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NAISA Radio is a community radio station that New Adventures in Sound Art has set up at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street, to celebrate Radio Art. It is broadcasting over a 5-mile radius to the surrounding community throughout the month of May. NAISA Radio is part of The Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. Thanks to Garry Hooper with HP Services Inc. for making NAISA Radio possible. NAISA Radio will also broadcast over the internet for the entire month of May to a limited number of users with most live performances being re-broadcast by free103point9.org
in New York.
Andrew O'Connor is the Radio Art DJ and producer for the month of May for NAISA Radio as part of a month-long artist residency.
Deep Wireless/CBC Outfront
Broadcasts in May on CBC Radio 1
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and CBC Radio's Outfront, for the seventh year in a row, are 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 - Hélène Prévost, Paolo Pietropaolo, Andra McCartney and Iain Reid - 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 2009 festival of radio and transmission art. We are sad to say that this is the last year for this wonderful program as Outfront has been cancelled as of the end of June 2009. For more info go to the DW Residencies
page.
Here's the broadcast line-up for the Outfront pieces.. All shows on Friday @ 8:43pm
May 1
- Andra McCartney - "Eavesdropping on the Waterfront"
May 8
- Helene Prevost - "Cargo"
May 15
- Paolo Pietropaolo - "Ode to the Salish Sea"
May 22
- Iain Reid - "Me, You and Everyone We Know"
Deep Wireless 6 Compilation 2-CD set was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in 2009 as part of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The contents of the CD were curated by Darren Copeland from the submissions received on the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound from September 2008. Audio Mastering: Darren Copeland; Design: Nadene Theriault-Copeland; CD Illustraions: Prashant Miranda.
CD 1
1/ The Ugliest Sound in the World
by Richard Marsella 8:19 [listen]
2/ Forest to Desert
by Sarah Boothroyd 2:34 [listen]
3/ Still Voices
by Pete Stollery 6:17 [listen]
4/ DR. NAUT, an audible comic book
by Jobina Tinnemans 28:19 [listen]
5/ Waterpipe 1
by Ambrose Pottie 1:00 [listen]
6/ Champs de fouilles (Excavations)
by Martin Bedard 10:35
7/ Peak Experience
by Diana McIntosh 1:00 [listen]
8/ Radio Ghosts by by Mike Vernusky
& Greg Romero 11:02 [listen]
9/ 10 Below
by Sarah Peebles 0:59 [listen]
10/ Écologie Matérielle
by Adam Basanta 0:59 [listen]
CD 2
1/ Lack of Proper Words
by Sarah Boothroyd 0:59 [listen]
2/ Taking the Bridge
by Christian Nicolay 7:50 [listen]
3/ EnvironMentally Sound
by Pierre Desmarais 0:58 [listen]
4/ Mechanical Magpies
by Risto Holopainen 17:09 [listen]
5/ Telegram from Space
by Richard Désilets 0:59 [listen]
6/ Small Boy
by sylvi macCormac 1:02 [listen]
7/ Gotlandic Miscellanea
by Scott Wilson 8:04 [listen]
8/ If it hurts, you breathe faster
by Fereshteh Toosi 2:59 [listen]
9/ Wasserhalf
by Sean O'Neill 4:18 [listen]
10/ Folded and Broken
by Victoria Fenner 7:06 [listen]
11/ Worldcup
by François Girouard 0:59 [listen]
12/ ...and along came the railroad
by Cameron Catalano 4:22 [listen]
13/ Toronto Island Contrasts
by Elainie Lillios 0:59 [listen]
14/ snowSongs
by vivienne spiteri 19:58 [listen]
[listen]
the whole Deep Wireless 6 album.
© 2009, New Adventures in Sound Art, www.naisa.ca
CD1 Notes
1/ The Ugliest Sound in the World
by Richard Marsella (8:19)
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.
Richard Marsella is a composer from Georgetown, Ontario. Mr. Marsella has composed background music for 3 seasons of MTV's The Tom Green Show. He is the leader of the 10-piece cabaret ensemble The Lollipop People. Rich resides in the small 10meg suburban website www.friendlyrich.com. Friendly Rich recently produced a children's radio pilot for CBC Radio entitled Dr. Calamari's Cabinet.
2/ Forest to Desert
by Sarah Boothroyd (2:34)
Forest and Desert is an audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." This piece was selected as a winner in the Third Coast International Audio Festival's 2008 ShortDoc competition.
Sarah Boothroyd's work has been featured on CBC Radio in Canada, on BBC Radio 4, Resonance FM in London, WFMU in New York, and Chicago Public Radio. Her sound art has been presented at conferences, festivals, and exhibitions in Ireland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, and Nairobi. Her work has won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the European Broadcasting Union.
