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NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART Presents:
SOUND TRAVELS FESTIVAL of SOUND ART
Various venues at and around the Artscape Wychwood Barns
Outdoors on Centre Island
July 18 to September 25
www.naisa.ca/soundtravels

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - TORONTO, ON - July 5, 2010: New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is pleased to present the 12th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, which opens July 18 and runs until September 25, 2010. As part of a summer-long celebration of sound art, NAISA presents indoor and outdoor performances, sound installations, an outdoor interactive sound sculpture, SOUNDwalks, a series of workshop intensives and the fourth annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium at various venues at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street) as well as outdoors on Centre Island and around the Barns. In a world that often focuses too much on the visual, Sound Travels brings about a refreshing change as it presents works by sound artists that extract compelling musicality and wordless dramas from everyday sounds often taken for granted. From this lush auditory experience, audiences author their own imaginary world in their mind's eye - Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

Outdoor opening events celebrate World Listening Day
The summer-long festival will launch on July 18th at 1PM with two simultaneous SOUNDwalks and the opening of the annual Synthecyletron installation to celebrate the very first World Listening Day. The first SOUNDwalk will meet at the Pavilion (where the ferry to Centre Island disembarks) and end with an artist talk by Toronto artist Barry Prophet about his interactive sound sculpture - Synthecycletron (a favourite amongst cyclists - near the pier on Centre Island) - with a chance to ride the sound sculpture to create your own sound art. The second SOUNDwalk will begin at the NAISA space at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and explore sound environments in and around the area of the Barns and nearby neighbourhood ending back at the NAISA space with a soundscape concert. Participants should be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for any weather condition.

In a SOUNDwalk, the listening "audience" moves through a place and the environment "performs." In a SOUNDwalk we take the time to hear the environment: we are its true ear witnesses. And like any musician, the environment offers us its sounds for our consideration. The first annual World Listening Day coincides with the birthday of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, the director of the World Soundscape Project and one of the founders of the acoustic ecology movement. For more information about World Listening Day go to: www.worldlisteningproject.org

Indoor at Artscape Wychwood Barns
This year's Sound Travels indoor installations will include two sets; the first will open on July 23rd at the NAISA space with Kew Beach by Rose Bolton (exploring the sounds of the home and memories while examining the psychological and emotional meaning of "being home") and NAISA Sound Portraits by Stefan Rose (a series of photos documenting the first year of NAISA events at the Artscape Wychwood Barns) running Fridays and Saturdays until September 25th. Also included will be a Listening Gallery curated by NAISA artistic director Darren Copeland. The second set of installations will open on August 4th and run until August 14th in various spaces around the Artscape Wychwood Barns and will include: Bodily Listening by Japanese sound artist Satoshi Morita (a series of sound installations where sounds are heard through the body); and She Saw Me by Randall Gagne (a sound installation that explores some of the resonant spaces at the Barns and is based on Alvin Lucier's conceptual audio work I am Sitting in a Room).

Breakfast - a morning ritual + music by world renowned sound artist Marcelle Deschênes and more...
The Sound Travels concerts once again create a cinema for the ear entirely through sound. The first set of concerts begins on July 31st during the Saturday morning market at the Artscape Wychwood Barn with Breakfast: a morning Ritual - performances by Rob Piilonen, Matt Miller and Samuel Morgenstein that combines the sounds or breakfast with flute and percussion. Concerts on August 4th & 5th open the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium with works by international participants in the symposium. August 6th and 7th includes a retrospective of Québec pioneer Marcelle Deschênes, as well as evocative soundscape works by Ned Bouhalassa and David Eagle, the Toronto première of the new T-Stick electronic instrument developed by D. Andrew Stewart and Joseph Malloch and performed by Stewart, alongside works by UK sound artists Natasha Barrett, David Hindmarch and Manuella Blackburn.

