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Sound As Art 2
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Apr 6, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is the second part of a two part course lasting a total of 6
hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the media artist dabbling in sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand the
possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound. The workshop
will further explore the sound materials developed in Sound
As Art 1
in order to uncover in more detail their inherent
sound generation and compositional possibilities. Key focal points for
the workshop include composition strategies, non-linear sound
processing techniques and the associative qualities of sounds.
March
2008
PURE DATA
WORKSHOP
with David McCarllum and Dafydd Hughes
Mar 1st, 10-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
Want to create live or
interactive audio art? Are you frustrated by the limitations of
existing software and keen to create tools to suit your own artistic
purposes? Pure Data is a powerful tool for creating music and audio
art, video, and physical computing (it's also the free, open source
cousin of Max/MSP).
INVENTIVE REALITY
podcast & radio workshop with Victoria Fenner
(bio)
Mar 15, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
 “Inventive Reality” – Blending
Art and Journalism in Podcasts and Radio Shows
The fine line between
journalism and art is a place with many possibilities. An ordinary
event can be the inspiration for sound pieces that blend both fact and
perception. “Inventive Reality” is a one day workshop by Victoria
Fenner of Magnetic Spirits Productions to explore this transitional
zone. It is a hands-on field recording and storymaking workshop to stir
imaginations and get participants thinking and producing journalism in
new ways …. for both radio and internet audio (podcasts). Previous
experience in audio recording and digital editing is helpful, but
beginners are welcome too.
INSIDE VOICES —songs without words
Listening & Voice workshop with Anne
Bourne
Mar 30th 1-4pm, $50
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
Improvise songs without words
with sound anatomy resonance and harmonic overtones. Create and compose
together. Connect through listening to imaginary landscapes grounded in
nature, and your sense of place. I will reference Oliveros' Deep
Listening pieces and Sonic Meditations, offering an experience of
subtle listening strategies that are simple, and encourage a range of
beautiful and powerful music, and humour, that is inclusive of all
walks of life. Please bring a yoga mat or meditation cushion and a
journal.
Sound
As Art 1
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Recording & Editing workshop
with Darren Copeland
Mar 31st, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
 This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the visual artist exploring sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities,
and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic
recording, editing, processing and mixing practices within the context
of the history and aesthetic discourse of experimental audio art
practice over the past 50 years.
February
2008
INSIDE VOICES —songs without words
Listening & Voice workshop with Anne
Bourne
Feb 10th 1-4pm, $50
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
Improvise songs without words
with sound anatomy resonance and harmonic overtones; discover your
palette of sound colours. Create and compose together. Connect through
listening to imaginary landscapes grounded in nature, and your sense of
place. And through sounding, open communication and invention, allowing
sound to shift us like a river.
Sound as expression and sound
as the energy of life can increase a person's sense of well-being.
Sound in the map of time can locate the still point of a person's
vibrant creative expression. I will reference Oliveros' Deep Listening
pieces and Sonic Meditations, offering an experience of subtle
listening strategies that are simple, and encouraging a range of
beautiful and powerful music, and humour, that is inclusive of all
walks of life. Please bring a yoga mat or meditation cushion, a journal.
Sound
As Art 1
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Feb 17th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the visual artist exploring sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities,
and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic
recording, editing, processing and mixing practices within the context
of the history and aesthetic discourse of experimental audio art
practice over the past 50 years.
For their subjects,
participants will be asked to explore the sounds of places/things in
the immediate area that are distinct and representative. This process
will invite a dialogue between the art of representation and
abstraction, which can be explored to great advantage in the audio art
medium. Through the introduction of digital processing techniques and
composition strategies, participants will get a taste of areas they can
later explore intuitively and on their own after the workshop. No
experience is necessary. Equipment is supplied, however if you wish to
bring your own laptop you may do so.
SOLDER PARTY
with Rob Cruickshank
Feb 18th, 6-8pm, $25
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
You want to build electronic
stuff, like the soon-to-be launched NAISAtron, but you're scared of the
soldering?
Rob Cruickshank will take you through the basics of soldering including:
-How to solder printed circuit boards.
-How to fix your mistakes.
-How to strip wires, and solder them.
-How to select and care for tools.
-Soldering safety.
Participants will build a small circuit to take home with them. This
workshop is for everyone, no prior experience is required.
Lead-free solder will be available.
