Artist Biographies Dan Bernard is a writer, director, actor and audio/video editor and designer based in Portland, Maine. His award-winning radio theater scripts over the last six years or so have tackled everything from political satire to ongoing comedy series about medicine, crime, history and random bizarreness. Original songs, music and popular musical parody are often found in the work. Collaborating with producer Michael Townsend, he has generated several baker's dozens of radio broadcasts--some live and improvised (using a cast of other professional improvisers, actors and interesting voices and foley artists), some live and scripted, others studio products comprising endless hours of multitrack postproduction. Fortunately, Dan was at the pub during most of those endless hours. He delights in pushing limits, combining disparate elements and collaborators, generating performances that tend to entertain in direct proportion to the degree they frustrate the production crew. He looks forward to learning much from the Deep Wireless hive. This singer-turned-broadcaster and community radio enthusiast has contributed audio work to several CBC Radio programs, freelancing frequently for Content Factory, a syndication unit. Sarah studied fine art and costuming on her way to a degree in philosophy from McGill, and she’s currently working toward her Masters in Journalism at Carleton in Ottawa. Her talents have been recognized in competitions held by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and CBC Radio British Columbia. Stacey has had the immense pleasure and privilege of being able to do what she loves to do on a regular basis. In addition to having voiced hundreds of television and radio commercials, her greatest thrills come from creating characters in the cartoon world where she can really play! Mark has performed in theatres across the country. He received praise for
his work in the Canadian premieres of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of
Oscar Wilde and Anton He also appeared in Modern Times Theatre's Stories from the Rains of Love and Death (winner of three Dora awards) and toured their production of Macbeth in Iran. TV credits include The Shields Stories, Dark Oracle, Kojak, MVP, Shades of Black, Children of My Heart, Paradise Falls, This is Wonderland, The Eleventh Hour, Sue Thomas FB Eye, Blue Murder, Goosebumps, Dear America, The Gisella Perl Story (Showtime) with Christine Lahti, The Recruit (Paramount) with Al Pacino, Dash & Lilly and P.T. Barnum. Mark also writes and has a feature film and a television series in development. The greatest story ever satirized... our own Timelessness is what separates Grip Radio from other comedy produced for the
same medium. With absurdist humour reminiscent of the classic Goon Show,
each half-hour episode is set in a different period in Canadian history. The
one element that links each chapter is the central character of Martin
Moist, who we find in a variety of outrageous situations, often becoming the "A Specific Scandal" takes place in 1872 Ottawa at the height of the controversy surrounding John A. Macdonald's awarding of the CPR contract."The Camp X Files", as its title suggests, is set in our nation's wartime spy training camp. "Up Yer Canada" takes place as the Upper Canada Rebellion begins to brew. Future episodes will explore other colourful events in our past. A professional group of Canada's most talented young performers, including Stacey Depass (CTV's The Bobroom), Mark Ellis (Paradise Falls), Craig Lauzon (The Royal Canadian Air Farce), Scott Yaphe (The Holmes Show) and others exhibit their versatility before live audiences by taking on a wide range of roles. Just as the historic Grip magazine parodied Canada's earliest public figures, its updated namesake continues the country's rich tradition of satire and will return radio comedy to mainstream popularity.
Grundmann was involved in innovative telematic radio-art projects and was the editor of several publications such as "Art & Telecommunication", Vienna/Vancouver, 1984; "The Geometry of Silence", Vienna, 1991; "On the Air", Innsbruck, 1993; "ZEITGLEICH", Triton Verlag, Vienna, 1994; or "SOUND DRIFTING", Triton Verlag, Vienna, 2000. She organized and curated several international symposia and exhibitions, related to art practice in the electronic media - especially radio, TV and the internet. In January 2007 she co-curated (with Dieter Daniels) the conference "100 Years of Radio - the return of wireless imagination" Heidi Grundmann lectures and writes on art and new media.
Robert Hoare is a composer, lyricist and saxophonist. His music has been performed at festivals in Canada and Europe, most recently the Synthese 2006 Festival in France. In 2002 the composition "Nebelleben" was awarded by the Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop. He may be heard in a number of feature films including Eoin Moore’s, Conamara (2000) and Im Schwitzkasten (2005). His songs appear in the award winning film, Platzangst (2002), and Was Nutzt die Liebe In Gedanken, which was featured at the 2004 Berlinale Film Festival. As a lyricist he has recorded with Till Broenner, (Love, Chattin with Chet, That Summer - Verve) Mark Murphy (Once To Every Heart -Verve), Rammstein and Zeraphine. His most recent release is the audio DVD, 40'30'' 100 Anecdotes (Phonector Records). Stephen Kelly works with sound sculpture and site-specific audio installation and do-it-yourself electronics. Interested in intersections between audio art and music he creates kinetic, viewer responsive audio exhibitions and has built several unique 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 radio-art experiments in various countries. Stephen Lategan is a graduate of Ryerson Radio and Television Arts, he's produced several radio plays, including a Worldmedal winner at the New York festivals. He published a satirical magazine in addition to contributing to Frank, has recently written an on-line documentary series for the CBC, and is in post-production for a short film. Richard Lee 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 In his career he’s had the joy of play many interesting roles, including Dora nominations for Bruce Lee (Little Dragon – K’now/Theatre Passe Muraille) and Rick Wong (Banana Boys – fu-GEN Theatre Company). His sound design credits include: China Doll (Nightwood Theatre 2004), The Unnatural and Accidental Women (Native Earth Performing Arts 2004), Cast Iron (Nightwood Theatre 2005) among many others. Richard has spent the last 10 years living and training as a Martial Artist. Over this time he has trained in many varying styles. As recipient of the Ontario Arts Councils’ Chalmers Professional Development Grant, he completed a study of martial arts and its application to theatre. Richard is also the General Manager of fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company, a company dedicated to the development of professional Asian Canadian theatre artists. He currently resides in Toronto with his wife Nina Lee Aquino, daughter Eponine and dog Trey.