Opportunities abound for artists of all ages and backgrounds at this year's Sound Travels Festival. August 4-7 includes the fourth annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium - once again co-presented by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community - will include 18 papers and several concert works curated by an international jury and to be presented August 5, 6 and 7. The following week includes the second annual Sound Travels Intensive, this time a 4-day series of workshops for emerging and mid-career artists offering them the opportunity to hone their craft with world renowned artists Marcelle Deschênes, Satoshi Morita, David Ogborn, Eldad Tsabary, Darren Copeland, and Rob Cruickshank. The August 13 performances showcase works by the participants in the Sound Travels intensive and invite discussion by both audience and participants. And finally the now annual Making Art With Sound week-long workshops August 16-20 provide opportunities for youth (ages 15 to 18) to create art entirely through sound.

Sound Travels closing event - 3-sided Square performance at New Music Marathon Sept 25
The final weekend of Sound Travels coincides with the New Music Marathon at Yonge-Dundas Square and will include a performance of 3-sided Square from 2 - 9 pm during the marathon. Curated by NAISA artistic director, 3-sided Square includes performers Richard Windeyer, Michelle Irving, Matt Miller, Eric Powell and more TBA.

Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art is partially funded by the government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, the Toronto Arts Council and the SOCAN foundation.

New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Art's Birthday, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay.

SOUND TRAVELS FESTIVAL of SOUND ART
July 18 until September 25, 2010
At various venues at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street including:
the NAISA Space (#252), Theatre Direct's Christie Studio (#170), the Theatre Direct's Wychwood Theatre (#176) as well as outdoors on Centre Island and at the Barns.

Workshop Intensive Pass $150 / Symposium/Performance Pass $70/$35 / Single Tickets $5 - $15
Toronto Island events free / Installations are Pay What You Can

www.soundtravels.ca

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416 654-4406
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NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART Presents:
DEEP WIRELESS FESTIVAL of RADIO & TRANSMISSION ART
Exploring the Theme of HOME
May 1 - 30, 2010 at Artscape Wychwood Barns and other locations
http://www.deepwireless.ca

For Immediate Release - Toronto, ON, April 7, 2010: New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 9^th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, taking place May 1-30, 2010. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, NAISA presents cutting edge performances, sound installations, new commissions for CBC Radio’s Living Out Loud, special radio broadcasts, NAISA Radio, a compilation CD and the Radio Without Boundaries conference. “While the conventional channels for creative radio are diminishing, it is also true that what we think of radio as being transformed and influenced by technology in ways we never imagined. Every May, Deep Wireless returns and brings together people from around the globe – talented people who are continually pushing the creative boundaries of the world’s oldest electronic media, creating a community and new modes of expression in their work. The theme of HOME for this year’s Deep Wireless, furthers the notion of community and is the cornerstone of most of the works being presented.”– Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

The month-long festival is launched on May 1^st during the Farmer’s Market with NAISA Radio and two of the five Deep Wireless installations: Ground by Emmanuel Madan, and the Radio Art Salon with works by Outfront/NAISA artists curated by Darren Copeland. NAISA Radio is a radio station (FM frequency TBA) running for the month of May on a special event license and focusing on the community in an around the Barns. Ground is an investigation of the ambient electromagnetic radiation of the gallery space, an interactive sound installation that makes the body a transducer, translating electromagnetic (EM) radiation into sound. This year’s Radio Art Salon includes eight works out of the 28 created over the past 7 years that were part of the Deep Wireless/CBC Outfront commissioning residencies. That evening at the Christie Studio includes an opening night performance Ground, Resonance, Radio where the worlds of vinyl record collage and multi-channel micro-watt radio intervention come together in a collaborative performance by Anna Friz and EC Woodley, followed by a performance by Emmanuel Madan on his installation Ground (co-presented by the Ambient Ping).

On May 8^th the Christie studio once again becomes both the venue and conduit for Deep Wireless’s annual translocal event in From our Home to Your Home. This multi-location performance is a collaboration between NAISA and the Syneme telematics lab at the University of Calgary, and brings together musicians at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, Eldad Tsabary and Emmanuel Madan in Montréal, David Eagle in Calgary, Ken Fields in Beijing and other highlights.

