Making Waves: 20251108 - Artists and Climate Change - Conscient interviews with Joan Sullivan and Tina Pearson: Nov 08, 2025

Today we are featuring two interviews from the Conscient podcast series. Conscient is produced by Claude Schryer in Ottawa. It revolves around conversations with artists about the climate emergency. T...

Making Waves: 20251011 - Rani Jambak Performance with the Kincia Aia: Oct 11, 2025

On today’s show we feature sound art works by two Indonesian sound artists. The hour will conclude with selections from Gardika Gigih’s Mikrokosmos series of works, but the majority of the show will f...

20250913 - Rani Jambak interviewed by apè aliermo: Sep 13, 2025

apè aliermo from VenusFest in Toronto interviews sound artist Rani Jambak. Jambak’s music is influenced by the many traditions and musical cultures that can be found in Minangkabau and her birthplace...

Making Waves: 20250809 - River Agency with Annea Lockwood: Aug 09, 2025

Composer Annea Lockwood talks about her work with river sounds throughout her 50 plus years of composing. Her sound map installations of the Housatonic, Danube and Hudson Rivers (and others she has ma...

Making Waves: 20250712 - Voice of the Water with Eric Powell: Jul 12, 2025

Does water have a voice? On today’s show we explore that question through listening to underwater sounds and Darren Copeland’s conversation with sound artist Eric Powell. In his sound installation l...

Making Waves: 20250614 - Vibro-Tactile Art with Satoshi Morita and Ricardo Huisman: Jun 14, 2025

This is the first of two episodes about vibro-tactile artworks. These are artworks that are centred in sound, but the sound medium bypasses the cochlea and transmits to listeners directly through the...

Making Waves: 20250510 - Remembering Andra McCartney with Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young: May 10, 2025

In this edition of Making Waves we pay tribute to the work of the late Andra McCartney who died in 2019. She was a composer, radio artist, educator, biographer and musicologist active in Canada in the...

Making Waves: 20250412 - Marieke Van de ven and composing with Sand: Apr 12, 2025

On today’s show we are going to listen to the long form sound art composition Zand by Dutch sound artist Marieke Van de ven. And after listening that host Darren Copeland will have a conversation wit...

Making Waves: 20250308 - Pigeon Band and Ensign Peak: Mar 08, 2025

On today’s show we listen to two works that capture animals and environments in interesting and unique ways. Both works come from the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation, which is...

Performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue: Feb 08, 2025

Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initia...

Making Waves: 20250111 - Omar Reyna's Sounds of Turbulence: Jan 11, 2025

On today’s episode of Making Waves we will be listening to “Non-predictable” by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we will talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilatio...

Making Waves: 20241214 - Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin: Dec 14, 2024

On today’s show we will be listening to Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin and we will also be talking to them about the piece after we listen to it.Lake Composition is a work made for...

Making Waves: Mark Timmings and Brady Marks on The Wetland Project: Nov 09, 2024

Mark Timmings and Brady Marks from The Wetland Project in British Columbia speak to Host and NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The Wetland Project is an exploration of a 24-hour field recording...

Making Waves: 20241012 - Colin Frank and Machine Hums: Oct 12, 2024

How can video games be a tool for exploring machine hums and drones? That is one of the subjects we are exploring today on Making Waves with host Darren Copeland. Colin Frank is a percussionist, comp...

Making Waves: Sonic Hugs with Colin Black: Sep 14, 2024

Today’s episode highlights the Sonic Hugs collection curated by Colin Black. Sonic Hugs features nine Australian composers and sound artists that were invited to create original radio art pieces that...

Making Waves: Roots that Braid Themselves with Christine Charette: Aug 10, 2024

On today’s show we feature multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette and her performance Roots that Braid Themselves. Christine Charette lives in the Almaguin Highlands region of Ontario. Her perf...

Making Waves: 20240713 - Susan Frykberg, Jim Montgomery, Tina Pearson: Jul 13, 2024

This episode of Making Waves reflects on the life and work of Susan Frykberg (1954-2023). It begins with a radiophonic series of pieces she made called The Audio Birth Project and features an intervi...

