Residency and Symposium

A series of workshops will allow emerging artists to work with esteemed composer Robert Normandeau. The theme of this project will be spatialization and the work created will be premeired as part of Sound Travels 2008. This is the fourth year that Sound Travels has included opportunities for emerging artists to work with senior artists and educators from outside of Toronto who provide artistic guidance and inspire new growth in the sound art field in Toronto. A group of emerging artists from Guelph university will also be working with Ellen Waterman to create the series of improvised performances using the environment's spatial parameters as part of the performances. These will be performed on August 8,9, and 10.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
August 7 and 8, 2008

For full details go to http://cec.concordia.ca/events/TES/2008/

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to invite you to attend the 2008 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium will lead directly into the main performance weekend of the annual Sound Travels festival. Sound Travel composers-in-residence Ellen Waterman and Robert Normandeau will give keynote lectures at the symposium. Symposium sessions are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Abstracts, paper and concert schedules can be consulted online aon the CEC web-site.For more information, to register to attend the symposium, or to propose something for the open-mic night, contact the symposium chair, David Ogborn at david.ogborn@utoronto.ca.

Sound Travels Workshops

LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC with MaxMSP and PD
A workshop by David Ogborn
August 2 & 3 (inclusive) 10-5pm @ the NAISA space
Registration fee $50 email to register in advance at info@naisa.ca

An intense 2-day workshop on the creation, troubleshooting and performance of software patches for live electronic music. Major topics to be covered include audio & MIDI interfacing, time domain audio transformations, spectral audio transformations, and the art of producing portable patches that last. While a background as a musician is strongly recommended, no prior experience with electronic music techniques is required. The practical emphasis will be on the use of MaxMSP, but all of the concepts discussed will be demonstrated in parallel in the free, open-source environment PD.

MAKING ART WITH SOUND
another NAISA youth initiative
email to register in advance at info@naisa.ca
limited spots available

NAISA is inviting youth aged 15-18 to traverse the territory of traditional art mediums and contribute to the growing body of exciting media art being produced by youth internationally through 2 summer residencies!

The youth will create art entirely with Sound, Radio, Electronics, and/or Performance through exploration according to their own individual interest. The youth can choose to build a NAISAtron, a micro-transmitter, or work with basic recording and editing software. All equipment will be provided by New Adventures in Sound Art and no experience is necessary. (www.naisa.ca).

Registration fee of $10.00 is required but no other fee will be charged. Limited spots available.

Residency 1
Toronto Island, August 11-15, 10am-1pm

Residency 2
The NAISA Space, 103 Beaconsfield Ave., August 18-22, 10am-1pm

NAISA gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Laidlaw Foundation for their financial support of this NAISA youth initiative.