Later in the month, Mieke Anderson’s installation At Home - a site-specific installation that takes the visitors back to the places the artist’s grandmother and her caregivers first called home - runs from May 14-24 at the Lakeside Long Term Care Centre in Parkdale. The final weekend (May 27 - 30) includes two exhibitions at the Christie Studio: Charles Stankievech’s The DEW Project, which includes a radio transmitter embedded in a solar powered glowing geodesic dome, explores the past militarization of the Canadian homeland in the Arctic during the Cold War, as well as looking at the future of this same landscape amidst international debates of Arctic sovereignty; and Michael Lissek’s Take Me Home or: Is it actually (about) singing? (co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto). This exhibition was originally created as a Radio Documentary (for Südwestrundfunk SWR Baden-Baden in 2009) and has been adapted as an installation for the Deep Wireless festival 2010. It deals with the hope of finding a way to express ourselves, to be able to say something which goes beyond our own words.

The Radio Without Boundaries conference closes the celebrations May 27 – 29, 2010 as it explores the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio. Conference speakers include Charles Stankievech (Canada), Sook-Yin Lee (Canada), Frank Kaspar and Götz Naleppa (Germany - co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Christof Migone (Canada), Andrea Dancer (Canada), Julie Shapiro (USA), Ian Pringle (Canada) and many more.

The final weekend also includes performances that will surprise and delight audiences both familiar and unfamiliar with radio art, such as The Pencil Project by Quebecois artists Martin Messier & Jacques Poulin-Denis, who use school desks as sound art instruments, and Emmanuel Madan performing Freedom Highway, an exploration of mass media and American public discourse in the post-9/11 context based on recordings of talk radio shows while the artist journeyed across the US. Also included is a world premiere of the English version of Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya by Götz Naleppa featuring Toronto actor Lawrence Bayne (co-presented by the Goethe Institute Toronto). And finally, performances by the Deep Wireless Ensemble - this year consisting of writer and radio artist Gregory Whitehead, performance artist Shannon Cochrane, turntable artist Erik Laar (of iNSiDEaMiND), and actor and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Singh - challenge disciplinary boundaries. Works commissioned by CBC radio’s Living Out Loud by Andrea Dancer, Charlotte Scott, Steven Naylor and Andreas Kahre round out the programme.

NAISA will launch its 2-CD set Deep Wireless 7 Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2009 call for submissions on the theme HOME. This radio art compilation was curated from these submissions and represents the many talented radio and sound artists world-wide.

The Deep Wireless festival is partially funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Toronto Arts Council, the Goethe Institute Toronto and the SOCAN Foundation.

New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay.

What: Deep Wireless

Where: Various venues at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street including: the NAISA Space (#252), Theatre Direct’s Christie Studio (#170) and Wychwood Theatre (#176) as well as the Lakeside Long Term Care Centre at 150 Dunn Ave

When: May 1 - 30, 2010

Individual tickets: $15/$10

Conference Pass – includes Radio Without Boundaries plus 5 performances: $150/$130

Performance Pass – includes 5 performances: $40/$30

Passes and tickets can be purchased online at www.naisa.ca , at the NAISA office (#252, 601 Christie St) or at Soundscapes, 572 College Street, Toronto

www.deepwireless.ca

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Media contact: Francine Labelle/flINK

416 654-4406

labellefrancine@rogers.com

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7

naisa@naisa.ca, Tel 416-652-5115; Fax 416-652-5139

NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART PRESENTS

ART'S BIRTHDAY

An international celebration of art

Sunday, January 17: Noon to 5PM at Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto

Free Admision - Bring your own Kazoo!

For Immediate Release - Toronto, ON, December 21, 2009 : - Craving a Sunday afternoon with lots of cake and fun things to do in Toronto? New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) proudly presents Art's Birthday Celebration. Sunday, January 17 ^th is the perfect day to make and enjoy Art on the fabulous Covered Street at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street). There will be hands on art-making, interactive fun, and lots of sounds and things to see from Noon to 5pm on Sunday January 17th. And of course there will be cake! Happy Birthday, Art!