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. Thelon Oeming is an Alberta-born Toronto-based theatre artist and graduate of the National Theatre School’s playwriting program in Montreal. A Parkdale resident, Thelon’s work often examines the social dimensions of life within his neighbourhood. He has written radio dramas and produced a few documentary pieces for CBC Radio. In 2006 Thelon’s documentary about his Executive Producer of the Music Unit, ABC Radio National, including a weekly music feature and documentary program called Into the Music. A passionate and skilled radio producer with a distinctive sound signature, Robyn has worked on a range of innovative ABC programs. Robyn was a founding member of the Listening Room team and was its Executive Producer from 1995 to 2003, commissioning a range of Australian and international composers and sound artists to make works for radio, and managing an Australia Council - ABC annual residency for sound artists and composers. Since he got his first tape recorder at age 11, Michael has been obsessed with audio and its effects on the brain -- in particular his own. He's been a radio comedy producer on WRSU (Rutgers University) in the 70s, a 4-track-portastudio-cassette-culture-mail-art participant in the 80s, a radio collage pioneer on WMPG (Portland, Maine) with "Dad's New Slacks" in the 90s, and producer of a succession of half-hour radio theater, improv comedy and bulldada collage programs on WMPG over the past seven years, often in collaboration with Dan Bernard.
Hans Ulrich Werner (Köln, Germany) has has explored a wide range of approaches to soundscapes. For many years, he has been a Sound Designer and Radio producer at Studio für Klangdesign Radio and Television at WDR in Köln. He has written extensively about soundscapes, both in a series of books and in various articles and reviews. His own commercially available work has focused on human soundscapes, with an impressionistic approach that has most often been produced by his colleague Michael Rüsenberg. And, he has recently entered into a project to re-work the recordings of Walter Tilgner, one of the pioneers of European natural sound recording.
Jim Whelton has worked as sound and radio artist, sound designer and filmmaker for longer than he cares to remember. In the past five years he has produced over two hundred programmes for Resonance FM including a long running conceptual comedy - The Harmon e. Phraisyar Show. He has also been commissioned to create radio pieces for Austrian and Dutch national radio.
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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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Currently she lends her voice to recurring roles on 6Teen, Ruby Gloom, Captain Flamingo, Gerald McBoing Boing, Spider Riders and Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaurs. She replaced Alicia Silverstone in the title role on Braceface and has enjoyed a myriad of roles on MTV’s Undergrads, CBC’s What It’s Like Being Alone, Odd Job Jack, Powerstone, Atomic Betty and Rescue Heroes. After having been the voice of the Life Network for over 5 years, Stacey is excited for all the new opportunities and challenges to come. She lives in Toronto with her super talented actor/writer husband Jeremy Harris.
Piatagorsky's The Offering (a Dora Award nominee).
Other favourite leading roles include Molière's The Sicilian, The Importance
of Being Earnest, The Winter's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Duchess of
Malfi, and, most recently, Two Pianos Four Hands.
Heidi Grundmann has worked as cultural reporter, art and theatre critic, editor, program producer and consultant at the ORF (Austrian National Radio) since the seventies. In 1987 she created the radio program KUNSTRADIO-RADIOKUNST. 
as a Performer.
schizophrenic neighbour Who is Vern Nash? was recognized for ‘originality and innovation’ by the Prix Italia jury.
Steve Wadhams has been in love with radio ever since that day in 1968 when he entered a BBC training studio and realised that here was a 'magic space' offering portals to other places and other times, other minds and other worlds. Steve began as a studio technician and then became a producer for the BBC Overseas Services. He spent two years producing educational programmes in Malawi, Central Africa before coming to to Canada in 1974 to work with Barbara Frum and Mark Starowicz on "As it Happens". In 1976 he was one of the founding producers of "Sunday Morning" and since then has produced numerous features ranging from the journalistic to the impressionistic. Steve is currently a producer with the CBC programme "Outfront", a forum for Canadians to tell their stories in styles which vary from dramatic monologue to experimental documentary. He is also Executive producer of a new series of 'adventurous audio journeys' called "In Your Ear".
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.
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.