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Nuit Blanche / Culture Day events Oct 1
at the NAISA Space (#252) and the Christie Studio (#170)
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street
Audio Graffiti by Zack Settel and Mike Wozniewski
Oct 1, 7 pm to 7 am (Nuit Blanche)
co-presented with Theatre Direct
at the Christie Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #170
Audio Graffiti, a multi-person sound/music installation, explores novel modes of interaction with sound and space. Set in an indoor space in front of a long wall, several mobile users may “tag” the wall with vocal or instrumental sounds. As a user moves about the wall, he/she experiences a changing sonic perspective or mixture of the wall's sounds.
Sonic Spaces: The Kinetics of Sound by Shawn Pinchbeck
Oct 1, 7 pm to 7 am (Nuit Blanche)
Continues Oct 7 to 29 (Friday noon - 3 pm, Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm)
NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #252
“Sonic Spaces (the kinetics of sound) is a computer interactive sound installation for a public space. The impetus behind this work is to allow passers-by the opportunity to sonically explore the movement of their bodies through the space by transforming this movement into a multi-channel acousmatic sound environment.
NAISA and Penderecki String Quartet present : PSQ + DJ P-Love
April 29 @ 8 pm $20
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen West, Toronto
NAISA teams up with the world renowned Penderecki String Quartet for a concert of works that merge the worlds of electroacoustic spatialization, DJ culture and contemporary string quartet composition. Featuring a new work by Kotoka Suzuki for the PSQ and interactive electronics, the evening includes Steve Reich’s pulsating classic “Different Trains” and Nicole Lizée’s “This Will Not Be Televised” for strings, percussion, and turntables.
Program
• Kotoka Suzuki: Vestigia
• Steve Reich: Different Trains
• Nicole Lizée: this will not be televised
• P-Love solo [with Greg Samek, Greg Oh]
The Penderecki String Quartet
The Penderecki String Quartet, approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their "remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep" (Toronto, Globe and Mail).
The Penderecki Quartet collaborates regularly with eminent and diverse artists such as Martin Beaver, Atar Arad, Antonio Lysy, Luba Dubinsky, Jeremy Menuhin, James Campbell, jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett, pipa virtuoso Ching Wong, choreographer David Earle, NYC turntable artist DJ Spooky, and actor Colin Fox. The Penderecki Quartet was founded in Poland in 1986 at the urging of the pre-eminent Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The fruit of their association includes Penderecki's complete works for String Quartet on CD (United Records, England).
To this day the Quartet is a devoted champion of the music of our time, and has performed a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brahms, Bartók to Ligeti, Frank Zappa to John Oswald, as well as premiering over 100 new works from numerous composers including Brian Cherney, Linda C. Smith, Randolph Peters, Harry Freedman, Glenn Buhr, Alice Ho, Peter Hatch, Omar Daniel and Gilles Tremblay.
P-Love
P-Love is an electronic / trip-hop / hiphop producer from New York, USA. He makes music with turntables, piano-type things, and various handheld digital/analog instruments. P-Love has an album called All Up in Your Mind(2005) out on Bully Records and has also been involved with some Ninja Tune releases.
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RoboChorus an interactive installation by Michael Waterman
opens January 15 - February 26, 2011
@ the NAISA space, 601 Christie St #252
Continues Fridays noon-3pm,
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
Artist Michael Waterman's sound installation, RoboChorus (2003) is a series of eight human-scaled robot-like figures that stand alertly throughout the gallery. Lurking in the penumbra of the darkened space, when a viewer enters the room they come liminally alive with glowing LEDs, their awakening spurred by the motion sensors they are equipped with, and each begin emitting one of the tones from the first eight notes of the harmonic series.
NAISA Toronto Artist Salon with David Ogborn
February 12, 2011, 1:30 - 3:30pm @ the NAISA space
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist David Ogborn who will present and discuss his recent solo and collaborative work across a range of different media, including the first public projection of a new acousmatic composition, Alianza (Sonata). Those attending are invited to bring their laptop (although it's not required) in order to join in during the laptop orchestra part of the session (no previous experience required).
David Ogborn is a creator and producer who combines the traditional performing arts with electronic media. Recent highlights include Metropolis (New Wave Festival 2007), Opera On The Rocks (Toronto Star's 2008 list of "boffo opera"), and Emergence (robot and guitar, 2009). In 2010, the interactive video sculpture Waterfall (commissioned by the Canadian Wildlife Federation and created with David Clark, Kim Morgan, and Rachelle Viader Knowles) was featured in Whistler, BC at the 2010 Olympic Games. Ogborn teaches audio production and physical computing at McMaster University, directs the Cybernetic Orchestra < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-G-zp5wjNU>, and is the President of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).