Making Waves: Spring Soundscapes from the Almaguin Highlands: Jun 08, 2024

On today's show we listen to spring soundscapes from the region of Canada where "Making Waves" is produced. This year and last year, residents of the Almaguin Highlands region in Northern Ontario had...

Making Waves: What exists is in the signal? with Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar and AJ Cornell: May 11, 2024

This episode features pieces by Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar, and AJ Cornell that convey emotions and meaning through the ethereal world of electronic sound and electromagnetic energy. To...

Radio Art Sound Images with Cláudio De Pina, Bekah Simms, and Keith de Mendonca: Apr 04, 2024

On today’s show we listen to three radio art pieces: Neurotransmits by Cláudio De Pina, String Pulse by Bekah Simms, and London Punch by Keith de Mendonca. All three artists join host Darren Copeland...

Making Waves: VLF Radio with Dan Tapper: Mar 07, 2024

This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF. VLF is Very low Frequency Radio or what is often referred to as Natural radio because it makes audible to human ears the...

Making Waves: Robert Normandeau on the late Francis Dhomont: Feb 10, 2024

On today’s episode of "Making Waves," Montreal acousmatic composer Robert Normandeau talks about his late mentor Francis Dhomont. Dhomont came to Montreal from France in the late 1970’s where he compo...

Making Waves: History of Art's Birthday with Hank Bull, Elisabeth Zimmermann, and Ward Weiss: Jan 13, 2024

On the 17th of January one million and 61 years ago someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water and Art was born. Making Waves starts off the New Year of 2024 looking back at the history of ce...

Making Waves: Curating from a 12 Word Sentence with Christof Migone: Dec 09, 2023

On this edition of Making Waves, host Darren Copeland has a conversation with Christof Migone about his unique series of curated broadcasts organized around a 12 word sentence - "You and I Are Water E...

Making Waves: Kelly Ruth Weaves Music and Art Together in Second Life: Nov 11, 2023

Today’s show features Kelly Ruth from Edmonton who has adapted her skills as a weaver, visual artist and musician to make live sound art performances on the digital multimedia platform of Second Life....

Making Waves: A Conversation with Don Ritter about "O telephone": Oct 14, 2023

Host Darren Copeland talks with Canadian interactive media artist Don Ritter for this episode of Making Waves, which is also available as a video podcast on the NAISATube YouTube channel. Don Ritter'...

Making Waves: Borderline Mapping with Jessica Thompson: Sep 09, 2023

Jessica Thompson is a Canadian media artist working in sound, performance and mobile technologies. NAISA is presenting an adapted version of her project Borderline which maps sound data onto economi...

Making Waves: Insect Sound Reception and Resonant Tubes: Aug 12, 2023

This episode of Making Waves features an interview with Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac about the sound making and sound reception of insects along with recordings of their installation Secret Receptio...

Making Waves: Importance of Environmental Sound with Alëna Korolëva, Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise: Jul 08, 2023

Sound from the natural world and the urban environment are not background sounds for film and other experiences but rather they are sounds rich in associations and meaning. They are deserving of foreg...

Making Waves: Almaguin Highlands Community Soundscapes: Jun 10, 2023

On today’s episode of Making Waves you will hear soundscape recordings made in the Eastern part of Parry Sound District of Ontario or what is locally known as the Almaguin Highlands. NAISA invited lo...

Making Waves: Reveil 10 in Review with Dawn Scarfe, Maria Papadomanolaki and Grant Smith: May 13, 2023

For today's edition of Making Waves we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Reveil - the 24 hour dawn chorus broadcast that took place Saturday May 6, 2023 - by mixing sounds from the broadcast with a di...

Making Waves: Faisal Karadsheh, Anton Pickard, Juro Kim Feliz: Apr 08, 2023

This episode of "Making Waves" replays the online listening gathering "Remote Connections" presented by NAISA for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art on March 4, 2023. Included on...

Making Waves: Remote Connections with Prachi Khandekar and GOODW.Y.N.: Mar 11, 2023

Today's episode of Making Waves focuses on two artists from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Album. Darren Copeland talks to Nicole Goodwin in New York who under the name GOODW.Y.N. and with the help of...

