Making Waves is a show about radio art and sound art produced by New Adventures in Sound Art’s Artistic Director Darren Copeland for WGXC Wave Farm. The show includes interviews with Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on their techniques, processes, and motivations. The show also includes playback of recorded performances and profiles on longer form sound art and radio art works. Making Waves is about what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.
- by On today’s show we listen to two works that capture animals and environments in interesting and unique ways. Both works come from the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation, which is now available on soundcloud. We are going to spend the majority of the show listening to and talking about the multi-species project Pigeon Band, which began with the question: “Do pigeons like music?” Two toy synth keyboards were installed on Emmie Tsumara's kitchen window sill, awaiting the daily pigeon visitors. Over several months of practice, the pigeons learned to play the keyboard as they snacked on sunflower seeds. […]
- by Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. 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 a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise. Online listeners experienced a special video feed of the […]
- by On today’s episode of Making Waves we will be listening to “Non-predictable” by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we will talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilation album from The Deep Wireless Festival. Over the next four episodes of Making Waves we will be featuring artists from Deep Wireless.Reyna’s work “Non-predictable” is an exploration of the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have emotions that fluctuate over time? This 45 minute long form piece is arranged in three sections […]
- by On today’s show we will be listening to Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin and we will also be talking to them about the piece after we listen to it.Lake Composition is a work made for video installation but is also appropriate in a radio context. If you are interested in getting an idea of the images in the video work there is a trailer for the piece here:Lake Composition TrailerLake Composition includes poetic journal-like text fragments written by Ben McCarthy. His texts reflect on the nature of love in the age of AI and the mystifying beauty […]
- by Mark Timmings and Brady Marks from The Wetland Project in British Columbia speak to Host and NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The Wetland Project is an exploration of a 24-hour field recording of a marsh on Saturna Island (ṮEḴTEḴSEN) made with the assistance of recordist Eric Lamontagne. The reverberant soundscape, featuring birds, frogs and airplanes, has been shared with international audiences since 2015 in the form of slow radio broadcasts, new-media installations and musical performances. An audio-visual version of The Wetland Project will be included in the Water themed edition of the livestream event on Dec 12 called You and […]
- by How can video games be a tool for exploring machine hums and drones? That is one of the subjects we are exploring today on Making Waves with host Darren Copeland. Colin Frank is a percussionist, composer and media artist from Ottawa and based currently in Huddersfield UK. In his installation Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs the gallery visitor uses a joystick and track ball to remix field recordings of back alley machine drones from Sherbrooke Quebec in order to uncover the hidden sonic beauty of industrial urban environments. Watch NAISATube for the video version of this episode and to see the […]
- by Today’s episode highlights the Sonic Hugs collection curated by Colin Black. Sonic Hugs features nine Australian composers and sound artists that were invited to create original radio art pieces that try to connect the ideas of "Sonic" and "Hug". I discussed with Colin Black his motives and interests in starting the project and his impressions of the outcomes and responses that emerged. He also elaborated on his experiences making and producing radio art in Australia and the impact programs like The Listening Room had on the direction of his work. All of the pieces in the Sonic Hugs collection can […]
- by On today’s show we feature multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette and her performance Roots that Braid Themselves. Christine Charette lives in the Almaguin Highlands region of Ontario. Her performance took place outdoors on July 18 at Warbler’s Roost in South River during World Listening Day. In her performance she had masks, paper sculptures and lines of text displayed on tree branches and stumps. On an elevated platform there was a weathering upright piano that she played along with various effects pedals. In the conversation she reflected on the branching and roots themes in her performance as well as about other points […]
