Deep Wireless | Workshops and Talks

DEEP WIRELESS WORKSHOPS

Darren Copeland Tuesday May 8th
Radio as Art Workshop
by Darren Copeland
6 PM, Free for CKLN staff, members and programmers
@ CKLN Studio 2 in Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould St., Toronto
(must pre-register naisa@naisa.ca or use the sign up sheet on studio 2)

Radio as Art. This workshop by sound artist Darren Copeland and host of the Deep Wireless segment of Art on Air will explore audio art processing techniques and creative possibilities using the resources in Studio 2.

Wednesday May 9th
How to Make a Contact Mic
by Stephen Kelly
6pm, $35 (must pre-register naisa@naisa.ca)
@ inter/access, 9 Ossington Ave., Toronto

Contact Microphones respond to vibrations through physical surfaces and translate that motion into sound. Contact mics can be used to capture various sounds such as a heart beat, the sound of pencil on paper, or vibrations from a musical instrument. These mics are cheap, easy to build, and can be a source for fun and experimental ways of creating new sounds for radio, installations or performances. For this workshop, Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King will facilitate making simple yet effective contact microphones from singing greeting cards. Each person will take home their own contact microphone, no experience in electronics required.

Tuesday May 15th
Jim Whelton Adapting Trash and Stealing from Life: Studio Production on a Shoestring Budget
by Jim Whelton
6 PM, Free for CKLN staff, members and programmers
@ CKLN Studio 2 in Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould St., Toronto
(must pre-register naisa@naisa.ca)

A chance to peek under the hood of the audio toolshop of one of Britain's most daring and provocative radio humourists Jim Whelton. Jim is the producer of the Harmon e. Phraysier radio programs that are normally heard on Resonance FM in London but for the month of May during Deep Wireless will be heard every Thursday afternoon on CKLN's Art on Air show between 2 and 3 pm.

To hear some of the programs he has made go to:
http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/index.php?s=harmon

Saturday May 26th and Sunday May 27th
Deep Wireless Conference Workshops / Break-out Sessions
1pm, included with conference registration
@ Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street, Toronto

Workshops happen 1 - 2:45 pm each day.
Workshops are included in your RWB registration, but you must register in advance for the workshops of your choice.
Some workshops have limited space.

Saturday Workshops

Listening Sessions
With Hans Ulrich Werner and Gregory Whitehead (limit to 5 per day)
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderators Hans Ulrich Werner (Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA).

Wireless Imagination workshop
by Tetsuo Kogawa (via live internet) and Stephen Kelly
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

Listening
with Andra McCartney
This workshop session will focus on soundwalk listening. We will go on a group listening soundwalk (wheelchair accessible) in the area of Ryerson University, and discuss what we hear during the walk. Following this, we will listen to some examples of soundwalk radio pieces by artists such as Hildegard Westerkamp and radio shows such as CBC Outfront, and discuss methods of making soundwalks engaging for the listener in a radio context. This workshop will take place rain or shine. If it is raining, bring an umbrella. They also work well as wind protection for your microphone!

It Goes By Once: Creative Documentary Production
by Steve Wadhams
An intensive workshop in the art and poetry of sound. Knowing how to create gripping stories for radio means knowing how to grab the ear and keep hold of it. It means listening for the vivid detail in location sounds and spoken words and finding an authentic 'voice' for the storyteller.This workshop will teach aspiring and experienced documentary producers and reporters, as well as any others who write for broadcast media, how to "compose" for the ear, especially the jittery, impatient ear that's typical of most audiences today. Ears and minds which won't and can't rewind or flip the page back to see what you were trying to say. You've got just one chance to be understood. Participants will learn how to maintain interest in a story, how to convey complicated ideas by simple images, how to write and speak so that listeners stay with you. The "grammar" of sounds and their effective, even sensual and seductive use to paint memorable mental images. Rhythm and pacing. Choosing when you want to jar or disturb your audience.

Sunday Workshops

Making
with Andra McCartney
This workshop session will focus on doing a recording, and discussing options for editing such work. We will go on a recording soundwalk (wheelchair accessible) in the area of Ryerson University. Following the walk, we will listen to excerpts of these recordings and discuss how we might approach the editing process. Participants are also encouraged to bring previously-made soundwalk recordings for discussion. Please bring your own recording equipment (any kind) and headphones. This workshop will take place rain or shine. If it is raining, bring an umbrella. They also work well as wind protection for your microphone!

It Goes By Once: Creative Documentary Production
by Steve Wadhams
An intensive workshop in the art and poetry of sound.
Knowing how to create gripping stories for radio means knowing how to grab the ear and keep hold of it. It means listening for the vivid detail in location sounds and spoken words and finding an authentic 'voice' for the storyteller.This workshop will teach aspiring and experienced documentary producers and reporters, as well as any others who write for broadcast media, how to "compose" for the ear, especially the jittery, impatient ear that's typical of most audiences today. Ears and minds which won't and can't rewind or flip the page back to see what you were trying to say. You've got just one chance to be understood. Participants will learn how to maintain interest in a story, how to convey complicated ideas by simple images, how to write and speak so that listeners stay with you. The "grammar" of sounds and their effective, even sensual and seductive use to paint memorable mental images. Rhythm and pacing. Choosing when you want to jar or disturb your audience.