Making Waves: Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine with Tosca Terán (aka Nanotopia): Aug 14, 2021

Artist Tosca Terán along with Andre Greville - make up the duo Nanotopia. Together they have created the sound installation the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine which turns a Grow Room into a Fungi and Spr...

Making Waves: Eric Leonardson and Raquel Castro: Jul 10, 2021

This episode of Making Waves focuses on World Listening Day with composer Eric Leonardson from Chicago and filmmaker Raquel Castro from Lisbon. In conversation with host Darren Copeland they cover th...

Making Waves: Jonathan Tyrrell and Sandy McLennan: Jun 12, 2021

This episode of Making Waves profiles two artists that come to sound art via other artistic disciplines and who are showing work this summer at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Ontario...

Mike Bullock and Zach Poff: May 29, 2021

This special 90 minute episode features interviews with artists who operate permanent open microphone livestreams that were included in the Reveil broadcasts of daybreak that happened four weeks ago...

Making Waves: Open Microphone Livestreaming with Elizabeth Chitty, Rob Mackay/Andrew Laforet, and Thomas Evdokimoff: May 08, 2021

Following the broadcast of Reveil on May 1st, NAISA is featuring two episodes of interviews with individuals who facilitated livestreams of daybreak from their home localities for Reveil . Today’s epi...

Making Waves: Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, James Bailey: Apr 10, 2021

This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a...

Making Waves: Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, James Bailey: Apr 10, 2021

20 Years of Radio Art at NAISA with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey: This edition of Making Waves includes parts of an online presentation from March 12, which marked the 2...

Making Waves: Sonik Boom with Janet Rogers: Mar 13, 2021

This edition of Making Waves is a replay of an online presentation on February 6, 2021 that included three works by poet and broadcaster Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora) - Stereo Ribbons, tsi tkaron...

Making Waves: Piece for objects found in the street: Feb 13, 2021

Today's episode of Making Waves revisits NAISA's 2021 Art’s Birthday Listening Party. On January 17, 2021 a groups of artists met online to listen and discuss each other’s realizations of a text scor...

Making Waves: Anne-F Jacques and Don Hill: Jan 09, 2021

Today’s episode of Making Waves features conversations with two artists from the Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art festival - Montreal sound artist Anne-F Jacques and Edmonton journalist and ra...

Making Waves: Debashis Sinha: Dec 12, 2020

This episode of Making Waves features a livestream performance from October 25 2020 by Debashis Sinha called Adeva (version000_01), which was co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles St...

Making Waves: Sandy McLennan: Nov 14, 2020

In this program Sandy McLennan, a filmmaker from Port Sydney Ontario, is interviewed by Darren Copeland. McLennan talks about how his hand-made 8mm and double 8mm films are made, the role that time pl...

Making Waves: Debashis Sinha and Robert Fantinatto: Oct 10, 2020

In this episode on AI and Modular Synths, we explore techniques - both new and old - used to produce sounds and images for two livestream performances taking place on October 17 and 24, 2020. In the f...

Making Waves: Bentley Jarvis and Teresa Connors: Sep 12, 2020

On today’s edition of Making Waves we feature interviews with Bentley Jarvis and Teresa Connors. David Arthur met up online with Bentley Jarvis over rural internet connections to discuss Jarvis’ soun...

Making Waves: Reciprocal Listening: Aug 08, 2020

As part of World Listening Day on July 18 NAISA hosted three online meet ups where participants produced soundscape recordings in their home environments inspired by a text score by composer Tina Pear...

Making Waves: Léa Boudreau, Matheos and Georgios, Christopher Lock, Barry Truax and Juan Carlos Vasquez: Jul 11, 2020

New Adventures in Sound Art is releasing a compilation on soundcloud for its Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. Guest Host David Arthur explores a selection of the pieces on the release and offers h...

Making Waves: Matthew Rogalsky: Jun 13, 2020

A discussion about listening and recording with Matthew Rogalsky in reference to his installation “Octet" which will open at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre on June 25. At the end of the show we wi...

