Through percussion and his Magz Hall is UK based Sound Artist, Radio Producer, Presenter and Lecturer. Magz helped set up Resonance FM in London, she produced You Are Hear, The Lounge of Pleasure and Burning Decks. Sound work includes an ambisonic soundtrack for the British Museum and "Circle of Sound" a group DIY sound exhibition. www.londonradioarts.org.uk and www.youarehear.co.uk For five years, The Impatient Theatre Co. has produced and presented a variety of improv comedy shows at theatres and clubs in Toronto. The company is home to Canada's only dedicated longform improv comedy training centre and has experienced exponential growth in recent months due to its new-found reputation as Toronto's best improv training ground. The company's flagship show, Munchausen, has been hailed as the best improv show in Toronto with audience members commenting with such remarks as: "There were several occasions where I was laughing so hard I swear I was either going to shit in my pants or puke on my shirt." The company also produces the Toronto International Improv Festival, the fifth annual festival takes place Aug. 21-27, 2006 at venues around Toronto. You can find out more about The Bat and the Impatient Theatre Co. online at www.longform.ca.
Kathy Kennedy is a Montreal-based sound artist who also functions as a singer, performance artist, choral director, composer and voice teacher. Her work usually involves the voice and issues of its interface with technology. Often using low watt radio transmission, she is best known for her performative works involving large groups of singers. She is most recently involved in a series of community-based, improvisational works called The HMMM. Stephen Kelly works with sound sculpture and site-specific audio installation, do-it-yourself electronics, and low power FM radio. Interested in intersections between audio art and music he creates kinetic, viewer responsive audio exhibitions and has built several unique musical instruments. Stephen has recorded, produced, and released over 14 musical albums on his independent label Dead Bum. King and Kelly have built and operated an ongoing micro- Tianna Kennedy website Tianna performs in, produces, and curates radio events involving low-power fm and experimental hybrid-radio. She considers radio the live art of impossible utterances - communicating across boundaries and in response to limitations, technical and otherwise. Radio is about creating social situations wherein people listen to one another. Radio, itself, is the residue of these situations. Eleanor King works with site-specific installation incorporating elements of audio, video, photography and sculpture. Eleanor often uses radio as a medium for audio performance, she hosts a regular radio program on CKDU 97.5 FM in Halifax. Her work incorporates humorous elements to critique social behaviors, investigating consumer and tourist cultures.
Tetsuo Kogawa introduced micro free radio to Japan, and is widely known for his blend of criticism, performance and activism. He has written over 30 books on media culture, film, the city and urban space, and micro politics. He has been teaching at Tokyo-Keizai University and demonstrating
Richard is always grateful to be immersed in the wonderful world of sound. Beyond his development as a Sound Designer, Richard also works in theatre as a Fight Director and primarily as a Performer. Previous Sound Design Credits include: A Choice Life ( Fringe, 2003), Sprayed on Sergios (Hysteria Festival 2003), China Doll (Nightwood Theatre 2004), and The Unnatural and Accidental Women (Native Earth Performing Arts 2004), Cast Iron (Nightwood Theatre 2005), Remember Lolo (SummerWorks 2005), Jeepney (Carlos Bulosan Theatre 2005 & Hysteria 2005), and Annie Mae's Movement (Native Earth Andra McCartney website A soundscape artist, who works with her own field recordings to create websites, CD ROMs, tape works and performances that explore the social ecology of soundscapes. Her sound works are available on CD anthologies produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (Montréal), Terra Nova (MIT), Musicworks (Toronto), Deep Wireless (Toronto), Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production (Ottawa), Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), and Entartete Kunst (London, Ont), as well as online. McCartney is an associate professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Concordia University, teaching Sound in Media. She has a long-standing research interest in issues of gender, creation, sound, and technology. Currently, she is working on a special issue of the Canadian University Music Review, based on papers presented at the In and Out of the Sound Studio Conference at Concordia University in July 2005. Shawn Micallef writes the Stroll Column in Eye Weekly and has written for publications like The Globe and Mail, Broken Pencil and also contributed an essay on Toronto's modern architecture to the recent Coach House Books' publication utopia: Towards a New Toronto. He is an editor at Spacing (www.spacing.ca) and This magazines, and while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre's Habitat new media lab he co-founded the location-based mobile phone documentary project [murmur], which recently launched our biggest installation yet along the length of Spadina (www.murmurtoronto.ca). For fun, he and some friends created the Toronto Psychogeography Society, a group of flâneurs who drift through and explore Toronto, sometimes Matt Mikas website Matt Mikas is a sound artist with a history of involvement with microradio, nightclub entertainment, and museum exhibition. A sonic anthropologist, Mikas uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer. He has spoken on independent media actions at the