Deep Wireless 1 is a 2-CD compilation album produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in 2004 as part of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.
Curation and Audio Mastering: Darren Copeland
Design: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Illustraions: Prashant Miranda
CD1
Little man in the ear (excerpts) by Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon
1/ Austin, MB 2:00Open Player
2/ The princess of the stars 2:19Open Player
3/ Stampede 2:29Open Player
Notes and Bios for Little man in the ear
(excerpts: Austin, MB; The princess of the stars, and Stampede)
Summer July 9 September 9, 1999 20,000 km on Canadian roads and trails. From Montreal across the Prairies to the North-Western Arctic, down to the Pacific and back through the Badlands. The Mercury minivan took to the road, loaded with recording equipment, tools, DAT cassettes, tent, Coleman burner, sleeping bags and cooking apparatus, spare tires, beer and camera, boots, books and maps.
In The little man in the ear, materials are presented with little transformation. Only to better the listening clarity did we apply some processing. On the other hand, we took at times the liberty of radically transforming the original sound materials. Thanks to Mike Krutko, Lillian Ireland, Rob Dramer and to all the anonymous voices who inspired us to create this sound travel.
1./ Austin, MB 2:00 Plane and children games at the 45th Annual Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede; wind in trees and leaves at the Medicine Wheel, Spirit Sands, Manitoba; wind in a corn field near Austin, Manitoba.
2./ The princess of the stars 2:19 Ambience, voices, and fiddle competition in Austin, Manitoba.
3./ Stampede 2:29 Carriage race and voice at the Stampede in Austin, Manitoba.
Production Mario Gauthier for L’espace du son, Radio Canada. Realization Studio Blue Moose, Montreal. Received Grand Prix du documentaire Phonurgia Nova 2001. Austin, MB; The princess of the stars, and Stampede are part of the larger work The little man in the ear which has been published on the double CD radio roadmovies (326music CD 006-007).
Christian Calon is a sound artist who lives in Montreal. His projects include sound installation, radio and concert works. Performed worldwide, he is renown for his original approach to sound shapes and narration. He has been honored in major international competitions. His works can be found on the emprientes DIGITALes label (www.electrocd.com).
Audio and radio artist Chantal Dumas uses sound to explore new possibilities for narration. Since 1993 she has produced over 23 works for radio as a freelancer; her “stories” have been broadly broadcasted on public radios and at festivals. She has received awards including EAR International Competition (Hungary) and Phonurgia Nova International (Fr.). Her works can be found on OHM editions (http:www.meduse.org/avatar) and on 326music (Fr) (www.326music.com).