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CBC RADIO LIVING OUT LOUD / DEEP WIRELESS
BC Radio’s Living Out Loud/Deep Wireless
May Broadcast dates & times TBA
Deep Wireless/Living Out Loud commissions broadcast

CBC's Living Out Loud will be broadcasting four special radio art pieces commissioned jointly by New Adventures in Sound Art and CBC's Living Out Loud. This year listen to cutting edge new works by Andrea Dancer, Charlotte Scott, Steven Naylor and Andreas Kahre.

Special broadcasts on NAISA Radio
Ongoing throughout May

For the second year in a row radio art will have a 24 hour home for the month of May on NAISA Radio broadcasting at webcast.naisa.ca and on a FM frequency 106.1. Tune in at your convenience for radio that both reflects the community surrounding the Artscape Wychwood Barns and radio that explores the cutting edge in sound art creation. Special highlights include a program of radio art works curated by Götz Naleppa for Deutschlandradio Kultur, live market broadcasts every Saturday morning, and radiophonic sound journeys around the neighbourhood.

Naisa Radio Schedule

DW 7 RADIO ART Compilation CD

Deep Wireless 7 was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in 2010 as part of the annual Deep Wireless festival in May, a month-long celebration of radio art. Deep Wireless 7 is for radio use only and not for re-sale. NAISA is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art.

CD 1

1/ can you say haa? by Reena Katz 13:29 [listen]
2/ Natural Opera by Alex Cannon 03:39 [listen]
3/ Tombak by Madjid Tahriri 04:51 [listen]
4/ Through a door by Sarah Boothroyd 07:47 [listen]
5/ Chronostasis (excerpt) by Andreas Bick 05:07
6/ cave_music preview by Erik Ross 11:00
7/ My Path Today by Matteo Pogo and Valeria Merlini 02:23 [listen]
8/ Homespun (topophilia) Alexander Baker 11:14 [listen]
9/ Where Is Home? by Viv Corringham 00:57 [listen]
10/ The Rocket by Richard Sebastian Lavoie 04:22 [listen]
11/ A deux voix moments (Moments for Two Voices) by Andrea Cohen and Wiska Radkiewicz 11:12 [listen]

CD 2

1/ In My Language I Am Smart by Dragan Todorovic 08:27
2/ I wish by Steven Naylor 09:45
3/ Miutes Tessituras by Andrea-Jane Cornell and Emilie Mouchous 12:25 [listen]
4/ No Place Like Home by Martin Williams 01:01 [listen]
5/ Sustenance (excerpt) by Nichola Scrutton 11:30 [listen]
6/ What if? from the collection Out of House And Home by Nicole Grutter 01:18 [listen]
7/ Homespun by David Hindmarch 14:00 [listen]
8/ Kaliash (excerpt) by Debashis Sinha 05:09
9/ Canciones de las Madres by Cherie Moses 13:24 [listen]

© 2010, New Adventures in Sound Art

CD1 Notes

1/ can you say haa? by Reena Katz (13:29)

Sound artist Reena Katz uses the metaphor of cartography to layer linguistic, familial and cultural narratives of Palestine and Zionist history. In this impressionistic piece, Katz critically engages the question of multiple truths in a single geography. can you say haa? won the Best New Artist award in the 2003 Third Coast Festival/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation competition and was commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the 2003 Deep Wireless / Outfront residency.

Reena Katz uses recorded sound, handmade electronics, wood and live performance to create diverse listening spaces.  Her work explores gender, ethnicity, migration and anachronism with a constant reference to collectivity and oral archive.  Katz’s compositions, installations and performances have been exhibited at galleries, festivals and on radio internationally, including Toronto, Montreal, New York and Berlin.

2/ Natural Opera by Alex Cannon (3:39)

Natural Opera is a soundscape piece related to home by using the natural sounds of Earth. It transcends the idea that people can own a part of the world and in turn call that small part home. It looks at the bigger picture of the entire planet as the home which is shared by everything which exists on Earth.

Alex Cannon was born in 1991 in Toronto, Canada.  He is currently finishing high school and working to become an audio engineer and general sound technician for theater shows and festivals around the city.

3/ Tombak by Madjid Tahriri (4:51)

Tombak is an Iranian percussion instrument, capable of performing very complex rhythms. My piece tries to discover new playing techniques for the Tombak, which usually aren't playable on it (such as pitch changes, sustained notes, etc.) The basic idea of the composition is a conversation between three different Tombak each having its own character (low, middle, high register).

Since 2006 Madjid Tahriri has studied instrumental and electronic composition at the Folkwang University Essen. His music is performed internationally. In 2009 Madjid Tahriri obtained the Folkwang Prize in the composition category.

4/ Through a door by Sarah Boothroyd (7:47)

Commissioned in 2007 by CBC Radio and New Adventures In Sound Art, this is a soundscape piece about the Nicholas Street Jail in Ottawa, a structure described by a jail inspector in 1946 as a monstrous relic of an imperfect civilization where cells are medieval, incredibly cramped, with conditions far below the limits of human decency.

