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May 1 – 30, 2010
New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 9th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, May 1 - 30, 2010. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, NAISA presents cutting edge performances, sound installations, new commissions for CBC Radio’s Living Out Loud, special radio broadcasts, NAISA Radio, a compilation CD and the Radio Without Boundaries conference.
Saturday, May 1, 9am - noon
Launch of NAISA Radio
during the Farmer’s Market each Saturday in May, 601 Christie St, Artscape Wychwood Barns
NAISA Radio broadcasts daily to May 29 from the NAISA space (FM frequency TBA)
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252
Throughout the month of May, NAISA will be broadcasting within a 5 mile radius works by and about the artists in the community of the Artscape Wychwood Barns out of the NAISA space with a special event license from Industry Canada. Also included will be works by youth and works submitted on the theme HOME curated by Darren Copeland.
Saturday, May 1, 8 pm
Opening Night Performance - Ground, Resonance, Radio
co-presented with the AMBiENT PiNG
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #170
Admission $15/$10 students
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, followed by a performance by Emmanuel Madan on his installation Ground.
Sunday, May 2, 1 - 4 pm, opening reception of two gallery installations:
Ground by Emmanuel Madan
Radio Art Salon curated by Darren Copeland
NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252
Exhibition times: weekends only May 1 - 30, Sat 9 - noon; Sun 1 - 4 pm, PWYC admission
Ground is an investigation of the ambient electromagnetic (EM) radiation of the gallery space. It is an interactive sound installation that makes the body a transducer, translating EM radiation into sound.
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. This year’s Radio Art Salon includes eight works out of the 28 created over the past 7 years that were part of the Deep Wireless/CBC Outfront commissioning residencies.
Saturday, May 8, 8 pm
TRANSLOCAL performance - From My Home to Your Home
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #170
Tickets $15/10 students
The show will begin with a surround performance of Roger Mills' The Idea of South. Originally aired on 3 separate broadcast channels in Australia this piece 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 Barns, Eldad Tsabary and Emmanuel Madan in Montréal, David Eagle in Calgary, Ken Fields in Beijing and other highlights.
Saturday, May 15, 1 pm, opening reception of site-specific installation
At Home by Mieke Anderson
The Lakeside Long Term Care Centre in Parkdale
150 Dunn Ave, Main Lobby
Exhibition times: May 14 - 24, 1 - 5pm, admission FREE
At Home is a site-specific installation that invites audiences into the artist’s grandmother’s nursing home, while taking you back to the places she and her caregivers first called home when they immigrated to Canada.
Thursday, May 27, 1 pm Matinée Performance
The Pencil Project performed by Martin Messier & Jacques Poulin-Denis
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
Admission $15/10, matinée free for students with student card
Note: Pencil Project performance will be repeated during May 28, 8 pm show
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.
Thursday, May 27, 8 pm, Performance
Popol Vuh, the Book of the Origin of the Maya by Götz Naleppa
with performance by Lawrence Bayne
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
Admission $15/10 student
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.
Thursday, May 27, 6 pm, opening reception of two gallery installations:
The DEW Project by Charles Stankievech
Take Me Home or: Is it actually (about) singing? by Michael Lissek
Theatre Direct's Christie Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #170
Exhibition Times: May 27 - 30; Thurs/Fri 6 - 9 pm, Sat 9 am - 9 pm, Sun noon - 6 pm
FREE Admission
The DEW Project explores the past militarization of the Canadian homeland in the Arctic during the Cold War, as well as looking at the future of this same landscape amidst international debates of Arctic sovereignty. An installation, DEW is a radio transmitter embedded in a solar powered glowing geodesic dome.
Take Me Home was created as a Radio Documentary by Michael Lissek for Südwestrundfunk SWR Baden-Baden, Feb 2009 and has been adapted as an installation for the Deep Wireless festival 2010. Take me Home deals with the hope of finding a way to express yourself, to be able to say something which goes beyond your own words. The singing is not actually music but rather a kind of interview footage, original recordings which tell about the bodies and biographies of those who deliver the songs and their stories.
Friday, May 28 & Saturday, May 29, 8 pm Performance
Deep Wireless Ensemble Performs both nights + Pencil Project (28) + Freedom Highway (29)
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
Admission $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.
Thursday, May 27 - Saturday, May 29
Radio Without Boundaries Conference $150/130
Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
The eighth 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 2010 all-star line-up of international radio art luminaries includes Charles Stankievech (Canada), Sook-Yin Lee (Canada), Scott Carrier (USA), Frank Kaspar and Götz Naleppa (Germany - co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Andrea Dancer (Can), Julie Shapiro (USA), Ian Pringle (Can) and many more.
DEEP WIRELESS ON THE RADIO
CBC Radio’s Living Out Loud/Deep Wireless
May Friday Broadcast dates 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
Throughout the month of May, NAISA will be broadcasting works by and about the artists in the community of the Artscape Wychwood Barns out of the NAISA space with a special FM event license from Industry Canada. Also included will be works by youth and works submitted on the theme HOME curated by Darren Copeland and an international collection of radio art works made for the adventurous Klangkunst program on Deutschlandradio Kultur that are curated by its former director Götz Naleppa.
DW 7 RADIO ART Compilation CD: Available May 1st
NAISA will launch its 2-CD set Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2009 call for submissions on the theme HOME.
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