Sunday, January 17, noon-5pm

Artscape Wychwood Barns (Covered Street): 601 Christie St., Toronto, ON

Admission is free and for all ages. BYOK - Bring your own KazooÉ

On Saturday, January 16, New Adventures in Sound Art and the City of Mississauga Culture Division will serve up an audio feast in celebration of Art's Birthday on January 16th in Mississauga. While Mississauga sound and media artists perform at the Erin Meadows Community Centre, special guests will be beamed in via the Internet from other parts of the world. Bound not by transmission medium, weather or creative genre, Art's Birthday will be a feast of the acoustic imagination. Sounds, words, images and interactivity for all ages on the theme of HOME -Your City: Swim amidst the sounds of a hydraulophone during public swimming; underground garage sale; make artist trading cards; soft city installation; NAISA Radio live; puppet jam; artist performances; open mic; children's workshops; Mississauga Children's choir performance and birthday cake!

Saturday, January 16th, noon-5pm

Erin Meadows Community Centre and Library: 2800 Erin Centre Blvd, Mississauga, ON

FREE Admission

Art's Birthday was proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. It has since been celebrated on January 17 as an annual exchange-art event by a collection of artists and artist organizations around the world.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization, based in Toronto, that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Arts Birthday and SOUNDplay. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. This objective will be achieved through the exploration of new sound technologies in conjunction with the creation of cultural events and artifacts.

http://www.naisa.ca/

NAISA Inquiries & general information: Nadene Thériault-Copeland

Managing Director, New Adventures in Sound Art: Tel 416 652 5115

www.naisa.ca

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Media contact: Francine Labelle/flINK

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NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART Presents:
DEEP WIRELESS FESTIVAL of RADIO & TRANSMISSION ART
May 1 - 31, 2009 at Artscape Wychwood Barns and Gladstone Hotel
http://www.deepwireless.ca

For Immediate Release - Toronto, ON, March 31, 2009: New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 8th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, taking place May 1-31, 2009. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, NAISA presents cutting edge performances, a theatre production, sound installations, new commissions for CBC's Outfront, special radio broadcasts, a compilation CD and the Radio Without Boundaries conference. "In an era when the channels for creative radio are rapidly being extinguished, Deep Wireless returns every May to bring people together from around the world who are continually pushing the creative boundaries of the world's oldest electronic media as well as redefining radio and transmission through new technologies."- Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

The month-long festival is launched with a whirlwind first week of activities beginning on May 1st with an open house at the NAISA space where the public and media are invited to experience radio and transmission first-hand as well as to sample upcoming highlights of the festival. Then on May 3rd in Mississauga the soundscape becomes the focus for International Dawn Chorus Day - a worldwide celebration of Nature's daily Miracle, the chorus of sound initiated by birds at sunrise. The environs provide the concert, as Mark Cranford from the South Peel Naturalists' Club will be on-hand to help identify the performers all of which will be recorded for later broadcast. Then on May 6th at Theatre Direct's Loop Studio and May 7th at the Gladstone Hotel, NAISA launches three installations: Phoning in the Answer by John Gzowski and Camellia Koo, the Radio Art Salon curated by Darren Copeland and GOWANUS: Over/Under-Water by Kevin T. Allen. When we think of communications technology there is always a physical component. The rotary telephone had its handset, the radio its dial. With the installations at Deep Wireless, listening becomes a physical encounter - an ear to the handset, a gaze into a stereoscope with accompanying binaural soundscapes, and a listening lounge for radio art using a modified hair salon dryer dome.

On May 7th the NAISA space becomes both the venue and conduit for its annual translocal event in a realization of Quasimodo the Great lover, by Alvin Lucier and directed by Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron. Whale and bird sounds are transformed by their passage through acoustic spaces and connected via the internet across Lake Ontario and then down to the bottom of the Americas in Buenos Aires. Canadian performers include dreamSTATE at the NAISA space in Toronto, Gayle Young/Reinhardt Reitzenstein in Grimbsy, Laura Kavanagh/Ian Birse in Buenos Aires and Matt Rogalsky/Laura Cameron in Kingston.

The week ends with two cutting edge performances on May 8th and May 10th by Benoît Maubrey (director of Die Audio Gruppe, Germany), as Feedback Fred and Toronto dancer Marie-Josée Chartier as the Audio Ballerina both perform wearing electronics clothes. FEEDBACK FRED, equipped with an oversized loudspeaker box on his back and a microphone-mask, "feeds back" his own voice through the interaction of his wearable PA system and physical gyrations throughout the performance space. This personality can be likened to a cross-cloning of Hamlet and an electronic-laden Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The AUDIO BALLERINA uses -- among other electronic instruments-- light sensors that enable her to produce sounds through the interaction of her movements and the surrounding light (PEEPER choreography). Via movement sensors, she can also trigger electronic sounds that are subsequently choreographed --or "orchestrated"-- into musical compositions as an audio ballet.