Sarah Boothroyd's work has been featured on CBC Radio, BBC Radio, Resonance FM, WFMU, and Chicago Public Radio.  Her sound art has been presented in Spain, China, Ireland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, and Nairobi. Boothroyd has won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the European Broadcasting Union.

5/ Chronostasis (excerpt) by Andreas Bick (5:07)

In Chronostasis, the sound of time becomes audible via the many-voiced ticking of a wide array of antique clocks. The simplest rhythmic information, the pendular motion of a clock mechanism, gives rise to a complex tangle of overlapping patterns and pulses. For a moment, in the ritual of constant repetition, time seems to stand still.

Andreas Bick is a producer and composer of radio art, his works have received many international awards including a World Silver Medal at the New York Festivals Award 2009 and the Phonurgia Nova prize 2008, among others. He also writes film scores for German TV and cinema productions and composes music for radio plays and dance theater choreographies.

6/ cave_music preview by Erik Ross (11:00)

cave_music preview is from a project that was conceived by the Contemporary Keyboard Society (Katelyn Clark and Xenia Pestova) and composed by Erik Ross. The text in this version was written by Sierra Love and Erik Ross and was read by Katelyn Clark, Joanne Mitchell, Xenia Pestova and Erik Ross. It was initially designed for the Bonnechere Caves in Eganville, Ontario.

Dr. Erik Ross composes for all media. His works have been performed in Canada, the US, Mexico, England, Japan, Thailand and Australia. www.erikross.com. The Contemporary Keyboard Society was formed in Montreal in 2006 by Katelyn Clark (harpsichord) and Xenia Pestova (piano) to encourage and promote the performance of new repertoire for keyboards. www.contemporarykeyboardsociety.blogspot.com.

7/ My Path Today by Penates (JD Zazie and Mat Pogo) (2:23)

This piece is a sound miniature celebrating life’s energy and its secret springs in the holy areas of Home. The basic sound material was originally thought of as music for choreographer Giulia Mureddu’s Follow Me, a dance performance presented in June 2009 in Amsterdam.

Penates is JD Zazie and Mat Pogo. JD Zazie is a sound artist, field recorder and turntablist. Mat Pogo is an experimental vocalist, improviser and comic artist. He is founding member of the Burp Enterprise collective and runs the related label Burp Publications. www.burpenterprise.com www.virb.com/penates

8/ Homespun (topophilia) by Alexander Baker (11:14)

Topophilia: ...the fondness for a place....because it's a home and incarnates the past... (Yi-Fu Tuan). Old piano, radio filtered through housework; local ritual and play; river and wide meadows...childhood memories spun out, framed by the resonant frequencies of my present home. Sounds recorded on location, but thanks to acclivity (playground, prayer), Greg Baumont (saw), nicStage (top) of freesound for lost echoes.

Alexander Baker is a former script writer, musician, and teacher who now works with sound. http://solublefisherman.wordpress.com  http://idlequietist.wordpress.com

9/ Where is Home? by Viv Corringham (0:57)

Much of my work is concerned with people's relationship to familiar places and home. For this piece, I asked friends and family the question: Where is Home? Their answers float over my singing of the word Home and my own reflections on the question. 

Viv Corringham is a British sound artist, vocalist and composer currently based in Minneapolis, USA. She has given concerts and exhibited sound installations throughout Europe, North America, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Mongolia, Canada and Australia. 

10/ The Rocket Richard by Sébastien Lavoie (4:22)

Hockey has always been a fascinating and inspiring sport for me. Having grown up in Montreal, the legacy of the Canadiens is undoubtedly very strong in me, especially since I spent several years on the ice practicing and dreaming about hockey. For me, many of these sounds associated with hockey have a vivid and pleasant memory attached to them.

Sébastien Lavoie discovered the works of Jean-Claude Risset and Francis Dhomont at the notable concert series Rien à Voir. That was the foundation that led him to study electroacoustic composition at L’Université de Montréal with Robert Normandeau. Sound explorer, Sébastien travels through the diverse avenues of noise and music in order to capture and compose novel sounds.

11/ A deux voix moments (Moments for Two Voices) by Andrea Cohen & Wiska Radkiewicz (11:12)

Our piece features the sounds we have recorded in our respective adopted homes (Paris and New York) and was composed in a process of exchanging these sounds via the internet. Each sound 'depicts' a moment; the composed 'moments' convey nostalgia and the quest for a 'real' home.

Wiska Radkiewicz, PhD in music composition, Princeton University. She works in various fields: electroacoustic composition, radio art, video, pedagogical studies and creative writing. She lives and works in Roosevelt, New Jersey, USA. Andrea Cohen, PhD, Sorbonne University. Since 1985 she has been a radio author and producer at Radio France. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she lives and works in Paris, France.

CD2 Notes

1/ In My Language I am Smart by Dragan Todorovic (11:12)

Learning a new language is like having a new coat of paint: a series of foreign words is superimposed onto mother's tongue. One has to go through a mutation that is both painful and funny. In My Language I am Smart, which presents this process, was commissioned by the CBC for the 2005 Deep Wireless / Outfront residency.

