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Installations presented in 2015
Book, Table, Chair (2015)
An interactive sound installation by Ellen Moffat
co-presented with Charles Street Video
January 17, 2015 to February 15, 2015
Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Join the artist for a performance demonstration on January 18, 1-4 pm
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252
FREE
Book, Table, Chair is an interactive installation for sound and image creation inspired by Gertrude Stein’s writing. Stein shifts the identity and stability of words as perceptual, spatial and playful experiment. In Tender Buttons, her emphasis on sound and rhythms over rational sense privilege the body, sound and the mind state over conventional meaning. By detaching words from meaning, Stein shifts the identity and stability of words, inverting expectation and predictability. She opens up language through deconstruction and spatial orientation as a form of Cubist analysis.
My approach to her work uses objects, materials, punning and spatial relationships to reveal or obscure the text, combining Dadaist, conceptual and theatrical elements with analogue and digital techniques. Participants perform the installation through direct contact, actions and interactions, triggering spoken word recordings and creating experimental sound through extended techniques. The core objects – chair(s), a table, a book - are simultaneously props, players and audience. Additional objects and materials connect to the text with delay, reverb and spatialised sound. Programming is in Max/MSP.
An interactive sound installation by Ellen Moffat
co-presented with Charles Street Video
January 17, 2015 to February 15, 2015
Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Join the artist for a performance demonstration on January 18, 1-4 pm
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252
FREE
Book, Table, Chair is an interactive installation for sound and image creation inspired by Gertrude Stein’s writing. Stein shifts the identity and stability of words as perceptual, spatial and playful experiment. In Tender Buttons, her emphasis on sound and rhythms over rational sense privilege the body, sound and the mind state over conventional meaning. By detaching words from meaning, Stein shifts the identity and stability of words, inverting expectation and predictability. She opens up language through deconstruction and spatial orientation as a form of Cubist analysis.
My approach to her work uses objects, materials, punning and spatial relationships to reveal or obscure the text, combining Dadaist, conceptual and theatrical elements with analogue and digital techniques. Participants perform the installation through direct contact, actions and interactions, triggering spoken word recordings and creating experimental sound through extended techniques. The core objects – chair(s), a table, a book - are simultaneously props, players and audience. Additional objects and materials connect to the text with delay, reverb and spatialised sound. Programming is in Max/MSP.
NAISA Sound Bash Installation opens March 1st
March 1, 2015 to March 29, 2015
Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
open daily during March Break
the NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252
General $2
March 1, 2015 to March 29, 2015
Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
open daily during March Break
the NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252
General $2
On March 12, 2001, New Adventures in Sound Art became a not-for-profit organization, expanding its programming that year and committing to providing year-round sound art programming for all ages. For the month of March, NAISA's installation space will be filled with new selection of everyday objects especially selected for the interesting sounds they make when struck or played, offering you a chance to play with sound and manipulate it live. Open every Saturday in March, 10am - 2pm or by appointment with added times during the March Break Fun Fair.
NAISA will also include a series of concerts by Toronto sound artists who will be performing using the NAISA Sound Bash installation as part of the NAISA Sound Bash Concert Series.
NAISA will also include a series of concerts by Toronto sound artists who will be performing using the NAISA Sound Bash installation as part of the NAISA Sound Bash Concert Series.
