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Produced and Presented by Yanna Black
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DW 8 RADIO ART Compilation CD

Deep Wireless 8 Compilation 2-CD set was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in 2011 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 About Time from the September 2010 call for submissions. Deep Wireless 8 is for radio use only and not for re-sale Audio Mastering: Darren Copeland; Design: Nadene Theriault-Copeland; CD Illustraions: Prashant Miranda

CD 1

1/ All in Time by Sarah Boothroyd 24:58
2/ relatively loud tones from terra subfónica by Daniel Blinkhorn 3:45 [listen]
3/ Phone in Phone in from Radio Spots by Paul Collins 1:00 [listen]
4/ Dallas by Mike Vernusky 11:06 [listen]
5/ Elements of Time by Ian Jarvis 2:32 [listen]
6/ Noise by Chris Trimmer 3:00 [listen]
7/ On the other hand of time by Dennis Siren and Penn Kemp 3:33 [listen]
8/ Platform by Kent Butkovich 1:00 [listen]
9/ Reunion by Tom Tenney 5:03 [listen]
10/ That Ol' Time Religion Again from Radio Spots by Paul Collins 1:01 [listen]
11/ L'instant en vain by Dominic Thibault 8:12
12/ You and I by Katie McMurran 1:00 [listen]
13/ Abridgements by Brian Schorn 2:47 [listen]
14/ Disconnect by Greg Dixon 4:33 [listen]

CD 2

1/ About Time by Yves Daoust 8:30 [listen]
2/ toy bagatelle - i from terra subfónica by Daniel Blinkhorn 3:38 [listen]
3/ The piano tuning by Chantal Dumas 14:20 [listen]
4/ Your Voice is a Suspension of Time by Anja Kanngeiser 1:00 [listen]
5/ and this is my voice (cancerspace #4) by Jonathan Sterne 10:49 [listen]
6/ Subharmonics by Lin Culbertson 4:27 [listen]
7/ Qurazymoto by Kent Butkovich 1:06 [listen]
8/ Happy/accident by Chris Trimmer 4:10 [listen]
9/ That Ol' Time Jazz Again from Radio Spots by Paul Collins 1:01 [listen]
10/ May I ask you to...? by Ivan Elezovic 7:24 [listen]
11/ Time off by Mat Gabo 1:08 [listen]
12/ At the tone by Eric Boivin 00:58 [listen]
13/ Cronicas del Tiempo by Diego Losa 14:52 [listen]

© 2011, New Adventures in Sound Art

CD1 Notes

1/ All in Time by Sarah Boothroyd (24:58)

Guided by science and science fiction, All In Time traverses the timeless mystery of time itself. Thanks to physics maven Peter Watson; clock collector Georges Royer; Morgantj and Dokashiteru for Creative Commons samples; and Himan and Melina Brown for permitting the use of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre clips. Commissioned through the Luc Ferrari Broadcast Arts Competition.

The audio work of Canadian Sarah Boothroyd has been featured by broadcasters, festivals and galleries in over a dozen countries. She has won awards from New York Festivals, Third Coast International Audio Festival, the European Broadcasting Union, and La Muse En Circuit.

2/ relatively loud tones from terra subfónica by Daniel Blinkhorn (3:45)

This work focuses on auditory icons of relative shapes and lengths, designed to communicate a vast array of meanings, from summons to prayer to evacuation alarms. It was created using recordings on a soundwalk in a ship as it was forced to evacuate passengers and crew. Additional sounds were captured on a sea port soundwalk in Trinidad.

Daniel Blinkhorn is an Australian composer and digital media artist currently residing in Sydney. His music and audiovisual works have been performed and cited at numerous international festivals, events and loci. For more information please visit his website at: www.bookofsand.com.au

3/ Phone in Phone in from Radio Spots by Paul Collins (1:00)

Phone in Phone in from Radio Spots uses material recorded from the radio in France and Canada for use in the live, improvised soundtrack of my 2008 silent road movie, Four Sisters (made with John Armstrong, commissioned by ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche). I have now recomposed these recordings into a suite of 20 one-minute, stand-alone radio spots.

Paul Collins is a visual artist and musician based in Paris and Toronto. He recently showed at MoCCA, Toronto, as part of Contact 2010. He is represented in Toronto by General Hardware Contemporary. www.johnandpaul.ca. He teaches intermedia practice at l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias in Caen, France. www.myspace.com/minutemusic.