Dragan Todorovic is a writer living in England. He has published 8 books, written and directed several radio plays and 2 TV documentaries. His non-fiction work The Book of Revenge was awarded by Writers’ Trust and his latest book, Diary of Interrupted Days was short listed for two awards.

2/ I wish by Steven Naylor (9:45)

I wish is a portrait of unattainable longings, ambiguous desires, and persistent fears. The piece is constructed from a few vocal and instrumental fragments taken from a recording of a simple song of lament — titled Home, and performed by Nova Scotian singer Rita Rankin — which I composed and recorded several years earlier.

Halifax-based artist Steven Naylor composes for concert performance, professional theater, television, film and radio.  Naylor's personal work is presently centred on both radiophonic and acousmatic composition. He completed a PhD in musical composition, supervised by Jonty Harrison, at the University of Birmingham, UK.

3/ Miutes Tessituras by Andrea-Jane Cornell & Emilie Mouchous/Gmackrr (12:25)

Fed by electrical frequencies whose current enables us to fill our homes with familiar yet unlikely sounds from our instruments, this composition is the result of edited excerpts from several improvisation sessions. Hogs lamenting, homemade oscillators, various ambiences and watery textures are woven together to create an organic and synthetic composition.

Andrea-Jane Cornell and Emilie Mouchous/Gmackrr met to perform in CKUT's on-air studio before they began infusing the spaces of each other's houses with their composite sounds.

4/ No Place Like Home by Martin Williams (1:01)

Plundered collage around the theme of home.

Martin Williams is a maker of features, soundscapes and documentaries for radio. He has made and produced regular programmes for london art radio station Resonance FM including a long-running weekly programme called Unknown Country. He has also created and produced several features for BBC radio.

5/ Sustenance (excerpt) by Nichola Scrutton (11:30)

Sustenance explores human interaction with the objects and processes that make up our daily existence. The sound materials progress through sections, each defined by a specific sonic/material character drawn from the utensils and processes of cooking. At a higher level of structure, the work traces a general transformation from dry to wet, reflecting decay.

Nichola Scrutton is a composer/performer and teaching fellow at Glasgow University, where she completed her PhD in electroacoustic composition in 2009. Performances have included Festival Futura (Crest), DAW(Zurich), ICMC (New Orleans), DMRN (London). Recent projects include a sound installation for theatre (The Garden of Adrian), music for Sarah Tripp's short film Move Mood, and a radiophonic work Hold Your Breath.

6/ What if? from the collection of Out of House and Home by Nicole Gruter (1:18)

Stuff. We work hard to obtain it, keep it, and rid ourselves of it. We feel great emotion towards it. I examined my ever-growing pile of stuff and realized my possessions had created a negative hold on my time and my home, hence, my life. These recordings reflect the emotional overhaul the metamorphic process of purging my belongings evoked.

Nicole Gruter's work incorporates elements of performance,voice, video, installation, and sound. Her work often relies upon interactive exchanges with the public. With subjects ranging from political satire, family immigration, obligation, hoarding, operatic arias, Dutch butter cake, and time management, Gruter combines humor with political and personal issues.

7/ Homespun by David Hindmarch (14:00)

The music shows the transformation of everyday domestic objects from the physical to the atomic level. Everyday domestic objects that I recorded evolve from referential to abstract form. The resonant and tonal attributes, which are added to the sounds, represent the move into the atomic world.

David Hindmarch is 44 years old and totally blind. He taught himself electroacoustic music from 2000-2006 when he joined BEAST composers at Birmingham University and began a four-year PhD with Professor Jonty Harrison.

8/ Kailash (excerpt) by Debashis Sinha (5:09)

Kailash is a work that imagines the unknown sound world of the abode of the Hindu god Shiva, on the summit of this earthly mountain on which no human has set foot. Kailash was commissioned as the winning piece of the XVI Concurso de Creación Radiofónica 2009.

Debashis Sinha is becoming increasingly known as an artist with a fierce commitment to re-interpreting what it means to express and be influenced by one's life in/between cultures.  His creative output ranges from solo audiovisual performance projects on the concert stage to the interior spaces between 2 headphones.

9/ Canciones de las Madras by Cherie Moses (13:24)

This audio work is based on the dialogs of three women representing three generations of one family who immigrated to Canada from Chile. The audio has been done in both languages as each woman constructed her own script with cues only.  The emphasis was on what they wanted to say to their children for memory.

Cherie Moses is a visual artist who has exhibited internationally in a wide range of media. Canciones de las Madres was inspired by her long-standing friendship with one of the participants whose stories of courage and adaptability as a refugee to Canada were a catalyst for the dialogs.

Deep Wireless 7 CD

Past Deep Wireless compilations

Deep Wireless 1 (2004)
Deep Wireless 2 (2005)
Deep Wireless 3 (2006)
Deep Wireless 4 (2007)
Deep Wireless 5 (2008)
Deep Wireless 6 (2009)

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