Body of Water
By Veronica Simmonds and Katie McKay
May 2, 2015 to May 24, 2015
Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Body of Water is an invitation to feel the full sensory experience of a lake swim. A rich watery soundscape will plunge the audience into the all encompassing sonic moment of entering water. The beauty of swimming is truly unexplainable. In creating “Body of Water" we attempted to capture the feeling of a lake swim. Ear first, we grasped at this evocative soundscape and now are inviting people to swim through its abundance, hearing the here of the water. This installation is an adaptation of the parallax web project: bodyofwater.ca
By Veronica Simmonds and Katie McKay
May 2, 2015 to May 24, 2015
Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm - Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Body of Water is an invitation to feel the full sensory experience of a lake swim. A rich watery soundscape will plunge the audience into the all encompassing sonic moment of entering water. The beauty of swimming is truly unexplainable. In creating “Body of Water" we attempted to capture the feeling of a lake swim. Ear first, we grasped at this evocative soundscape and now are inviting people to swim through its abundance, hearing the here of the water. This installation is an adaptation of the parallax web project: bodyofwater.ca
Veronica Simmonds is a sound-oriented media artist and radio producer based in Halifax. Her practice includes web projects, experimental broadcasts, podcasts, live performance, and installation. She turns to sound and voice to encourage slowness in a digital world. Her work has been heard throughout Canada, the USA, and Europe. http://www.veronicasimmonds.com/
Katie McKay is a photographer, filmmaker and working projectionist based in Montreal. Her projects focus on the relationships people have with their place. This manifests in cross-continental film experiments, environmental portraiture and visual examinations at the intersection of urban and natural worlds.Part & Parcel is the name of the ongoing collaboration between Veronica Simmonds and Katie McKay.
http://katiemckay.com/
Soundball (Dancehauling)
By Marla Hlady and Eric Chenaux
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to http://warblersroost.ca/contact/
Soundball (Dancehauling) is an instrument/sculpture that viewers can manipulate as a way to play with sound composition. Soundball includes traditional Irish, Scottish and English dance music. One ball allows you to manipulate the foot-beating rhythm and the other bowed guitar sonorities.
By Marla Hlady and Eric Chenaux
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to http://warblersroost.ca/contact/
Soundball (Dancehauling) is an instrument/sculpture that viewers can manipulate as a way to play with sound composition. Soundball includes traditional Irish, Scottish and English dance music. One ball allows you to manipulate the foot-beating rhythm and the other bowed guitar sonorities.
Marla Hlady is a celebrated sound artist and kinetic sculptor. Her pieces deal with the nature of sound, often materializing it for viewers and reorienting their connection to everyday auditory experiences. Hlady’s practice developed in scope and ambition through the 2000s; 2008’s Playing Piano was a player piano from the 1920s intricately modified with contemporary machinery. In 2012, Hlady did a number of site-specific projects for her solo show at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York, and for a residency in Norway. Hlady was nominated for the 2002 Sobey Art Award and her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. http://www.marlahlady.com/
Eric Chenaux is a true post-modern troubadour, with a body of solo work centering around Chenaux's dextrous, fried guitar playing juxtaposed with a gorgeously clear and lyrical singing voice. An ingenious recombinant use of traditional folk and consort music tropes in earlier albums has over time evolved into a wholly original form of balladry, shot through with a singular vernacular of improvised electric and nylon-string guitar excursions.
NAISA in Pictures
By Stefan A. Rose
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to http://warblersroost.ca/contact/
NAISA In Pictures is a selection of photographic prints, made using both analog and digital cameras, that document NAISA's concerts, performers, composers, and participants since 2000. Composition, texture, and colour are terms that are equivalent in music and images, and Stefan A. Rose has met the challenge of capturing the essence of events in time, with the split-second precision of photography. His images parallel the performances, inhabiting a world of light and motion, shadow and stillness. This spectrum of visible and near-visible, the apparent and suggested, points to environments imbued with metaphor, memory, and meaning.
By Stefan A. Rose
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to http://warblersroost.ca/contact/
NAISA In Pictures is a selection of photographic prints, made using both analog and digital cameras, that document NAISA's concerts, performers, composers, and participants since 2000. Composition, texture, and colour are terms that are equivalent in music and images, and Stefan A. Rose has met the challenge of capturing the essence of events in time, with the split-second precision of photography. His images parallel the performances, inhabiting a world of light and motion, shadow and stillness. This spectrum of visible and near-visible, the apparent and suggested, points to environments imbued with metaphor, memory, and meaning.
