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May 3rd @ dawn (4:30 am - 7 am) FREE
INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY CELEBRATION in MISSISSAUGA
Lakefront Promenade Park
Located at 800 Lakefront Promenade off of Lakeshore Road East, east of Cawthra Road.
Meet at Lakefront Promenade Park, where we will proceed to the western headland to hear nature's symphony - sounds initiated by birds at sunrise. Special guests include Birder Mark Cranford (South Peel Naturalist Club) and SOUNDwalkers Darren Copeland and Nadene Thériault-Copeland. Tantalizing surprises will stimulate the senses and make this early rise an unforgettable adventure for all ages.
Info: 905-615-3200 x4067 or 416-652-5115
www.mississauga.ca
May 7th @8pm $10/5
TRANSLOCAL performances of QUASIMODO the GREAT LOVER
by Alvin Lucier and directed by Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron
The NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #252, Toronto
A realization of Alvin Lucier's Quasimodo the Great Lover directed by Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron. Whale and bird sounds are transformed by their passage through acoustic space and connected via the internet across Lake Ontario and then down to the bottom of the Americas in Beunos Aires. Canadian performers include dreamSTATE at the NAISA space in Toronto, Gayle Young/Reinhardt Reitzenstein in Grimsby, Laura Kavanagh/Ian Birse in Buenos Aires and Matt Rogalsky/Laura Cameron in Kingston.
May 8th @ 8pm $15/10 AND repeat performance May 10th @ 8pm $15/10
FEEDBACK FRED & AUDIO BALLERINA
with performances by Benoît Maubrey & Marie-Josée Chartier
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #170, Toronto
FEEDBACK FRED
A Phonic Body (performed by Benoît Maubrey)
FEEDBACK FRED, equipped with an oversized loudspeaker box on his back and a microphone-mask, "feeds back" his own voice through the interaction of his wearable PA system and physical gyrations throughout the performance space. This personality can be likened to a cross-cloning of Hamlet and an electronic-laden Hunchback of Notre Dame. Known as a performer (recently at the Digital Arts Week in Zurich and VERSCH Festival in Amsterdam) he is actually a social fellow trying to interact with casual acquaintances and everyday encounters, like most of us he only wants friendship and love -- were it not for his inborn handicap. Watch a video of FEEDBACK FRED.
AUDIO BALLERINA
A Phonic Body (Dancer Marie-Josée Chartier)
The AUDIO BALLERINA uses -- among other electronic instruments-- light sensors that enable her to produce sounds through the interaction of her movements and the surrounding light (PEEPER choreography). Via movement sensors she can also trigger electronic sounds that are subsequently choreographed --or "orchestrated"-- into musical compositions as an "audio ballet " (YAMAHA choreography). Watch past videos of the AUDIO BALLERINAS here
and here.
History of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE
Benoît Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes (AUDIO BALLERINAS, AUDIO GEISHAS, AUDIO STEELWORKERS, BONG BOYS, VIDEO PEACOCKS...). Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that create sounds by interacting with their environment. (watch a video of the VIDEO PEACOKS here)
Over the years some of the Audio Gruppe's members have developed solos with a particular instrument: certain costumes have muted into highly individualistic and self-contained sound units. These are individual "phonic" bodies that produce their own personal sounds and movements in intimate and close-to-the-spectator performances.
More audio-figures began to emerge from the collaborative street performances, the Tokyo performances added the Audio Geishas' sampler-and-stroboscope lighting duos to the palette (see catalog AUDIO GEISHAS and ASIAN THEMES). But it was only in 1998 after the creation of the Audio Kimonos that the Gruppe was able to present an evening at Berlin's legendary SO36 club. This piece included 4 Audio Ballerinas, 4 Audio Geishas, and 4 different solos (Electronic Guy) with a total of 12 participants. Six months later a similar event was presented at the Malta festival in Poznan in the courtyard of the local classical ballet school where the core personel of the Audio Gruppe was supplemented with 3 of the school's teenage pupils. In February of 1999 DAG was invited to present 3 solo works at the International Dance and Technology Conference (IDAT) in Phoenix,Arizona where the group was able to hold its own against bombastic multimedia "intelligent" stage productions.