Sound As Art 2
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Feb 24, 1:30-8:30pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is the second part of a two part course lasting a total of 6
hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the media artist dabbling in sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand the
possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound. The workshop
will further explore the sound materials developed in Sound
As Art 1
in order to uncover in more detail their inherent
sound generation and compositional possibilities. Key focal points for
the workshop include composition strategies, non-linear sound
processing techniques and the associative qualities of sounds.
January
2008
Sound As Art 1
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Jan 12th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is a two part course lasting a total of 6 hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the visual artist exploring sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities,
and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic
recording, editing, processing and mixing practices within the context
of the history and aesthetic discourse of experimental audio art
practice over the past 50 years.
For their subjects,
participants will be asked to explore the sounds of places/things in
the immediate area that are distinct and representative. This process
will invite a dialogue between the art of representation and
abstraction, which can be explored to great advantage in the audio art
medium. Through the introduction of digital processing techniques and
composition strategies, participants will get a taste of areas they can
later explore intuitively and on their own after the workshop. No
experience is necessary. Equipment is supplied, however if you wish to
bring your own laptop you may do so.
INVENTIVE REALITY
podcast & radio workshop with Victoria Fenner
(bio)
Jan 19th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
“Inventive Reality” – Blending
Art and Journalism in Podcasts and Radio Shows
The fine line between
journalism and art is a place with many possibilities. An ordinary
event can be the inspiration for sound pieces that blend both fact and
perception. “Inventive Reality” is a one day workshop by Victoria
Fenner of Magnetic Spirits Productions to explore this transitional
zone. It is a hands-on field recording and storymaking workshop to stir
imaginations and get participants thinking and producing journalism in
new ways …. for both radio and internet audio (podcasts). Previous
experience in audio recording and digital editing is helpful, but
beginners are welcome too.
Sound As Art 2
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
Jan 20th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is the second part of a two part course lasting a total of 6
hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the media artist dabbling in sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand the
possibilities, and those with a general interest in sound. The workshop
will further explore the sound materials developed in Sound
As Art 1
in order to uncover in more detail their inherent
sound generation and compositional possibilities. Key focal points for
the workshop include composition strategies, non-linear sound
processing techniques and the associative qualities of sounds.
December
2007
SOUNDING the IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE
Listening & Vocal workshop with Anne Bourne
(bio)
Dec 4th, 6:30-9:30pm, $50
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
 Global and Focal Listening
Sounding the Deep Listening pieces of Pauline Oliveros
In experiencing this sound
practice of listening and vocal expression, one can locate essences of
sound on a vibrational level, connecting anatomy to a natural
environment, opening communication and invention. Sound as expression
and sound as the energy of life can, with it’s flow, increase a
person’s sense of well-being. Sound in the map of time can locate the
still point of a person's vibrant creative expression. We will
reference Oliveros' Deep Listening pieces and Sonic Meditations,
offering an experience of subtle listening strategies that are simple,
and encouraging a range of beautiful and  powerful music
that is inclusive of all walks of life.
Introduction to the NAISAtron
LECTURE/DEMO by Rob Cruickshank
(bio)
Dec 6, 7-9pm, FREE
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration required as space is limited
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
Rob Cruickshank will
introduce, and demonstrate the NAISAtron, the new electronic sound-art
multiple from New Adventures in Sound Art. The NAISAtron was designed
to be a teaching device, as an introduction to sound art and
electronics, as well as a performance instrument, and sound sculpture.
Rob, the creator of the NAISAtron will discuss the design of the
instrument, and how it can be used as the basis for workshops
in sound art and electronics, and demonstrate techniques for playing
it, alone or in groups. Participants will then have the opportunity to
experience the NAISAtron in a hands-on session.
INVENTIVE REALITY
podcast & radio workshop with Victoria Fenner
(bio)
Dec 8th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required (space limited)
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
“Inventive Reality” – Blending
Art and Journalism in Podcasts and Radio Shows
The fine line between
journalism and art is a place with many possibilities. An ordinary
event can be the inspiration for sound pieces that blend both fact and
perception. “Inventive Reality” is a one day workshop by Victoria
Fenner of Magnetic Spirits Productions to explore this transitional
zone. It is a hands-on field recording and storymaking workshop to stir
imaginations and get participants thinking and producing journalism in
new ways …. for both radio and internet audio (podcasts). Previous
experience in audio recording and digital editing is helpful, but
beginners are welcome too.
November 2007
Sound
As Art
with DARREN COPELAND
(bio)
November 25th, 10am-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is a two part course lasting a total of 6 hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the visual artist exploring sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities,
and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic
recording, editing, processing and mixing practices within the context
of the history and aesthetic discourse of experimental audio art
practice over the past
50 years.