Making Waves: Mixing Modes and Soundscapes with David Eagle: May 09, 2020

Calgary composer David Eagle discusses with Darren Copeland his works that will be presented on the May 30, 2020 online concert hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art. David Eagle explains his intent...

Making Waves: Reveil, a network of daybreak microphones: Apr 11, 2020

In this episode of Making Waves NAISA’s Darren Copeland talks to Grant Smith, Maria Papadomanolaki and Dawn Scarfe. For the past six years they have been celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day in a...

Making Waves: Impressions of Place - Ayesha Barmania, Don Hill, Jeffrey Sinibaldi: Mar 14, 2020

Impressions of Place: Ayesha Barmania, Don Hill and Jeffrey Sinibaldi. NAISA invited Podcaster Ayesha Barmania from Peterborough Ontario to create a radio portrait of NAISA's home town of South River...

Making Waves: Songs of Ice and Mannlicher Carcano Remix: Feb 08, 2020

Continuing from the previous episode of Making Waves, NAISA features more from Michael Waterman and Mannlicher Carcano. Included in the mix is an interview that Darren Copeland did with Michael Waterm...

Making Waves: Mannlicher Carcano's Multi-location Experimental Radio: Jan 11, 2020

Mannlicher Carcano started making experimental noise in Winnipeg in 1987 before dispersing to various cities and using community radio phone lines as a means to keep the group playing together. NAISA...

Making Waves: The audio-visual works of Geronimo Inutiq: Nov 09, 2019

Geronimo Inutiq is an electronic music producer, DJ and multimedia artist from Iqaluit, Nunavut who is now based in Montreal. He joins Darren Copeland from New Adventures in Sound Art to discuss his...

Making Waves: The Kinetic Sound Transmissions of Gordon Monahan: Oct 12, 2019

This episode of Making Waves takes listeners on a tour of Gordon Monahan's installation Kinetic Transmissions. During the show Gordon Monahan explains his use of audio signals to drive small motors...

Making Waves: Sound Art with Saws, Sonia Paço-Rocchia and Alan Bloor broadcast: Sep 14, 2019

Making Waves re-visiting two artists featured two years ago who both create sound art with Saws - Sonia Paço-Rocchia and Alan Bloor. The first half hour of the show includes an interview with Paço-Ro...

Making Waves: Sound Art Past and Future with Stephanie Castonguay and Alexis Bhagat: Jul 13, 2019

Making Waves looks to the future with a sound art installation by Stephanie Castonguay made by children and in the second half of the show Making Waves gazes into the past with an interview with Al...

Making Waves: Listen(n) with Garth Paine: Jun 08, 2019

Garth Paine is an Australian composer and interactive media artist teaching at Arizona State University. Upon his first visit to Arizona he became fascinated with the soundscapes of the deserts of the...

Making Waves: Udo Noll on Radio Aporee: May 11, 2019

Darren Copeland interviews Udo Noll about the online sound mapping project Radio Aporee and the distinctive way in which it conceives of transmission art as an open-ended multi-user medium.

Making Waves: Cross Canada by Train with Andra McCartney: Apr 13, 2019

Andra McCartney in conversation with Darren Copeland talks about her two works created fifteen years apart. Both works were made from cross-Canada train trips. The first during the winter of 2003 and...

Making Waves: Sound Documentaries by Edzi'u and Benoit Bories: Mar 09, 2019

On today's edition of Making Waves we listen to two sound documentaries from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art - Kime Ani by Edzi'u and Gateway by Benoit Bories. Both pieces are...

Making Waves: Josh Gumiela and The Immobile Device: Feb 09, 2019

In advance of Josh Gumiela's visit to NAISA in February, Josh discusses how he uses the electromagnetic energy emitted from cellphones for the raw material of the music produced in his installation "I...

Making Waves: Off the Beat(en) Path: Jan 26, 2019

The Deep Wireless radio art album is available for listening at https://soundcloud.com/naisa/sets/deep-wireless-14/ In this episode of Making Waves we listen to four of the pieces from the album -...