- by This episode of Making Waves reflects on the life and work of Susan Frykberg (1954-2023). It begins with a radiophonic series of pieces she made called The Audio Birth Project and features an interview with two of Susan's closest Canadian colleagues Jim Montgomery and Tina Pearson. They reflect on Susan's life in Canada, the barriers she overcame and the impact she had on experimental sound art in Canada. The pieces heard on the show are from her Astonishing Sense CD released on the Earsay label in Vancouver.Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, […]
- by On today's show we listen to spring soundscapes from the region of Canada where "Making Waves" is produced. This year and last year, residents of the Almaguin Highlands region in Northern Ontario had the opportunity to place sound recorders out overnight in order to share the soundscape that is familiar to them. The Almaguin Highlands is a collection of rural villages with populations under 2,000 people that are locating North of Huntsville and South of North Bay in what is often referred to as the Near North. Last year in May on "Making Waves," we featured some of these recordings, […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.This episode features pieces by Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar, and AJ Cornell that convey emotions and meaning through the ethereal world of electronic sound and electromagnetic energy. Together we will listen and talk about their pieces -responding to what resonates and stirs the imagination. And we will learn about the context in which the pieces were made. This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.On today’s show we listen to three radio art pieces: Neurotransmits by Cláudio De Pina, String Pulse by Bekah Simms, and London Punch by Keith de Mendonca. All three artists join host Darren Copeland to talk about their pieces and offer comments about each other’s work. Thematically the pieces explore sounds associated with radio and electromagnetic waves and reflect approaches to evoking images and associations without necessarily using words. This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF. VLF is Very low Frequency Radio or what is often referred to as Natural radio because it makes audible to human ears the electromagnetic waves that encircle the earth. Dan Tapper is a British sound artist based in Toronto and in the second half of the show we will play his radio piece about VLF called "Some Call it Noise". In the interview Dan referenced a documentary about VLF called "Sun Song" that was made by Patrick Sykes. Click Here to listen to "Sun Song." This monthly […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.On today’s episode of "Making Waves," Montreal acousmatic composer Robert Normandeau talks about his late mentor Francis Dhomont. Dhomont came to Montreal from France in the late 1970’s where he composed the radiophonic piece “Sous le regard d’un soleil noir,” a piece so important to Dhomont that he counted this as his first-ever work even though he was already in his fifties. Acousmatic art has had a special relationship with radio, not only because state radio stations supported the first acousmatic studios, such as GRM at Radio France, but because radio provided a creative medium through which artists could bring […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.On the 17th of January one million and 61 years ago someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water and Art was born. Making Waves starts off the New Year of 2024 looking back at the history of celebrating the birthday of Art. We will begin with the artist Hank Bull who has participated in many Art's Birthday celebrations since its origins in Fluxus and Mail Art. After that, we will listen to Elisabeth Zimmermann from Kunstradio at the ORF radio in Austria followed by Ward Weiss (also known as Planktone), a former radio engineer and independent radio […]
- by Produced by Darren Copeland.On this edition of Making Waves, host Darren Copeland has a conversation with Christof Migone about his unique series of curated broadcasts organized around a 12 word sentence – "You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death." They discuss how the event started, what motivated him and how his approach to curation is different for this event than for exhibitions and performances that he has curated previously. You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death will be aired on Wave Farm's Standing Wave Radio channel on December 12 from noon to midnight […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today’s show features Kelly Ruth from Edmonton who has adapted her skills as a weaver, visual artist and musician to make live sound art performances on the digital multimedia platform of Second Life. The loom is used both as a visual centrepiece in her performances and is used as a musical instrument amplified with contact mics and modified with live electronics. In her conversation with Host Darren Copeland she talks about bringing her interests together, particularly during the pandemic, and creating a hybrid performance practice that can be experienced both in-person and in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life. […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Host Darren Copeland talks with Canadian interactive media artist Don Ritter for this episode of Making Waves, which is also available as a video podcast on the NAISATube YouTube channel. Don Ritter's sound installation "O telephone" is currently being shown at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Canada. Ritter and Copeland discuss the use of sound in Ritter's interactive media works since the 1990's and how "O telephone" is a much different piece than his other works. The installation was originally made in 2007 for six telephones and eight speakers. The version at NAISA uses just one […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Jessica Thompson is a Canadian media artist working in sound, performance and mobile technologies. NAISA is presenting an adapted version of her project Borderline which maps sound data onto economic and social data. Borderline is an app downloadable for mobile iOS devices and it can be used in any city, town or village – wherever you happen to be. Borderline is also the basis for an exhibition at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre which includes an analog style of map-making that those living in the Almaguin Highlands region of Northeastern Ontario can explore. The conversation between host Darren Copeland […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves features an interview with Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac about the sound making and sound reception of insects along with recordings of their installation Secret Reception. Later in the show we play Creatures of the Ice by Eldad Tsabary from the Deep Wireless 5 double CD produced in 2008. The show ends with a short interview with Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters on their installation Sensation of Distribution, which uses resonant plumbing tubes to create confusion between what is building infrastructure and what is artistic creation.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Sound from the natural world and the urban environment are not background sounds for film and other experiences but rather they are sounds rich in associations and meaning. They are deserving of foreground attention. Filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise along with sound artist Alëna Korolëva join Host Darren Copeland to discuss the importance of environmental sound in their thinking and work. Hoolboom and Frise's film "Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp)" and Korolëva's soundscape piece "Accidental Wilderness" will be presented in an upcoming online World Listening Day event on July 15 at 7 pm that is hosted by NAISA. Selections from […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On today’s episode of Making Waves you will hear soundscape recordings made in the Eastern part of Parry Sound District of Ontario or what is locally known as the Almaguin Highlands. NAISA invited local residents in the area to place a bird feeder on their home property. Inside that bird feeder was an audio recorder that captured the overnight soundscapes of spring. Over the course of this hour we will sample highlights from the recordings that were made between April 18th and May 27th of 2023. You will hear many of the key voices of the local soundscape in our […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.For today's edition of Making Waves we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Reveil – the 24 hour dawn chorus broadcast that took place Saturday May 6, 2023 – by mixing sounds from the broadcast with a discussion between host Darren Copeland and Reveil founders Dawn Scarfe, Maria Papadomanolaki and Grant Smith.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of "Making Waves" replays the online listening gathering "Remote Connections" presented by NAISA for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art on March 4, 2023. Included on the show is Faisal Karadsheh's "to be heard (soundwalk’in_2021)," which is derived from recordings of street protests in Toronto responding to national and international events, as well as Anton Pickard's Sound Connections which features the sounds of dial up modems, morse code and the RCI shortwave interval signal. The show concludes with Juro Kim Feliz's "Kinalugarán" highlights the invisibility of Filipino artists based in first-world diaspora. To listen and […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today's episode of Making Waves focuses on two artists from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Album. Darren Copeland talks to Nicole Goodwin in New York who under the name GOODW.Y.N. and with the help of her collaborator Michael Carr (aka Face Mason), wrote and recorded Inner Spaces: Live From Quarantine. In their words, "Inner Spaces is born of a parallel world to ours. It is the voice of revolution in a society gone mad, the voice of hope for the hopeless." In the second half of the show Copeland talks to Prachi Khandekar in Montréal whose piece "The Tracker" […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On today’s episode of Making Waves we will share broadcasts from the Northern Virtual Broadcast Service led by Geronimo Inutiq as part of his project "I am Calling Home". Inutiq will be visiting NAISA in the coming week for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. That gave Darren Copeland the opportunity to talk with Geronimo about the topic of home and the special resonance it has for him. Geronimo Inutiq is an urban Inuit and a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary artist from Iqaluit on Baffin Island.