For their subjects,
participants will be asked to explore the sounds of places/things in
the immediate area that are distinct and representative. This process
will invite a dialogue between the art of representation and
abstraction, which can be explored to great advantage in the audio art
medium. Through the introduction of digital processing techniques and
composition strategies, participants will get a taste of areas they can
later explore intuitively and on their own after the workshop.
October
2007
Flying with
Sound Workshop
A Realtime Spatialization Workshop with Darren Copeland
Oct 14th, 1-5pm, $35 (limited spaces available)
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
In this workshop, participants
will work with technology that allows the control of the movement of
sound up, down and around the listener by using a gestural controller
in realtime. Resources used include a 12.1 system (with 8 speakers at
ear level and 4 mounted higher up) that uses the Polhemus Patriot
sensor controller and software designed in MAX/MSP by Ben Thigpen.
Participants are asked to
bring a 5 minute example of a work they have produced in the past
and try their hand at navigating the movement of sound in space in
realtime. Multichannel examples are fine provided they are brought to
the workshop as a maximum of four stereo files rather than one encoded
5.1 signal. Darren Copeland will also provide history on the use of
spatialization in electroacoustic music and other uses of it in New
Adventures in Sound Art performances since 1998. Participants will
receive a copy of the New Adventures in Sound Art publication "Sound in
Space" that documents the use of space in contemporary music and sound
art, which includes a 5.1 DVD recording.
Revealing the Wisdom of the Voice
with Wende Bartley
Oct 16th, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, $50
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
Each of us holds a powerful
resource within our voice, for the voice is one of the truest
expressions of our deepest essence. A full range of expressive sounds
can be accessed through the body-breath connection, unlocking a
powerful experience of sonic vibration that can restore balance and
harmony throughout the entire body and mind. In this day-long workshop,
participants will be guided through a process that will unlock the
richness of their voice. The wisdom gained through a more intimate
connection with the voice can feed the creative process in any
discipline. The workshop is open to all range of voices and experience.
Live Video Mixing Workshop
with Celine Seman a.k.a Célinecélines (www.celinecelines.com)
Oct 20th, 9:30am - 5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop focuses on Live
Visual Performance using Modul8. Videos and visual will be available
and all participants are welcome to bring their personal visual
materials. An introduction of the Visual Jockey culture will be part of
the first session of the workshop, followed by a practical workshop on
video codec exportation for live animation (using Quicktime pro, or
Sorenson Squeeze). An introduction of the interface of Modul8 will be
part of the third session of the workshop, followed by experiments and
exercises mixing visuals to sounds and beats. All participants should
bring their own computer (Mac). Note there are a limited number of
computers available if you cannot bring your own.
Masterclass
with MONIQUE JEAN
Oct 23rd, 7 to 9pm, $15
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
limited spots available
Last summer it became apparent
during the emerging artists residency with Barry Truax and Trevor
Wishart that Toronto sound artists needed a regular studio forum for
discussion and feedback. This Masterclass with Monique Jean will be one
of a series of Composer Masterclasses offered at the NAISA Space where
you can listen to works in stereo or multi-channel formats.
Electroacoustic composers can share their work in a round table
critique session led by Montreal sound artist and SOUNDplay guest
Monique Jean. Please bring your completed work or work in progress with
you on CD or DVD (maximum 10 minutes).
Sound
As Art
with DARREN COPELAND
Oct 2nd, 7-10pm & Oct 4th, 7-10pm (6 hour total), $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
(this is a two part course lasting a total of 6 hours)
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email email naisa@naisa.ca
This workshop is geared
towards the budding sound artist, the visual artist exploring sound,
the community radio programmer wanting to expand their possibilities,
and those with a general interest in sound. It will teach basic
recording, editing, processing and mixing practices within the context
of the history and aesthetic discourse of experimental audio art
practice over the past
50 years.
For their subjects,
participants will be asked to explore the sounds of places/things in
the immediate area that are distinct and representative. This process
will invite a dialogue between the art of representation and
abstraction, which can be explored to great advantage in the audio art
medium. Through the introduction of digital processing techniques and
composition strategies, participants will get a taste of areas they can
later explore intuitively and on their own after the workshop.
