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Complete Program Listing
SOUND TRAVELS FESTIVAL OF SOUND ART
Performance pass $40/30 student (includes 5 performances)
naisa@naisa.ca or 416-652-5115 for details
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is pleased to present the 13th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with indoor and outdoor performances, sound installations, SOUNDwalks, a 5-day intensive for emerging artists - the Sound Travels Intensive - and the fifth annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium at various venues at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street) as well as an outdoor sound sculpture - Synthecycletron - on Centre Island. This year's artist-in-residence is internationally renowned UK artist Jonty Harrison.
WORLD LISTENING DAY Concert and SOUNDwalk
July 16, 1 pm, Admission by Donation (recommended donation $5)
NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #252, Toronto
To commemorate the birthday of R. Murray Schafer, NAISA will take you on a SOUNDwalk through the local neighbourhood around the Barns. Following the SOUNDwalk on July 16th will be a soundscape concert that will feature a number of interesting sounds: nightingale floors in Japanese temples, ambisonic soundscape recordings of Toronto and excerpts from a radio documentary about R. Murray Schafer.
WORLD LISTENING DAY SOUNDwalk and Artist Talk
July 18 2pm meet at the pavillion Island-side for SOUNDwalk
followed by Artist talk by Barry Prophet at 3pm
Toronto Island, Free
Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet
July 1 to Oct 16 - 24 hours, 7 days a week
July 18 Artist talk 3pm
Toronto Island
Free
Visitors that encounter the "Synthecycletron," a favourite amongst Toronto cyclists, generate power by pedalling on stationary bicycles which in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds connected to their movements.
“Welcome to My Parlour” SOUND SCULPTURE by Chan Ka Nin
July 22 - Sept 3
Fridays 12-3pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm except Aug 19 and 20
plus demonstration by Artist on August 10 from 6 to 8 pm, PWYC
NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #252, Toronto
Anyone encountering this six foot spider-shaped sound sculpture are encouraged to touch the strings. Loud and wonderful sounds will result. He/she is encouraged to move through the sculpture to the back end where the strings are tuned in microtonal intervals. This is symbolic of yielding to temptation and crossing the line to the “dark side”. More than one participant can jam on it at the same time, producing both tonal and atonal sounds.
BREAKFAST – a MORNING RITUAL
performances by Matt Miller, Rob Piilonen and Sam Morgenstein
Aug 6, 10am-noon FREE
Outdoor Farmer's Market, Artscape Wychwood Barns,601 Christie, Toronto
An homage to the morning ritual of preparing breakfast, featuring Rob Piilonen (flute), Samuel Morgenstein (various kitchen appliances / utensils) and Matt Miller (laptop). The piece will be subdivided by a series of timed devices found in the kitchen: 3 Minute Egg Timer, Toaster Oven, Coffee Maker, Microwave Oven.
5th ANNUAL TORONTO ELECTROACOUSTIC SYMPOSIUM
August 10 - 13, 2011 at the Wychwood Theatre and Christie Studio
Go to https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/esymposium.php to register
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) are pleased to announce the 5th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011. The 2011 symposium is not only the fifth annual iteration of this important opportunity for exchange between diverse EA communities – it also coincides with the 25th year of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the 10th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). At the heart of the symposium will be a keynote lecture by Sound Travels featured artist Jonty Harrison (Birmingham, UK).
TORONTO ELECTROACOUSTIC SYMPOSIUM CONCERTS
Aug 10 & 11, 8 pm
$15/10 – FREE for TES symposium participants
Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #176, Toronto
NAISA and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community host two concerts with works chosen by an international jury of electroacoustic practitioners, snapshot of the latest research and exploration in sound art.
SOUND TRAVELS CONCERT #1 - Places for our ears to go...
Aug 12, 8 pm
$15/10 – FREE for TES symposium participants
Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #176, Toronto
Featured in this sonic journey is recent work by Jonty Harrison, artist in residence for Sound Travels and the keynote speaker for the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. Harrison has been a mentor for the development of many UK and Canadian sound artists that also have since gone on to teach sound art to the next generation. One of these is Canadian sound artist David Berezan now teaching at University of Manchester who will be presenting a new work in this concert. Also featured is a new work by Toronto sound artist Nick Storring from his album Rift released in the UK on the Entr’acte label. The film in this cinema for the ears happens inside the mind during an adventurous sonic journey through many other worlds real and imagined.
SOUND TRAVELS CONCERT #2 - About Time
Aug 13, 8 pm
$15/10 – FREE for TES symposium participants
Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #176, Toronto
Sound is expressed in time so it is no accident that there is a wide diversity of ways to reflect on time in sound art. In this concert, NAISA is featuring a number of younger generation artists such as Ana Dall'Ara-Majek, Dominic Thibault, and Georges Forget while also including a work by Chiyoko Slavnics that uses graphic notation and pure sine tones, a work by Yves Daoust whose title was the inspiration behind the “About Time” programming theme for NAISA in 2010 and a performance using various small alarm clocks by Montreal percussionist and sound artist Martin Messier.
SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE For sound & media artists, composers and musicians
August 16 - 20, 2011, $175, 9am - 7pm daily with an 8 pm concert on August 20,
@ the Christie Studio, 601 Christie #170
For full schedule and complete information go to
http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/intensive.html
Pre-registration required Go to https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/eintensive.php
The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists from across Canada and around the world to create and present new work in Toronto, exchange ideas with others, and hone electroacoustic skills with the guidance of a diverse group of world-renowned instructors including world renown artist Jonty Harrison, David Ogborn, Darren Copeland, and Rob Cruickshank with guest lectures by Marla Hlady and Jessica Thompson. Five intense days of workshop sessions, private instruction and creative activity culminate in a public concert presentation at Toronto's Artscape Wychwood Barns. Participants must apply by July 15 at 12 noon Toronto time to be eligible for a limited number of scholarship and billeting possibilities.
SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE CONCERT
August 20, 2011, 8pm, $5
Christie Studio, 601 Christie St #170
Performances of work by emerging and mid-career composers attending the Sound Travels Intensive (a series of workshops over a 5-day period). Feedback and discussion from audience is encouraged.
TORONTO NEW MUSIC MARATHON - NAISA Concerts
September 3, 2 to 9 pm, FREE
Yonge-Dundas Square – corner of Yonge and Dundas, Toronto
NAISA will once again be participating in the day long Toronto New Music Marathon organized by Contact contemporary music. Come out to hear the wide spectrum of new music and sound art going on in Toronto.
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