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Complete Listings
Deep Wireless Festival
of Radio & Transmission Art
May 1-31, 2009
New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 8th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, May 1-31, 2009. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, NAISA presents cutting edge performances, a theatre production, sound installations, new commissions for CBC's Outfront, special radio broadcasts, a compilation CD and the Radio Without Boundaries conference.
May 1, 1-5pm
DEEP WIRELESS MEDIA LAUNCH AND OPEN HOUSE
the NAISA space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252
FREE
This event offers the opportunity for the public and media to experience radio and transmission first-hand as well as to sample upcoming highlights of the festival.
May 3 @ 4:30-7:00 am
International Dawn Chorus Day Celebration
Lakefront Promenade Park
FREE
Located at 800 Lakefront Promenade off of Lakeshore Road East, east of Cawthra Road.
Meet at Lakefront Promenade Park, wear appropriate attire for weather conditions (rain or shine)
New Adventures in Sound Art and the City of Mississauga, Office of Arts and Culture collaborate once again in Mississauga to celebrate 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, birders will be on-hand to help us identify the performers all of which will be recorded for later broadcast. This is part of a larger celebration of Jane's walk.
May 6, 7-9pm, opening of two gallery installations:
Radio Art Salon curated by Darren Copeland
Phoning in the Answer by John Gzowski and Camellia Koo
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #170
Continues May 7-23, Thurs, Fri, Sun 1-4pm, Sat 10-2pm
PWYC admission
Recline in an alternate sounding universe in a 50's style hair salon chair transformed into a radio art listening lounge with works curated by Darren Copeland drawn from the Deep Wireless international call for submissions on the theme the Ecology: Water, Air, Sound.
Phoning in the Answer is a sound installation using hanging telephone handsets to talk about our problems today. Using talk-show type questions, politician answers and responses recorded by the viewers, the answers are all mixed together to try to make one solution. Placing different points of view into different phones and then mixing up different viewpoints on each phone will we make it easier or harder to understand? Can we take all points of view into any solution to a problem, can they be part of the same solution?
May 7, 6-10pm
Opening of GOWANUS: Over/Under-Water by Kevin T. Allen
The Gladstone Hotel, second floor: 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Continues May 8-31, Sunday-Saturday noon-5pm
FREE
GOWANUS: Over/Under-Water is a study of the endangered soundscape of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. Housed within an instrument called a Phonoscope, the installation combines binaural under-water and over-water sound recordings with stereoscopic images to create a heightened audio- visual experience for the viewer/listener that begs a closer listening to his/her everyday environment.
May 7th @ 8pm
TRANSLOCAL performance of QUASIMODO the GREAT LOVER by Alvin Lucier
The NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #252
Tickets $10/5 students
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 spaces and connected via the internet across Lake Ontario and then down to the bottom of the Americas in Buenos Aires. Canadian performers include dreamSTATE at the NAISA space in Toronto, Gayle Young/Reinhardt Reitzenstein in Grimbsy, Laura Kavanagh/Ian Birse in Buenos Aires and Matt Rogalsky/Laura Cameron in Kingston.
May 8th @ 8pm AND repeat performance May 10th @ 8pm
FEEDBACK FRED & AUDIO BALLERINA performed by Benoît Maubrey & Marie-Josée Chartier
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #170
Admission $15/10 students
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), FEEDBACK FRED 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. 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).
May 9, 2pm
Workshop with Benoît Maubrey
The NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #252
Tickets $15/10 students
Benoit Maubrey, director of Die Audio Gruppe, will give a video presentation, provide a hands-on session and be on-hand for a question & answer period about performances with electroacoustic clothes, mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures in public spaces.
May 23, 26, 27, 28 @ 8pm $15/10 + matinée performances May 24 & 28 @ 2pm
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 St #170
Admission $15/10, matinées free for students with student card or $5
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 @ 8:30pm
RADiO iN AMBiENCE with the AMBiENT PiNG
The NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #252
Admission $6
The AMBiENT PiNG presents RADiO iN AMBiENCE once again as part of the Deep Wireless festival. Listen to Vancouver sound/radio artist Kristen Roos with Anna Friz and Nilan Perera as they coax the radio ether into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill.
May 28-30
Radio Without Boundaries Conference $150/130
at the LOOP Centre for lively Arts and Learning
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
The seventh annual Radio Without Boundaries conference makes Deep Wireless an internationally sought-after destination for those with a general interest in radio and transmission art, sound and radio artists and/or those who just want something more from radio. Exploring the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio and transmission art, the 2009 all-star line-up of international radio art luminaries includes Brandon LaBelle (USA/Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA), Chris Brookes (Can), Andrea Dancer (Can), Emmanuel Madan (Can), Anna Friz (Can), Neil Sandell (Can), Andra McCartney (Can), Paolo Pietropaolo (Can), Hélène Prévost (Can), Paul Ingles (US), Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), Hank Bull (Can), plus many more.
May 29 @ 8pm
Deep Wireless Ensemble performance #1 + Performance by Kristen Roos + Tesla Agencements ver.0905 (performance by Tetsuo Kogawa)
At the LOOP Centre for lively Arts and Learning
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
Admission $15/10
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 late night performances by Kristen Roos followed by Tetsuo Kogawa (free with 8pm admission).
May 30 @ 8pm
Deep Wireless Ensemble performance #2 + Performance by Alessandro Bosetti (Italy)
at the LOOP Centre for lively Arts and Learning
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
Admission $15/10
A different 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.-Alessandro Bosetti
CBC RADIO OUTFRONT Deep Wireless remaining broadcasts
May Broadcast dates TBA
Deep Wireless/Outfront commissions broadcast
CBC's Outfront will be broadcasting four special radio art pieces commissioned jointly by New Adventures in Sound Art and CBC's Outfront. This year listen to cutting edge new works by Hélène Prévost, Iain Reid, Paolo Pietropaolo and Andra McCartney
Special broadcasts on NAISA Radio
Ongoing throughout May
Throughout the month of May, NAISA will be broadcasting radio art works out of the NAISA space created by youth and artists in the community of the Artscape Wychwood Barns.
DW 6 RADIO ART Compilation CD
Available May 1st
NAISA will launch its 2-CD set Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2008 call for submissions on the theme Ecology: water, air, sound. The Deep Wireless 6 radio art compilation CD was curated from these submissions and represents the many talented radio and sound artists world-wide.
The Deep Wireless festival is a celebration of Radio Art produced by New Adventures in Sound Art that lasts the entire month of May each year and includes performances, radio broadcasts, commissions with CBC radio's "Outfront", a CD, installations, workshops and a conference.
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