September
2007
REVEALING THE WISDOM OF THE VOICE
with WENDE BARTLEY
Sept 23rd, 10-5pm, $100
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
Each of us holds a powerful
resource within our voice, for the voice is one of the truest
expressions of our deepest essence. A full range of expressive sounds
can be accessed through the body-breath connection, unlocking a
powerful experience of sonic vibration that can restore balance and
harmony throughout the entire body and mind. In this day-long workshop,
participants will be guided through a process that will unlock the
richness of their voice. The wisdom gained through a more intimate
connection with the voice can feed the creative process in any
discipline. The workshop is open to all range of voices and experience.
FLYING WITH SOUND: A Realtime
Spatialization Workshop
with DARREN COPELAND
Sept 22nd, 1-5pm, $35
103 Beaconsfield Ave, main floor, Toronto
Note: pre-registration and advance payment required
Call 416-910-7231 or email naisa@naisa.ca
In this workshop, participants
will work with technology that allows the control of the movement of
sound up, down and around the listener by using a gestural controller
in realtime. Resources used include a 12.1 system (with 8 speakers at
ear level and 4 mounted higher up) that uses the Polhemus Patriot
sensor controller and software designed in MAX/MSP by Ben Thigpen.
Participants are asked to
bring a 5 minute example of a work they have produced in the past
and try their hand at navigating the movement of sound in space in
realtime. Multichannel examples are fine provided they are brought to
the workshop as a maximum of four stereo files rather than one encoded
5.1 signal. Darren Copeland will also provide history on the use of
spatialization in electroacoustic music and other uses of it in New
Adventures in Sound Art performances since 1998. Participants will
receive a copy of the New Adventures in Sound Art publication "Sound in
Space" that documents the use of space in contemporary music and sound
art, which includes a 5.1 DVD recording.
Presenter Bios
Anne
Bourne
Anne Bourne is a composer,
cellist and vocalist. At an early age, the experience of studying and
performing the Bach A major Piano Concerto in recital at the National
Arts Centre, coincided with a political initiation into her father’s
world as a peacemaker, and anti-terrorist. This inspired Anne to commit
to music as an act of peace. Later at York University, David Mott
encouraged Anne’s decision to focus on contemporary cello, as a way to
discover her own voice. Here Anne was also influenced by Trichy
Sankaran, Casey Sokol, the renowned Fred Stone, and cellist Coenraad
Bloemendal. Anne debuted as an improviser at the Music Gallery on St
Patrick Street, in a tape-loop composition by the late composer James
Tenney.
In 1994, Anne was invited to
perform a distance concert with Pauline Oliveros, at the Kitchen in
Manhattan, using technology to connect with groups in Paris, and
Toronto in a live performance. After this Anne began attending the Rose
Mountain Retreats in New Mexico, and commuted to New York to study
composition and listening technique with Oliveros, until 2001. During
this period, Anne journeyed to Egypt with a group created in New York,
lead by author and director Ione, and singer Andrea Goodman, (Meredith
Monk), to record their voices activating sacred sites. Anne is among
the first seven certified to teach Oliveros’ material. In the spring of
2007, Anne became Communications Producer for Deep Listening
Institute's International Convergence Project. As a peace initiative,
40 musicians from several countries were invited to make music on line,
and then perform live in four locations in New York State. In the wake
of this work, Anne was asked to speak about the role of musician as
peace activist, at the University of Waterloo, at the Colleges of
Music, and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Anne’s recent performances
include an appearance in May 2007, at John Zorn’s NY club, The Stone,
with Fred Frith and Eve Egoyan. A premiere of ‘One Long Peace’ a duet
with Pauline Oliveros, at the Music Gallery's X Avant Festival in
Toronto, and a live performance with filmmaker Peter Mettler at new
media festival ‘inthemix’, in October 2007. Recordings include
‘Primordial Lift’, with Oliveros, Bourne, Tony Conrad and David Grubbs,
recorded at Hallwall’s, and recently re-released, and ‘dearness’, a
live concert recorded at the Rivoli, with John Oswald and Fred Frith,
on Spool.
Anne ‘is an earthy,
unrestrained musical force, she often accompanies her cello with
otherworldly vocalizing’ COD
Robert Cruickshank
Robert Cruickshank is a
Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His work in various media
-including electronic and robotic installations, sound art,
electroacoustic music, and photography - has been exhibited in Toronto,
and internationally. He has also developed a number of workshops
at InterAccess Electronic Media Art Centre, providing artists with an
opportunity to learn electronics. He is currently a member of I/O
Media- an InterAccess based audio-visual improvisational collective,
and is a member of the Board Of Directors at InterAccess. Rob is the
designer of the NAISAtron.
