Deep Wireless 13 Compilation Album (2018)

Visiting Grandpa is a multi-channel soundscape based on my memories of my grandfather. It was written when I learned that the Iranian revolutionary guard demolished the historic cemetery of Baha’is in Shiraz (Iran), where my grandfather’s remains were buried as well as those of many other Baha’is’. I’d like to thank my husband, Kamran Fallah, for the translation of the original text into English; Nika Khanjani, for her powerful narration of the story; and Roya Sepehri, for creating a serene atmosphere by chanting prayers beautifully in Persian.

Parisa Sabet is an Iranian composer based in Toronto. Parisa’s compositions have a unique and lyrical quality that stems out of blending elements of Eastern and Western’s musical languages. Her compositions have won various competitions and have been performed in different venues in North America.

Voyager 1 and 2 plasma wave instruments detected whistler-like activity when passing Jupiter in 1979. I celebrated Juno’s 2016 arrival at Jupiter by composing Sferics using NASA’s recordings of whistlers, sferics captured by my VLF receivers, white and pink noise generators from Moog IIIP and Aries synthesizers and my shortwave radios.

Maggi Payne composes music for concert presentation, video and dance, and is a video artist, recording engineer, and Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works appear on Innova, Lovely Music, Aguire, Starkland, Asphodel, New World (CRI), Root Strata, Ubuibi, and other labels.

Sight Unseen can be thought of as a series of songs and interludes that explore the theme of information literacy. This piece is about conveying an emotional reaction – to express the frustration and confusion that come with not being able to trust or understand the validity or context of information.

Michael Lukaszuk creates fixed works, improvisations for laptops, pieces for acoustic instruments with live processing, and algorithmic systems in which computers generate music in a venue. He is an Instructor of Composition at the University of Cincinnati. Michael\’s music has been played events such as ICMC, TIES, SEAMUS and NYCEMF.

Caught Between Two Worlds (Seen Off Scarborough) is a new take on the myth of the ‘selkies’: the seal people. The work combines the artist’s narrative with field recordings of the sea (at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK); recordings of family members discussing the selkie myth; original music and sound art.

Sarah Dew is a songwriter, composer, sound artist, singer, pianist, penny whistler, music teacher, choir leader and performer. Currently she is studying for Masters in Music degree (MMus) at Hull University, UK. Her work is inspired by her local coastline, where she records people and places of personal significance, adding credibility and an archival angle to the immersive experience of her creations.

Misophonia is a chronic condition characterized by highly negative emotional responses to auditory triggers such as chewing, lip smacking, breathing, sniffling, coughing or slurping. This radio piece explores the world of bodily sounds and reflects the ways in which this health issue has been covered by the media. Can we perceive misophonic trigger sounds as music?

Carlo Patrão is a Portuguese radio producer based in New York City.

“wonted” explores habitual sounds from daily routines, usually experienced as background. These sounds become the focus through warped and distorted perspectives until they are gradually revealed in their environment. There’s a juxtaposition between these activities and electronically sculpted sonorities that create underlining emotions behind the tasks at hand, invoking what might be there subconsciously.

Julia Mermelstein is a Toronto-based composer originally from Halifax. Her music deals with sound textures and subtle changes in timbre that reveal a sense of duality, creating seamless interactions between acoustic and electronic sound worlds. Julia’s compositions explore concepts of human connection and behaviour, buddhist philosophy, dance and movement throughout her work.

An intimate audio work based on conversations between Billy Proctor, a lifelong resident of the Broughton Archipelago area in B.C., and Jenni Schine, a sound artist based on Vancouver Island. As an elder who has witness the transformation of B.C.’s coast, Billy is known as an important knowledge keeper and “the heart” of his settler community called Echo Bay.

Jenni Schine is a sound artist, broadcaster, and community-engaged researcher. Excited about public engagement and collaborative projects, she has extended her work into film, radio, electroacoustic composition, and installations. Jenni is a proud member of The Kingcome Collective, a place-based art initiative that creates art for Indigenous Peoples and non-Aboriginal society. She is passionate about bringing art and science together, and teaches Acoustic Ethnography and Science Storytelling at the Bamfield Marine Science Centre. Jenni loves hanging around boats and currently serves on the board of the Salmon Coast Field Station, where she is developing an Artist-in-Residency Program.

‘Hyvät matkustajat’ began as a “sonic postcard from Finland”, using soundscape field recordings from around the country. The original material was later further developed as material for sonic exploration and spectral transformations. Everything in ‘Hyvät matkustajat’ is made from the original field recordings that first gave birth to the piece.

James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a composer and a performer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic music, improvisation, sound art, and audiovisuals. He is a lecturer at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre of De Montfort University.