Toronto Artist Salon with Hannah Dean
Dec 4, 2010 1-4pm
On December the 4th at the Artscape Wychwood Barns as part of New Adventures in Sound Art's artist salon program, Hannah Dean, a student from the UK will be discussing the effect Toronto has had upon her practice, and growth as an artist, presenting some of the sound work she has experienced throughout her stay extracts that display the diversity of her research and practice in this new context.
Hannah Dean is a student from the UK and has been studying Music Performance at Dartington College of arts for the past two years and is to complete the final year at University College Falmouth (uk). Currently based in Toronto, as part of a contextual inquiry project, Hannah has been working with New Adventures In Sound Art, hosting a number of interviews and radio pieces for CKLN radio and continued to write new material with her band mate Chantelle Pike for their current band ‘Eyes For Gertrude’
Sound Installation 'A+JAR' by Hannah Dean
one day only December 4, 2010 9am - noon
The piece stemmed partly from the experience of being away from home and deals with intertwined notions of communication and detachment using Skype as a platform to explore this. In this domestic environment, glass jars become visual and sonic symbols of communication breakdown, using them as resonant chambers which will distort the spoken text and will be played back again, live via Skype, exaggorating this blurred sense of diologue.
Toronto Artist Salon with John Kamevaar
Sept 25, 2010, 1:30 & 3pm @ the NAISA Space
For over 30 years, John Kamevaar has been involved in various artistic activities, primarily sonic. Initially, he was a free improvising musician with the CCMC. Experimenting with electroacoustic
techniques led him to form the sound art group, Kaiser Nietzsche, in the late 1980s. He has also produced several soundtracks for experimental film makers. Currently, he collaborates with digital media artists in the creation of installations and time based productions.
The first session will be a survey and discussion of collaborative works, with audio and video selections from CCMC, Kaiser Nietzsche (from the '80's and the newly formed project), soundtracks for films by Carl Brown and Michael Snow, and installations with Nell Tenhaaf.
The second session will focus on a selection of minimalist solo works (1986 to present) which emphasize Kamevaar's interest in noise (feedback, static, white noise) and soundscapes. These short pieces are immersive "scenes" where a very limited number of elements fluctuate.
Toronto Artist Salon with Sarah Peebles
Sept 26, 2010, 1 - 4PM @ the NAISA Space
Sarah Peebles is a composer, improviser and installation artist. Much of her work explores the natural world, found sound and cityscapes manipulated via computer and/or physical objects. Influenced by
Japanese traditional music studies, she also combines her audio with shô (Japanese mouth-organ) and gagaku influences. Details at sarahpeebles.net.
She will present audio works about Tokyo and New Zealand, sho improvisations, and her ongoing collaborative work with artists and bee biologists entitled “Resonating Bodies” - a series of integrated
media installations and community outreach projects which focuses on local pollination ecology and biodiversity.
Marilyn Lerner
March 27th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Marilyn Lerner who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Marilyn will talk about why she, a pianist improviser/composer is moved to create audio art, and how she does it... Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Exhilarating jazz pianist/improviser Marilyn Lerner performs to acclaim internationally, from her native Montreal to Havana, from Jerusalem to Amsterdam and the Ukraine. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered much recognition, including her 2 solo recordings Luminance and Romanian Fantasy and Special Angel with Sonny Greenwich. Her intimate knowledge of the piano, combined with a fearless experimental and passionate spirit render her a true original. Lerner's work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer, and 20th century classical music. She composes for film, theatre, radio and television. She is also an audio artist and has created a series of soundscapes using samples of sounds she collects in the natural environment.
Emilie LeBel
February 27th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Emilie LeBel who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Micheline Roi
March 6th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Micheline Roi who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Micheline Roi From Point A to Point B: the sonic landscape so far
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Micheline Roi who will be presenting and discussing her work. Micheline will play a selection compositions from her early to current works discussing intents, influences, and ideas.
Pieces featured will include: Of Experiential Fruit for solo piano; Of Breath and Touch for clarinet and percussion; Bearing for mixed ensemble; Tengo que Decir for orchestra and recorded media; Wandering Sacred sound installation; Obsolescence sound installation.