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.The 17th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Album will be released in February and we will listen to "Fuori è dentro" by Giuseppe E. Rapisarda to begin this episode. After that we will play a documentary produced by Michelle Wilson about her installation Forced Migration which will be on exhibit at the newly renovated NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River from February 6 to March 27, 2023.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In today’s show Hector Centeno discusses his piece Space_03 which was commissioned by NAISA. Space_03 is derived directly from an attentive and phenomenological exploration of a specific geographical/physical location using spatial audio and photogrammetry.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Vancouver-based artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall are featured in this episode of Making Waves. They have been collaborating on a variety of ecologically focused new media and sound works, since 2004. They co-lead research-creation projects, recently Wild Empathy—immersive art exploring old-growth trees and ancient forests—and currently Branching Songs, sound art that listens to trees for the forest. Their installations The Sound of Tree Rings and Tree Earth Sky will be featured in an upcoming exhibit presented by New Adventures in Sound Art.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This month on Making Waves we continue listening to more in the Soundportraits series by Jørgen Teller from Denmark. Soundportraits are impromptu pieces made through one-on-one chance encounters. Jorgen Teller was stationed inside a tent at a different location each day. He would record sounds made by the visitors and then create spontaneous electronic compositions from the sounds he recorded creating a musical portrait of his encounter. Included are portraits made at Mikisew Park, The Crystal Cave and NAISA in August 2022.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today’s show is about sound portraits. A sound portrait is like a caricature made from a brief encounter in a public place – only that instead of creating a visual likeness of a person, a musical and sonic one is made. Jørgen Telller from Copenhagen was in residence recently at NAISA and over three days he produced about two dozen "Soundportraits" of persons living in or touring the South River area. Making Waves will share a selection of these portraits and they will be introduced by Jørgen Teller and Host Darren Copeland.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This month on Making Waves includes sound art created in public outdoor spaces and focus on two projects that open up access to the music making process. In the first half host Darren Copeland talks to Jesse Stewart and Matt Edwards of Mixed Metaphors about their approach to interactive art in public settings. They will share their experiences making their latest works Orbits and The Gong Show. In the second half of Making Waves pieces in the NORDIC SoUNDPORTRAITS series of 2012 by Jorgen Teller are presented. These pieces were made in a public setting by Teller through one-on-one interactions […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On last month’s show we featured flute improvisations recorded by Ellen Waterman outdoors in a rural waterfront location. The improvisations were guided by her physical response to the natural surroundings and were an interpretation of her instructional score Bodily Listening in Place. In today’s show Ellen Waterman will explain that score and the background and research behind it. The score draws on her research and thinking on Improvisation, Deep Listening, Signed Music and music making across all abilities.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Two weeks ago Wave Farm's WGXC and New Adventures in Sound Art both participated as broadcast partners for Reveil, a 24-hour broadcast of dawn chorus open microphone livestreams that follows the emergence of daylight from time zone to time zone across the entire planet. Reveil coincides with NAISA programming that focuses on the local soundscape in South River Ontario. On today’s show we are going to feature a selection of spring soundscapes from Warbler’s Roost in South River plus we will feature music made outdoors by Ellen Waterman that responds to that soundscape. Ellen Waterman's performances are interpretations of her […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On today’s show we have a conversation with Michelle Macklem and Jess Shane. They are the producers of Constellations, a sound art and experimental narrative podcast program that unravels the distinctions between documentary, sound art, fiction and music. This episode includes "Pointing At Canopus" by Arif Mirbaghi and a Mystery box mix by Nicole Pingon which were both created for Constellations.