Making Waves: I am Calling Home with Geronimo Inutiq: Feb 11, 2023

On today’s episode of Making Waves we will share broadcasts from the Northern Virtual Broadcast Service led by Geronimo Inutiq as part of his project "I am Calling Home". Inutiq will be visiting NAIS...

Making Waves: Michelle Wilson: Jan 14, 2023

The 17th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Album will be released in February and we will listen to "Fuori è dentro" by Giuseppe E. Rapisarda to begin this episode. After that we will play a doc...

Making Waves: Hector Centeno: Dec 10, 2022

In today’s show Hector Centeno discusses his piece Space_03 which was commissioned by NAISA. Space_03 is derived directly from an attentive and phenomenological exploration of a specific geographical/...

Making Waves: Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall: Nov 13, 2022

Vancouver-based artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall are featured in this episode of Making Waves. They have been collaborating on a variety of ecologically focused new media and sound...

Making Waves: More Soundportraits by Jørgen Teller: Sep 10, 2022

This month on Making Waves we continue listening to more in the Soundportraits series by Jørgen Teller from Denmark. Soundportraits are impromptu pieces made through one-on-one chance encounters. Jor...

Making Waves: Soundportraits with Jørgen Teller: Aug 13, 2022

Today’s show is about sound portraits. A sound portrait is like a caricature made from a brief encounter in a public place - only that instead of creating a visual likeness of a person, a musical and...

Making Waves: Jesse Stewart and Matt Edwards of Mixed Metaphors: Jul 09, 2022

This month on Making Waves includes sound art created in public outdoor spaces and focus on two projects that open up access to the music making process. In the first half host Darren Copeland talks t...

Making Waves: Ellen Waterman, Part II: Jun 11, 2022

On last month’s show we featured flute improvisations recorded by Ellen Waterman outdoors in a rural waterfront location. The improvisations were guided by her physical response to the natural surroun...

Making Waves: Reveil and Ellen Waterman: May 14, 2022

Two weeks ago Wave Farm's WGXC and New Adventures in Sound Art both participated as broadcast partners for Reveil, a 24-hour broadcast of dawn chorus open microphone livestreams that follows the emer...

Making Waves: Michelle Macklem, Jess Shane: Mar 12, 2022

On today’s show we have a conversation with Michelle Macklem and Jess Shane. They are the producers of Constellations, a sound art and experimental narrative podcast program that unravels the distinct...

Making Waves: Winter Diary Revisited by Claude Schryer: Feb 12, 2022

Winter Diary Revisited, a new work by Claude Schryer, was the first presentation of the 2022 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art which took place on Sunday February 6th at the new NAI...

Making Waves: Deep Wireless Album 16: Jan 08, 2022

This episode of Making Waves features pieces from the upcoming Deep Wireless 16 album that will be released online later this month at www.naisa.ca. Deep Wireless is a festival of radio and transmi...

Making Waves: Slow Observational Film with Ben Donoghue: Dec 11, 2021

This month's episode features Ben Donoghue and his 16mm film Pierre Radisson: Fjord and Gulf from 2017, which has recently been adapted for digital presentation available online at https://www.naisa.c...

Making Waves: Is it Videomusic or Video Art?: Nov 13, 2021

Visual and Media Artist Tansy Xiao from New York and Electroacoustic composer Véro Marengère from Montréal join Darren Copeland in a conversation about their new video works plus thoughts on how to de...

Making Waves: Julia White and Laurel MacDonald: Oct 09, 2021

Today’s episode features discussions with visual artist Julia White and singer-composer-video artist Laurel MacDonald. Both artists are from NAISA’s SOUNDplay festival. Julia White uses sound recordi...

Making Waves: Zoe Gordon, Helena Korbath, Lucille Kim, Keri Latimer: Sep 11, 2021

This episode goes back to an online listening gathering that took place on August 14, 2021. It featured Canadian sound art works by Zoe Gordon from Thunder Bay, Helena Korbath from Vancouver, Lucille...

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...