Stefan A. Rose is a photographer, poet, and video artist, who explores psycho-geographic themes using analog and digital formats. Stefan received his BSc. and BFA degrees from Mount Allison University. He has been a documentary photographer since 1997 for Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo new music organizations. Five of his video artworks were commissioned by the Penderecki String Quartet to accompany performances in Canada and around the world. Anchorage Press published his poetry chapbook "The House That Stands," winning a 2008 Alcuin Society Canadian Book Design Award. He was the 2010 City of Kitchener Artist In Residence, and lives in Waterloo, Ontario with his wife, artist Laura De Decker. http://www.stefanrose.ca
Synthecycletron
By Barry Prophet
Open 24/7 July to October
Between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
General $FREE
Synthecycletron was commissioned in 2006 by New Adventures in Sound Art and has been a Toronto Island favourite amongst Toronto cyclists and visitors ever since. It is an interactive installation where the public generates power by pedalling on stationary bicycles which in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds connected to the pedalling movement.
By Barry Prophet
Open 24/7 July to October
Between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
General $FREE
Synthecycletron was commissioned in 2006 by New Adventures in Sound Art and has been a Toronto Island favourite amongst Toronto cyclists and visitors ever since. It is an interactive installation where the public generates power by pedalling on stationary bicycles which in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds connected to the pedalling movement.
Barry Prophet is a composer, percussionist, installation artist and sculptor whose music and art works have appeared in galleries and theatres in Canada, United States and Europe. Creating unique sounds since 1979, Barry's percussion performance sculptures and micro tonally tuned glass lithophones have been featured on numerous recordings and performances. His interactive public art sound installation Synthecycletron has been exhibited annually since it was commissioned by NAISA in 2006. http://www.pomer-prophet.com/
Mirlitones
By Bosch & Simons
August 19, 2015
Aug 19-21: 6-7:30 Aug 22 10am - 3pm with special performances with the installation by Glen Hall from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
When audiences enter the NAISA Space they will see seven pipes suspended in the air, one to three meters long and equipped with a vibrating membrane at the upper side. The title refers to a primitive instrument that has appeared in a multitude of forms in various parts of the world. All these instruments exist of a hollow form with a membrane mounted that can be brought into vibration by blowing or singing. The best-known member of the family is the kazoo used until present times in pop music.?Each pipe is treated differently resulting in a slow, hypnotizing, ever changing sound mix. Small fluctuations in the air pressure cause subtle changes in the sound, composed of low frequencies, harmonics and phenomena like beats and combination tones that arise from simultaneously sounding pipes. Because all the pipes share the air from the same limited source they also influence each other resulting in a fragile and complex sonorous system, unpredictable up to the smallest detail.
Mirlitones was commissioned by DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands for the exhibition Kunst Werkt, 2012.??
The artists would like to thank Günter Geiger for his assistance in the development of the software for Mirltones. The presentation of Mirlitones is supported by AC/E (Acción Cultural Española) and the FPK (Performing Arts Fund, the Netherlands).
By Bosch & Simons
August 19, 2015
Aug 19-21: 6-7:30 Aug 22 10am - 3pm with special performances with the installation by Glen Hall from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
When audiences enter the NAISA Space they will see seven pipes suspended in the air, one to three meters long and equipped with a vibrating membrane at the upper side. The title refers to a primitive instrument that has appeared in a multitude of forms in various parts of the world. All these instruments exist of a hollow form with a membrane mounted that can be brought into vibration by blowing or singing. The best-known member of the family is the kazoo used until present times in pop music.?Each pipe is treated differently resulting in a slow, hypnotizing, ever changing sound mix. Small fluctuations in the air pressure cause subtle changes in the sound, composed of low frequencies, harmonics and phenomena like beats and combination tones that arise from simultaneously sounding pipes. Because all the pipes share the air from the same limited source they also influence each other resulting in a fragile and complex sonorous system, unpredictable up to the smallest detail.
Mirlitones was commissioned by DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands for the exhibition Kunst Werkt, 2012.??
The artists would like to thank Günter Geiger for his assistance in the development of the software for Mirltones. The presentation of Mirlitones is supported by AC/E (Acción Cultural Española) and the FPK (Performing Arts Fund, the Netherlands).
