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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and CBC Radio, for the eighth year in a row, are presenting the Deep Wireless commissioning and residency program. This residency program, originally created with CBC Radio's Outfront, is this year continued by an new show on CBC Radio 1 called Living Out Loud. It allows both experimental sound artists and radio producers outside of the experimental realm to approach the form of personal narrative from a perspective that combines words and sounds in a fresh and innovative fashion. Four Canadian artists - Andrea Dancer, Steven Naylor, Charlotte Scott and Andreas Kahre - were selected from a Canada-wide call for submissions to produce a work for both CBC's Living Out Loud radio broadcast and for presentation during Deep Wireless 2010 festival of radio and transmission art. To follow are descriptions of their works that will be created for Deep Wireless and CBC radio's Outfront:
Sounds Like Home by Andrea Dancer
Active Pass between two islands in B.C. and the Vltava River between the two banks of Prague -- two disparate places-- or so it seems. Where is home for the one living between here and there. Radically different panoramas. But while the eyes blink postcards, the ears seek association: a home-coming conjured through listening?
Andrea Dancer is a radio art and feature producer, published poet, and soundscape composer working internationally in Vancouver and Prague. She has produced radio documentaries for the CBC and NPR. She is a member of Vancouver's Soundwalk Collective, the Canadian Association of Sound Ecology, and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.
Horns of Plenty by Steven Naylor
It can be a physical place that moves with us, or a place in time we can never return to—but ‘home’ is also an enduring place in the mind. Horns of Plenty draws from a diverse palette of sound to explore sonic memories of the composer’s childhood home.
Steven Naylor composes electroacoustic and instrumental concert music, and creates original scores and sound designs for theatre, film, television and radio. His electroacoustic and radiophonic compositions have been performed and broadcast in Canada, UK, France, Brazil, Australia, and USA. He currently resides in Halifax, Canada. Further information: www.sonicart.ca
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME by Andreas Kahre
There is no place like home is a piece that explores how we create memory of place, and are in turn created by it. Tracing the process by which the mind amalgamates sonic experience into a theatre of memory that we call 'home', the piece takes its listener on a sonic tour of four places: a tiny village in a Bavaria, Berlin, Vancouver, and finally Gabriola Island, a small island community on the West Coast of Canada. Each place is represented by its sonic signature and accompanied by a narrative voice, and each place is wholly synthetic, 'assembled" before the listener in the interplay between described memory and layers of generic commercial stock audio elements. Adding and subtracting sounds before the listener's ears, the piece transforms each place into the next, in a sonic arc that explores home as a process, as an object, and as an idea.
Andreas Kahre is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer and designer. who works with performance, installation and sound art, often in collaboration with Darren Copeland. As a writer, set and sound designer, dramaturg and director, Andreas has been involved in the creation of well over a hundred theatre, dance, media and music projects, site-related performances, and interdisciplinary performance projects across Canada and internationally. For more than ten years, he worked at the Western Front in Vancouver , where he was one of the director/curators and editor of FRONT Magazine, and taught as sessional and adjunct faculty at the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at UBC. Andreas' audio work has been commissioned and presented at festivals and venues that include Deutschlandradio Kultur, CBC Radio, Akousma, Electro Radio Days, Deep Wireless, The Western Front, NAC Ottawa, the Elektra Festival of Media Arts and PuSh.
Shybirds by Charlotte Scott
Country road lullabies and crow songs take over when the artist and her family run to the hills after living the loud life in a Montreal rock band. A change of place, a change of pace, a reflection on noisemaking and a meditation on the evolution of musical creativity.
Charlotte Scott makes music and grows vegetables in the Outaouais region of Quebec. She's been involved in community radio, sound art and psych rock music for many years and has received academic merits on related subjects. At the moment she's especially fond of the xylophone and the sound of wind through pine trees.
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