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Friday May 28th
9:00 am Keynote Address
The DEW Project and electromagnetic boundaries in the arctic
by Charles Stankievech
“A border is not a connection but an interval of resonance, and such gaps abound in the Land of the DEW Line,” writes Marshall McLuhan providing the entry point for Charles Stankievechh’s lecture on the history of the electromagnetic in the Arctic. A complicated territory where boundaries constantly fluctuate, he will discuss and share original research collected while living and working in the “Zone” related to wireless telegraph eroding the boundary between inside/outside of the North, electromagnetic warfare playing with the boundaries between nation states, and the aurora borealis as the boundary between terrestrial/celestial. As a platform to investigate these issues, Stankievech has developed the practice of fieldwork, a production engaging with site (both geospatially and culturally) using interdisciplinary strategies. Focusing on his dual Arctic productions The DEW Project and Ghost Rockets: Purple Haze (Side-B) as examples of fieldwork, Stankievech revisits Ezra Pound’s claim that the “artist is an antenna.”
10:15 am Short Break
10:30 Break-out sessions:
1/ Listening Session
with Gregory Whitehead and Götz Naleppa
NOTE: This session has limited spots available.
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 Götz Naleppa (Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA).
2/ Wireless Imagination workshop
with Hector Centeno
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination
3/ Visual Radio
with artists Anna Friz, Emmanuel Madan, Kathy Kennedy; moderated by Andreas Kahre
Radio with a visual experience? Sure. Many visual artists like Paul DeMarinis have approached radio as a sculptural medium and many important radio artists were originally visual artists. In radio's golden age many broadcasts took place in front of a live audience. This panel reflects on the integration of radio in live performance and the use of live performance as a vehicle for radio listening.
4/ Taking it Up (Interview workshop)
by Victoria Fenner
If you were to collect all the books and articles in the world about how to do an interview, you'd need a very large room (at least). But the basic idea can be contained in a very small box. An interview is a conversation. What makes it different from a conversation over beer with your best friend is that it's a conversation with specific objectives. Things like how long it should be, how structured it is and what emotional tone you want to establish varies, depending on how you are going to use your conversation in your finished piece. During this workshop we'll explore those techniques, always mindful that a good interview engages and brings out the essence of the person you're talking to and the knowledge you want them to share.
noon Lunch provided
1:00 pm The Neighborhood by Scott Carrier
Scott Carrier will discuss and play examples of radio stories he produced that are cultural histories of his home, Salt Lake City. Each story has a different form or structure, but all are similar in that they're composed of interviews with "average" or "normal" citizens.
3:00 Neighbourhood Transmissions with Kathy Kennedy
Radio Jean-Talon by Kathy Kennedy and The Neighbourhood Stories Project
by Reena Katz and Emmy Pantin
A 28 day festival permit was obtained to create a temporary community radio station in the Montreal district of Villeray, known for its cultural diversity. Kennedy will chronicle the strategies, challenges and outcomes of a unique cultural event, mixing experimental sound art with local activism.
The Neighbourhoods Story Project is a collection of audio-portraits of different neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto. All of the project participants are immigrant women. Home is a complex and layered narrative that includes not only traditional notions of comfort and identity, but also complex notions of loss and longing.
5:00pm Break for dinner (not provided)
8:00 pm Deep Wireless Ensemble Performance #1 + The Pencil Project performance by Jacques Poulin-Denis and Martin Messier
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Saturday May 29th
9:00 am Keynote address
Two Tin Cans & a String
by Sook-Yin Lee
The notion of community and communication has far reaching roots that began for Sook-Yin Lee long before her work on the CBC radio program DNTO. Sook-Yin will speak about how communication, storytelling and first person expression connect with her DIY practise that was born through music, film and TV and which she continues to explore in radio.
10:15 am Short Break
10:30 Break-out sessions:
1/ Listening Session
with Gregory Whitehead and Götz Naleppa
NOTE: This session is full and has no spots available.
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 Götz Naleppa (Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA).
2/ Wireless Imagination workshop
with Hector Centeno
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination
3/ The Radio Documentary-Feature as Poetry, Drama and Sound-art
with Andrea Dancer
The North American radio feature spans journalism to personal essay - but according to its creator at Berlin Radio , Peter Leonhardt-Braun, it is a dramatic, poetic and sound-based art form. Using material from previous International Radio-Features Conferences, we will critically investigate how these expectations are (and are not) fulfilled, aspects of listener engagement, and consider the radio documentary-feature's past, present, and future potential.
noon Lunch provided
1:00 Don’t tell my ears where to go by Frank Kaspar
New Hörspiel- and Documentary-approaches in the spirit of Glenn Gould’s “Contrapuntal Radio”
Glenn Gould’s “contrapuntal” CBC documentaries from the 1960s and 70s are outstanding examples for a polyphonic way of storytelling in radio, which offers listeners a great freedom to follow different voices and perspectives. With Gould’s pieces and his reflections on radio in mind, we are well prepared to explore the polyphonic sideways of Germany’s post-war radioart and to discover how this tradition is being revitalized by documentarists and radio-artists of a younger generation.
Lecture with sound-bites by, among others: Peter Leonhard Braun, Walter Filz, Michael Lissek, Rimini Protokoll, Christoph Schlingensief, Ernst Schnabel, Antje Vowinckel and Glenn Gould.
2:30 pm Radio Transformed: a web of possibilities
with Julie Shapiro (Third Coast Festival), Sue Schardt (Associates of Independents in Radio), Ian Pringle (Commonwealth of Learning) and Christof Migone
As we delve further into the 21st century, what we think of as radio is being further transformed by the various media used to broadcast its content. What does this mean to the radio producer and radio artist? What are the various alternatives available and how does this change or shape content? What is happening on the international front with radio?
5:00pm Dinner Break (not provided)
8:00PM Deep Wireless Ensemble Performance #2 & Solo performance by Emmanuel Madan
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