Workshops

All workshops @ the NAISA space
(equipment provided)
Register on-line here,
call to register 416-652-5115
or email naisa@naisa.ca

NAISA April and May Workshops

SOUND AS ART 1 Recording & Editing workshop by Artistic Director Darren Copeland
April 20, 10 am - 5 pm, $100

Geared towards the budding sound artist, the visual and media artist exploring sound, the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound, this workshop will teach basic recording, editing, processing and mixing practices.

Micro-Radio Transmitter Workshop with Ian Jarvis
May 11, 2:00-5:00 pm, $55 (price includes parts for building micro-transmitter)

This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like on a minimum level that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a very small radius of transmission.

Sound Production for Radio Producers, bloggers and podcasters with Darren Copeland
May 12, 11 am - 5 pm, $100

This workshop will highlight rules of thumb on how to get better quality interview recordings and how to clean up interview recordings in a workshop that goes from interview and field recording on location to editing, and concludes with creative strategies for mixing and arranging.

Live Coding Workshop and the Laptop Orchestra Jam by Ian Jarvis
The last Sunday of each month
May 26, Live Coding Workshop 10 am - noon, $10/person + Laptop Orchestra Jam noon-2pm, $5/person
Those attending the morning workshop get in free for the laptop jam

Come learn about music, digital sound, improvisation, laptop orchestras, and the programming language ChucK, with the basics of live coding workshop. Following the workshop will be an open form Laptop Orchestra Jam. No prior experience necessary - all ages and levels of experience welcome. The Workshop runs from 10-12, the Orchestra Jam will be from 12-2. Come for one or both, whatever suits your fancy. Note: those attending the morning workshop get in free for the afternoon jam. Bring your own laptop. Ian Jarvis is a Sound Artist Composer, Song Writer, and Media Producer from Toronto. He currently spits mad live code with the newly conceived group extramuros.

Presenter Bios

Darren Copeland (website)

Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer. He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham). His concert works have received mentions in competitions (Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en Circuit, and Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases (Storm of Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu - Non Lieu, and Soundscape Vancouver). Rendu Visible, a CD devoted to his work, is available on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

Other works combine his electroacoustic and theatrical backgrounds to break open disciplinary boundaries between electroacoustics, radio art, and theatre. Highlights include the adaptation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play (first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1), the soundscape documentaries Life Unseen and The Toronto Sound Mosaic, and a DORA nominated soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's That Time.

In addition to composing, he has written articles about listening and environmental sounds for Electronic Cottage, Musicworks, Contact! (CEC), Soundscape: Journal of Acoustic Ecology, and The Journal for Electroacoustic Music (Sonic Arts Network) as well as CD, concert and book reviews for Musicworks, The Whole Note, and Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.

Has a producer and administrator, fond memories lie with Wireless Graffiti, a live-to-air radio extravaganza in 1993 co-produced by Rumble Theatre and Vancouver Pro Musica. After active histories with Vancouver Pro Musica, the Standing Wave Ensemble, and the Communauté Électroacoustique Canadienne/Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) from 1990 to 1996, he now serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) and is the Artistic Director for New Adventures in Sound Art.