"Frequencies: Dawson City" by Andrew O’Connor. Part public sound installation, part narrative documentary Frequencies: Dawson City is project for a series of low watt FM transmitters laid out around Dawson City Yukon. It was commissioned by the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture as a part of their series The Natural & The Manufactured. The transmitters are all broadcasting on the same frequency and laid out in an array so that as you walk the installation with your radio tuned one transmitter starts to fall out of range as the next one is coming in. Each transmitter broadcasts a different collage of soundscapes and stories (played on a loop) that relate specifically where you are standing. The buildings, the landscapes, the stories and experiences attached to them, and how these memories resonate in a physical location. By employing random chance and juxtaposition, multiple narratives are combined in a way that creates a unique listener guided narrative experience.

"Still Here," by Alyssa Moxley and Ramona Stout. Still Here is a soundscape of the island of Santorini, in the Cyclades, Greece, recorded and composed by the artists Ramona Stout and Alyssa Moxley. We have selectively edited our recordings from Santorini to create a sound map. It is fundamentally inaccurate, yet it is all drawn from the aural environment as it is today, and likely will be for many years to come. It is a soundtrack that glosses the extremes of silence and noise that have come to dominate the island and recreates a bygone era in which there existed a host of functioning communities like Vothonas, of which there are now very few. It is the result of our recording the pulse of a place that now exists in suspended animation, a place that is alive but not quite living. Andrew O’Connor is a transmission artist based in Toronto. His work for the radio has been featured on numerous programs across CBC Radio 1 & 2 such as Inside the Music, The Signal, and Metro Morning as well as syndicated internationally on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Zero in Lisbon and WGXC in upstate New York. Andrew’s installation and sound design work has been presented by the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Third Coast Filmless Festival, Megapolis, and was recently featured in a multi-disciplinary theatre project called Boblo that premiered in December 2012 at the Theatre Center in Toronto.
Alyssa Moxley is an artist, writer, and audio producer with interests in embodied knowledge, music, cosmology and acoustic ecology. She studied Ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Sound Design at the London College of Communication, production techniques at the Banff Centre, and is currently studying an MFA in Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.alyssamoxley.com/ www.soundcloud.com/dromomaniac
Ramona Stout studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. After graduating she dealt in vintage vinyl. She now lives on the island of Santorini, Greece, where she also learned to walk, talk, and swim. She is organising an annual music festival on the island, which will cater to its permanent community with a showcase of lesser known musicians from around the Balkans. She works as a freelance writer and sound artist/audio producer.