New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 5th annual Deep Wireless festival, a month-long celebration of radio art including new commissions, special radio broadcasts, artist residencies, performances and sound installations, as well as the Radio Without Boundaries conference and workshops for radio and sound artists and enthusiasts.
Performances and workshops from Anna Friz, Matt Mikas, Tianna Kennedy, Tetsuo Kogawa, Evolution Control Committee, Trevor Wishart, Kathy Kennedy, and many others streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.
free103point9 Online Radio Deep Wireless schedule:
Tune in for these events:
May 11, 18 and 25- 2-2:30 p.m. EDT (-4GMT) these will be shows that will be focusing on the Deep Wireless artists-in-residence including interviews and performances.
May 28, 6-7 p.m. - For this live-to-air closing night show, John Oswald and Mark Gunderson will bring together a "band" of Toronto celebrities from all walks of life (politics, food, literature, music, you name it..) to take audience requests for their musical favourites and throw these into a sound mix rich in discussion and debate.
May 26, 6 p.m. -10 p.m.- An evening of performances, complete with live music and theatre and soundscapes, written by Gregory Whitehead and performed by Anna Friz, Richard Lee, Christine Duncan and Richard Windeyer alongside world premieres of radio works Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video as well as a world premiere by Trevor Wishart. Directed by Darren Copeland and Mark Cassidy, "Radio Theatre" promises to deal a heavy dose of provocative listening.
Kathy Kennedys Sonic Choreographies are multi-track pieces for 5.1 surround sound composed almost entirely of the composer's voice, creating an immersive and deeply personal environment. Kennedy will also improvise live over some of the soundscapes. From lilting melodies to haunting auralities, the concert hall is transformed into a space within the human voice.
May 27 9 a.m. -11 p.m.:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. - "Radio with Boundaries" conference sessions with the radio art DJ providing in-between radio and commentary.
6 p.m.-10 p.m. An evening of performances, complete with live music and theatre and soundscapes, written by Gregory Whitehead and performed by Anna Friz, Richard Lee, Christine Duncan and Richard Windeyer alongside world premieres of radio works Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video as well as a world premiere by Trevor Wishart. Directed by Darren Copeland and Mark Cassidy, "Radio Theatre" promises to deal a heavy dose of provocative listening.
The Evolution Control Committee brings from San Francisco a newly revised version of their classic Thimbletron performances featuring normal kitchen appliances (toaster, blender, microwave, etc.) that are circuit-bent to change and twist your popular media appetite.
May 28, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.:
9am - 6pm - "Radio with Boundaries" conference sessions with the radio art DJ providing in-between radio and commentary.
Click on "more information" below for complete details.
May 3, 8 p.m.
In Your Ear
$15 door / $12 students and advance tickets
@ the Drake Underground
Streamed on free103point9 Online Radio.
"In Your Ear" is a two-hour radio cabaret performance from the Underground bar at the Drake Hotel and heard live over CKLN 88.1 FM. Hosted (from an experimental distance) by Anna Friz with special appearances by Threshold Theater, Paul Dutton, John Oswald, Christine Duncan, and many more to be announced, so stay tuned (on the web, in the underground or over the ether). In Your Ear will be recorded for a CBC series on Ideas about audio art that is also called In Your Ear.
May 26 and 27, 8 p.m.
Radio Theatre 1 & 2 followed by solo performances
$15 door / $12 students & advance (each night)
@ Drake Hotel + live internet broadcast on free103point9 Online Radio.
Radio Theatre is a Deep Wireless creation whereby an eclectic group of multi-talented radio artists are assembled together in order to perform live radiophonic pieces for the stage. This year's ensemble consisting of sound artists Anna Friz and Richard Windeyer, sound designer & actor Richard Lee, and vocalist Christine Duncan will perform a two-part (one part on each night) radio work by US radio and performance artist Gregory Whitehead. Also included will be radio works commissioned for CBC radio's Outfront by Christian Nicolay, Micheline Roi, Debashis Sinha, and Damiano Pietropaulo.
May 26, 2006
Sonic Choreographies
by Kathy Kennedy
(price of performance included with Radio Theatre 1 ticket)
Sonic Choreographies are multi-track pieces for 5.1 surround sound composed almost entirely of the composer's voice, creating an immersive and deeply personal environment. Kennedy will also improvise live over some of the soundscapes. From lilting melodies to haunting auralities, the concert hall is transformed into a space within the human voice.
May 27, 2006
The Kitchen of the Future
by The Evolution Control Committee
(price of performance included with Radio Theatre 2 ticket)
The ECC brings from San Francisco a newly revised version of their classic Thimbletron performances featuring normal kitchen appliances (toaster, blender, microwave, etc.) that are circuit-bent to change and twist your popular media appetite.
May 28, 6 p.m.
All Request Redirect Band
with John Oswald & The Evolution Control Committee
$10 door / $8 advance & students
@ Drake Hotel and broadcast live on CKLN-FM and free103point9 Online Radio.
For this live-to-air closing night show, John Oswald will once again attempt the impossible by bringing together a "band" of Toronto celebrities from all walks of life (politics, food, literature, music, you name it..) to take audience requests for their favourites in music, literature, movie clips and throw these into a sound mix rich in discussion and debate.
Workshops for Radio Without Boundaries conference registrants streamed on free103point9 Online Radio.
KEY SPEAKERS AT RADIO WITHOUT BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE
(May 26-28th with workshops for conference registrants on May 29th)
For full session descriptions
(http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/RWB_Sessions.html)
"Radio Without Boundaries" will explore the many potentials and
boundaries of radio and transmission art. Radio and sound artists,
radio
producers and enthusiasts attend this conference from far and wide to
listen to lectures, panel discussions, and artist talks by leading
international curators, producers and artists in the radio and
transmission arts field.
