Deep Wireless on the Radio Once again Deep Wireless is joined by CBC Radio, CKLN, and Free 103.9 to bring radio art to the airwaves.
Deep Wireless on CKLN 88.1FM (www.ckln.fm) Radio Art Broadcast Schedule April 27: 8:43 to 9 PM May 1 to 31: Various times May 1: 8 to 9 PM May 3: 2 to 3 PM May 4: 8:43 to 9 PM Passport bitte! You are now leaving the American sector. What began as a whimsical search for graffiti in West Berlin developed into a 21 year residency. A cardboard box jammed with notebooks, scores, letters and postcards reveals the observations and musings of a musician in Berlin before, during and 17 years after the fall of the wall. A Cardboard Box in Berlin is a dynamic and humorous look at life in a history-laden city where each day is equally long, but nothing is more unpredictable than their width. May 6: 11:30 PM to 2 AM Join CKLN's veteran radio art voyager James Bailey for a late night mix of audio art. May 10: 2 to 3 PM May 10: 7 to 9 PM May 11: 8:43 to 9 PM "TRAINS-CROSSING" takes us to a place where sounds and stories cross and collide, a place of pleasure and pain, doubt and dreams, music and memory - a place where strangers confess and travellers imagine jumping life's preordained tracks - a place where if you listen with love, everything seems possible. May 13 & 14: 11:30 PM to 2 AM May 17: 2 to 3 PM May 18: 8:43 to 9 PM May 20 & 21: 11:30 PM to 2 AM Join CKLN's veteran radio art voyager James Bailey for a late night mix of audio art. May 24: 2 to 3 PM May 25: 8:43 to 9 PM Opened in 1862, the Nicholas Street Jail is one of the oldest public buildings in Canada's capital. This limestone structure served as a maximum security holding facility until the early 1970s when it was shut down. A jail inspector's report from 1946 describes the prison as "a monstrous relic of an imperfect civilization where cells are medieval, incredibly cramped, with conditions far below the limits of human decency." It is the site of the last public execution in Canadian history, and it houses the last known working gallows in the country. May 25: 8 to 10 PM May 26: 8:30 AM to 5 PM May 26: 8 to 10 PM May 27: 8:30 AM to 5 PM May 27 & 28: 11:30 PM to 2 AM May 31: 2 to 3 PM
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. The DW 4 CDs consist of a small portion of the pieces collected in an international call for submissions on the theme Trans-X and represents some of the many talented radio and sound artists from around the world. Artist include Thomas Gerwin, Elsa Justel, Francis Dhomont, Sarah Boothroyd, Ailís Ní Riaín, Michael Dobinson, Martine H. Crispo, Joel Beauchamp, Anne-François Jacques, Christian Banasik, Stephanie Rowden & Anne Carson, Nicolas Dion, and many more... If you are a radio programmer/producer and would like to obtain your own copy of the Deep Wireless 4 CD, please contact naisa@naisa.ca with your program info and snail mail address and a copy will be mailed to you. CD 1 1/ Figures de la nuit / Faces of the night by Francis Dhomont (26:52) (listen) CD 2 1/ Mr. Right by Inge Hoonte (2:47) (listen) © 2007, New Adventures in Sound Art Programme Notes CD 1 Figures de la nuit / Faces of the night by Francis Dhomont (26:52) Including the voices of Loïc Baumans, Artur Bergeron, Suzanne Binet-Audet, Ned Bouhalassa, Pierre Daboval, Jean-François Denis, Francis Dhomont, Myriam Fabijan, Jacques Lejeune, Cécile Le Prado, Myriam Lombard, Pierre Louet, David Olds, Justice Olsson, Marie Pelletier, Laurie Radford, Françoise Schmitt et Claire-Isabelle Vauconsant. To Inés Wickmann Jaramillo Sleepless night, ink-dark night, soft night, or deep night: transfigured night... So many faces of the night. The night is my friend. "Figures de la nuit / Faces of the Night" was composed for the late- night show "Transfigured Night" by David Olds on CKLN-FM. The title was inspired by Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night) by Arnold Schoenberg. It was commissioned with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts and was premiered on June 3, 1991 in Toronto on "Transfigured Night" on CKLN-FM. "Figures de la nuit/Faces of the night" was first released on the CD SON 1.I, Sonopsys, Cahiers musique concrète / acousmatique #1, Ed. Licences, Paris. (translation: Frank Koustrup). Francis Dhomont was born in Paris, 1926. From 1980 to 1996 he taught Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Montréal. For 26 years, he shard his activity between France and Québec. In 2000 the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec awarded him a presigious career grant. He has received many important awards for his work: Prix Ars Electronica 1992, Magisterium prize at Bourges 1988, 1st prize at Bourges 1981.Convinced of the originality of acousmatic art, his production has been, since 1960, exclusively made of tape works. He is now living in Avignon, France and pursues an international career. 