Related websites: www.audioballerinas.com
and Net_Music_Weekly: "Cyberbirds"
May 23, 26, 27, 28 @ 8pm $15/10
+ matinée performances May 24 & 28 @ 2pm free with student card or $5
I dont want to be an inside me anymore
Solo theatre work performed by Sebastian Schäfer
Co-produced with Threshold Theatre
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #170, Toronto
Threshold Theatre joins forces with NAISA to present i dont want to be an inside me anymore, an adaptation of the radio documentary by Darren Copeland based on the autobiography by Birger Sellin and performed by German actor Sebastian Schäfer. Birger Sellin is determined to throw off the loneliness that "like a great clod of earth" threatens to "weigh down his soul." But, despite the eloquence and power of his writing, he remains severely autistic; his world is unbelievably remote from ours. Yet the uncompromisingly honest messages he sends to "humanity-without-me" will touch all those who read them and serve as he hopes, as inspiration for others who must struggle to express ideas and emotions locked deep inside themselves.
May 27 @ 8pm $6
RADiO iN AMBiENCE
co-presented with AMBiENT PiNG
The NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #252, Toronto
The AMBiENT PiNG presents RADiO iN ABiENCE once again as part of the Deep Wireless festival. Listen to Vancouver sound/radio artist Kristen Roos as he coaxes the radio ether into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill (more performers TBA).
Related website: Ghost Station by Kristen Roos presented at Nuit Blanche
Ferry Crossing Interpreted & Vinegar Factory One by Kristen Roos and Anna Friz
This performance will consist of two fifteen-minute pieces. The first is based on a score that Kristen created from a collage of field recordings gathered on Vancouver Island, Cortes Island and the ferry between Cortes Island and Quadra Island. Together they will recreate this Ferry Crossing using a theremin, radios, and various amplified objects. The second piece originates from a performance at the Vinegar Factory (http://www.myspace.com/thevinegarfactory) in Vancouver, for bowed fire bells, amplified wire brush, tape recorder, theremin, harmonica, kazoo, and radios.
May 29 @ 8pm $15/10
Deep Wireless Ensemble performance #1
+ Performance by Kristen Roos
+ Tesla Agencements ver.0905 (performance by Tetsuo Kogawa)
The LOOP Centre for Lively Arts and Learning, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #176, Toronto
Surprises and delights are in store for audiences both familiar and unfamiliar with radio art will be delighted with this year's Deep Wireless Ensemble's performances. Internationally renown performance artist Brandon LaBelle, multi-disciplinary artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, and sound artists François Girouard and Jessica Thompson collaborate together to create multi-media performance experiences using their various areas of expertise in performance and new media art responding to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound. These performances will be presented alongside works commissioned by CBC Radio's Outfront by Hélène Prévost, Iain Reid, Paolo Pietropaolo and Andra McCartney. With a late night performance by Kristen Roos (free with 8pm admission).
With late night solo performance
by Kristen Roos
(free with 8pm admission)
Kristen Roos will present a performance that mixes his collection of field recordings on lacquer records and audio tape. The performance will be amplified through the main system at the venue, and broadcast to radios surrounding the audience. This is meant for the ears, and is experienced best if the audience closes their eyes and sits back for the ride.
Followed by
Tesla Agencements ver.0905 (performance by Tetsuo Kogawa)
(free with 8pm admission)
Different from music and sound art, Tetsuo Kogawa has been pursuing radioart where the sounds and images are merely the indexes or remains of airwave oscillation. Mapping and arranging polymorphous conditions of airwaves, includes his body in the electromagnetic field.
May 30 @ 8pm $15/10
Deep Wireless Ensemble performance #2
+ Performance by Alessandro Bosetti
The LOOP Centre for Lively Arts and Learning, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #176, Toronto
A second set of performances by Internationally renown performance artist Brandon LaBelle, multi-discipline artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, and sound artists François Girouard and Jessica Thompson who will collaborate together to create multi-media performance experiences using their various areas of expertise in performance and new media art responding to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound and will be presented alongside works commissioned by CBC Radio's Outfront by Hélène Prévost, Iain Reid, Paolo Pietropaolo and Andra McCartney
With late night performance of Mask/Mirror
by Alessandro Bosetti
(free with 8pm admission)
A few months ago I wrote a note to myself:
"Try to create a mask that that doesn't have anything to do with anything."
I kept wondering what that could mean until I started to imagine Mask/Mirror.
Mask/Mirror is a sampler that processes recordings of spoken language in real time. It uses samples of my own voice creating the ambiguous situation of being interrupted by myself all the time and of having to resort to all possible resources to keep making sense. The sampler follows both sound and meaning criteria in sorting, organizing and processing samples and formulating utterances. It randomly manages sample banks of words making possible to determine the syntactic form of a phrase ( for example noun - verb - noun ) but not the actual words the phrase it's made of. Mask/Mirror is a software tool based on Max/Msp that interacts with my own voice during performances. It also explores the sounding character of the voice/speech material through sound processing and pitch tracking. M/M is also a state of mind enabling expanded spoken and vocal improvisation, expanded communication and ecstasy.
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