Threshold Theatre joins forces with NAISA to present i dont want to be an inside me anymore an adaptation of the radio documentary by Darren Copeland based on the autobiography i dont want to be inside me anymore by Birger Sellin and performed by German actor Sebastian Schäfer. Birger Sellin is determined to throw off the loneliness that "like a great clod of earth" threatens to "weigh down his soul." But, despite the eloquence and power of his writing, he remains severely autistic; his world is unbelievably remote from ours. Yet the uncompromisingly honest messages he sends to "humanity-without-me" will touch all those who read them and serve as he hopes, as inspiration for others who must struggle to express ideas and emotions locked deep inside themselves.

May 27th the NAISA space is the venue for the annual RADiO iN AMBiENCE performances co-presented with the AMBiENT PiNG. Listen to Vancouver sound/radio artist Kristen Roos with Anna Friz and Nilan Perera as they coax the radio ether into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill.

The Radio Without Boundaries conference will close the month-long celebrations May 28 - 30, 2009 as it explores the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio. Conference speakers include keynote speakers Gregory Whitehead (USA), Hank Bull (Can) and Brandon LaBelle (Germany/USA), Chris Brookes (Can), Andrea Dancer (Can), Paul Ingles (USA), Neil Sandell (Can) and many more. Workshops by Chris Brookes, Andra McCartney and others will be offered during the conference for attendees only. The weekend also includes performances that will surprise and delight audiences both familiar and unfamiliar with radio art. Kristen Roos (of Ghost Station fame at Nuit Blanche 2007) performs using radio transmitters, Italian Alessandro Bosetti performs using his Mask/Mirror, a sampler that processes recordings of spoken language in real time. And finally, performances that challenge disciplinary boundaries by the Deep Wireless Ensemble this year consisting of sound and media artist Jessica Thompson, musician and sound artist François Girouard, sound artist Brandon LaBelle, and actor and interdisciplinary artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura. Also included are works commissioned by CBC Outfront by Paolo Pietropaolo, Hélène Prévost, Iain Reid and Andra McCartney.

NAISA will launch its 2-CD set Deep Wireless 6 Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2008 call for submissions on the theme Ecology: water, air, sound. This radio art compilation was curated from these submissions and represents the many talented radio and sound artists world-wide.

The Deep Wireless festival is partially funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the SOCAN foundation.

What: Deep Wireless
Where: Various venues at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street including: the NAISA Space (#252), The Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts (#170), the LOOP Centre for Lively Arts and Learning (#176) as well as The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
When: May 1 - 31, 2009
Singles tickets: $5-$15
Conference Pass - includes Radio Without Boundaries plus 6 performances: $150/130
Performance Pass - includes 6 performances: $40/30
Passes and tickets can be purchased online at www.naisa.ca

www.deepwireless.ca

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Media contact: Francine Labelle/flINK
416 654-4406
labellefrancine@rogers.com

MEDIA ADVISORY For November 3, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nadene Thériault-Copeland (416) 910-7231

WHEN: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 1 - 4 pm open house; 1:30 pm speeches for opening ceremony

WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #252, Toronto

WHO: Nalini Stewart, Board of Directors with Ontario Trillium Foundation
Rob Cruickshank, media artist
Darren Copeland, New Adventures in Sound Art Artistic Director
Nadene Thériault-Copeland, New Adventures in Sound Art Managing Director
Other special guests TBA shortly

New Adventures in Sound Art celebrates its move to the new Artscape Wychwood Barns with an open house and media launch highighting its latest initiatives: the NAISAtron (created for NAISA by Rob Cruickshank) and the NAISA youth initiative. NAISA gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, The SOCAN Foundation and the Laidlaw Foundation for their financial support of its NAISA youth initiative.