2/ Transform by Linda Rae Dornan (0:49) "Transform" is about the process of aging, peeling away vanity and fears, and accepting one's accumulated experience. Words, sounds and rhythms are collaged and processed digitally. Linda Rae Dornan is an interdisciplinary artist creating performance, video and audio art about interior spaces and processes of being. She lives in Sackville, New Brunswick and has had her work shown in North and South America, and Europe. She has an audio art show every week on CHMA 106.9 FM, the campus/community voice of the Tantramar marshes. 3/ Transtyle by Joel-Aimé Beauchamp (5:21) Is it rock music? Is it electroacoustic music? Is it elevator jazz music? No, it's my new post-moderne transtyle piece! Joel-Aimé Beauchamp is currently finishing his masters at Le Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and doesnt want to work in publicity anymore. 4/ Transitive Property of Equality (excerpt) by Martine H. Crispo (3:45) Transitive property of Equality: for any quantities a, b, and c, if a = b and b = c, then a = c. Sound artist Martine H. Crispo has been working in live radio art since the mid 1980s. She has participated in numerous performance festivals in Canada and in Europe, both performing solo as well as creating sound for dance and theatre. She hosts a biweekly emission on CKUT radio in Montreal to present live performances. Her recent radiophonic works integrate the digital sounds of circuit-bent vintage educational toys. And for listeners who don't appreciate her radio art, she has a fabulous voice for reading public announcements. 5/ Glass Cutter (2003) by Christian Banasik (11:15) This piece was composed with everyday table-ware, such as glasses, cups, some saucers and some kitchen sounds. The rhythms of these original short actions have an influence on the development of the form and the electronic manipulations. The idea was to create a short miniature consisting of real-life daily events which are strongly manipulated on the musical level. The calculated algorithmic patterns control the development and position of the short sampled "house movements" during the piece and the change of single sound parameters. Christian Banasik was born in 1963 in Siemianowice (Poland) and has lived in Germany since 1974. He studied composition with Gunther Becker and Dimitri Terzakis at the Robert Schumann Acedemy of Music in Dusseldorf and with Hans Zender at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. His instrumental and electronic pieces have been featured in concerts and radio programs throughout Europe. (BBC London, SFB Berlin, HR Frankfurt, WDR Cologne, NDR Hamburg, VPRO Radio Holland, VRT Radio Belgium, Polskie Radio and Swedish National Radio as well as in the Americas, Asia, and Australia). Banasik was the artistic director of the ensemble "go ahead" and organizer of multimedia events with new music, literature and fine arts as well as concerts of electromusic music. He has received national and international music awards and scholarships. Beside live electronics and computer music, Benasik has produced works for tape, radio plays and film soundtracks. 6/ TranSextreme by Ailís Ní Riaín (5:08) A woman trapped by her troubled past - where space is continuously oppressing. Comprised of voice, harp, prepared piano, and electronics. Text and sound by Ailís Ní Ríain. Born in Cork, Ireland, Ailís Ní Ríain (www.ailis.info) combines her interests as a composer, sound-artist and writer to produce works which challenge, provoke, and engage. She is a joint first prize winner of the ISCM World Music Days for Streetsong in 2006. She represented Ireland in Culture 2003 in Italy and Greece. 7/ mattermater: prelude by Penn Kemp & Chris Meloche (1:04) Electroacoustic music composer Chris Meloche recorded poet Penn Kemp reading phrases from her book Trance Form (Pendas 2006). He manipulated her voice electronically, creating the 40 minute sound opera Darkness Visible. "mattermater: prelude" leads off the piece with the repetition of this single word juxtaposing itself. A study of trans-ience and trans-formation, contemplating death and renewal. Chris Meloche: Electroacoustic composer and diffusionist who has been working in this field for over 25 years. Currently half of the Outward Sound Ensemble with Herb Bayley. Penn Kemp: Author of 25 books and ten CD's, Penn edits Pendas books/cds. Poet, performer of Sound Operas on line and live: pennkemp.ca, myspace.com/pennkemp, www.mytown.ca/pendas/. 