Workshops

All workshops @ the NAISA space
(equipment provided)
Register on-line here,
call to register 416-516-7413
or email naisa@naisa.ca

The workshops in May are also part of the Deep Wireless Festival 2011.

Soundscape Recording Workshop for beginners with Darren Copeland
May 1 @ 1 to 4 pm - Admission by donation
meet at the NAISA Space, #252 in Artscape Wychwood Barns

Would you like to learn how to record the sound environment? The first half of this workshop will teach you the basics of recording environmental sounds indoors and outdoors. We'll learn some basic do's and don'ts and some lower budget solutions for getting good soundscape recordings. The second half of the workshop will have you apply your newly acquired skills in a coordinated multichannel soundscape recording that will be used in the realization of Mitchell Akiyama's piece “Thankfully, we now know all”, which will be presented at NAISA the following weekend.

Micro-Radio Transmitter building Workshop with Hector Centeno
May 14, 1:30-4:30 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, but participants could experience a convivial wireless imagination.

Sound Production for Radio Producers workshop with Darren Copeland
May 15, 10 am - 5 pm, $100

Looking for rules of thumb to get better quality interview recordings? Wondering how to clean up those interview recordings with great but unintelligible content? Need more tricks for editing out unwanted noises from your interviews? This workshop will highlight these technical hurdles in a workshop that goes from interview and field recording on location to editing and concludes with creative strategies for mixing and arranging to get more out of the listening experience.

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.