Grassroots Radio Conference, the New York Poetry Project, The Ford Communications Policy Network Meeting, Coco Fusco's Performance and Technology Classes at Columbia University, among others. Matt is the Operations Manager at Joe Milutis website Joe Milutis is a writer and media artist, whose work in sound has included audio essays, experimental music, radio drama, live radiophonic performances, and sound design for theater and film (as well as the intersections in between). He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches experimental sound production. He is the author of "Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everythin Born 1977 in Edmonton Alberta; after receiving his BFA at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna BC (1996-2000), Christian Nicolay hitchhiked across Canada with a wooden chair on a Canada Council Travel Grant recording sounds and constructing a viewer participation performance as part of a cross country gallery exchange. He has exhibited and performed in numerous spaces across North America including Public, Commercial, and Artist Run Art galleries. His interdisciplinary art practice combines performance, sound recording, installation and video, exploring the relationships between order and chaos, and the unity of opposites. He summarizes his art and life by "paying attention to systematic confusion". John Oswald website A recent Governor General Award Media Arts Laureate, Ars Electronica Digital Musics and Untitled Arts Award winner, as well as the fourth Soraya Peerbaye is a writer living in Toronto. Her solo performance GirlWrecked was presented in 2001 in Toronto and at the ArtWallah festival of South Asian arts and culture in Los Angeles. Her poetry has been published in Red Silk: An Anthology of Damiano is an executive producer at CBC Radio. He has produced documentaries and directed radio plays by Canada's leading playwrights, for which he has won several international awards. He is also a writer and translator, and his work has been published nationally and internationally.
Micheline Roi is a composer and sound artist. She studied at Queen's University and later at McGill University where she received her Master of Music in composition. Aesthetically, she considers herself an inclusionist, readily drawing on sound and any musical idioms to portray emotive sound. She has written concert music, radio art and sound installations. Ms. Roi's music has been performed and broadcast worldwide, and has been commissioned and performed by many great Canadian ensembles. Her honours include the Rudolphe Mathieu Award in the CAPAC young composers competition (1990) and the Godfrey Ridout Award in the SOCAN competition for young composers (1992). She has received awards and commissions from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Ontario Arts Council. Ms. Roi's most recent commission, a piece for CD and percussion for percussionist Beverley Johnston, will premiere in 2007. Dana Samuel is a media artist, curator and writer. As an artist, she has shown her performance and media installations at venues including Latitude 53 (Edmonton), Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art (Toronto) and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Most recently, Dana was invited as the first Canadian artist-in-residence at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway to create a sound work for radio in Oslo. The work was presented in the group exhibition curated by Rhonda Corvese, The Idea of North, at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway, and at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. Dana holds an MFA from the University of Western Ontario and completed undergraduate studies in Life Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, where she reconciled her research interests in science with a practice in art. Her writing has been published by Canadian Art, FUSE Magazine and Mercer Union Gallery. She was honoured this past year with a 2005 Toronto Jewish Arts Council Award. Neil Sandell is senior producer of CBC Radio’s award winning documentary program, Outfront. A veteran of CBC current affairs programs such as As It Happens, Morningside, Ideas, and Quirks & Quarks, his work has won recognition from the Gabriel Awards, the New York Festivals, Amnesty International Canada, and the Ohio State Awards. Neil Sandell is a renaissance man behind whose quiet, even mysterious demeanour lies a bustling grab bag of former incarnations. Here we have a "Reach for the Top" whiz kid (now pitied by his old team mates with their corner offices and six figure salaries); a former teacher; a former professional photographer; a former playwright. All these past lives unified only by his abiding love for dogs. Gabe Sawhney is a hacker working at the edges of code and culture. He is co-creator, producer, and technical director of [murmur] (murmur.info), a location-specific oral storytelling project that makes accessible the hidden stories of Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary. He is the co-founder of WirelessToronto(.ca), and has collaborated on several other interactive media installation projects. With an academic background in architecture, film and semiotics, Gabe balances an understanding of technology with an interest in visual design, usability and information architecture. Proficient in a range of wireless and locative technologies, his heart rests with the simple, the intuitive and the cheap. Charlotte Scott studies sound ecology and communications at Ryerson University. She produces the rabble podcast network for rabble.ca, a website for progressive independent journalism, and is an avid soundwalker and soundscape composer. Charlotte plays a fire-engine red '69 Hagstrom electric bass.