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Winter Diary Revisited, a new work by Claude Schryer, was the first presentation of the 2022 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art which took place on Sunday February 6th at the new NAISA North Media Arts Centre, a building recently purchased by New Adventures in Sound Art. This radio documentary is a tribute to R. Murray Schafer who passed away in August 2021. Schafer’s writing and the research undertaken with the World Soundscape Project were foundational to the development of the field of acoustic ecology. Schryer goes back to Schafer’s diaries that he was keeping in the late […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves features pieces from the upcoming Deep Wireless 16 album that will be released online later this month at www.naisa.ca. Deep Wireless is a festival of radio and transmission art presented annually by New Adventures in Sound Art. The pieces you will hear in this sequence mix poetry, electromagnetic sounds and music. Thematically they conjure various notions of place. A place in the cosmos, a place in the electromagnetic spectrum, a place on the land, a place to look out into the sky, and a place to listen for what might exist ahead in the future. […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This month's episode features Ben Donoghue and his 16mm film Pierre Radisson: Fjord and Gulf from 2017, which has recently been adapted for digital presentation available online at https://www.naisa.ca/ until December 20th. The film presents the daily activity and environment of the ship’s work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, providing a window into a portion of the invisible labour that underpins the Canadian economy. The film also brings the deep winter landscapes of coastal Quebec into dialogue with intensive industrial activity of ore shipments from the mines of the Saguenay – Lac Saint-Jean region. […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Visual and Media Artist Tansy Xiao from New York and Electroacoustic composer Véro Marengère from Montréal join Darren Copeland in a conversation about their new video works plus thoughts on how to define their work and reflections on creating during the pandemic. Here are links to the pieces being discussed: Roserade by Véro Marengère and Bone and Air by Tansy Xiao.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound ArtToday’s episode features discussions with visual artist Julia White and singer-composer-video artist Laurel MacDonald. Both artists are from NAISA’s SOUNDplay festival. Julia White uses sound recordings of creaks and other small water ways in her exhibition called WATER Shadows. The subject of water weaves through different aspects of this work, which is also informed by her practice in deep listening. Laurel MacDonald’s artistic development began in both visual arts and music. After establishing herself as a vocalist and composer she began creating video works combining abstract imagery with her vocal music. Her conversation with host Darren Copeland focuses on her […]
- by Making Waves: Zoe Gordon, Helena Korbath, Lucille Kim, Keri LatimerThis episode goes back to an online listening gathering that took place on August 14, 2021. It featured Canadian sound art works by Zoe Gordon from Thunder Bay, Helena Korbath from Vancouver, Lucille Kim from Hamilton and Keri Latimer Winnipeg. The format of the show is like a writing club where artists and enthusiasts gather online to listen to pieces and share their impressions and comments. The works featured are on the NAISA Soundcloud album titled Sound Travels 2. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Artist Tosca Terán along with Andre Greville – make up the duo Nanotopia. Together they have created the sound installation the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine which turns a Grow Room into a Fungi and Sprout music generator. Fine electrodes placed within roots of mycorrhizal plants, receive bio-data and translate this activity into electronic music. Tosca Terán joins NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland in this episode of Making Waves to explain her approach to creating music from fungi and mycelium.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves focuses on World Listening Day with composer Eric Leonardson from Chicago and filmmaker Raquel Castro from Lisbon. In conversation with host Darren Copeland they cover the theme of the Unquiet Earth and also the relevance of considering sound when talking about global phenomena such as Climate Change and COVID-19 pandemic. World Listening Day takes place on July 18 every year. The 2021 edition features a 24 hour broadcast on Wave Farm, NAISA Radio and the YouTube channel of the World Listening Project. The show is book-ended with hydrophone recordings by Elizabeth Chitty in St. Catherines, […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves profiles two artists that come to sound art via other artistic disciplines and who are showing work this summer at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Ontario. Jonathan Tyrrell is trained in architecture and is creating interactive media placed-based works that he describes as event-based architecture. Sandy McLennan is a filmmaker and photographer using hand-made analog techniques. He has created the interactive installation "My Place Here and Now," which through workshops with Grade 7 students at South River Public School, mixes pinhole photography and interactive digital sound.