This year's conference includes internationally reknown transmission
and
media artist Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan (http://anarchy.translocal.jp/));
seminal radio artist and composer Trevor Wishart (UK, sponsored by the
British Council (http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/)); radio producer and
artist as well as one of Resonance-FM's founders Magz Hall (UK,
sponsored by the British Council
(http://www.rebuffer.com/lawandauder/artists/magzhall.htm)); web-radio
station and transmission arts presenter free103point9 artists and staff
Tianna Kennedy and Matt Mikas (USA (http://www.free103point9.org/));
Prix Italia (2005) and Peabody (2006) award-winning show the Wire with
Jowi Taylor, Paolo Pietropaolo and Chris Brookes
(http://www.cbc.ca/thewire/); Kathy Kennedy (Montreal
(http://www.kathykennedy.ca)); and Joe Milutis (USA
(http://www.joemilutis.com/)).
May 29 th - ½ day workshops @ 9 AM and 1 PM (cost listed below)
Saturday Sessions
Whose Radio Art is it anyway?
with Magz Hall
www.londonradioarts.org.uk and www.youarehear.co.uk
co-presented by the British Council
This session will delve into the murky world of radio art aesthetics, exploring what is radio art with some practical advice on radio art production, looking at what skills are needed to produce it.
free103point9: transmission arts
with Tianna Kennedy (NYC Projects Coordinator) & Matt Mikas (Operations Manager)
This panel introduces audiences to free103point9 and Transmission Arts defined as experimental practices in radio, video, installation, and performance utilizing the wireless spectrum. The discussion will include: the history of free103point9; touring transmission projects such as Tune(In))) , Radio 4x4 , and Microradio Sound Walk ; as well as free103point9 exhibition, performance, online radio, education, and residency programs.
Trevor Wishart
co-presented by the British Council
Trevor Wishart began working in the studio in an attempt to integrate the sounds of the real world into his musical activity. He soon became interested in sound metamorphosis as a means of manipulating these sounds and creating a musical amd 'poetic' discourse. With the advent of digital technology he was able to develop the sophisticated (software) instruments for sound morphing and transformation. He will talk about the various different approaches used in 'Red Bird', 'Two Women', 'The Division of Labour', 'Fabulous Paris', 'Imago' and 'Gobalalia'.
The Wire
[the impact of electricity on Music]
with Jowi Taylor and Chris Brookes (in person)
and Paolo Pietropaolo (by phone)
Winner of the 2005 Prix Italia & the Director's Choice Award at Third Coast Festival
Incorporating interviews, music and sound in an innovative way, The Wire creates a unique radio experience that's somewhere between documentary, a remix and a music show. The Wire also features a commissioned remix of each episode by a DJ/remix producer. Jowi, Chris and Paolo will discuss their vision of the program, the roles they played to make it, and the process they followed in bringing it all together.
Sunday Sessions
Radio, networks, ether
with Joe Milutis
Joe Milutis will perform "Airspace," a radiophonic chamber piece broadcast to radios in the room by way of an iRock transmitter (bring your own radios!). In addition, he will discuss why even the radio we like is bad radio. Expect forays into the history of mysticism and the theories of Gilles Deleuze.
Deep Wireless Panel
Introduction
Darren Copeland (NAISA) & Neil Sandell (CBC Radio's Outfront)
Deep Wireless commissioned artists
Christian Nicolay, Micheline Roi, Damiano Petropraolo and Debashis Sinha
This spring, the CBC Radio 1 program Outfront and New Adventures in Sound Art (with residencies at Charles Street Video) collaborated and co-produced the fourth Deep Wireless commissioning/residency programme. Four artists were chosen to produce radiophonic artworks for broadcast on Outfront, and in performance as part of the Deep Wireless Festival. During this session, the participating artists will play excerpts from their commissioned pieces and talk about what they discovered about creating works that will work on the radio and in live performance.
Wireless Imagination
with Tetsuo Kogawa & Kathy Kennedy
Showing the history of the Mini FM movements in Japan in the 80s, Tetsuo Kogawa will demonstrate how it anticipated the end of the dichotomy of "sender" and "receiver" and will argue a new relationship of art with technology. Radio art and Wireless art will be re-defined.
Kathy Kennedy will discuss her performance pieces that use low watt radio transmission. These specifically involve site-specific performances, using the radio receiver as a device for displacing and recontextualizing the original audio source.
Radio of the Future
moderated by Magz Hall with Neil Sandell, Charlotte Scott and Tetsuo Kogawa
co-presented by the British Council
This panel will discuss questions such as how new technologies play a role in new approaches to form and content; will access to the radio of the future be limited to those with a computer; who will be the creators and who the receivers of the radio of the future?
Saturday and Sunday Sessions
Listening Sessions
With Darren Copeland & Steve Wadhams
(Conference registrants must register separately for this)
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderators Steve Wadhams (CBC) and Darren Copeland (New Adventures in Sound Art).
Earspace workshop - exercises in listening
with Andra McCartney
1 PM both days
Participants in this workshop will take part in a short soundwalk, and do a series of listening exercises and focused discussions on everyday sounds and their appearance in mediated soundtracks. The workshop is designed to increase your awareness of the sound environment, so that environmental ambiances can play a more integral role in your future work.
Workshop day May 29
@ Ryerson University Student Campus Centre
Full workshop details here.
9:00 am - noon Morning workshops (Wadhams, Kegowa & Wishart)
Noon - 1:00 pm Break for lunch (not provided)
1:00 - 4:00 pm Afternoon workshops (Wadhams, Kegowa & Wishart)
