NAISA Sound Channel

Newsletter for July 2008 (Vol.3 Iss.7) (PDF)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art June 5 - October 1, 2008
2) Sound Travels Workshops
3) Call for Submissions Ecology: Water, Air, Sound
4) SOUNDplay festival 2008 dates & update
5) Deep Wireless and Radio Without Boundaries 2009
6) Related News / Links

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1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
June 5 - October 1, 2008
www.naisa.ca/soundtravels

It's our 10th anniversary!! Sound Travels brings sound art to the outdoors on Toronto Island in a way that entices the curious and provides a unique experience each and every year. Resident artists include Robert Normandeau, David Ogborn and Ellen Waterman. Other artists include Chantal Dumas, Barry Prophet, Robert Mulder/Kristi Allik, the team of Jennifer Schmidt, Colin Asquith and Terry Nauheim, Sarah Peebles, Stefan & Laura Rose and Jørgen Teller. Installations will be open throughout the summer, performances are scheduled for July 27th, August 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 30th at St. Andrew by-the-Lake church. The 2nd annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium will be August 7-8.

Remaining Sound Travels Installations:

Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet
between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
runs 24/7 June 22 - Oct 1 FREE

Sonic Boardwalk by Kristi Allik/Robert Mulder
on the west end of the boardwalk on Centre Island
runs 24/7 June 27-Oct 1 FREE

Resonating Bodies, Bumble Room by Sarah Peebles, Rob King, Anne Barros,& Robert Cruickshank
*new* gallery, 906 Queen W., Toronto (corner of Crawford and Queen W.)
July 4-27, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday July 12th 4-6pm at *new*, 4pm-6pm FREE
Resonating Bodies, Bumble Room is a co-presentation between InterAccess Media Arts Centre and New Adventures in Sound Art. Go to interaccess.org
 for full details.

Wish You Were Here by Jennifer Schmidt, Colin Asquith & Terry Nauheim
Sound Travels Documents (10th Anniversa?y edition) by Stefan Rose
Sonic Portrait Listening Gallery curated by Darren Copeland
opens July 27, 2008 @ 2pm with performances ($10) + Sound Travels weekend performances Aug 10th ($10)
continues (Sundays only) Aug 3, 17, 24, 2-6pm St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island PWYC
closes with Aug 30 performances ($10)

Sound Travels Performances
Concert pass $50 with ferry tickets / $35 without ferry passes (5 performances)

July 27, 2008 @ 2pm $10
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island
Union by Rob Piilonen/Matt Miller

August 8,9, 2008 @ 8pm & Aug 10th & 30th @ 2pm $10
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island
Aug 8th Robert Normandeau Portrait Concert + Waterman/Wanderology performances
Aug 9th A Multitude of Portraits concert wtih David Ogborn, James Harley, Ellen Waterman in concert + many more
Aug 10th Site-Specific Performance Ariadne Calling by Wende Bartley
Aug 30th Element Choir @ 2pm

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Aug 7-9:

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community, the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium will take place at the Faculty of Music, This Symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please consult the NAISA Website for details on registration closer to the date. Located at the University of Toronto, the symposium will lead directly into the main performance weekend of the annual Sound Travels festival on Toronto Island. Alongside a selection of refereed papers and presentations, the symposium will feature keynote lectures by Sound Travels' composers-in-residence. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC's online journal, eContact!.

AND MORE

Stay tuned for more 10th anniversary events including SOUNDwalks happening throughout the summer.

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2) SOUND TRAVELS WORKSHOPS
YOUTH WORKSHOPS + MAX/MSP & PD WORKSHOP

MAKING ART WITH SOUND
NAISA is inviting youth aged 15-18 to traverse the territory of traditional art mediums and contribute to the growing body of exciting media art being produced by youth internationally through 2 summer residencies!
The youth will create art entirely with Sound, Radio, Electronics, and/or Performance through exploration according to their own individual interest. The youth can choose to build a NAISAtron, a micro-transmitter, or work with basic recording and editing software. All equipment will be provided by New Adventures in Sound Art and no experience is necessary. Please contact Nadene at naisa@naisa.ca or Kate at info@naisa.ca
Registration fee of $10.00 is required but no other fee will be charged. Limited spots available.
Residency 1 on Toronto Island, August 11-15, 10am-1pm
Residency 2 at the NAISA Space, 103 Beaconsfield Ave., August 18-22, 10am-1pm
NAISA gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Laidlaw Foundation for their financial support of this NAISA youth initiative.

Live Electronic Music with Max/MSP and PD
A workshop by David Ogborn August 2 & 3 (inclusive) 10-5pm @ the NAISA space
Registration fee $50 email to register in advance with Nadene at naisa@naisa.ca or Kate at info@naisa.ca
An intense 2-day workshop on the creation, troubleshooting and performance of software patches for live electronic music. Major topics to be covered include audio & MIDI interfacing, time domain audio transformations, spectral audio transformations, and the art of producing portable patches that last. While a background as a musician is strongly recommended, no prior experience with electronic music techniques is required. The practical emphasis will be on the use of MaxMSP, but all of the concepts discussed will be demonstrated in parallel in the free, open-source environment PD.

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3) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / Ecology: Water, Air, Sound
Deadline for Submissions is September 30, 2008
Check the main naisa page for the link to the full submission form www.naisa.ca

New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme Ecology: Water, Air, and/or Sound for consideration in 2009 future programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, Canada. Artists may submit works in one or all of the following four categories: 1) Radio Art, 2) Electroacoustic Music, 3) Videomusic and 4) Installation Art. Individual interpretations or variations on the theme are encouraged: Ecology: Water, Air, and/or sound could be done entirely in sound, an audio journal, a soundscape portrait, sound mapping, a visualization of a sound and so on.