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Performances
INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY CELEBRATION
May 4th @ dawn
2700 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga @ 4:45AM (yes that is AM)
at the corner or Winston Churchill Blvd and Lakeshore Road West
parking is available
 Dress for the outdoors, hiking boots if you have them, no facilities available. This is an outdoor event.
New Adventures in Sound Art and the City of Mississauga, Office of Arts and Culture collaborate to launch Mississauga's first celebration of International Dawn Chorus day, a worldwide celebration of Nature's daily Miracle, the chorus of sound initiated by birds at sunrise. The environs provide the concert, Mark Cranford from the South Peel Naturalists' Club
will be on-hand to help us identify the performers all of which will be recorded for later broadcast.
TRANS-LOCAL PERFORMANCE(S)
May 8 @ 8pm $5
@ IndexG (Gladstone Ave.),
Gallery 1313 (1313 Queen St W) &
the NAISA space (103 Beaconsfield Ave)
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org
It's a trans-local mash-up commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Deep Wireless radio art compilation CD by angelusnovus.net (Monica Clorey, Emilie LeBel, Henry Ng, David Ogborn, Jason Stanford, Chris Thornborrow, Hector Centeno, Troy Ducharme and others), ...insideAmind, Noino and more. This is a co-presentation between New Adventures in Sound Art, the Ambient Ping and angelusnovus.net.
These Trans-Local performances will be broadcast live in New York on www.free103point9.org.
Launch of NAISA's Toronto Artist Series
with the CEC - FREE
May 23, 9:30am - 5pm @ the NAISA Space
Note: very limited space, must pre-register
A day-long listening session devoted to the submissions of the 2008 JTTP (Jeu de Temps / Times Play). The sessions will run in (about) 90 minute blocks with time for coffee and conversation between sessions. This is an opportunity in a quiet, informal setting to listen to new work from the emerging community of Canadian sound artists.
Guerilla Radio Art Performances
May 25, 2008 @ the Canadian New Music Network conference
Edward Johnson Building, U of T, 80 Queen’s Park, 11 - 2 pm
Odradek (Jim Bailey, Michelangelo Iaffaldano & Andy Yue) will be performing interventions on May 25th during the CNMN conference. Bring your radio and have a listen - you might be surprised at what you hear...
Portraits in Sound - Deep Wireless Ensemble Each year, New Adventures in Sound Art assembles an eclectic group of performers with skills in a number of arts disciplines for a blind date with live radio performance. Together they craft a show that interweaves improvisation and prepared material, performing it in front of the Deep Wireless festival audience. This year's artists include Kathleen Kajioka, Andreas Kahre, Chantal Dumas and Debashis Sinha. Thanks also to Mark Cassidy for his guidance as director. Portraits in Sound 1
followed by Somewhere a Voice is Calling
May 30th @ 7pm ($15/10)
Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould St, alumnae room
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org Portraits in Sound 1 includes performances by the Deep Wireless ensemble as well as two commissioned works for C
BC's Outfront by Marjorie Chan and Tristan Whiston.
Requiem of a Boxer
by Tristan Whiston
Requiem for a Boxer follows a recently retired boxer as he returns to the gym to say a final goodbye. This is his requiem, his ‘prayer for that which is departed’, an audio composition that reveals what is often referred to in boxing as “heart”, and the heart of this one-time boxer.
Sound Portrait of a Violinist, two percussionists & a viewer
by Chantal Dumas
A structured improvisation based on and for the four performers in this year's Deep Wireless ensemble.
Dogs Say What?
by Marjorie Chan
In China, dogs say ‘wang wang’. In Spain, dogs say ‘guau guau’. In English, dogs say ‘woof woof’. A fun cross-cultural portrait of animal sounds from around the world.
The Man Who Loved Fish
by Andreas Kahre
A mad scientist presents his thesis that the world of fish is superior to the human world and that fish live in a world of continuous beauty which is not fractured by changes in consciousness as it is with humans.
 Somewhere a Voice is Calling
Performance by Absolute Value of Noise, Anna Friz and Glenn Gear
Created around the 100th anniversary of Reginald Fessenden's first long-distance broadcasts of voice on radio, "Somewhere a voice is calling" is an exploration of early wirelessness, primarily on the Atlantic Ocean, from 1900 - 1907. The piece incorporates VLF (Very Low Frequency) antennas to transduce radiant signal into sound, micro-casting to a multi-channel radio array using low-power transmitters, and distressed video images to conjure echoes from the aural and visual ether. Drawing from tales of ghost ships and myths from the early days of radio that claimed the seafaring dead could be contacted via shortwave, this performance evokes an unseen world of distant voices, sea, and static. Signals emerge from the depths of noise, manifest, mutate, migrate, and decay.
PORTRAITS IN SOUND 2
followed by Space: the Vinyl Frontier
May 31st @ 7pm ($15/10)
Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould St, alumnae room
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org
Portraits in Sound 2
includes performances by the Deep Wireless ensemble (see page 6) as well as two commissioned works for CBC's Outfront by Richard Marsella and Eldad Tsabary.
 The Ugliest Sound in the World
by Friendly Rich
In 1964, Dr. Ronald Gutt set out on a 10-year quest to find and capture the ugliest sound in the world. He documented his hunt with a small tape machine that the BBC recently discovered in Dr. Gutt's secret archives. The "ugliest sound" was played once by Dr. Gutt at a conference in 1977, and the entire audience was hospitalized shortly after.
Open C
by Kathleen Kajioka
What is the difference between a viola and an onion? Nobody cries when you cut up a viola. Overshadowed by the violin and bogged down by mockery, the viola is the underdog of the orchestra. Open C is a compassionate portrait of the heart and life of this dark beauty.
Whole Heartiness (2008)
by Eldad Tsabary
The first thing Father Joe showed me when I met him at the St. Willibrord Parish in Verdun was a large poster citing many versions of “Love your neighbor” from many religions in many languages. In the following two months I frequented the church and its hospitality centre in order to experience and learn more about how this important religious activity – loving your neighbor – is carried out on a daily basis in the close-knit St. Willibrord community. Among the countless stories of selflessness I encountered, I selected the hospitality centre – where all are welcome to spend a few hours and receive a hot meal and drinks three times a week – to represent charity and neighborly-love as an important aspect of religion and human life. Being of an Israeli background, I have always experienced an insatiable thirst for unconditional cross-religious human love, respect, and acts of charity; I have found it in the hearts and deeds of the good people of St. Willibrord Parish and composed this piece to express my thanks and appreciation to them.
The Kindest Heart
by Debashis Sinha
The kindest heart will be a live improvisation exploring the notion of kindheartedness . We are going to explore our kindest heart. we start slow, find it, enjoy it, and release it into the universe.
 SPACE: THE VINYL FRONTIER
by TradeMark G.
In 1977, NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to explore the outer solar system and beyond. The spacecraft also contained a message: a golden record, with 80 minutes of music, pictographic instructions on how to build a turntable, and a needle. For whom? In this performance, TradeMark G. and The Evolution Control Committee explore this ultimate desert island disc and a future race of alien DJs who try to make sense of the last record in the universe.
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