"Two Memories"
by Bentley Jarvis

This site-specific sound sculpture is based on two of the artist's childhood memories of growing up in Red Lake, a mining community in Northern Ontario: singing in the choir in an Anglican mission chapel, and sitting on the docks watching and listening to seaplanes taking off.

Visitors to St. Andrew by-the-Lake Church will first become aware of an electroacoustic composition based on Anglican hymns emanating from wooden shapes reminiscent of wooden aircraft propellers and canoe paddles mounted on tall white boxes. When the wooden shapes are approached, the music emanating from them evolves into a composition based on the sound of seaplanes taking off. The positions of people in the church influences the structure of the seaplane component of the piece. Ambient light levels in the church influences the structure of the component based on Anglican hymns.

The sound component for "Two Memories" is contained in a computer running MaxMSP Jitter. A video camera is used to detect visitors approaching the wooden shapes. A patch in MaxMSP Jitter determines how the components of the sound composition are influenced by changes in ambient light levels and the movement of church visitors.

Bentley Jarvis
Composer

Most of my work has been an attempt to integrate visual and sonic material. Over the last thirty years I have worked with choreographers, theatre designers, and visual artists to make multi-media performance works. In my recent work, I have been doing the visual part myself, making sound sculpture and video.

My sound sculpture is an investigation of the relationship between how objects look and how they sound. First I design and build highly resonant structures then I compose electroacoustic music to be played through the structures. My video work is of two kinds - installation and performance.

The installation pieces are multi-monitor works which are like slowly evolving paintings with electronic sound. The performance videos usually have one or more live musicians interacting with the video, either projected when in large spaces or on a monitor when in small spaces.

I have been teaching electroacoustics at the Ontario College of Art and Design for 18 years and live in London Ontario with my wife Susan Davies (a psychologist who acts as my personal brain care specialist) and children Anna and Simon (who often perform my music for me and also act as roadies).

"Sound Travels Documents"
Photo Exhibition by Stefan Rose

"Sound Travels Documents" is an exhibition of 24 black-and-white photographs by Stefan A. Rose documenting previous Sound Travels and Sign Waves events on Toronto Island. Translating the original auditory experience into the visual, using visual textures and point-of-view, the images are a record of soundwalks, participants,
artists, and sound/new media installations.

Stefan A. Rose

Stefan A. Rose is a Waterloo-based photographer, poet, and video artist who studied both Engineering and Fine Arts at Mount Allison University. He works in various photographic formats and styles, in artistic and documentary forms. Stefan has collaborated with other visual artists in making limited-edition books, and taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions. He is also documentary
photographer for NUMUS concerts, Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, and New Adventures in Sound Art. In 2002 Stefan received the Equinox Emerging Artists Video Award from Ed Video Media Arts Centre which enabled the creation of an original video piece premiered with the performance of Annie Gosfield's composition "Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" by the Penderecki String Quartet during the 2003 Open Ears Festival. Stefan's latest collaboration with the PSQ, a video to accompany their performance of Steve Reich's "Different Trains", has been shown in Paris, Kauno (Lithuania), and Los Angeles. Stefan is working on a multi-disciplinary collaborative artistic documentary project called "Townsend Retraced" that examines the long-term impact of failed city planning upon a farming community, to be exhibited in September and October, 2004, in Simcoe, Ontario.

"The Listening Gallery"
curated by Darren Copeland (website)

"The Listening Gallery", curated by Sound Travels' Artistic Director Darren Copeland, will give visitors an opportunity to listen to past performances presented during the annual Sound Travels performances on Toronto Island. The works assembled for the listening gallery provide a very comprehensive cross-section of activity in experimental sound art and electroacoustic music.

Created by Don Sinclair with sounds collected during the "Hear here" youth workshop. "Toronto Island Sound Map" is both an on-line and a gallery installation that uses a map of Toronto Island as an organizational tool and visual interface for visitors to trigger, mix together and compare different Toronto Island sounds. The audio component of this new media work consists of short soundscape compositions created
during the "Hear here" workshop in which notions of representation and portraiture in sound art were explored in the compositions made by the participating youth in June 2004. The "Hear here" workshop was taught by New Adventures in Sound Art's artistic director Darren Copeland and co-produced with Charles Street Video, and the Power Plant gallery.

"Toronto Island Sound Map" provides an understanding of Toronto Island's sonic geography by drawing attention to the physical location of important Toronto Island soundmarks, keynote sounds, and other more unusual sounds that go unnoticed by many visitors to the island. An on-line version of the piece will be made available at www.soundtravels.ca.

Donald Sinclair (home page)

Don Sinclair is a new media artist, professor, parent, and cyclist residing in Toronto. His creative work revolves around exploring interactive interfaces. Drawing from his diverse background in music, mathematics, computer science, and interdisciplinary studies, Don works in a variety of contexts including gallery installations, interactive dance, and the web. Don teaches New Media Art in the Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program at York University.

In 2003 Don created "Nanovideo, 10 Second OTES," a series of nine very short videos exploring different locations from OTES. Oh, those everyday spaces (OTES), is a collection of 25,000 images gathered while cycling. (website)Don also created the Interactive Art Web Site "Variations / Variantes," a database art interface to OTES. (website)

Also in 2003 Don collaborated with sound artist Andra McCartney to create the Installation "Journées Sonores, Canal de Lachine," an interactive installation at La Musée de Lachine from September to December 2003. He has also collaborated with Jan Curtis and Alison Mackay in digital image creation to create "Northern Light: Visions and Dreams" as well as with dance choreographer Holly Small to create an Interactive Dance Performance as part of the Dance Innovations festival at Joe Green Studio Theatre York University.