Deep Wireless 16 Compilation Album

“Sonik Boom” is a suite of three radio art pieces by Janet Rogers, which were presented in an online show for Deep Wireless in 2021. “Origin stories and cosmology stories are important and generational hereditary tales which root us, as Indigenous people, in our identity reaching far beyond any land based migration legends and most certainly lives outside any notion of a land bridge. We know where we come from, and we know to where we will return.” – Janet Rogers I. Stereo Ribbons Stereo Ribbons was inspired by the announcement that NASA had released a new batch of (space) sounds for public consumption. Reading in their descriptions that some of the sounds were described/labeled as stereo ribbons, I thought this was a lovely title and produced a beautiful visual to think of this sound ribbons floating through space – in their own time, taking their own shapes and traveling or not traveling to whatever destination pleased them. II. tsi tkaronhya ke tsi takaronhya ke – in the sky – is a sound narrative featuring digital compositions by Haida/Cree musician Kristi Lane Sinclair and Inuit DJ Geronimo Inutiq (formerly known as madeskimo) featuring Sylvia Cloutier produced by Mohawk sound and radio artist Janet Rogers. This sound journey expresses challenges within change and transitional phases. Within Indigenous spiritual teachings and origin stories the sky and or space is where human spirit joins the physical realms and where our spirits also return. Transition almost always includes elements of chaos and confusion before understanding and acceptance is achieved. tsi tkaronhya ke is the sound journey of spiritual transitioning. III. Sky Woman Falling Two original poems revisiting the Haudenosaunee Creation Story, Sky Woman, with self-produced sounds and original music by Liv Wade.

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia in 1963 and raised in southern Ontario. Janet is based on the Six Nations territory of the Grand River where she operates the Ojistoh Publishing label. Janet works in page poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poetry with music. She is a radio broadcaster, documentary producer and media and sound artist.

Electromagnetic Nature presents the sounds of the digital world. Electromagnetic energy converted into audio energy. This is the”nature” of the digital world that surrounds us. This piece incorporates electromagnetic sound recordings of electrical devices such as cell phones, tablets, keyboards, laptops, printers, hard drives, etc.

Anton Pickard is a media artist and educator based in Tiny Township in Ontario, Canada. He has a background in photography, videography, animation, graphic design, computer game development, user-interface design, media production and management. He is currently expanding his work to include Virtual Reality, digital audio and soundscape recording.

Speak(er) to the Land was produced by John Hill with editorial support from Aliya Pabani on behalf of the Constellations podcast series. Thanks to the University of Wisconsin Oneida Language Dictionary Project. “This piece is a prayer and poem which speaks directly to the ancestors and the future generations through language. A prayer and a promise. It’s goal is to send a message to generations passed and generations to come in the Oneida language, which is endangered by settler-colonial violence. The piece features two voices, the English voice, which is static and unmoving, and the Oneida voice, which moves in a counter-clockwise motion, representative of traditional Haudenosaunee dance practices. When Sky Woman, our great-grandmother, danced on the great turtle’s back, she did so in a counter-clockwise motion, and so the Haudenosaunee people do so to honour her. Haudenosaunee people understand our responsibility to the land that gave birth to us, and so this piece is an address to not only the generations that have long since returned to the land, but those who are set to inherit this land. Across Turtle Island, Indigenous people are fighting to protect their ways and the land, and this poem is a message, a promise, to the next seven generations that we will not stop fighting on behalf of the land and the water and the non-human beings. This piece is dedicated to Maria Hinton, the Oneida speaker heard at the end of the piece, and to Ima “Akoh” Johnson, Mohawk-Cayuga faithkeeper and language teacher. Without them, I would have no courage to speak. This piece is also dedicated to the land and its defenders everywhere.” – John Hill

John Hill (he/they) is a queer artist and working class poet from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is of the Oneida nation and Turtle clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River. His work deals with themes of colonialism, enchantment, justice, solidarity and magic.

Grounding electronic and technological materials in nature, the EMF Turntable is an interactive sound sculpture by Shaughn Martel that amplifies the electromagnetic fields generated by mobile phones and other small electronic devices. By spinning the turntable and using the touch screens, Shaughn Martel modified the waveform of the electromagnetic field and the resulting sound material emitted from the EMF Turntable.

Shaughn Martel is a Sudbury-born and Tkoronto (Toronto) based new media artist. Focusing in the performance of electricity, electronics and human collaborations with it. Their work extends to grounding the mystification of technology in natural phenomena and attempting to augment sensory perception of spaces and forces normally outside the faculties of the body.

Colonial Conversation is a sound art piece created to reflect Indigenous life before contact, during conflicts and changes, and what in our environment is still prevalent and relevant today. The piece was premiered at the Cold Waters Symposium, North Bay in 2019. Vocals were recorded in 2018 and are by Elizabeth Hill and Michelle McAfee.

Elizabeth Hill is a songwriter, multi-disciplinary artist, and writer whose work has taken her to explore Indigenous lands and voices around the world. Exchanging songs, ideas, the power of sound, and stories to celebrate the beauty of the good mind upon the earth, she is an extremely powerful and dedicated artist.

Blurring the boundaries between land and sea, Sirens Dawn creates a seascape in constant flux with its identity—ever changing, always in motion. A sonic topography inspired and partly arranged from recordings made around a sound mirror on the South East coast of England (UK). The mirror, itself, stands dormant as it waits, facing outward away from land. Sound markers and siren warnings; still it listens, quietly detecting. This work aims to illuminate processes and frequencies that exist between the virtual and physical space surrounding a sound mirror on the South East Coast of England, a liminal space unnoticed by the human experience. The soundscape uncovers a dialogue woven through the natural and the man-made.

Cecilia Tyrrell is an artist originally from London, UK. Her work explores virtual and physical space through online and video installation. She uses her interest in sound to illuminate processes and systems that go unnoticed by the human experience, drawing upon ecology and psychogeography to explore personal and historical memory archives.

This is a recording of a solo performance by Anna Friz for voice, radiophonic instruments, cottage-built electronics, and various boxes with their stuff. The piece was created for an online presentation in March 2021 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art.

Anna Friz is a radio and transmission artist, composer, and media studies scholar. Since 1998 she has created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also creates large-scale audiovisual installations and composes for theater, contemporary dance, and film. Anna is Assistant Professor of Sound in the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. nicelittlestatic.com