8/ Pay No Attention to that man behind the curtain by Sarah Boothroyd (5:54) This collage mixes printing press rhythms and spoken word with interview scraps that would usually be edited out of a journalistic radio segment, including material that draws attention to the technical and interpersonal machinations of reporting. It's a behind-the-scenes view of journalism, which is a process of editing and selecting, rather than transmitting a complete record to the public. Sarah Boothroyd's audio work airs frequently on CBC Radio, and has also been presented on BBC Radio 4, at the International Features Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri. She's an artist-in-residence for New Adventures In Sound Art and Outfront for 2007. 9/ Orange Juice by Paul Burnell (1:03) Orange Juice: The transglobal nature of drink production. Paul Burnell (b Ystrad-Rhondda, 1960) is a British composer, a member of COMA, percussion quartet Brake Drum Assembly, and a member of the Burnell-Hunt duo. Many of his compositions are featured on the album Leaving the Party on Pluto. 10/ Transit by Anne-Françoise Jacques (1:15) A phone call from somewhere, from somebody between locations, you were not Anne-Françoise Jacques: Audio artist living in Montréal, member of the electroacoustic duo 11/ Postcards from the Summer by Robert Mackay (12:51) Transportation is the theme for this piece. Work began at Slovak Radio during the summer of 1998 as a result of receiving a Prix Résidence at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (1997). The piece is inspired by various soundscapes of the different places I visited in Europe during that summer, from a farm in North Wales to the cities of London, Bratislava, Prague and Munich. Robert Mackay is a composer and sound artist based in the UK. He is currently lecturer in creative music technology for the University of Hull - Scarborough campus. Awards include Bourges, Ear99, Confluencias and La Muse en Circuit along with regular international performances and radio CD 2 1/ Mr. Right by Inge Hoonte (2:47) From a collection of personal ads developed Mr. Right, an interpretation of the exhausting search for the ideal partner. Dutch multi-disciplinary artist Inge Hoonte received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared internationally at Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; TENT., Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Overlook Park, Cleveland; MessHall, Athenaeum Theatre and MCA, Chicago; White Box Benefit, New York; Neighborhood Public Radio, San Francisco; SCN, and Deep Wireless, Toronto, Canada. 2/ Art Gallery Transposed by Peter Sant (2:06) Art Gallery Transposed was created with contributions by Katheryn Ind and Katherine Tingley. Taking a selection of well known art works, the artists attempted to recreate the imaginary incidental sounds of the works in question solely through the use of the human voice and limbs. Art Gallery Transposed was produced in 2006 at the South London Radio Arts Summer Workshop <www.londonradioarts.org.uk>. Peter Sant: a long history of using sound as my primary medium, I am currently in my second year of Sonic Arts BA. Other sound ventures include experimental music and sound for experimental video. 3/ TransAtlantischeZeitzonen by Robert Hoare & Steven Sauvé (9:54) A series of ambient recordings from Berlin and Toronto, synchronized to Greenwich Mean time. The arbitrary nature of the samples was then tempered with manipulations and juxtapositions. Whenever possible, we strove for human-made sounds, and an urban palette. Saxophonist, composer and lyricist, Robert Hoare has worked in a variety of dance, theater, installation, film and recording projects. His music has been performed at various festivals in Canada and Europe. As a songwriter his lyrics have been recorded by such diverse artists as Till Broenner, Mark Murphy, Rammstein and Zeraphine. (www.robhoare.de) Steven Sauvé has been creating music electronically since first getting his hands on a 2-track reel-to-reel. Now heavily involved with computers and virtual synthesis, he is also a member of the live electronic and experimental improv scene in Toronto. 4/ Translunar Standstill (excerpt) by Inferno Speed Gown aka Susan Chafe (2:40) This is an excerpt from a piece about the extreme slowness of things that survive for a very long time. It includes transmissions from satellites. Inferno Speed Gown plays from a Winnipeg living room. 5/ transFORM oder Zuang für 4 (excerpt) by Thomas Gerwin (3:00) This piece was made entirely of the voice of actor Florian Müller-Mohrungen. 