This year's Sound Travels event includes the Sign Waves new media installation series, an 8-channel soundscape concert that includes world premières and live performances, a concert with Yves Daoust and site-specific outdoor performances by Neil Cadger and Steve Heimbecker.

SIGN WAVES
Summer Installation series
Opening reception Sunday July 24 2 pm
with a guided tour by the artists.
Runs July 24 to September 4, Sundays only 2-6 pm PWYC
(suggested donation $5)
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake, Centre Island, Toronto

This Sign Waves installation series will open the seventh annual Sound Travels event at the beautiful 119 year-old church of St. Andrew-by-the-Lake on Centre Island. The natural wood floors, wooden arched ceilings and stained glass windows will provide the perfect setting for three world premieres: Landmark by Katie Kehoe will use stories from Toronto Islanders as the springboard for an interactive audio-visual work, Still Ringing by Richard Windeyer is an interactive sound installation exploring the impact of the city soundscape on physical memory and perception, and Wandering Sacred by Micheline Roi will use the labyrinth located next to the Church to structure an outdoor site-specific audio installation. Also included are the "Toronto Island Sound Map" - an interactive soundscape portrait of Toronto Island, and a Listening Gallery allowing gallery goers to listen to past Sound Travels performances while viewing the "Sound Travels Documents" Photo Exhibit by Stefan Rose.

August 5 @ 7 PM ­ "Sound Can Fly: a performance for sound can and sound man"
a Site-Specific Performance by Neil Cadger and Steve Heimbecker
Begins at pavilion near Centre Island ferry dock (Island side) - FREE
Full Program Notes

Sound Can Fly is a Site-Specific Performance and part of an ongoing collaboration between theatre performance artist Neil Cadger (sound can) and audio artist Steve Heimbecker (sound man). Using specially created wearable sound equipment, the two artists will create a dynamic exchange of sound "in situ" as they lead audiences from the Centre Island Ferry Dock to St. Andrew by-the-Lake Church. The technology employed in "Sound Can Fly" is a hybrid combination: the soundcan itself is built from a portable, battery-powered amplifier, a coffee can, a car speaker and a dismantled back pack; Heimbecker's whimsical "Acoustic Field Intensifier (1994)" is a head device made from 18 metal funnels, also fitted with a portable, battery powered amplifier and speaker. Heimbecker's composition for this performance is a specially mixed 2 channel composition, combining to produce a playful exploration of human behaviour in the age of extended senses.

Yves Daoust:
a portrait
Concert of works by Yves Daoust
Yves Daoust in Conversation with Jennifer Waring
August 5, 2005 8pm
$5 at the door
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church, Toronto Island
Full Program Notes

This concert will trace the development of Yves Daoust's long musical career peppered with interviews by concert host Jennifer Waring that will spark anecdotes and personal reflections by Yves. Works featured include: 'Petite musique sentimentale', 'Suite baroque', 'mi bémol', 'Water Music' and 'Bruits'

August 6 @ 7 PM ­ "Sound Can Fly: a performance for sound can and sound man"
a Site-Specific Performance by Neil Cadger and Steve Heimbecker
Begins at pavilion near Centre Island ferry dock (Island side) - FREE

Same as performance on August 5, 2005 at 7 pm

Multi-channel Soundscape Concert
August 6, 2005 8pm / $5 at the door
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church, Toronto Island
Full Program Notes

New Adventures in Sound Art will celebrate 7 years of Sound Travels events in Toronto by presenting an array of soundscape pieces.

Featured works include Frances White's "A Veil Barely Seen" for viola and tape performed by Parmela Attariwala, Yves Daoust's "Adagio" for flute and tape performed by Jennifer Waring, as well as a soundscape piece - "...soretes de nunta" - by Damián Keller. Also included will be world premières of adventurous new soundscape pieces by Charlie Fox, David Ogborn, Lewis Kaye, Rose Bolton and Parmela Attariwala who will each have created their works using a multi-channel microphone array newly designed by Charlie Fox. These works were created as part of this year's Sound Travels residency co-produced by Inter/Access and Charles Street Video and led by Charlie Fox, Darren Copeland and Yves Daoust.

New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Sign Waves and SOUNDplay.

In the past two years at Sound Travels, New Adventures in Sound Art
has invited senior artists and educators from outside the Toronto
area to lead workshops and artist talks for the emerging generation
of sound artists in Toronto. This year, New Adventures in Sound Art
is taking this initiative a step further by inviting four emerging
sound artists - David Ogborn, Lewis Kaye, Parmela Attariwala and Rose
Bolton - to each create a new 8-channel soundscape piece under the
mentorship of Charlie Fox and Yves Daoust during a residency at Charles
Street Video and inter/access.

The four artists will record soundscapes throughout Toronto with
Charlie Fox using a new Multi-channel Microphone Array that he has
designed and prototyped in collaboration with engineer Wade
MacGregor. Once their material is recorded and assembled into a
rough form, the artists will work with Yves Daoust through the
completion phases of their composition process, drawing on Yves' more than thirty years of experience as an electroacoustic composer.

Charlie Fox artist talk
Wednesday August 3 @ 8 PM
inter/access - PWYC admission
9 Ossington

Charlie Fox will talk about his unique approach to sound recording using the multi-channel microphone array that he co-invented with artist/sound engineer Wade McGregor and that is being used by the participants in this year's Sound Travels residency. He will also talk about the influence multi-channel sound has had on his past media art works and audio productions.