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April 30–May 31, 2011
New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 10th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, April 30 – May 31, 2011. 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.
April 30 – May 1st OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS
Opening of Avaaz interactive sound installation by Dipna Horra (with artist talk)
NAISA Radio opening day show in the market
FREE Soundscape recording workshop
Deep Wireless opens with Avaaz, a sound installation by Dipna Horra on April 30 followed by an artist talk about her work. Coinciding with this opening is the launch of NAISA Radio, an on-line radio station @ www.naisa.ca/webcast broadcasting from the NAISA space to celebrate Radio Art. Broadcasting for the entire month are curated programs of radio art and interviews with radio artists and artists from the Artscape Wychwood Barns and local community.
Weekend events continue on Sunday, May 1, 1-4pm includes a free Soundscape Recording Workshop for beginners by Darren Copeland teaching the basics of recording as well as a coordinated multichannel soundscape recording to be used in the May 7 presentation of Thankfully We Now Know All by Mitchell Akiyama. For more information about this and other Deep Wireless radio art workshops go to : www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Workshops.html
Avaaz Sound Installation by Dipna Horra
April 30 - May 21 Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
Opening Day Artist Talk on Saturday April 30 @ 1:30pm
The NAISA Space, #252
Admission by Donation
In Avaaz, the artist transports the audience to different historical moments and places – the Punjab, Kenya, Ottawa – using a teapot, sugar bowl, teacups, a table, a window and vent through which the stories and sounds are transmitted.
Jane's Walk Soundscape Concert, a Translocal Performance
May 7 @ 2pm
The NAISA Space #252
Admission by Donation
This special Jane's Walk concert at the NAISA Space features soundscape recordings and compositions using mobile devices by Mitchell Akiyama, Adam Basanta and the duo Rui Chaves/Paul Stapleton.
The Electrostatic Bell Choir by Darsha Hewitt
May 20 - 29, Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 2nd floor
The Electrostatic Bell Choir consists of small bells and pith balls suspended in front of cathode-ray tube televisions. The TVs are muted and tuned to various channels of white noise. A control circuit cycles them on and off in alternating sequences, building up static charges that attract the pith balls and cause them to waver and lightly strike the bells; resulting in quasi-melodic bell compositions. The movement of these apparatuses is subtle and the sound is delicate.
Silent Speaker by Peter Courtemanche
May 27 - June 25, Fridays and Saturdays only
Fri noon - 3pm, Sat 10 - 2 PM
The NAISA Space, #252
Admission by Donation
Silent Speaker is an interactive sound installation that uses very low frequency transmitters and a receiver. The listener takes hold of a circular antenna and moves through space to "divine" or locate sounds that are transmitted as magnetic waves.
Student Matinée performances
May 27, 1pm
Performances by Deep Wireless Ensemble + Philosophie Zoologique by Jocelyn Robert
Wychwood Theatre, #176
Admission by Donation, free for students
Join Erin Gee and Jocelyn Robert as your hosts for a matinee featuring performances by the Deep Wireless Ensemble as well as Philosophie Zoologique by Jocelyn Robert, a piece that is a the result of a human being's attempt to be friends with the world and ending up waiting at one end of the line while at the other one a soft machine voice whispers press 9.
Thursday, May 27 - Saturday, May 29
Radio Without Boundaries Conference
$150/130
Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #176
The 9th annual Radio Without Boundaries conference makes Deep Wireless an internationally sought-after destination for radio producers, 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 2011 all-star line-up of international radio art luminaries includes Jonathan Goldstein (CBC Radio’s Wiretap), Colin Black (Frequency Oz, Australia), Nora Young (CBC Radio’s Spark), Matt Smith (Can), Hank Bull (Can), Roman Mars (REMIX Radio from PRX, USA), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Darsha Hewitt (Can), Shea Shackelford (USA), Peter Courtemanche (Can) plus many more.
Deep Wireless Ensemble performances
May 27 & 28 @ 8 PM (two different performances)
+ May 27 Bacterial Orchestra by Olle Cornéer/Martin Lübcke
+ May 28 Philosophie Zoologique by Jocelyn Robert
The Wychwood Theatre, #176
$15/$10 student (free for conference registrants)
This year's Deep Wireless Ensemble includes Hank Bull, Erin Gee, Darsha Hewitt and Christopher Stanton to present two different evenings of performances that each explore radio art as a live performance medium in the 21st century. Also features All in Time by Sarah Boothroyd and CBC Radio commissioned works by Victoria Fenner, Carma Jolly, Mieke Anderson, and Julia Krolik with Owen Fernley. Also features performances of Philosophie Zoologique by Jocelyn Robert and Bacterial Orchestra by Olle Cornéer/MartinLübcke + more.
DEEP WIRELESS ON THE RADIO THROUGHOUT MAY
CBC Radio’s Living Out Loud/Deep Wireless commissioned works
May Friday Broadcast dates TBA
CBC’s Living Out Loud will be broadcasting four special radio art pieces by Victoria Fenner, Carma Jolly, Mieke Anderson and Julia Krolik with Owen Fernley commissioned jointly by New Adventures in Sound Art and CBC's Living Out Loud.
Special broadcasts on NAISA Radio
Ongoing throughout May
Throughout the month of May, NAISA will be broadcasting out of the NAISA space webcast 24/7 on www.naisa.ca/webcast. NAISA Radio includes Barns Radio which features documentaries on the artists based at the Barns and the local community as well live webcasts of May 2011 Deep Wireless performances, past performances and radio art works curated by Darren Copeland on the theme ABOUT TIME. A programming highlight for this year will be Frequency Oz: A Festival of Australian Radio Art Takes you to... Other Spaces curated by Colin Black and Produced by Yanna Black. With thanks to and with kind permission of participating Artists and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
DW 8 RADIO ART Compilation CD
Available May 1st
The DW 8 CDs consist of a small portion of the pieces collected in an international call for submissions on the theme About Time and represents some of the many talented radio and sound artists from around the world.
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