3/ Still Voices
by Pete Stollery (6:17)
I have become fascinated by the power that I have as a composer working with technology and fixed media to preserve sounds which will soon no longer exist. Workers at the Glendronach Distillery in North-East Scotland were told in 2004 that the plant was to move from coal-fired to a more ecological manufacturing process. This piece uses many of those "disappeared" sounds and weaves them in with others recorded in the distillery.
Pete Stollery composes electroacoustic music where there exists an interplay between the original "meaning" of sounds and sounds existing purely as sound objects. In his music, this is achieved by the juxtaposition of real (familiar) and unreal (unfamiliar) sounds to create surreal landscapes. His music is published by empreintes DIGITALes.
4/ DR. NAUT, an audible comic book
by Jobina Tinnemans (28:19)
After a research abroad, Dr. Naut has returned to Earth as a different person. But is she now grounded after her infinite explorationþ Watch her discover a new world - in this half hour science fiction radioplay.
Music by Blatnova (aka Jobina Tinnemans) establishes a magical biotope where '50s optimism, functionalism, UFOs, Sixties design, Sci Fi and ecology can peacefully live next to each other. This is a complete recipe. The ingredients Blatnova is using to cook make a weird alchemy - while you're listening you will discover there's a little door in the speakers of your soundsystem. You pass and enter a new universe.
5/ Waterpipe 1
by Ambrose Pottie (1:00)
Waterpipe 1 is a one minute urban soundscape featuring a series of resonant heating and circulation pipes situated near an active sewer drain. The recording was made using a pair of hand-held omni-directional microphones in a Jecklin disc array. With the exception of a fade in/out, no editing or processing was done to this recording.
Ambrose Pottie, born in 1959, is a Toronto based musician, phonographer and graphic designer. Primarily self taught, he has recorded and/or performed with Parmela Attariwala, Bob Becker, Anne Bourne, Eugene Chadbourne, Crash Vegas, Andrew Cyrille, Fred Frith, Bill Grove, Guy Klucevsek, Evan Lurie, and The Polka Dogs.
6/ Champs de fouilles (Excavations)
by Martin Bedard (10:35)
Commissioned by the ensemble Erreur de type 27 for the Québec City 400th anniversary (1608-2008) celebrations. Excavations is a homage to the history and unique character of Québec City (Canada). In the piece, I explore the cohabitation of electroacoustic media and sound culture, which I identify as being the unique sound heritage of a community or area.
Martin Bedard earned his master's degree in electroacoustic composition under the direction of composer Yves Daoust and Andre Fecteau at the Conservatoire de musique de Montreal, graduating with honours. His keen interest in film language and sound culture should provide him ample new creative avenues to explore for future projects. He is currently a lecturer and a PhD student in electroacoustic composition with composer Robert Normandeau at Université de Montréal. He also teaches at the Conservatoire de musique de Montreal in the electroacoustic composition class.
7/ Peak Experience
by Diana McIntosh (1:00)
Peak Experience flows from my many mountain climbing adventures - hiking up and down valleys and glaciers and struggling up to summits. The mystery, the excitement, the beauty, the exhaustion are all part of the struggle to reach high places. This little 60-second slice of high altitudes was created using a Synclavier digital synthesizer, some sampled concrete sounds done on a keyboard sampler, and recording my own breathing while hiking in the mountains.
Diana McIntosh has a dual career of composer and performer. She has been commissioned to write for orchestra, chamber ensemble, vocal, choir, instrumental soloists, dance, mime, electronics and theatrically-oriented music. As a performer, she has travelled throughout Canada, widely in the USA, in Britain, Ireland, France, Portugal and Kenya.
8/ Radio Ghosts (excerpts)
by Mike Vernusky (Composer) & Greg Romero (playwright) (11:02)
A father tries to speak to his lost son through radio waves. A woman carrying a wool blanket appears and shatters the world. A physician tests his imagination with a patient who continually falls into fires. A widow speaks to her lost lover through the waves of the Pacific ocean.
Greg Romero is a playwright and a theatre artist, originally from Lousisina, and currently living in Philadelphia, Pa. Mike Vernusky is a freelance sound artist from Austin, Texas.
9/ 10 Below
by Sarah Peebles (0:59)
10 below (Celsius) is the perfect Winter temperature.
Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based composer, improviser and installation artist. She has been spending a lot of time with bees lately, and her ongoing collaboration "Resonating Bodies", can be viewed at http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com Her music is available on various recordings and on the net (sarahpeebles.net). Special thanks to Lindsay Apieries, Matthew Leonard, Radio New Zealand, Veronica Meduna, and Dean Hapeta and family.
