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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. To follow are descriptions of their works that will be created for Deep Wireless and CBC radio's Outfront:
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"
CARGO by Hélène Prévost
Using a preexisting sequence,(a voice, an environment, interferences), I wish to work with a text ("maxims of the boiler room") that has no relation with the context. Not illustrating, but relating, letting the elements clash together and build their own meaning. Explore the voice, with extreme eqs, proximity, different rooms, and use the mixing board as a writing pad.
Hélène Prévost is a sound artist, musician and radio producer. At Radio-Canada (1977-2007), she produced : Musique actuelle, and « Navire « Night » , two programs in the field of new music, free improv and experimental music. She has a practice of sound exploration and has participated to a number of live performances, contributions on cd, and has written articles for Musicworks, Artexte, Esse, Circuit.
Ode to the Salish Sea by Paolo Pietropaolo
In British Columbia, there is a movement afoot to rename the Strait of Georgia in honour of the area's original inhabitants. The Ode to the Salish Sea is an aural dream-state: a remix of the music of its waters, and of the languages that stake a claim to name them.
Paolo Pietropaolo is a radio producer, sound designer and musician. His work for CBC Radio has been honoured with a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia, the Third Coast Festival Director's Choice Award and three consecutive New York Festivals Gold Medals for Editing.
Eavesdropping on the Waterfront by Andra McCartney
I was inspired by recently viewing the film The Water Front, a documentary about water privatisation. At the end of a rainstorm in July, I ran out of my house and put various items under the eaves -- metal boxes, plastic buckets, wooden bowls -- and recorded the raindrops hitting these surfaces. I used this recording along with the bass and voice tracks of the song "Please Mr Waterman", composed by bluesman Joe L. Carter for this film, to create a remix. My piece for Deep Wireless will extend this remix to include clips from the film and other water recordings from my collection.
A soundwalk artist, who works with her own field recordings to create works that explore the social ecology of soundscapes. Her sound works are available on CD anthologies produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (Montréal), Terra Nova (MIT), Musicworks (Toronto), Deep Wireless (Toronto), Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production (Ottcation Studies at Concordia University, teaching Sound in Media.
you, me and everyone we know by Iain Reid
My piece will explore the phenomena of strangers talking about anything and everything on their cell phones, in public. It will combine my re-recording of actual phone conversations I hear and the sound from each location. Funny, sad, surprising…anything’s possible…
Iain Reid's work has appeared on several CBC Radio shows, including, DNTO, Go, and Metro Morning. His Outfront documentary, The Silence of the Lambs, was selected for the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival. His writing has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Iceland Review and Atlantica Magazine.
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