Deep Wireless 2007 month-long Artists-in-Residencies For Deep Wireless 2007, we have three month-long Artist-in-Residencies: Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly (Halifax) will be our guests for the month of May and giving workshops, presenting installations and performing in several trans-local events; Harmon e Phraysiar (UK) will be creating a new radio theatre piece each week . Artists-in-Residence Stephen Kelly 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 musical instruments. Stephen has recorded, produced, and released over 14 musical albums on his independent label Dead Bum.
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.
Harmon e Phraysiar Jim Xentoz 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.
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. "Through a Door"
About Sarah Boothroyd 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. "At the Corner" At the Corner is a portrait of a neighbourhood in transition from the perspectives of by-passers crossing the town square. From the homeless and drug-addicted, to panhandlers and bottle collectors, from the tradesmen and realtors, to the trendy and in About Thelon Oeming 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 schizophrenic neighbour Who is Vern Nash? was recognized for ‘originality and innovation’ by the Prix Italia jury. "Trains-crossing" "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.
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". "Trans-Visa: A Cardboard Box in Berlin" 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 About Robert Hoare website 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). |
Artist residencies are once again an important part of Deep Wireless 2007. Our month-long 
Eleanor King
love – disparate lives intersect on the street, making connections where none existed before. At the Corner listens for echoes of the past in the sounds of the modern city as it looks at Parkdale’s transformation from elite suburb to impoverished slum to one of the hottest real estate markets in town.
About Steve Wadhams 
humorous look at life in a history-laden city where each day is equally long, but nothing is more unpredictable than their width.