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NAISA Sound Channel
Newsletter for September 2009 (Vol.4; Iss.9)
(PDF)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca
1) NAISA September/October Workshops
2) 3-Sided Square @ Toronto (new music) Marathon Sept 26
3) NAISA Nuit Blanche Activities
4) SOUNDplay Festival Sept 26 - Nov 7
5) NAISA 2009 Call for Submissions - Deadline Sept 30th
6) Deep Wireless Festival May 2010
Feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and associates who are looking for new arts events.
All workshops are @ the NAISA space, 601 Christie St #252
(equipment provided)
Pre-registration required. To register go to www.naisa.ca
and click on registration
Sept 19th, 10am - 4pm, $100
PODPOEMS Workshop by Victoria Fenner
A one day skills based hands-on workshop to take you through the
whole process ..voicing, recording, editing and uploading to a
website. At the end of the day you'll have an mp3 recording of your
own work to take home and post on your website. Geared for poets and
writers, but useful for anybody who wants to learn the basics.
Sept 27th, 10am-4pm, $100
SOUND AS ART 1 Recording & Editing workshop with Darren Copeland
Geared towards the budding sound artist, the visual and media artist
exploring sound, the community radio programmer wanting to expand
their possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound, this
workshop will teach basic recording, editing, processing and mixing
practices.
Sept 20th, 10am-4pm, $50
GRANT WRITING 101 individual artist grants with Darren Copeland &
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Have a project idea you'd like to get funding for? Find out what
funding opportunities are available, learn the basics of grant
writing and what the requirements are for your funding application.
Remember good writing will not save bad ideas, but bad writing can
sink good ones.
September 26, 2009, 2-10pm, FREE
Yonge-Dundas Square
Yonge-Dundas Square as a musical instrument? In between performances
on the main stage, New Adventures in Sound Art Artistic Director
Darren Copeland directs and performs in 3-Sided Square. Sounds from
the square are collected by a six member sound art collective (David
Ogborn, Ellen and Michael Waterman, Richard Windeyer, John Kamevaar
and Lewis Kaye) and transformed in order to create "on the spot"
sound portraits of Yonge-Dundas Square. Toronto (new music) Marathon
is an 8-hour event that features performances by Toronto artists and
is organized by Contact Contemporary Music
October 3-4, 2009, 7pm - 7am, FREE
Sound(e)scape
@ NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252, Toronto
Immerse yourself in a sound experience in NAISA's 12-channel
permanent installation at the NAISA space. Discover the fascinating
sound world of environments from around the world that focus on the
theme of water, air and sound curated by NAISA's Artistic Director
Darren Copeland. Also featuring the angelusnovus.net collective
launching their 6-month residency at NAISA.
Plant(ipod)Installation
by Jane Tingley
Gallery hours continue Saturdays & Sundays to Oct 25
Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170
Plant(ipod)Installation invites the viewer to walk through an
environment, where the location of the body as it moves through the
installation space triggers new auditory experiences for both plant
and viewer.
September 26 to November 7, 2009
SOUNDplay is a meeting point for experimentation in new media and
sound art pushing the boundaries and encouraging new fusions of
image, sound and text. This 8th edition of the annual festival opens
with 3-sided square at Toronto's (new music) Marathon, continues with
two installations (part of Nuit Blanche) and is followed by a month
of events including performances, installations, artist talks and
workshops.
September 26, 2009, 2pm - 10pm FREE
3-SIDED SQUARE at Toronto (new music) Marathon
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto
October 3-4, 7pm - 7am, FREE
Sound(e)scape (curated by Darren Copeland) & Tree(ipod)installation
(Jane Tingley)
Tree(ipod)installation continues to October 25, 2009
The NAISA Space (#252) & The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170)
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St
October 8, 8pm, $15/$10
Jean Piché Retrospective (1999-2009)
Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie St #170
October 16 & 17, 8pm, $15/$10
Contact Contemporary Music Ensemble perform works by Christopher Fox
& Yannis Kyriakides
Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie St #170
October 23 & 24, 8pm, $15/$10
Pierre Hébert & Stefan Smulovitz perform + screenings of Toronto
animation artists
co-produced with Pleaseure Dome
Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie St #170
October 29-31, times TBA
Sounds Scary - a Halloween Treasure Hunt
Artscape Wychwood Barns
November 7, 8pm, $15/$10
Deb Sinha & Yosuhiro Morinaga perform
The NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252
Categories: Radio Art, Electroacoustic Music/Sound Art, Videomusic
and Installation Art
September 30, 2009 Deadline
New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and
nationalities to submit works on the theme HOME for consideration in
its 2010 programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and
SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in
Toronto, Canada. Go to the http://naisa.ca/opportunities.html#call01
for further information.
May 1 - 31, 2010
A month-long celebration of radio and transmission art including
performances, installations, broadcasts, workshops and the Radio
Without Boundaries conference (May 27-29). More info TBA soon. Check
future NAISA Sound Channels or the web-site (www.naisa.ca) for updates.
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with
"Subscribe" in the subject heading.
New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that
presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum
of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. NAISA is partially
funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Toronto Arts
Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, the
Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Laidlaw Foundation and the SOCAN
Foundation.
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