Making Waves: Jane Tingley: Dec 08, 2018

Jane Tingley on anyWare, an interactive distributed sculpture. Darren Copeland interviews Canadian media artist Jane Tingley on her interactive distributed sculpture called anyWare, which will be on...

Making Waves: Aaron Labbé on Composing Music from Brainwaves: Nov 10, 2018

In this edition we go back to a lecture by Aaron Labbe speaking in July 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. The show concludes with Richard Lainhart’s White Night, whi...

Making Waves: Two Different Approaches to Virtual Reality Lisa Jackson and Christine Webster: Oct 13, 2018

On the October 2018 edition of Making Waves Darren Copeland interviews two artists using Virtual Reality from completely different backgrounds. Lisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe cross-genre filmmake...

Making Waves: Interacting with Waves featuring Mario van Horrik and BlablaTRAINS: Sep 08, 2018

This episode of Making Waves features two very different methods for creating interactive and collaborative sound art works. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Mario van Horrik. He is one h...

Making Waves: The City of Sighs by Alexis O'Hara: Aug 11, 2018

Alexis O'Hara performs her work The City of Sighs and discusses her live performance practice with Darren Copeland. The City of Sighs is a piece for solo vocals and live electronic processing. In it...

Making Waves: World Listening Day Edition with Victoria Fenner, Stefan Rose and Glenn Hubert: Jul 14, 2018

The July edition of Making Waves celebrates World Listening Day. In the first half hour Darren Copeland interviews Victoria Fenner and Stefan Rose about their audio-visual collaboration Seeing Sound t...

Making Waves: Jana Winderen: Jun 09, 2018

"Jana Winderen and the art of underwater recording." Darren Copeland interviews Jana Winderen about her approach to sound recording and her motivations for exploring underwater sound in particular. I...

Making Waves: Reveil Revealed: May 12, 2018

Grant Smith and Maria Papadomanolaki discuss the Reveil sound camp project and look back at its five year history of broadcasting the soundscapes of daybreak from around the world. At the end of the p...

Making Waves: Martin Marier: Mar 10, 2018

Making Waves episodes for January through April, 2018 feature artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show includes per...

Making Waves: Andrew O'Connor: Feb 10, 2018

An artist talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2, 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artist. He talks about...

Making Waves: Andrew O'Connor: Feb 10, 2018

Today's show features an Artist Talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2nd at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artis...

Making Waves: Alexis O'Hara and the Deep Wireless Festival: Jan 13, 2018

Making Waves for January through April, 2018 will be featuring artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show features an...

Making Waves: James Kirkpatrick: Oct 14, 2017

This month on Making Waves Nadene and Darren go on a guided tour with Canadian artist James Kirkpatrick to learn about his circuit-bent sound sculptures on exhibit at NAISA North Media Arts Centre....

Making Waves: Sonia Paço-Rocchia, Alan Bloor: Sep 09, 2017

This month: On Making Waves NAISA presents an August 2017 recording of a performance from the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with Sonia Paço-Rocchia from Montreal and Alan Bloor from Toronto. The...

Making Waves: Chantal Dumas, Sonia Paço-Rocchia: Aug 12, 2017

In this month's Making Waves, Brian Connolly speaks with Chantal Dumas and Sonia Paço-Rocchia, both of whom are featured artists at the Sound Travels event that has been taking place this week at the...

Making Waves: David Rokeby discussing the Very Nervous System: Jul 08, 2017

This Making Waves broadcast features an interview with media artist David Rokeby about his seminal 1992 interactive work Very Nervous System, installed through September 4, 2017 at the new NAISA North...

Making Waves: Soundscapes of Algonquin Park and Warbler's Roost: May 13, 2017

Last weekend Wave Farm featured dawn chorus recordings from around the world as part of Reveil 2017. NAISA in South River also participated in Reveil with a 24 hour broadcast of the soundscape from...

Making Waves: Parisa Sabet, Joan Schuman, Martín Rodríguez: Apr 08, 2017

The April 2017 edition of Making Waves finishes our coverage of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art in Toronto. In this program we feature fixed media radiophonic works by Parisa...