Victoria Fenner
(website)
Victoria Fenner is a writer,
journalist and sound artist. For the past
two decades she has worked in community and public radio in the Canada
and the United States as radio station manager, current affairs
producer, freelance documentary producer, production technician,
creator/director of participatory media projects and trainer. She has
also taught audio production skills at the university, high school and
elementary school level.
She has recently a series of
documentaries for " Green Planet Monitor " with prairie based Earth
Chronicle Productions , travelling to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka to
gather material (funded by the Canadian International Development
Agency and the Canadian Autoworkers Union Social Justice Fund ). She
has also just returned from Nairobi, where she presented three workshops
- Creative Radio Production; and Bridging the Digital Divide for the
International Association of Women in Radio and Television , and a
Soundwalking workshop for Internews , an international development
media organization.
She has worked for CBC Radio ;
in community radio stations in Vancouver, Hamilton, Ottawa and the
Appalchian mountains of Kentucky and as a trainer of management skills
for community radio station managers in the developing world. The
development of community radio and web-related radio (Radio 2.0) in the
developing world is a constant interest and focus of her writings about
communications.
She takes a creative approach
towards sound making, using her microphone to gather sounds and her
computer to organize them in ways which reflect the way she hears the
world . In addition to her own compositions, she has also created sound
art anthologies of artists across Canada which have been played on
radio stations across the world.
Dafydd
Hughes
Dafydd Hughes is an artist,
musician, programmer and educator living in Toronto, Ontario.
He is an active member of
Canada's jazz, pop and experimental music communities, performing and
recording regularly as a keyboardist and electronic sound designer. In
addition to work with artists such as Esthero, James McCollum (The
Philosopher Kings), Jacksoul and Feist, Dafydd leads several of his own
projects which perform on a regular basis in Toronto. He has devoted
considerable research to the relationship between technology and art
and has developed several computer-based musical systems which he uses
in both experimental and mainstream popular music.
Dafydd teaches Ear Training
and Music Technologies at Sheridan College. He is also a member of the
board of directors at Interaccess, where he loves to spend time
teaching and participating in workshops,
playing with technology, taking things apart and finding himself unable
to put things back together
Benoît Maubrey
Benoît was born of French parents in Washington DC in 1952. He graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Georgetown University. In 1979 he moved to West Berlin and after the collapse of the former East Germany moved to the state of Brandenburg where he and his partner Susken Rosenthal founded the non-profits arts organization Kunstpflug e.V. His performance and installation work has been presented in many international art festivals. Since 1990 he lives and works in the village of Baitz (near Belzig,Brandenburg). Since 2000 numerous performances and exhibitions (a selection): Monaco Dance Danses Forum (2000), Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Location One / NYC, Gracia Territoria Sonor/Barcelona, (2003) , Thailand New Media Art Festival/Bangkok, Sitelines Festival/NYC (2006), Joseph Beuys Archive (2007), Mostra des Artes/ Sao Paulo (2008).
David McCallum
Toronto-based musician and
media artist David McCallum has an M.Sc. in Art and Technology from
Gothenburg, Sweden, and studied physics and music before that at
Queen's University. He is currently the Editor of Musicworks Magazine.
His work has focussed on improvised performance, DIY electronics, and
locative media, with an emphasis on curiosity. Groups and projects have
included the Warbike, a mobile sonification of WiFi networks (currently
exhibiting at InterAccess Media Art Centre); and You Say Potatoe, I Say
Potato: a study in the sonic properties of genetically modified
potatoes.
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.
Reena Katz
Reena Katz is Toronto-based musician, performer, and audio installation artist currently completing her BFA at OCAD. Her work explores gender, ethnicity, migration and anachronism through experimental, electroacoustic, performance and sound art formats. She focuses on the use and re-use of analog sound technologies mixed with contemporary digital software. Guided by a deep love of collaboration, Katz has developed an inventive and strong voice across disciplines. Her work focuses on the interface of sound with film, video, poetry, dance and performance art.
Victoria Fenner
is a writer and media artist. For the past two decades she has worked in both community radio in Canada and the United States and with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She takes a creative approach towards sound making, using her microphone to gather sounds and her computer to organize them in ways which reflect the way she hears the world . In addition to her own compositions, she has also created sound art anthologies of artists across Canada which have been played on radio stations around the globe.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland
is Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Financial Coordinator for Charles Street Video. Nadene is also the current chair of the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. She promotes the dissemination of new and experimental sound art through her work with New Adventures in Sound Art, and recently edited three educational booklets published by NAISA: Radio Art Companion (2002), Sign Waves Companion (2002) and Sound in Space (2003). Nadene received her B.F.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney.
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