Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art
The 24th annual edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art opens in South River on January 9. This year’s Deep Wireless Festival includes exhibitions, performances, broadcasts and a digital album that explore the theme There is Art in Our Nature.
“The complexity of the natural world is astounding in its diversity and acoustic nuance. What are the acoustic influences of nature on the sound-making taking place today? Deep Wireless begins a year long exploration for NAISA’s 2025 programming that amplifies the collaborative relationship between art-making and nature through its 2025 theme There is Art in Our Nature. Wireless transmission of all kinds, from the Internet of Things (IoT) prototyping platform to Micro-Radio FM Broadcast, become a conduit to experience the natural world.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
January 17, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
FREE
On January 17, come for cake and listen to stories told by South River Seniors. Seniors in the local community have been gathering every Wednesday night since September to share stories and memories. These sessions have led to a weekly Podcast and NAISA Radio program South
River Seniors Telling Their Stories. January 17 is also Art’s Birthday, a celebration of Art around the World. To experience other Art's Birthday parties visit the Arts Birthday Mesh.
Radio Art Performance for online and in-person audiences
By Ben Donoghue
February 1, 2025, 6 pm (Dinner available at 5:15 pm)
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario. Online audiences register in advance for access.
Tickets $12, Vegan meals available for in-person audiences for additional $8-9
Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts - expanding the community's boundaries of the possible. In this work interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio collide through loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.
Online listeners will enjoy a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences will hear a localized FM broadcast over dinner. Both audiences will join together in a discussion about the powers of radio to strengthen community ties.
Ice Follies Listening Party
February 15 and 16, 2025, 7 pm
Olmstead Beach, Trout Lake, North Bay
FREE
The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay is partnering with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in the presentation of five audio pieces by Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis on the theme Ozhaashikwaa (The Ice is Slippery). The pieces will use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake and will be played at two special listening parties during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival.
Online Workshop
By Jane Tingley
March 8, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Online Event. Advance Registration Required
Tickets $25
Jane Tingley will introduce the IoT prototyping platform shiftr for connecting sensor data to the Max programming environment. She will teach participants how to think about distributed systems, and how to use shiftr as a server that interconnects these systems.
This workshop will use the same sensor data stream used by Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, which was collected from the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, ON in the summer of 2022.
Tingley will lead participants in the process of importing this data stream into Max, in order to create their own sound and media creations.