Re-Collect, 2013, at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
part of 10 for 10th - Memory Lane curated by Che Kothari
by Jane Tingley and Michal Seta
October 3, 2015, 7:00 pm to 7:00 am
New Media Installation
co-produced by the City of Toronto and OCAD University in association with New Adventures in Sound Art
OCAD University (Great Hall), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
FREE
by Jane Tingley and Michal Seta
October 3, 2015, 7:00 pm to 7:00 am
New Media Installation
co-produced by the City of Toronto and OCAD University in association with New Adventures in Sound Art
OCAD University (Great Hall), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
FREE
Re-Collect This immersive interactive sculptural sound and light installation is designed to evolve through interaction. The piece is built around a central spinal cord of fiber optic cabling and data wires, which feed sound and light to 30 suspended semi-transparent sonic objects. These objects contain sensors, LEDs, fiber optics, speakers and microphones. The totality of the installation resembles a large luminescent tree-like form that evokes both aquatic and terrestrial worlds. The movement of light throughout the sculpture is suggestive of electricity moving through a neuron or synaptic pathways within the brain.
The interactive experience in Re-Collect is subtle in nature. It functions like a living system, similar to a coral reef – it knows you are there and tries to find equilibrium based on your presence. Its personality is revealed slowly over time and is shaped by both its environment and visitors to the space.
In its totality, Re-Collect forms a luminescent and sonic mass attentive to its surroundings, using sound as a metaphor for the electrical impulses moving through the brain and points to the moment that two entities meet – when memories form – entangle with the present – and shape experience.
Jane Tingley is an Assistant Professor in Hybrid Media in the Dept. of Fine Arts and the Stratford Campus at the University of Waterloo, ON. Her work combines traditional studio practice with new media tools. She has participated in exhibitions/festivals in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Michal Seta is a researcher and developer at Society for Arts and Technology and research assistant at matralab (Montréal, QC), composer/improviser, performer and digital artist. His works have been exhibited/performed in Europe, USA and Canada.
Playing the NAISA Space -
Interactive Installation where the audience is the sound artist
Sound Design by Matt Miller
October 16, 17, 23, 24 and 25
Exhibition hours:
Fri 1-4 pm; Saturday 10am-3 pm plus Sounds Scary during Boo in the Barns and after every performance at the NAISA Space
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
PWYC
NAISA bids farewell to the soundscape of the Barns by asking sound artist Matt Miller to record and amplify every nook and cranny of the space in order to provide you the public with a chance to remix the sounds of our space and create your own impromptu composition in tribute to NAISA's past seven years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every visitor to our interactive installations – past, present and future – is considered a sound artist regardless of how modest you may consider your qualifications. Matt, has given you all of the tools you need, now let your auditory imagination go wild.
Sound Design by Matt Miller
October 16, 17, 23, 24 and 25
Exhibition hours:
Fri 1-4 pm; Saturday 10am-3 pm plus Sounds Scary during Boo in the Barns and after every performance at the NAISA Space
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
PWYC
NAISA bids farewell to the soundscape of the Barns by asking sound artist Matt Miller to record and amplify every nook and cranny of the space in order to provide you the public with a chance to remix the sounds of our space and create your own impromptu composition in tribute to NAISA's past seven years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every visitor to our interactive installations – past, present and future – is considered a sound artist regardless of how modest you may consider your qualifications. Matt, has given you all of the tools you need, now let your auditory imagination go wild.
SoundScary
Part of the Boo! at the Barns event
October 24, 2015, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
http://atthebarns.org/boo/
FREE
NAISA says goodbye to seven great years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns by joining in the Boo in the Barns Hallowe'en party for all ages. Look for the NAISA table in the Covered Street and turn your voice into something devilishly scary. And running concurrently is NAISA’s final interactive installation, Play the NAISA Space where you can let your fingers take over the controls in the NAISA Space upstairs in Studio 252. There, you’ll have the chance to remix the sounds of the NAISA Space in your own special way.
Part of the Boo! at the Barns event
October 24, 2015, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St.
http://atthebarns.org/boo/
FREE
NAISA says goodbye to seven great years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns by joining in the Boo in the Barns Hallowe'en party for all ages. Look for the NAISA table in the Covered Street and turn your voice into something devilishly scary. And running concurrently is NAISA’s final interactive installation, Play the NAISA Space where you can let your fingers take over the controls in the NAISA Space upstairs in Studio 252. There, you’ll have the chance to remix the sounds of the NAISA Space in your own special way.