"With its move to the Artscape Wychwood Barns, New Adventures in Sound Art ushers in a new chapter in the history of sound art in Toronto. NAISA promises exciting learning opportunities that will develop the sound artists of tomorrow and a springboard for experimental discovery through its dynamic cutting edge presentations." - Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director.

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
http://www.naisa.ca

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2008

NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART PRESENTS:
Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art

Where: Outdoor on Toronto Island, St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church, LE LABO, *new* gallery, + more
When: June 5 - October 1, 2008
Concert tickets $15/$10

TORONTO, ON - New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 10th Anniversary of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, June 5 - October 1 2008. Sound Travels brings sound art to the outdoors on Toronto Island in a way that entices the curious and provides a unique experience each and every year. This 10th edition of the annual festival will feature an expanded set of indoor and outdoor interactive installations and sound sculptures as well as indoor and outdoor concerts, site-specific performances, SOUNDwalks, artist talks and workshops as well as the 2nd annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium.

Works which discuss aspects of physical presence and sound such as Dumas' "Le vivant bruit de corps" will be installed at LE LABO for most of June as well as Barry Prophet's "Synthecycletron", Kristen A Allik and Robert Mulder's "Sonic Boardwalk", and the aural/personal "Wish You Were Here" by Jennifer Schmidt, Colin Asquith and Terry Nauheim which is installed for longer stretches of the festival on Toronto Island. At *new* gallery, "Resonating Bodies/Bumble Domicile", a work created by Sarah Peebles with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros co-presented with interAccess Media Arts Centre, will be on view from July 4-27th.

Other highlights of the festival include a concert by composer-in-residence Robert Normandeau on August 8th at St.Andrew-by-the-Lake on Toronto Island hosted by David Ogborn, Ellen Waterman's Guerilla Sound Art Events by Wanderology being performed throughout the August 8,9,10th weekend at various outdoor locations on Centre island, as well as an evening of Sound Portraits on Aug 9th by David Ogborn, James Harley and Ellen Waterman alongside the works of four emerging artists. SOUNDwalks will take place on July 22nd and 27th, August 8,9, 10th, and 30th and will include visiting the installations as well as unannounced live performances by Sound Travels Artists.

Buy your own Soundportraits! Email naisa@niasa.ca to register for your own Soundportraits created by Danish artist Jørgen Teller. After a half hour session of making sounds and responding to questions from the artist, Jørgen Teller will produce a sound portrait for the reistrant to take ihome with him/her on CD. Selected Potraits will be presented on the evening of August 9th during the concert at St Andrew by-the-Lake church.

Media inquiries & general information (including ticket info):

Nadene Thériault-Copeland / Managing Director
or Kate Miller / Administrative Assistant
Tel: 416-516-7413
naisa@naisa.ca or info@naisa.ca

www.soundtravels.ca

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Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Managing Director
New Adventures in Sound Art

http://www.naisa.ca

March 29, 2008

NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART PRESENTS:
DEEP WIRELESS FESTIVAL of RADIO & TRANSMISSION ART

Where: The Gladstone Hotel, IndexG Gallery, Gallery 1313
& Ryerson University Student Campus Centre (55 Gould St)
When: May 1 - June 8, 2008
Conference Pass $150/130; (Early bird discount April 30th) / Performance Pass $25/20
Downloadable Press Kit

TORONTO, ON - New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 7th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, May 1 – June 8, 2008. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a CD launch and the Radio Without Boundaries conference.

Deep Wireless performances launches with a celebration of International Dawn Chorus Day on May 4, 2008 (where the birds perform!) and will continue throughout the month of May with performances by TradeMark G., Anna Friz, angelusnovus.net, insideAmind, Glenn Gear, NOiNO, Debashis Sinha, Kathleen Kajioka, Andreas Kahre and Chantal Dumas and world premieres by Tristan Whistan, Marjorie Chan, Rich Marsella and Eldad Tsabary.

Deep Wireless sound installations feature Radio Art Installations on the second floor of the Gladstone Hotel, Gallery 1313 and at the Ryerson Student Campus Centre. Installations include "Someone Else” & “I T U” by John Wynne and Tim Wainright at Gallery 1313, "Radio Art Salon" curated by Darren Copeland at the Gladstone Hotel and at the Ryerson Student Campus Centre "Super Sonic Sound Scape Shoes” by Ricardo Huisman.

