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...

Making Waves: Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art: Jan 14, 2017

The February 2017 edition of Making Waves profiles the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Darren Copeland interviews Nichola Feldman-Kiss and members of SubZeroArts about their resp...

Making Waves: Instant Places: Jan 14, 2017

Bekah Simms interviews Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh of Instant Places about their approach to making generative and long form installations and performances. Instant Places launches on January 17th a...

Making Waves: SOUNDplay: Dec 10, 2016

Today's show for Making Waves features a selection of performances from NAISA's 2016 SOUNDplay series in Toronto.

Making Waves: Shawn Pinchbeck, Amanda Dawn Christie, Myriam Bleau: Nov 12, 2016

To showcase the SOUNDplay festival in Toronto and the Canadian Sound Art Caucus meetings, Bekah Simms interviews sound artists from across Canada - Shawn Pinchbeck, Amanda Dawn Christie and Myriam Bl...

Making Waves: Dan Tapper, James Bailey, Nimalan Yoganathan, Nico Arnáez and Michelle Macklem: Oct 08, 2016

This month on Making Waves we are playing soundscape pieces by Dan Tapper, James Bailey, Nimalan Yoganathan, Nico Arnáez and Michelle Macklem that visit natural environs around the world - the Amazon,...

Making Waves: Wende Bartley, Lisa Conway: Sep 10, 2016

This month: Interviews with Wende Bartley and Lisa Conway. They are part of Silo Solos a sound installation made for the in/future exhibit at Ontario Place in Toronto. This monthly program is produced...

Making Waves: Paul Dolden: Aug 13, 2016

In this month's edition of Making Waves Bekah Simms interviews composer Paul Dolden about his work featured in the Sound Travels festival in Toronto.This monthly program is produced by New Adventures...

Udo Noll and David Jensenius: Jul 09, 2016

In advance of World Listening Day, Bekah Simms interviews Udo Noll and David Jensenius about their respective locative soundscape apps Radio Aporee and Found Sound. This monthly program is produced by...

Making Waves: John Oswald: Jun 11, 2016

On this edition of Making Waves, Bekah Simms interviews John Oswald on his early analog work Vertical Time, his seminal plunderphonic work Dab and his large scale sound installation for the Crystal at...

Making Waves: Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis, NRRF's B-Radio, Jocelyn Robert: Apr 09, 2016

The April 2016 episode of Making Waves features past performances from NAISA’s Deep Wireless festival in Toronto, which presents radio and transmission art from around the world. We will present three...

Making Waves: First Nations: Mar 12, 2016

Making Waves: Gambletron: Feb 13, 2016