1001 variations of a short text from Zuangzi, the Taoist Book of Wisdom were recorded. The composer then processed this material in the studio in many analog and digital ways. The 4-channel version of the piece was commissioned and broadcast in 2002 by SFB/ ORB radio station in Berlin, Germany. Channels 1-2 came from the radio and channels 3-4 from the internet. Each listener who owned a radio AND a computer with an internet connection could listen to the piece with quadrophonic sound. Thomas Gerwin is a classically educated composer. He came into the field of electroacoustic music very early and he subsequently worked intensively on soundscape composition and radio art. In his studio in Berlin he composes for radio and concert performances (instruments, acousmatic, multi-channel, and live electronics) and creates sound and multimedia installations. His works are performed and shown worldwide and have received international prizes and stipends. (www.thomasgerwin.de) "L" is a Trans-versal relation of ideas referring to epicurean theories about the concept of "element". Starting by fragments of "De rerum Natura" of Lucretio, you will find the nature of things through an insomnia-giving blend of parallel quotations: Michael Serres, Umberto Eco, Francis Wolf and myself. The piece was commissioned by La Muse en Circuit, France and WDR Köln, Germany. Elsa Justel studied composition and electroacoustics in Buenos Aires and received a Doctorate degree in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at the University of Paris. She received International composition awards such as: Prix Ton Bruynèl 2005, Prix Phonurgia Nova 2001, Prix Ars Electronica 1992, and Bourges 1989. 7/ Transparent by Nicolas Dion (1:01) This piece was created using only a glass bowl and a glass marble as sound sources. Both are transparent. First they meet and get to know each other, then they go out dancing. They made a baby: it's this piece. They are parents now. Nicolas Dion is a member of the electro-acoustic duo Minibloc and the experimental trio Intercom, staples of the independent micro-label Le Son 666. His solo work is under the "Darcin" pseudonym, oscillating between abstract sound work and up-tempo electronic music. His first release, entitled "Parc", is available on the Panospria netlabel. Nicolas has played at the Mutek festival, MEG festival, Pop Montreal, Suoni per II Popolo, Textures, Vague Terrain... 8/ Experimental Train Traffic Controls are in Effect (MacMillian Yard Remix) by Michael Dobinson (9:01) Rail transport; still important after hundreds of years... train yards; noisy and squalid yet compelling... rail work; tedious yet vital... trains; wheels on rails like a drum in the night... Incorporating the sounds of a rail freight yard, this remix is an aural image of a freight train's route. Michael Dobinson frequently explores the collision of nature and technology in his music. His works have been heard in cities across Canada and into parts of the USA. Most recently, his piano work "Lost Rails" was published and premiered by the Canadian Conservatory of Music. He appeared at the Newfoundland Sound Symposium in 2004. His recent percussion trio, "Only Fools", was broadcast on CBC Radio. 9/ Sonnet of the Pronoun Event (excerpt) by Stephanie Rowden & Anne Carson (1:22) Sonnet of the Pronoun Event is an excerpt from a larger project; Possessive Used As Drink (Me): A lecture in the form of fifteen sonnets written and performed here by Anne Carson. The trans here is it. Transit. Passage from one event to another. Stephanie Rowden is an installation artist with a special interest in sound. She is a professor at the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. 10/ Your list of Transcendant Experiences by Katie McMurran (1:00) In this piece, my hope was to express transcendence as something extraordinary, and as something that is beyond human physical experience. It is structured around a voice reading a list of activities that can be extraordinary, which are then in turn sonically described. The ultimate emphasis of the piece though, is on silence – or the absence of any thing, any physical experience. Katie McMurran is a musician, composer and recording technician currently living outside of Los Angeles. She studied Music at the University of 11/ Well, listen... by Charlotte Scott (29:00) The soundscape of Toronto Island, in mixed conversation with Island residents, inspires a contemplation of subjective notions of noise and silence. Charlotte Scott plays music and makes radio magic in Montreal. |
Past Deep Wireless compilations Deep Wireless 1 (2004)
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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and CBC Radio's Outfront, for the fifth year in a row, is presenting the Deep Wireless commissioning and residency program. This residency program allows both experimental sound artists and radio producers outside of the experimental realm to approach the form of personal narrative from a perspective that combines words and sounds in a fresh and innovative fashion. Four Canadian artists - Sarah Boothroyd, Steve Wadhams, Thelon Oeming and Robert Hoare - were selected from a Canada-wide call for submissions to produce a work for both CBC's Outfront radio broadcast and for presentation during Deep Wireless 2007 festival of radio and transmission art. 
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