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Performance pass $40/30 student (includes 5 performances)
naisa@naisa.ca or 416-652-5115 for details
OPENING NIGHT SHOW - Ground, Resonance, Radio
co-presented by the Ambient Ping
Emmanuel Madan, Anna Friz and EC Woodley
May 1 @ 8pm & May 10 @ 2pm $15/10
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, #170
$15/$10 student (free for conference registrants)
The worlds of vinyl record collage and multi-channel micro-watt radio intervention come together in a collaborative performance by Anna Friz and EC Woodley, as well as a performance by Emmanuel Madan, co-presented with The Ambient Ping.
From my Home to your Home, a Translocal Performance
May 8 @ 8pm
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, #170
$15/$10 student (free for conference registrants)
The show will begin with an improvisation by Anne Bourne/Darren Copeland followed by a surround performance of Roger Mills' The Idea of South. Originally aired on 3 separate broadcast channels in Australia the Idea of South explores the notion of reaching out across long distances that also preoccupies many Canadian artists' interest in radio and long distance communication. In From My Home to Your Home, NAISA is teaming up with the Syneme telematics lab at the University of Calgary for a translocal performance bringing together musicians at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, Eldad Tsabary and Emmanuel Madan in Montréal, David Eagle in Calgary, Ken Fields in Beijing and other highlights.
The Pencil Project by Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis
for a full description of the pencil project click here
May 27 @ 1 PM, PWYC (free for students)
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, #176
Join sound artists Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis from Québec for a special sneak preview performance of The Pencil Project with the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about sound art. Hosted by Darren Copeland of NAISA.
Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya by Götz Naleppa
features performance by Lawrence Bayne
co-presented with the Goethe-Institut-Toronto
May 27 @ 8 PM
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, #176
$15/$10 student (free for conference registrants)
World premiere of the english version of Götz Naleppa's Popol Vuh – The Book of the Origin of the Maya, an award-winning radio play featuring a performance by Lawrence Bayne. The Popol Vuh belongs to the most important creation myths of the early advanced cultures in the world.
Deep Wireless Ensemble Performs both nights + Pencil Project (28) + Freedom Highway (29)
Friday, May 28 & Saturday, May 29, 8 pm Performance
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, #176
$15/$10 student (free for conference registrants)
This year's Deep Wireless Ensemble includes writer and radio artist Gregory Whitehead, performance artist Shannon Cochrane, turntable artist Erik Laar (of insideamind), and actor and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Singh who will present two different sets of performances (one each on the 28th and 29th) that each explore radio art as a live performance medium in the 21st century. May 28th also features a performance of The Pencil Project by Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis (imagine school desks becoming sound instruments!) and Freedom Highway by Emmanuel Madan. Also included are works commissioned by CBC radio’s Living Out Loud by Andrea Dancer, Charlotte Scott, Steven Naylor and Andreas Kahre as well as snapshots of the H.P. Dinner Show and Karinne Keithley's Basement Tapes of the Mole Cabal.
The Pencil Project is a performance piece created by sound artists Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis. Their intention was to craft a live electronic music piece inspired by the physicality of writing and the imagery it articulates. Using computer technology, the performers translate scribbling, scratching, dotting and drawing with a pencil into music. Although a lot of programming, signal processing and design provide the backbone of this project, one of its main objectives is to keep the technology invisible. The most important aspect of The Pencil Project is the music itself. Using the proximity of contact microphones, an extensive range of sonorities and “sound gestures” is created.
Freedom Highway, performed by Emmanuel Madan, is an exploration of mass media and American public discourse in the post-9/11 context based on recordings of talk radio shows while the artist journeyed across the eastern US in September 2002.
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