Urban Gardens was composed with recordings from a trip in Europe, where one can discover public gardens, as well as their urban equivalent: airports, train stations, malls, etc. I was inspired by the inexhaustible energy of those objects and locations, in stark contrast to the twenty World War 2 museums and memorials that I’ve visited.

Composer and Sound Designer Pierre-Luc Senécal is curious and passionate about sound. His compositions for concert, theater, dance and film bear his fondness for rock, pop, heavy metal and electronic music. His Masters degree at Université de Montréal under the supervision of Robert Normandeau focused on the mixing of acousmatic music. His work has been presented in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Monaco, Germany, Russia and South Korea. His piece “Schrei” is a composition on the theme of the Nazi genocide has been presented during the San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2014 and the soundLAB – soundCollective exhibition project. His piece “Urban Gardens,” which is featured here, has been awarded the JTTP 2017 3rd Prize and will be presented during the MA/IN Festival 2017.

Projet Archipel is a cross-media work comprised of a 29-minute sound documentary (Archipel, 2016), an interactive website (www.projetarchipel.com) and a mobile soundwalk app, available on iPhone and Android devices. Driven by a desire to address concrete informative facts through the poetry of electroacoustic music, composers Guillaume Côté and Guillaume Campion tackle the complex relationship between the archipelago of Montréal and its surrounding waters, mainly focusing on the St.Lawrence River, a majestuous stream strongly symbolic of the history and identity of Québec’s metropolis. Interviewees for the sound documentary (in order of appearance) : Richard Bergeron, Alexandre Joly, Claude Cormier, Simon Lebrun, Jean-François Parenteau, anonymous fisherman, Jean Desjardins, Denis Coderre, Chantal Rouleau. Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the arts, Code d’accès, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab (LMCML) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).

The collaboration between composers and sound artists Guillaume Côté and Guillaume Campion began during their master degree studies in electroacoustic music at the University of Montreal. In 2016, the duet launched Projet Archipel, a multi-platform work halfway between radio documentary, interactive media and electroacoustic music. From the basis and aesthetics of this first co-creation, Côté and Campion formed the collective Trames (www.tramesaudio.com), aiming to regroup their various projects in sound art, interactive media and cultural mediation.

“o perioadă de cincizeci de ani”, translated from Romanian as “a period of fifty years”, interrogates the relationship between memory across distance (space/time) and between generations (collective/individual). A year and a half ago, my entire family returned to Romania to celebrate my grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary. It was our family’s first reunion since my parents and I immigrated to Canada in 1995. Through a sonic interplay of field recordings, I ask the listener to consider how emigration from our place of birth impacts our understanding of intergenerational memory and our ability to receive/pass down stories. For this project, I collected recordings of my family during our two weeks together, collaged amidst the sounds that have surrounded me each summer that I’ve returned on my own: church bells, crickets, dogs barking, wedding parties passing by, or building a fire to the sound of the local station playing off a radio my grandpa built under communism using a spare car battery. The recordings act as testimonies assembled in the shape of a ‘sonic’ photo album, denoting the consequences of immigration, namely the sensation of continuously missing loved ones and feeling perpetually uprooted and isolated, while also drawing on the paradoxical nostalgia for communism experienced across Eastern European states.

Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born composer, performer and sound artist based in Toronto, Canada via Vancouver, Canada. Over the years, she has received critical acclaim for her sounds by various media outlets, including: Exclaim, The FADER, Vice, and xlr8r. Most recently, she released the audio-visual project, Dancing, written in protest of the often suffocating and unsafe environment within male-dominated art and music scenes.

The Edible Pet was created by Zoë Irvine and her son Logan, with contributions from family and friends in Edinburgh Scotland, Northern Ireland and South West France. It is a story that travels from pet keeping to dining table, taking in some back garden ethics, pet psychology, trans-species music making, dramatic mishaps, life, death and recipes. There are some scenes of a graphic nature, this programme may not be suitable for vegetarians. Original music – Zoë Irvine & The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble. The music you hear in the programme is derived from the calls and sounds of Jackie, Diamond and Tweed, the pets featured in the programme, transposed into musical notation. With the exception of these additional songs – Le Poulette Grise – Alan Mills; Ain’t Nobody Here but us Chickens – Louis Jordan.

Zoë Irvine is an artist primarily working with sound, exploring voice, recorded conversation and field recording. She seeks humour and playfulness in documentary making and enjoys bringing listeners into the making process. She also works as a sound designer, establishing Eggbox Audio, a sound studio which explores new models of working and is aimed at affordable sound for early career and independent filmmakers and radio producers. Zoë lives and works in Edinburgh Scotland.