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.
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 leads his own post traditional free improv quartet, Ima Ensemble. His audio work incorporates both traditional musical instruments and compositional principles as well as the new sound palette of the digital studio, resulting in a sound world that is a reflection of his own experience as a performer and South Asian artist. Jowi Taylor is host of CBC Radio’s Global Village and the host/writer/co-producer of The Wire – a series about the relationship between music and electricity. He is also the creator/producer of Six String Nation – a cross Canada music project for television, radio, the web and more. He works on community initiatives in film, media and music as a volunteer and through his company Bright Eyed Inevitable. And be sure to ask him about the brewery some time. Threshold Theatre website Founded by Mark Cassidy and Suzanne Hersh, Threshold is known for its inventive adaptations, exciting environmental works and fresh approach to scripts. Past productions include Forms of Devotion, "A seamless wonder"--Toronto Star, Howl, "Charismatic, thrilling, remarkable"--Now Magazine, and As I Lay Dying--"Tremendous...utterly compelling...a knockout show" Edmonton Journal. Upcoming pieces include Sprawl, an original work and Beautiful Non-Violent Anarchist Revolution based on the diaries of Julian Beck and Judith Malina. 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.
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. When Steve isn't making radio, he can be found singing tenor in various chanber choirs in Toronto.
Gregory Whitehead, for close to two decades, 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.
Richard Windeyer creates music, sound and visuals for experimental theatre, radio, film, and integrated media projects. He is a member of the Dora Award-winning experimental performance collective Bluemouth Inc. Presents (http://www.bluemouthinc.com), and collaborates with a laptop music trio called Finger. His work has been heard across Canada, Europe, the UK, and over the Internet. Trevor Wishart website Trevor Wishart |
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| New Adventures in Sound Art - personnel
Darren Copeland - Artistic Director
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 - Managing Director
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 free time is spent on his blog Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker. |
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others. She has six recordings to her credit and is featured on countless other recording projects. Christine has been a member of the VEJI (Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation) big band for 10 years. She has been a featured performer in two new music operas and has been teaching voice since 1995. For the last 3 years she has also been very involved in recording and touring with Barnyard Drama, her group with drummer/electronic artist Jean Martin. 
film, Monster. He plays a modern electo-acoustic Alto vielle (often with a modest rack of live looping and effects), and a copy of a French Baroque instrument (Jean Louvet, 1763), both by the incredible Viennese builder Wolfgang Weichselbaumer. * AKA Drehleier or hurdy gurdy. 
Tianna is the free103point9 NYC coordinator. 
inductee into the CBC Alternative Walk of Fame, John Oswald has also been nominated to third place in a list of the most internationally influential Canadian musicians, tied with Celine Dion. Concurrent with the start up of Deep Wireless he will be initiating the second stage of his solo show at the Edward Day Gallery in conjunction with the Contact Photography Festival. He is also preparing shows of new sound and visual work for the new Institute for Contemporary Culture, the renovated Royal Ontario Museum, and the Art Gallery-in-progress of Ontario. 
is a Composer and performer specializing in sound metamorphosis and constructing the software tools to make it possible (Sound Loom / CDP). He has held residencies in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and the USA and at various UK Universities and his work has been awarded a Euphonie d'Or at the Bourges Festival and the Golden Nica for computer music at the Linz Ars Electronica. He creates music with his own voice, for professional groups (Singcircle, Electric Phoenix etc.), or in imaginary worlds conjured up in his own studio. His aesthetic and technical ideas are described in the books On Sonic Art and Audible Design . Also involved in community, environmental and educational projects, his Sounds Fun books of musical games have been republished in Japanese. His most recent pieces include ' Globalalia' , commissioned by Folkmar Hein and premiered in Berlin 2004 and ' Memories of Madrid', one of several sound installations in Madrid bus-stops (May-Sept 2005) based on street recordings, as part of the Itinerarios del Sonidos project. He is currently Honorary Professor of Music at the University of York, UK. 
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.
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.