10/ Écologie Matérielle
by Adam Basanta (9:07)
Between the natural enviroment and the consumer product derived from it (paper/plastic/wrappers/foil) lies a sonic and metaphoric continuum. Within this scope, I expore variations on the themes of extraction and re-depostion between opposing sound-images, investigating an evolving musical interplay between the ecological organiation of characteristics of each sound world.
Adam Basanta is a Music major at SFU's School of Contemporary Arts, studying electroacoustic composition with Barry Truax. In his compositions, Adam tries to preserve a connection to the real world while engaging with acousmatic techniques. He is particularly interested in semiotic approaches to electroacoustic composition, compositional use of sound phenomenology, as well as found sound environments. His compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals throughout North America, and have been recipients of national awards. www.myspace.com/adambasanta.
CD2 Notes
1/ Lack of Proper Words
by Sarah Boothroyd (0:59)
Lack of Proper Words is a study of the sounds people make to fill silence. The work incorporates reiterations, hesitations, and various verbal crutches.
Sarah Boothroyd's work has been featured on CBC Radio in Canada, on BBC Radio 4, Resonance FM in London, WFMU in New York, and Chicago Public Radio. Her sound art has been presented at conferences, festivals, and exhibitions in Ireland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, and Nairobi. Her work has won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the European Broadcasting Union.
2/ Taking the Bridge
by Christian Nicolay (7:50)
Taking the Bridge is an attempt to resurrect abandoned and obsolete objects by amplifying and constructing their sounds, re-inventing their function into instruments for contemporary dialogue. Using a multitude of various pick-ups, guitar pedals, and amplifiers the collection of sounds from an unauthorized climbing of Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver are constructed together on broken tape recorders to further explore the gritty, linear qualities of analogue tape and accentuate this exploration of erosion and abandonment. The bridge is not only an instrument, but also a way to cross over into places you would not know how to get to through logical investigations.
Christian Nicolay has been the recipient of several visual and media arts awards, artistic director, and curator of various projects, including collaborations with artists from various fields in video, performance, sound and installation. He has given several lectures about his work, and has exhibited and performed in numerous spaces worldwide including Public, Commercial, and Artist Run Art Galleries.
3/ EnvironMentally Sound
by Pierre Desmarais (0:58)
This composition is a reflection on our gasoline/car obsessed society, and how this obsession is threatening our natural environment.
Pierre Desmarais received a Masters in Composition at l'Université de Montréal in 1999. His thesis, a composition for string orchestra and percussion entitled Le cri, d'après Edvard Munch, was performed by I Musici de Montréal. His music, which is inspired by images and visual art, navigates through a great variety of genres.
4/ Mechanical Magpies
by Risto Holopainen (17:09)
Pink noise from the brook pollutes the air and water and fills the woods. What makes us prefer that to traffic noiseþ Traffic is an organic fluid flowing in the city's blood vessels. Imagine a collective of agents: Friends and enemies. Surveillance and so on. Incredible intelligence. Artificial stupidity. We have artificial creatures living in nesting-boxes. Can they suck the fluid out of the city's blood vesselsþ
Risto Holopainen was born in 1970 in Sweden. He studied composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music with Lasse Thoresen and others, followed by studies in musicology. Currently he pursues a PhD project on adaptive synthesis at the University of Oslo. His compositions include both electroacoustic and instrumental music for concert, dance and radioplays, but he has also made computer animation and video. His Garbage Collection has appeared on Mere records.
5/ Telegram from Space
by Richard Désilets (0:59)
The idea was to shake, flap, tear and to screw up different pieces of paper. Then I recorded the different textures of paper and added one more synthetic sound. I imagine the work as a message from outer space.
Richard Désilets is a freelance composer. He finished his Masters degree in composition from the University of Montreal in 1987. His experience in music realization ranges from composing operas to multimedia music production with some research in experimental and contemporary music. He is a pianist but now his principal instrument is the computer and its music-processing tools.
6/ Small Boy
by sylvi macCormac (1:02)
Cree Nation, Small Boy, speaks about Nepi / Water and tells us that Aski means Earth; Yoten means Wind. Paddle in Lake was recorded by David Murphy - www.SFU.ca. Small Boy, South Indian Stringed Instrument & Male Vocalist, was recorded with permission at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and composed for 60x60. 'Small Boy' will be part of the VFMF Soundscapes 1999-2009 - www.thefestival.bc.ca
sylvi macCormac received honourable mention at IMEB, France (1999) and co-produced Uts'am / Witness CD (2004) including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bruce Cockburn, Barry Truax and Squamish Sp'ak'wus Slúlum / Eagle Song Dancers. sylvi started WHEELS Soundscape: with Voices of People with Dis Abilities (1997).
