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An afternoon gathering, like the ones done in a private house, for conversation or music. A time for artists to talk about their works, listen to other people's works and network.
Marilyn Lerner
March 27th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Marilyn Lerner who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Marilyn will talk about why she, a pianist improviser/composer is moved to create audio art, and how she does it... Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Exhilarating jazz pianist/improviser Marilyn Lerner performs to acclaim internationally, from her native Montreal to Havana, from Jerusalem to Amsterdam and the Ukraine. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered much recognition, including her 2 solo recordings Luminance and Romanian Fantasy and Special Angel with Sonny Greenwich. Her intimate knowledge of the piano, combined with a fearless experimental and passionate spirit render her a true original. Lerner's work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer, and 20th century classical music. She composes for film, theatre, radio and television. She is also an audio artist and has created a series of soundscapes using samples of sounds she collects in the natural environment.
Emilie LeBel
February 27th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Emilie LeBel who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Micheline Roi
March 6th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Micheline Roi who will be presenting and discussing their recent works. Also bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample or try out NAISA's spatialization system. There'll be time for coffee and snacks to listen to other people's works and network. Hope to see you there!
Micheline Roi From Point A to Point B: the sonic landscape so far
Join us for an afternoon at the NAISA space with featured artist Micheline Roi who will be presenting and discussing her work. Micheline will play a selection compositions from her early to current works discussing intents, influences, and ideas.
Pieces featured will include: Of Experiential Fruit for solo piano; Of Breath and Touch for clarinet and percussion; Bearing for mixed ensemble; Tengo que Decir for orchestra and recorded media; Wandering Sacred sound installation; Obsolescence sound installation.
SOIRÉE
- an evening gathering, typically in a private house, for conversation or music. Although it's in the afternoon, the intent is the same: a time for artists to talk about their works, listen to other people's works and network.
April 25th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Hector Centeno will be presenting and discussing his recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Hector Centeno
is a sound artist, music composer and multimedia producer (video/web/graphics). He first composed exclusively for instrumental chamber music ensembles but since 2004 his work has been devoted to the sonic arts, transforming soundscapes and other recorded sounds. His work is inspired mainly in the practices of Zen and it's ways of approaching art creation and reality through meditation, searching for a good balance between spontaneous, intuitive expression and rationality. He is also does sound design for film and he is interested in exploring multichannel sound spatialization techniques and in Open Source software. His electroacoustic pieces have been performed at the Sounds Electric '05 festival in Ireland, Sound Travels and Sound Play festivals in Toronto, Nuit Blanche festival, Concordia University in Montreal and as part of the AngelusNovus.net composers collective at other venues in Toronto.
March 28th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Carey Dodge will be presenting and discussing his recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Carey Dodge will talk about his recent work and his experience at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). His research and production ranged from sound installation, peformance, interactivity and real-time video processing. This talk will be a pot-pourri of sound art!
Carey Dodge
is a multidisciplinary artist who's work focuses on sonic arts, interactivity, installations, sound design and performance. Carey has a keen interest in creating new and exciting immersive sonic experiences. He is also beginning to incorporate more custom electronics and live video processing in his work. www.careydodge.ca
February 28th 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Rose Bolton will be presenting and discussing her recent works. Bring a CD of your own works too and we'll play a sample.
Rose Bolton
considers herself a sonic landscapist. Her compositions range from orchestra, chamber and vocal music to electro-acoustic and improvisation based pieces. She has received numerous commissions and prizes, including the 2006 Norman Burgess Fund award, and the Toronto Emerging Composer award. In April 2009, her new work A Day of Infinite Time, will be premiered by the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at the Open Ears festival. Future projects include composing electronic music for documentary film, and a Canada Council funded project to create electro-acoustic works for headphones contrasted by an ambient work for a large space with multiple speaker setup.
January 31st 1-4pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artist Michelle Irving will discuss the evolution of her working process drawing parallels between techniques she employs for both audio and visual manipulation. She will present examples of her audio/visual work as well as several sound compositions.
Michelle Irving
is a media artist working in video and sound and completed her MA at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University.
Her music is featured in the internationally acclaimed documentary "The Corporation" and award winning documentaries "Scared Sacred" and "Fierce Light". She has presented her audio/visual work in multiple contexts internationally including artist-run spaces, galleries, festivals, and electronic music venues. Her music is released under the artist alias Granny'Ark on Zora Lanson Label (Berlin), and netlabel Interdisco (www.interdisco.net) (Basel). She currently teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Rich Media Institute.
November 30th 1-5pm PWYC (and we mean this literally!)
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Studio #252, Toronto
Featured artists Neil Wiernik and Jason Stanford will be performing and discussing their recent works.
Neil Wirenik will give a general over view of his work as an audio artist and how its led him towards his current interest and ongoing research into site specific generative soundtrack composition as it relates to acoustic ecology composition. He will talk about how these soundtracks or aural landscapes, even when created by a digital mediator are natural, organic occurrences, much like walking down the street or driving down a highway we piece together the sounds around us to create a soundtrack of our environment.
Neil Wiernik
(b. 1967 Montreal, QC) is an audio contortionist, curator and digital media specialist presently living and working in Toronto. He began composing electronic music in 1988 with explorations in audio art and experimental music. Neil's interest in sound and technology has lead him to a continued questioning and refinement of audio tools and modes of production resulting in experimentation with altered instruments, modified devices, and custom software environments. Neil's music could be described as warm, atmospheric, and cinematic electronic music. Neil's sound design techniques are firmly grounded in the rich traditions of dub studio culture but can also be weighed alongside formal contemporary composition. His music was recently described in "The Wire" as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Neil has released music on various labels including the legendary Canadian label Noise Factory Records.
Neil has shown work in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces since the late 1980's and his projects have included works in radio, speaker, headphone and internet diffusion and presented in gallery and non-gallery spaces alike, including derelict buildings, pirate airwaves, and public space. Neil has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and The Music Gallery. Neil is also the co-founder, a resident curator/editor for http://vagueterrain.net and his on line HQ is http://www.phoniq.net
Jason Stanford
is a Toronto-based composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Through his work he seeks to explore evocative, visceral, and at times highly disparate stylistic and musical/sound elements and to distill them into a unified and meaningful whole.
Jason Stanford will discuss what excites him about EA (ElectroAcoustic) and composing for spatialized sound which includes the virtually unlimited resources you can draw upon to fill your sonic palate, defining your musical language. EA allows for the creation of very immediate and visceral juxtapositions of interesting and unexpected musical metaphors between sounds, through the composition and counterpoint of complex abstract sonic spectra and the mixture of referential real-world sounds. A unique perspective on sound comes with the added dimension of space, one has to be sensitive to the kinetic natures of each particular sound, and give it a choreograph trajectories that suit each character.
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