NAISA Sound Channel
Newsletter for October 2009 (Vol.4; Iss.10)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca
1) SOUNDplay Festival Oct 3 - Nov 7
2) Arts Birthday January 17
3) Deep Wireless Festival May 2010
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1) SOUNDplay Festival
October 3 to November 7, 2009
Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St) & Gladstone Hotel
www.soundplay.ca
Performance Pass $35/$30 / Single Tickets $15/$10 students
Installations Pay What You Can
A meeting point for experimentation in sound art and new media encouraging new avenues for exploration, SOUNDplay 2009 features interactive installations, performances, screenings and workshops/artist talks.
INSTALLATIONS REMAINING
October 3 - 25, 2009
Tree(ipod)installation by Jane Tingley
weekends only; Sat 9am - 1pm; Sun 1-4pm
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170), 601 Christie St.
Tree(ipod)installation evokes the possibility of developing technologies that are nature-centric rather than human-centric in order to breathe life back into the idea of an enchanted forest. The viewer is invited to walk through an environment that triggers new auditory experiences for both plant and viewer.
October 22 - 25, 2009
Le Puits by Marie Côté and Olivier Girouard part of UpArt! $8 admission (includes exhibition guide)
@ Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West
Intrinsically silent ceramic bowls surprise the viewer in Le Puits simply by the act of making sound.
October 29 to 31, 2009
Sounds Scary
Oct 29 and 30 for schools please contact naisa@naisa.ca for booking
October 31, 2009, 9am - 5pm, for the public, FREE
Various locations at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
Go on a Halloween sound treasure hunt at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and then learn about the secrets behind how sounds are made in the movies.
SOUNDplay PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
October 8, 2009 (8 PM) $15/$10
Jean Piché Retrospective (1999-2009) Videomusic Presentation
@ Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170), 601 Christie St.
+ October 9, 2009 (7-10 PM) FREE during the James Street North Art Crawl
@ The Factory, Hamilton Media Arts Centre
126 James Street North, Hamilton
A retrospective of Jean Piché's works will be presented in Triple Screen HD as well as Freida Abtan's new large scale videomusic work The Hands of the Dancer.
October 16 and 17, 2009, (8 PM) $15/$10
Sound-Image-Sound in partnership with Contact Contemporary Music
with works by Nancy Tobin, Christopher Fox and Brent Lee
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170), 601 Christie St.
A Toronto premiere of SUGARscape by Montréal’s Nancy Tobin and performances by Contact Contemporary Music Ensemble of works by Christopher Fox and a world première by Brent Lee.
October 23 and 24, 2009, (8 PM) $15/$10
Pierre Hébert & Stefan Smulovitz perform + Locavore in partnership with Pleasure Dome
The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170), 601 Christie St.
Pioneering Québec animator Pierre Hébert collaborates with BC musician Stefan Smulovitz using viola, live digital animation and electroacoustics. Also, on the program is Locavore, a survey of recent short animation works by Toronto artists presented in partnership with Pleasure Dome and curated by Nick Fox-Gieg.
November 7, 2009, (8 PM) $15/$10
CONCRETE Toronto, a performance by Debashis Sinha & Yosuhiro Morinaga
co-presented with CONCRETE
The NAISA Space (#252), 601 Christie St.
Yasuhiro Morinaga (Tokyo) and Debashis Sinha (Toronto) will draw upon their large archives of field recordings to present a new auditory and visual actualization of musique concrète, filtered through a geographic and artistic experience informed by a new global reality of cultural and creative openness.
SOUNDplay WORKSHOP & ARTIST TALK
All workshops are @ the NAISA space, 601 Christie St #252
Pre-registration required. To register go to www.naisa.ca
and click on registration
October 15, 2009, (7 PM) Pay What You Can
NANCY TOBIN Artist Talk
The NAISA Space (#252), 601 Christie St.
During this talk, Nancy Tobin will discuss the processes involved in the creation of her last projects for compact disk: DUO DES AIGUS, OUVERTURE, DELAYTOYS-BERCEUSES. She will touch on the creative and technical approaches as well as on post-creation issues: distribution, mastering, to be or not to be mp3…
October 24, 2009, (1-4 PM) $15/$10
Workshop on KENAXIS SOFTWARE by STEFAN SMULOVITZ
The NAISA Space (#252), 601 Christie St.
Kenaxis transforms the laptop into an expressive instrument. Developed by Stefan Smulovitz over the last 10 years for use in improvisational and compositional settings, this easy to use software allows for live sampling and real time sound manipulation including looping granulation and convolution. All welcome!
2) ARTS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION on JANUARY 17th, 2010
New Adventures in Sound Art has plans to celebrate Arts Birthday in both Mississauga and Toronto. Stay tuned for more information in the next NAISA Sound Channel. Happy One Million and Forty-Seventh Birthday, Art!
3) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
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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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.
Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
Phone 416 652 5115; email naisa@naisa.ca
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