7/ Gotlandic Miscellanea
by Scott Wilson (8:04)
Gotlandic Miscellanea was created at a residency at the Visby International Centre for Composers on Gotland in Sweden. The material is a random collection of sonic flotsam, some recorded around the island, some using found objects. It is dedicated to my friend and colleague Jonty Harrison.
Scott Wilson was born in Vancouver, Canada and studied in Canada, the U.S., and Germany. He currently lives in the U.K., where he works with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and teaches at the University of Birmingham.
8/ If it hurts, you breathe faster
by Fereshteh Toosi (2:59)
Buffalo, NY resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Ontario border Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in the neighborhood that has higher then average rates of asthma. This piece uses the following sound files from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org): dog panting from dobroide and dog walking from FreqMan.
Fereshteh Toosi is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, sound, performance, and public intervention. Fereshteh lives in Chicago where she is working on a sound walk about environmental justice in central New York. You my find samples of her work at http://fereshteh.net
9/ Wasserhalf
by Sean O'Neill (4:18)
Wasserhalf focuses on micro-granular movements and the expansive potential of emergent gestures. The sound sources consist of environmental field recordings treated using digital manipulation and real-time processing.
Sean O'Neill works with textural elements of field recordings, envnironmental/urban impressions and found sound. He is interested in the acoustics of structural spaces and natural ambience, incorporating electronics and interactive mix-media. His recordings have been used for performance, installation, and radio, including 404 Festival, Spark, and the Ice Hotel Sweden.
10/ Folded and Broken
by Victoria Fenner (7:06)
Folded and Broken consists of recordings from Hogs Back Falls, Ottawa Ontario. Hogs Back is both wild and civilized .. a city park in a landscape which looks natural but is highly engineered. "A wild place in the midst of an orderly cityscape" -- nature by consent .. wilderness tamed.
Victoria Fenner is a radio producer and environmental sound artist living in Hamilton Ontario. She has over twenty years experience in radio production as a producer, journalist, documentarian and technician and has worked for CBC Radio and community stations in Canada and the United States. She has also produced syndicated radio programs with Earth Chronicle Productions, a company that focuses on the environment and sustainable development. In addition to her work in programming, Victoria also organizes and teaches training workshops in radio skills and sound art.
11/ Worldcup
by François Girouard (0:59)
Worldcup is made with edited recordings of the party in the streets of Little Italy, Montreal, resulting from the victory of Italy in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
François Girouard is a composer, guitarist, drummer and videographer born in Joliette, Canada. He studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal and has created several works for dance and theatre. He has played guitar in many bands (The Frootfly, Serial Numbers, Mortabelle) and can also be found behind the drums performing with Dynamo Coléoptera. His video-music works have been presented in international festivals including the Pärnu International Film & Video Festival in Estonia, SOUNDPlay in Toronto, Outer Limits in New York, ISEA 2000 in Paris and Elektra in Montreal.
12/ ...and along came the railroad
by Cameron Catalano (4:22)
As a 5 year Vancouver resident, one of the first things I recognize upon visiting my hometown of Williams Lake is crickets chirping. Their calming ambiance is unfortunately muffled or absent in the city. This composition is a commentary on unanticipated ecological impacts that occur due to technological advances.
Cameron Catalano has recently completed 3 commissioned compositions for NAV CANADA. He is a member of the Vancouver musical collective Eunoia. He also participates in Degenrelization - a series of sonic experiments conducted at Gladgnome Studios. In 2008, he completed his undergraduate degree in Communications at Simon Fraser University.
13/ Toronto Island Contrasts
by Elainie Lillios (0:59)
This soundscape postcard portrays the multifaceted nature of Toronto Island. I had the opportunity to visit during one of their air show weekends and was amazed by the sonic contrasts between technology and nature.
Elainie Lillios' music is influenced by her fascination with listening, sound, space, time, immersion and anecdote. Influential mentors include Jonty Harrison, Pauline Oliveros and Larry Austin. Sonic experiences available on Empreintes DIGITALes, StudioPANaroma, La Muse en Circuit, New Adventures in Sound Art and SEAMUS labels, plus online at www.elillios.com
14/ snowSongs
by vivienne spiteri (19:58)
the inuit have many words for snow. do the different snows also have different voices, make different soundsþ curious, i went to nunavut to find out. the piece, in seven continuous parts (in the beginning, two clumps of earth, snowSongs, sister sun brother moon, shaman, qallunaat, swanSong) traces the sounds of snow as experienced through the ancient inuit life cycle and their complex mythology, to today's environmental deterioration.
vivienne spiteri is an independent instrumental artist (harpsichord) whose work centres on music of our time. in 2003, she composed her first electroacoustic work (anahata, for 'tape' and harpsichord interior) that explores silence as positive space, thresholds of in/audibility, and aural illusion.
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