4/ Dallas by Mike Vernusky (11:06)

Pulling directly from the interrogation transcripts of the Kennedy Assassination Investigation, Dallas revolves around Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent immortalized on the Zapruder film of the 1963 Presidential Motorcade. Sitting in a greasy spoon diner, Clint Hill attempts to gain an understanding of what has transpired by reliving his interrogation with the FBI. Additional text by Greg Romero.

Mike Vernusky is a composer living in Austin. He writes music for concertized, theatrical, and filmic environments, primarily through the use of electronic media. Vernusky is published on MIT Press and Quiet Design. Greg Romero is a Philadelphia based playwright and theater artist.

5/ Elements of Time by Ian Jarvis (2:32)

Water and Sand, early markers of time. Squished and stretched, leave a mark on the mind. The history of form holds the space to be filled. Just a moment in time as the mind fills the void.

Ian Jarvis is a Sound Artist and Music Producer living in Toronto.

6/ Noise by Chris Trimmer (3:00)

Noise is a personal account of Hendrick’s adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience. The piece fosters a psychological perspective of what it’s like to live behind a wall of noise.

Chris Trimmer is an independent radio documentary producer, sound artist & experimental musician based in Kingston, ON. He holds an M.A. from Queen’s University in Music Psychology, and produces the show Cognitive Dissonance, a documentary-style, sound art-infused radio program focusing on the psychological and cultural aspects of music.

7/ On the other hand of time by Dennis Siren and Penn Kemp (3:33)

Our collaboration of like minds in difference harmonized in the resonant space heard between the big picture, Time, and the mythos behind every unnoticed minute. The poem from the sound opera “Dream Sequins” expands a moment into the archetypal realm, transporting the listener into a larger spaciousness beyond ordinary experience.

London’s Poet Laureate and acclaimed performer/activist, Penn Kemp has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, produced six plays and ten CDs with Canada’s first poetry CD-ROM and several award-winning videopoems. As UWO Writer-in-Residence (2009-10) she created Luminous Entrance with Dennis Siren. See www.mytown.ca/pennletters. Dennis Siren works in partnership with his wife Wendy Saby in Saby Siren Productions London Ontario. He has experimented in binaural sound recording since the 70's and a free form, streaming approach to sound and musical composition. He recently won Most Original in the Fringe 62 hour film contest, thanks.

8/ Platform by Ken Butkovich (1:00)

This piece represents the passage of time in a metaphorical and psychological form. Recordings were taken on the Toronto subway system. I always feel like traveling and moving objects and the sound of passing trains and motion of any passing sound is deeply connected to the idea of time in an abstract sense.

Kent Butkovich is a multi instrumentalist, engineer, DJ, and producer, who has worked in Toronto for the past two decades creating electroacoustic, ambient, and electronic music. He has contributed music for short films, plays and various CDs. Recently he works as one half of electronic group Ziplock as well producing his own solo work.

9/ Reunion by Tom Tenney (5:03)

Reunion is an audio document of Tom Tenney’s 25th high school reunion, and a reflection on aging, home, and friendship.

A performer, writer and producer, Tom Tenney is a graduate of Ringling Brothers’ Clown College, an M.A. student in the New School’s Media Studies program, and the director of the RE/Mixed Media Festival, held each year in Brooklyn, NY. Additional work can be heard on his website: http://inc.ongruo.us

10/ That Ol' Time Religion Again from Radio Spots by Paul Collins (1:01)

That Ol' Time Religion Again from Radio Spots uses material recorded from the radio in France and Canada for use in the live, improvised soundtrack of my 2008 silent road movie, Four Sisters (made with John Armstrong, commissioned by ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche). I have now recomposed these recordings into a suite of 20 one-minute, stand-alone radio spots.

Paul Collins is a visual artist and musician based in Paris and Toronto. He recently showed at MoCCA, Toronto, as part of Contact 2010. He is represented in Toronto by General Hardware Contemporary. www.johnandpaul.ca. He teaches intermedia practice at l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias in Caen, France. www.myspace.com/minutemusic.

11/ L'instant en vain by Dominic Thibault (8:26)

Time is dust. A handful of sand that runs out of my grip. That grain that falls is already part of our memory. The present moment instantly becoming past. Why are we obsessed by time?

After studying jazz guitar in college, Dominic Thibault (Howick, Québec, 1984) completed a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in composition (University of Montreal) under the supervision of Jean Piché and Robert Normandeau. He has recently moved to Huddersfield (UK) in order to undertake a Ph.D. with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, researching the creative possibilities of technologies in the context of the multimedia opera.

12/ You and I by Katie McMurran (1:00)

This is a piece about reconciliation in relationships. It focuses on two voices, at once accusing, and then ultimately asking - who is really to blame?

