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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and CBC Radio, for the nineth 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 for the second year in a row by CBC Radio 1's 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 - Victoria Fenner, Mieke Anderson, Julia Krolik/Owen Fernley and Carma Jolly - 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 2011 festival of radio and transmission art. To follow are descriptions of their works that will be created for Deep Wireless and CBC radio's Living Out Loud:
Frozen in Time by Mieke Anderson
Cheryl Bome hears herself everywhere. That’s because she’s the voice of Toronto's bus and streetcar stop announcements. But for Cheryl, it's about more than just having an electronic alter ego... her voice is forever frozen in time.
Mieke Anderson is a Toronto-based radio producer. She divides her time between CBC Radio and Spacing Magazine’s podcast. Her installation At Home was part of the 2010 Deep Wireless Festival. Over the past six years, Mieke has worked at CIUT, CKLN, CJLO and as a story collector for [murmur].
After Exile - a sound exploration by Victoria Fenner, based on a poem by Raymond Knister
Six years ago, Victoria Fenner discovered that her birthplace of Ruscomb Ontario was also the birthplace of noted Canadian poet and writer Raymond Knister (1899-1932). She found it surprising that she had never heard of his existence, even though both the Fenners and Knisters were original settlers of the village in the mid 1800s and is still home to several branches of both families.
Knister's poem After Exile, written in 1926, explores his thoughts and reflections as he returns to the village after a few years of living as a writer in the city. Like Raymond Knister, Victoria also left Ruscomb. Though her roots in the community runs deep, she has not been a part of the life of the community for over 40 years. Knister's writings have inspired her to reflect upon her life in Ruscomb and the lives of her family members and neighbours who have in the village all of their lives.
In this new setting of After Exile, Victoria returns to Ruscomb to explore her own return from exile.
Victoria Fenner is a documentary poet and journalist who composes her works for radio and internet. She describes her work as the type of radio piece that would emerge if a journalist and poet was sent to write about the same event, and then were locked in a room until they came up with one piece they both were happy with. She likes to walk the line between the subjective and the objective, usually ending up on one side or the other but close to the centre.
In addition to her own compositions, she has also created sound art anthologies of artists across Canada which have been played on radio stations internationally. As a journalist she has worked for CBC Radio, including with the award winning program Outfront. A lifelong advocate of community radio, Victoria has also worked at several community radio stations and was the first president of the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
Decomposing Piano by Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley
The Decomposing Piano chronicles the final years of a piano’s life and aims to present an alternate outcome to the end of its service in a bustling music scene. Authentic audio follows the instrument through its metamorphosis and reveals the harp as a new voice from within.
Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley live and work together in Kingston, Ontario. They formed Decomposing Pianos, an experimental music project to present ideas through improvisation, melody and noise. Their final work takes the form of a produced segment, a concert or an installation. For more information visit www.decomposingpianos.com
A Seizure's Lament by Carma Jolly
There is a sound that Carma Jolly will never forget. It's a sound that she makes, but the thing is she's never heard it herself. That's because when it comes out, she is always unconscious -- completely unaware of the physical time-space continuum.
Based on the accounts of those who have witnessed her epilectic seizures, Carma goes in search of the sound online. In A Seizure's Lament, she samples what she finds at varying speeds -- speeds as low as three percent -- in order to create an imagined soundtrack for her seizures.
Making the piece, Carma felt sad. So at the end of the process, she sang to it and mixed that in too.
Carma Jolly, a.k.a. Raji has an intense passion for documenting the stories of humankind’s evolution, whether ordinary or epic. She has worked with CBC Radio since 1993 and has won awards from around the world for her work. Shhh... here’s a little secret — she knows a thing or two about magic.
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