The Deep Wireless "Radio Without Boundaries" conference will close the month-long celebrations May 30 – June 1, 2008 as it explores the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio. Conference speakers include Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Tetsuo Kogawa, Chris Brookes, Chantal Dumas, Jared Weissbrot, Neil Sandell and many more. Workshops by Chris Brookes, Tetsuo Kogawa, Darren Copeland, Andreas Kahre and Peter Courtemanche will be offered during the conference for attendees only.

NAISA will launch its 2-CD set Deep Wireless 5 Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2007 call for submissions on the theme "Sonic Portrait." This radio art compilation was curated from these submissions and represents the many talented radio and sound artists world-side. Also included are special broadcasts on CBC radio’s Outfront and CKLN 88.1-FM.

The Deep Wireless festival is partially funded by the government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the SOCAN foundation.

Contact: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Tel: 416-516-7413; 416-910-7231
naisa@naisa.ca
www.deepwireless.ca

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Date: March 9, 2006

NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART PRESENTS:
DEEP WIRELESS FESTIVAL

Where: The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St W)
& Ryerson University Student Campus Centre (55 Gould St)
When: May 1-31, 2006
http://www.deepwireless.ca

Conference Pass $150/130 (+$20 discount for earlybird registration)
The early-bird registration deadline is April 14th, 2006
Day rates available

TORONTO, ON - New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch Deep Wireless 2006, May 1-31, 2006. As part of a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a CD launch and conference.

The Deep Wireless "Radio Without Boundaries" conference will close the month-long celebrations May 26-28, 2006 as it explores the many potentials, boundaries and artist perspectives of radio. Conference speakers include Trevor Wishart (UK), Magz Hall (UK), Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Joe Milutis (USA), Tianna Kennedy & Matt Mikas (free103point9, USA), and Canadians Kathy Kennedy, Steve Wadhams as well as Jowi Taylor, Chris Brookes and Paulo Pietropaolo from the award-winning radio programme The Wire. Workshops by Steve Wadhams, Tetsuo Kogawa and Trevor Wishart will be offered on May 29th for conference attendees only.

In Your Ear - a live radio cabaret on May 3, 2006 - launches Deep Wireless with an entertaining mix of humour, sound and thought- provoking theatre for the ears (and eyes) with special appearances by Anna Friz, Threshold Theatre, Soraya Peerbaye, Paul Dutton, John Oswald (+ Toronto celebrities) live to air on CKLN 88.1-FM and recorded for later broadcast by CBC radio.

Throughout the month of May Deep Wireless performances feature matinee and evening shows including performances by Evolution Control Committee, John Oswald, Anna Friz, Richard Lee, Christine Duncan, Ben Grossman, Noino, Richard Windeyer, Kathy Kennedy, and world premieres by Trevor Wishart, Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo.

Deep Wireless sound installations feature Radio Art Installations in the back lobby of the Drake Hotel and at Inter/access. Installations include "Journee Sonore: Canal de Lachine" by Andra McCartney, [murmur] and "Radio Art Salon" curated by Darren Copeland at the Drake and at Inter/access "Soundroam (Toronto to Halifax)" by Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly.

Now in its fourth year, New Adventures in Sound Art has once again produced the Deep Wireless commissioning/residency, co-produced with CBC Radio's "Outfront" and Charles Street Video. This year's artists include Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo. The 2006 commissions will be broadcast on CBC Radio's "Outfront" (99.1-FM). To help celebrate radio art there will also be special Deep Wireless radio/net broadcasts on Resonance-FM, CKLN-FM, Free103pointp and others.

Deep Wireless 3 - a 2-CD set Radio Art Compilation CD that includes radio art collected in response to the 2005 call for submissions on the theme "Power" - will be launched in early April. This radio art compilation was created out of a small portion of these submissions and represent the many talented radio and sound artists world-side.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Sign Waves and SOUNDplay.

Contact: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
401 Richmond Street West #358 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Tel: 416-910-7231, naisa@soundtravels.ca, http://www.deepwireless.ca