Katie McMurran is a sound artist and composer currently based in Los Angeles. Her sound art pieces have been exhibited with Sound Café, New Town Arts, and Radio Village Nomade. Her compositions have been performed as a part of 60x60 and the Microscore Project.

13/ Abridgements by Brian Schorn (2:47)

Using two distinctly different texts referring to the lack of time (a novel and a medical study), an abridgement occurs by taking a single word from the uppermost corner of each page. The distinct vocabularies mesh while 600 pages of text is evoked in three minutes.

Brian Schorn received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Maggie Payne and Chris Brown. His graphic scores have been published in the anthologies Notations21 and Deep Listening Anthology II. Schorn's music has been performed throughout Europe and the US.

14/ Disconnect by Greg Dixon (1:00)

Disconnect is based upon disparate recordings from more than a decade of my life (1997- 2009). These sounds all came from older pieces that I have made, improvisations with friends, and various recording sessions. I tried to create a cohesive piece out of these seemingly disconnected sonic materials from my past.

Greg Dixon is currently working towards a doctorate in composition at University of North Texas where he specializes in computer music. From 2006-2010 he worked at UNT as a composition teaching fellow, recording engineer, and technical assistant for the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI).

CD2 Notes

1/ About Time by Yves Daoust (8:30)
Commissioned by CBC Outfront / NAISA for Deep Wireless, 2005
Special thanks to Carma Jolly

I put together this self-portrait with an old tape recorder, which seemed only natural for this project, considering how crucial this machinery had proven to be in my musical evolution. Made from overlaps of different layers of times and situations, it goes from working on the piece, to the abstract resulting from transformations of my voice.

Yves Daoust's music bears witness to his past endeavors in music for the cinema. He uses mostly sounds from day-to-day life, using the microphone as a camera, catching and freezing moments of life, trying to reveal the emotional and metaphoric values of these sound images. A visual music, eagerly evolving on the boundaries of musical genres.

2/ toy bagatelle - i from terra subfónica by Daniel Blinkhorn (3:38)

This is the first of two miniatures using the name bagatelle in both its incarnations; Firstly, to portray a light, playful music work, and secondly the piece uses sounds recorded of children playing the actual game of bagatelle.

Daniel Blinkhorn is an Australian composer and digital media artist currently residing in Sydney. His music and audiovisual works have been performed and cited at numerous international festivals, events and loci. For more information please visit his website at: www.bookofsand.com.au

3/ The piano tuning by Chantal Dumas (14:20)
English translation of text: Fortner Anderson
Commissioned by Marcus Gammel, Hörspiel-Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Kultur (Germany)

A piano being tuned, an apartment and each of its rooms heard by way of their acoustics. A story is being written, and things happen there that one would not encounter elsewhere. The Piano Tuning speaks of attentive listening all the while making one hear the space of the premises.

Chantal Dumas is a Montreal based sound artist who explores the medium of sound through radio art production or documentary-fiction, electroacoustic music and sound installation. Listening to her work can be likened to a walk through different spaces: mental or physical, architectural and urban, natural or cultural.

4/ Your Voice is a Suspension of Time by Anja Kanngeiser (1:00)

This is an except from a letter written to a former radio activist, articulating the desires and radical imaginings such radio inspires through time - the continual resonance it has for dreams of dialogue and revolution. It speaks of a longing for moments passed, of political echoes and faded incitations. Your Voice is a Suspension of Time is a collaboration with sound artists and designers Daniel Jenatsch and Arthur Swindells.

Anja Kanngieser is a human geographer and radio maker, who works at the cross sections of radical politics, the voice, radio, and creative resistance.

5/ and this is my voice (cancerspace #4) by Jonathan Sterne (10:49)

This is a work of time-lapse phonography. I expected to register the audible disintegration of my voice over seven weeks of radiotherapy to my neck. Instead, my voice ebbs and flows. The recordings capture different modes and feelings (exhaustion, rushing, contemplation) which are then rendered as a sonic mosaic.

Jonathan Sterne is a scholar, musician and sound artist who lives in Montréal. His audio work explores the thresholds that separate everyday and extraordinary experience, and the plasticity of time and space inside recordings.

6/ Subharmonics by Lin Culbertson (4:27)

Subharmonics is an audio journey composed of various noises recorded in the NYC subway. The jarring sounds emanating from trains in motion are transformed through the use of filters into resonating pools of swirling frequencies. This sonic metamorphosis reveals the latent beauty just beneath the surface of an everyday experience.