April 25th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Hector Centeno will be presenting and discussing his recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Hector Centeno
is a sound artist, music composer and multimedia producer (video/web/graphics). He first composed exclusively for instrumental chamber music ensembles but since 2004 his work has been devoted to the sonic arts, transforming soundscapes and other recorded sounds. His work is inspired mainly in the practices of Zen and it's ways of approaching art creation and reality through meditation, searching for a good balance between spontaneous, intuitive expression and rationality. He is also does sound design for film and he is interested in exploring multichannel sound spatialization techniques and in Open Source software. His electroacoustic pieces have been performed at the Sounds Electric '05 festival in Ireland, Sound Travels and Sound Play festivals in Toronto, Nuit Blanche festival, Concordia University in Montreal and as part of the AngelusNovus.net composers collective at other venues in Toronto.
March 28th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Carey Dodge will be presenting and discussing his recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Carey Dodge will talk about his recent work and his experience at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). His research and production ranged from sound installation, peformance, interactivity and real-time video processing. This talk will be a pot-pourri of sound art!
Carey Dodge
is a multidisciplinary artist who's work focuses on sonic arts, interactivity, installations, sound design and performance. Carey has a keen interest in creating new and exciting immersive sonic experiences. He is also beginning to incorporate more custom electronics and live video processing in his work. www.careydodge.ca
February 28th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Rose Bolton will be presenting and discussing her recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Rose Bolton
considers herself a sonic landscapist. Her compositions range from orchestra, chamber and vocal music to electro-acoustic and improvisation based pieces. She has received numerous commissions and prizes, including the 2006 Norman Burgess Fund award, and the Toronto Emerging Composer award. In April 2009, her new work A Day of Infinite Time, will be premiered by the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at the Open Ears festival. Future projects include composing electronic music for documentary film, and a Canada Council funded project to create electro-acoustic works for headphones contrasted by an ambient work for a large space with multiple speaker setup.
January 31st 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Michelle Irving will discuss the evolution of her working process drawing parallels between techniques she employs for both audio and visual manipulation. She will present examples of her audio/visual work as well as several sound compositions.
Michelle Irving
is a media artist working in video and sound and completed her MA at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University.
Her music is featured in the internationally acclaimed documentary "The Corporation" and award winning documentaries "Scared Sacred" and "Fierce Light". She has presented her audio/visual work in multiple contexts internationally including artist-run spaces, galleries, festivals, and electronic music venues. Her music is released under the artist alias Granny'Ark on Zora Lanson Label (Berlin), and netlabel Interdisco (www.interdisco.net) (Basel). She currently teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Rich Media Institute.
November 30th 1-5pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artists Neil Wiernik and Jason Stanford will be performing and discussing their recent works.
Neil Wirenik will give a general over view of his work as an audio artist and how its led him towards his current interest and ongoing research into site specific generative soundtrack composition as it relates to acoustic ecology composition. He will talk about how these soundtracks or aural landscapes, even when created by a digital mediator are natural, organic occurrences, much like walking down the street or driving down a highway we piece together the sounds around us to create a soundtrack of our environment.
Neil Wiernik
(b. 1967 Montreal, QC) is an audio contortionist, curator and digital media specialist presently living and working in Toronto. He began composing electronic music in 1988 with explorations in audio art and experimental music. Neil's interest in sound and technology has lead him to a continued questioning and refinement of audio tools and modes of production resulting in experimentation with altered instruments, modified devices, and custom software environments. Neil's music could be described as warm, atmospheric, and cinematic electronic music. Neil's sound design techniques are firmly grounded in the rich traditions of dub studio culture but can also be weighed alongside formal contemporary composition. His music was recently described in "The Wire" as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Neil has released music on various labels including the legendary Canadian label Noise Factory Records.
Neil has shown work in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces since the late 1980's and his projects have included works in radio, speaker, headphone and internet diffusion and presented in gallery and non-gallery spaces alike, including derelict buildings, pirate airwaves, and public space. Neil has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and The Music Gallery. Neil is also the co-founder, a resident curator/editor for http://vagueterrain.net and his on line HQ is http://www.phoniq.net
Jason Stanford
is a Toronto-based composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Through his work he seeks to explore evocative, visceral, and at times highly disparate stylistic and musical/sound elements and to distill them into a unified and meaningful whole.
Jason Stanford will discuss what excites him about EA (ElectroAcoustic) and composing for spatialized sound which includes the virtually unlimited resources you can draw upon to fill your sonic palate, defining your musical language. EA allows for the creation of very immediate and visceral juxtapositions of interesting and unexpected musical metaphors between sounds, through the composition and counterpoint of complex abstract sonic spectra and the mixture of referential real-world sounds. A unique perspective on sound comes with the added dimension of space, one has to be sensitive to the kinetic natures of each particular sound, and give it a choreograph trajectories that suit each character.
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