New Adventures in Sound Art’s (NAISA) is proud to present the 23rd edition of its SOUNDplay Festival. SOUNDplay is an annual fall Festival that encourages new avenues of exploration between sound and new media. This year’s edition connects NAISA’s 2024 theme of Reimagine to the immense world of play available to artists wishing to abstract both images and sounds.
The festival this year includes a diverse collection of artists from across Canada that are working in a variety of disciplines. Festival artists include composers and media artists Colin Frank, Véro Marengère and Edgardo Moreno, the collaborative duos of media artists Mark Trimmings and Brady Marks and ceramic artist April Martin and musician and poet Ben McCarthy as well as the trio of computer artist Laura De Decker, media artist Stefan A. Rose and poet and painter Herménégilde Chiasson. Also included in the festival is a return from last year of the 48-Hour Sound Art Challenge and an adaptation of the Wetland Project for a special YouTube livestream organized by Christof Migone.
“The artists in SOUNDplay Reimagine places, actions, objects. On the surface they depart abstractly from their subjects but in doing so they afford us a deep immersion into a hidden and unexpected beauty.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art