Lin Culbertson's experience as an improviser greatly informs her sound work. Her compositions are comprised of synthesized sounds and field recordings that are combined using semi-random systems. She is co-founder of the improvisational unit White Out and has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists.

7/ Qurazymoto by Kent Butkovich (1:06)

The idea for this piece was to create something musical and in time using disparate and random elements recorded from the radio that have nothing to do with each other. The result is something up to date and post modern sounding (of this time) – Electroacoustic Hip Hop.

Kent Butkovich is a multi instrumentalist, engineer, DJ, and producer, who has worked in Toronto for the past two decades creating electroacoustic, ambient, and electronic music. He has contributed music for short films, plays and various CDs. Recently he works as one half of electronic group Ziplock as well producing his own solo work.

8/ Happy/accident by Chris Trimmer (1:06)

Happy/accident features samples of oral history interviews layered to create a story through voice and harmonic accompaniment. By utilizing an audio exploration technique (i.e. the ‘happy accident’) to promote exciting & surprising results, this piece uncovers the serendipity inherent in an improvised mixing process.

Chris Trimmer is an independent radio documentary producer, sound artist & experimental musician based in Kingston, ON. He holds an M.A. from Queen’s University in Music Psychology, and produces the show Cognitive Dissonance, a documentary-style, sound art-infused radio program focusing on the psychological and cultural aspects of music.

9/ That Ol' Time Jazz Again from Radio Spots by Paul Collins (1:00)

That Ol' Time Jazz Again from Radio Spots uses material recorded from the radio in France and Canada for use in the live, improvised soundtrack of my 2008 silent road movie, Four Sisters (made with John Armstrong, commissioned by ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche). I have now recomposed these recordings into a suite of 20 one-minute, stand-alone radio spots

Paul Collins is a visual artist and musician based in Paris and Toronto. He recently showed at MoCCA, Toronto, as part of Contact 2010. He is represented in Toronto by General Hardware Contemporary. www.johnandpaul.ca. He teaches intermedia practice at l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias in Caen, France. www.myspace.com/minutemusic.

10/ May I ask you to...? by Ivan Elezovic (7:24)

The main approach of the piece leaves the listener in an unexpected and confused state produced by interactions among the characters of the piece. The appearance of ignorance and sometimes irony causes communication to be very difficult, and in some instances impossible. The mixture of hesitated questions, observations, and attempts at clarification produces even further confusion with occasional comical events.

Dr. Ivan Elezovic allows a number of materials and ideas to influence the approach and method for each new work. His compositional style demonstrates both a dedication to craftsmanship and a ceaseless pursuit of innovative conceptual goals. Presently, Dr. Elezovic is teaching at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

11/ Time off by Mat Gabo (1:08)

Why take risks when you can take a vacation? This short piece has been made specially for the NAISA project. It was made by connecting the output from three radios to a multitrack tape recorder with prepared tape.

Born in 1972 in France, Mat Gabo (aka Mathieu Gaborit) is a self taught musician, known also as Ayato. He creates and performs live soundtracks, music, radio creations, DJ sets, and studio productions. He has been working with the HAK lo fi Record collective since 2001 and is a sound designer for the photographer Malik Nejmi (using field recordings). http://hakrecords.blogspot.com/

12/ At the tone by Eric Boivin (1:08)

At the tone is a simple short deconstructed piece based around a speaking clock and plays with the notion of time through repletion and deconstruction. Only in the end can we hear the final message of the clock, the basic task of which is telling time.

Eric Boivin is a field recording and sound artist from Montréal, Canada. He graduated from Concordia University with Baccalaureates in Fine arts and Film Animation. His main interests are field recording, Phonography, sound manipulation, transmission and sound arts. He's a regular contributor on the Montreal Sound Map project and framework.productions.

13/ Cronicas del Tiempo by Diego Losa (14:52)

Cronicas del Tiempo is a transcription of acoustic souvenirs, from a traveler's past, present and future history. The music delivers a citizen's mental representation in double exposure of the collective memory of Argentina. It is a reflection on an unconscious level of sensations from original sounds of the city of Buenos Aires recorded at different times (1980 -1996), then transformed.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, Diego Losa studied music in Argentina obtaining a masters degree in orchestral practice as a music performer. He later specialized in sound engineering techniques and is a member of the GRM (Groupe de recherches musical) Paris. Diego also taught electronic music composition techniques at the University of Córdoba and Rosario-Santa Fe. Diego composes pieces for dance, contemporary circus, and films.

Deep Wireless 8 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)
Deep Wireless 7 (2010)

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