9th annual Sound Travels
festival of Sound Art
Toronto Island outdoors and at
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
July 1 to October 1, 2007

Sound Travels brings sound art to the outdoors on Toronto Island in a way that entices the curious and provides a unique experience each and every year. This 9th edition of the annual festival will once again feature the Sign Waves installation series of sound sculptures and sound installations as well as outdoor and indoor concerts, site-specific performances, soundwalks, artist talks and workshops.

Our Sound Travels 2007 plans include Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax as composers-in-residence whose music will be featured in Sound Travels. Barry and Trevor will mentor the creation of 4 new works by local emerging artists Hector Centeno, Tony Leung, Charlotte Scott and Monica Clorey in our emerging artist residency. Their works will be presented during the Sound Travels concert weekend alongside world premieres by Trevor Wishart and Rose Bolton, Barry Truax, Randy Raine Reusch and Mei Han.

Barry Prophet's semi-permanent sound sculpture, "Synthecycletron" is currently a work in progress - the opening dates will be announced shortly and performance schedule also TBA. Indoor installations will run every Sunday afternoon and include an interactive sound sculpture by Lori Beckstead and David Rose called "The Whispering Tree". Composers in Residence Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax will present concerts of their work while mentoring the work of four emerging Canadian sound artists also featured at Sound Travels 2007 (Charlotte Scott, Monica Clorey, Hector Centeno and Tony Leung). Also featured will be performances and works by Randy Raine-Reusch and Mei Han.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community, the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium will take place at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 9-10 August 2007, and will lead directly into the main performance weekend of the annual Sound Travels festival on Toronto Island. Alongside a selection of refereed papers and presentations, the symposium will feature keynote lectures by Sound Travels' composers-in-residence Barry Truax and Trevor Wishart. A late-night event hosted by the angelusnovus.net group will provide a space for live electronic and improvised expressions in an "open-mic" format. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC's online journal, eContact!.

Sound Travels Outdoor Sound Sculpture
Centre Island
will be open 24/7 FREE

"Synthecycletron" by Barry Prophet is currently a work in progress - the opening dates will be announced shortly performance schedule also TBA

Participants on "Synthecycletron" will generate power by pedaling which will in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds. There are several performances scheduled to happen using the sound sculptures as instruments.

Special opening performance/reception July 22nd 2pm ($10) with a performance by Christine Duncan, James Bailey and Rob Piilonen

St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church on Centre Island is the home once again for the Sound Travels indoor interactive installations each Sunday afternoon 2 to 6 PM. Lori Beckstead and David Rose's "The Whispering Tree" is an interactive sound sculpture that absorbs the sounds around it and then retransmits those sounds. Secrets told to the tree become part of a continuous soundscape emitted by the tree, but the secrets are only partly revealed, as secrets are veiled and mixed together. Over time, the tree becomes a wise old repository of all that has happened around it, containing and sometimes revealing all that it has learned. Also included are the "Toronto Island Sound Map" (Don Sinclair and Darren Copeland), "Around Radio Roadmovies" (Chantal Dumas, Christian Calon and Don Sinclair), the "Listening Gallery" allowing gallery goers to listen to past Sound Travels performances while viewing the "Sound Travels Documents" Photo Exhibit by Stefan Rose.

Sound Travels
2007 Call for Submissions on the theme
"A Sonic Portrait"
Electroacoustic Music and Installation Art
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Submission Entry Forms (doc) (pdf)
Complete Submission details can be found here.

New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme A Sonic Portrait for consideration in 2008 future programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, Canada.

Individual interpretations or variations on the theme are encouraged: A Sonic Portrait could be a portrait of a person, place or thing done entirely in sound, an audio journal, a soundscape portrait, sound mapping, a visualization of a sound and so on.

All submitted works must respond in some way to the theme A Sonic Portrait in order to be considered for 2008 NAISA programming.

Electroacoustic Music
The Electroacoustic Music category is for multi-channel and stereo works less than 20 minutes in duration and conceived for concert performance or presentation in the Sound Travels festival of sound art on Toronto Island. Preferred formats for performance presentation include 5.1, octaphonic and 12 channel formats in both acousmatic (tape), live and mixed formats. Please indicate in the notes the intended format of presentation and any required instrumentation or specialized equipment.