NAISA Sound
Channel
Newsletter for May 2010 (Vol.5; Iss.5)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca
1) Deep Wireless Festival May 1-30, 2010
2) Radio Without Boundaries Conference, May 27-29
3) NAISA Youth Initiative workshops
4) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, June 26 - Sept 26
5) SOUNDplay Festival Oct 2 - Nov 28
Feel free to forward this newsletter to friends and associates looking
for new arts events.
1) 9th annual
Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission
Art
May 1 - 30, 2010 at the Artscape Wychwood Barns
www.deepwireless.ca
REMAINING FESTIVAL DATES
If you are within a 5 miles of the Artscape Wychwood Barns
Listen to NAISA Radio on 106.1-FM from May 1 - 29!
Radio Art 24/7
DEEP WIRELESS PERFORMANCES
All Performances $15/$10 students / available at www.naisa.ca or at Soundscapes, 572 =
College St
www.naisa.ca =
or 416-652-5115 for details
From my Home to your Home, a Translocal
Performance
with Anne Bourne + artists in Montreal, Calgary & Beijing
May 8 @ 8pm
Christie Studio, #170
The Pencil Project Matinée by Martin Messier/Jacques
Poulin-Denis
May 27 @ 1 PM, PWYC (free for students)
Wychwood Theatre, #176
Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya by Göetz Naleppa
performance by Lawrence Bayne
co-presented with the Goethe-Institut-Toronto
May 27 @ 8 PM
Wychwood Theatre, #176
Deep Wireless Ensemble performances
with Rebecca Singh, Shannon Cochrane, Erik Laar and Gregory Whitehead
May 28 & 29 @ 8 PM (two different performances) + The Pencil Project
(May 28) and Freedom Highway (May 29)
Wychwood Theatre, #176
DEEP WIRELESS
INSTALLATIONS:
Ground by Emmanuel Madan
to May 30, Sat 9 AM - 1 PM and Sun 1 - 4 PM
NAISA Space, #252
PWYC admission
At Home by Mieke Anderson (off-site
installation)
May 14 - 24, 1 - 5 PM
Lakeside Long Term Care Centre in Parkdale
150 Dunn Ave, Main Lobby, Toronto FREE
The DEW Project by Charles Stankievech
+ Take Me Home or: is it actually (about) singing? by Michael
Lissek
co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto
May 27 - 30, Thurs/Fri 6-9 PM, Sat 9 AM - 9 PM, Sun noon - 6 PM
Opening Reception May 27, 6 PM
Christie Studio, #170, FREE
CBC RADIO's LIVING OUT LOUD /
DEEP WIRELESS commissioned works
by Steven Naylor, Charlotte Scott, Andreas Kahre and Andrea
Dancer
May 21 & 28 @ 1pm
2) 8th annual
Radio Without Boundaries Conference
May 27 - 29, 2010, Wychwood Theatre,
the Artscape Wychwood Barns #176
go to http://www.naisa.ca/RWB/sessions.html for schedule & descriptions
$150/$130 2-day / $85/$75 day rate.
deadline to register May 21st
Go to https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/RWB_registration.php to register.
Speakers/topics:
- The DEW Project and Electromagnetic Boundaries in the Arctic
by Charles Stankievech (Canada).
- Don't Tell My Ears Where To Go by Frank Kaspar (Germany,
co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto)
- Radio Documentary-Feature as Poetry, Drama and Sound Art by
Andrea Dancer (Canada)
- Visual Radio with Anna Friz, Emmanuel Madan, Kathy Kennedy
and Andreas Kahre
- Two Tin Cans and a String by Sook-Yin Lee (Canada - CBC's DNTO)
- The Neighborhood by Scott Carrier (USA)
- Neighbourhood Transmissions: Radio Jean-Talon (Kathy Kennedy)
/ The Neighbourhood Stories Project (Reena Katz / Emmy Pantin)
- Radio Transformed: a Web of Possibilities with Julie Shapiro,
Sue Schardt, Ian Pringle & Christof Migone.
3) NAISA Youth
Initiative Updates
The NAISA youth education initiative, now in its third year, facilitates
the creation of art entirely through sound, radio, electronics and/or
performance through exploration and collaboration and is targeted toward
youth at high schools, arts centers and community centers. If you are a
teacher or run a community centre and are interested in the workshops,
please contact naisa@naisa.ca.
MAKING ART WITH SOUND
August 16-20, $50
The NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252
NAISA is inviting youth aged 15-18 to create art entirely with Sound,
Radio, Electronics, and/or Performance through exploration according to
their own individual interest - through building a NAISAtron, a
micro-transmitter, or working with basic recording and editing software.
All equipment will be provided by New Adventures in Sound Art and no
experience is necessary. Please contact Kristie at outreach@naisa.ca . Limited spots
available. Go to www.naisa.ca and
click on register to guarantee your spot.
NAISA gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency
of the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Arts Council and the SOCAN
Foundation for their financial support of this NAISA youth
initiative.
4) Sound Travels
Festival of Sound Art
June 26 - September 26, 2010
Sound Travels brings sound art once again to the Artscape Wychwood
Barns. This 12th edition of the annual festival will feature interactive
installations, performances, workshop intensive, 3-sided square (part of
the New Music Marathon co-presented with Contact Music Ensemble), and
the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. Featured artists include:
Marcelle Desch=C3=AAnes, David Eagle, Ned Bouhalassa, D. Andrew Stewart,
Satoshi Morita, Rose Bolton, Rob Cruickshank, and more. Check www.naisa.ca for updates.
5) SOUNDplay
Festival
October 2 - November 28, 2010
SOUNDplay is a meeting point for experimentation in sound art and new
media encouraging new avenues for exploration. Featured artists
include: Women With Kitchen Appliances, Eric Powell, Michael Waterman,
Micheline Roi, Finger, Deb Sinha, Krista Martynes, Julien-Robert Legault
Salvail and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. www.naisa.ca for updates.
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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.
Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
416 652 5115; naisa@naisa.ca
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