- by Interviewed by Darren Copeland.This special 90 minute episode features interviews with artists who operate permanent open microphone livestreams that were included in the Reveil broadcasts of daybreak that happened four weeks ago on the first weekend in May. The first hour of the show features Zach Poff who created the Pond Station livestream that continually broadcasts underwater sound from a spring-fed pond that is located on the Wave Farm property. It can be heard online or on the radio at 1620 AM in the vicinity of the Wave Farm in Acra. My discussion with Zac started with the topic of bat sounds, which […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Following the broadcast of Reveil on May 1st, NAISA is featuring two episodes of interviews with individuals who facilitated livestreams of daybreak from their home localities for Reveil . Today’s episode begins with Elizabeth Chitty, an interdisciplinary artist in St. Catherines, Ontario, then following her, Rob Mackay and Andrew Laforet about the livestream from Point Pelee National Park, and finally, a conversation with Thomas Evdokimoff about the livestream he did for Reveil from downtown Vancouver. The interview with him includes his experiences earlier this year livestreaming from the floating Blue Cabin artist residency space in the False Creek area of […]
- by This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a South River-based Canadian organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. 20 Years of Radio Art at NAISA with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz and James Bailey Description: […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.20 Years of Radio Art at NAISA with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey: This edition of Making Waves includes parts of an online presentation from March 12, which marked the 20th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art and the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Radio artists Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey joined host Darren Copeland for this show to reflect on different elements of Deep Wireless: Out Front CBC-NAISA collaborations, radio art cross-disciplinary performance collaborations, the Radio Without Boundaries Conference and TransX Transmission Art symposium. Included on the […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This edition of Making Waves is a replay of an online presentation on February 6, 2021 that included three works by poet and broadcaster Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora) – Stereo Ribbons, tsi tkaronhya ke and Sky Woman Falling. The works are connected by indigenous origin and cosmology stories, which as Rogers says 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." The […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today's episode of Making Waves revisits NAISA's 2021 Art’s Birthday Listening Party. On January 17, 2021 a groups of artists met online to listen and discuss each other’s realizations of a text score by Anne-F Jacques called Piece for objects found in the street. There were many other celebrations of Art on January 17. For a history of Art’s Birthday visit the Art’s Birthday site.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today’s episode of Making Waves features conversations with two artists from the Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art festival – Montreal sound artist Anne-F Jacques and Edmonton journalist and radio artist Don Hill. In the second half Don Hill explains his interest in transporting Counterpuntal Radio over to interactive media with his new installation Story Trees. In the first half, Anne-F Jacques explores the sounds of objects – from the everyday, the natural and the discarded. She has made a text score for Deep Wireless for which NAISA invites listeners to this program to record their own interpretation. Details: https://naisa.ca/naisa-events/arts-birthday/performances/
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves features a livestream performance from October 25 2020 by Debashis Sinha called Adeva (version000_01), which was co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. The performance explores Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applied to the text and sound world of the Veda scriptures. The performance also included video animation which can be accessed at NAISAtube on Youtube. Later on in the show we will listen to an excerpt from the audience discussion that followed the performance. Debashis Sinha is a Bengali Canadian composer and media artist based in Toronto.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In this program Sandy McLennan, a filmmaker from Port Sydney Ontario, is interviewed by Darren Copeland. McLennan talks about how his hand-made 8mm and double 8mm films are made, the role that time plays in the creative process, and how he approaches the sound composition of his films much differently then the production of the image.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In this episode on AI and Modular Synths, we explore techniques – both new and old – used to produce sounds and images for two livestream performances taking place on October 17 and 24, 2020. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Debashis Sinha, a Bengali Canadian composer and media artist about applying Artificial Intelligence to Veda scriptures to produce the sounds and images in his performance. In the second half, David Breckenridge interviews filmmaker and musician Robert Fantinatto, the creator of I Dream of Wires, a documentary film on the modular synth renaissance. In the interview Fantinatto relates his […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On today’s edition of Making Waves we feature interviews with Bentley Jarvis and Teresa Connors. David Arthur met up online with Bentley Jarvis over rural internet connections to discuss Jarvis’ sound sculpture Constant Plancks which has been on exhibit outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Canada. The sculpture consists of two tall cedar structures with built-in loudspeakers that respond to passing traffic with music based on the mathematical concept of Planks Constant. In the second half Darren Copeland interviews Teresa Connors about her approach to gathering data from the east coast of Newfoundland and using […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.As part of World Listening Day on July 18 NAISA hosted three online meet ups where participants produced soundscape recordings in their home environments inspired by a text score by composer Tina Pearson called Towards a Reciprocal Listening. Through this edition of Making Waves we will share the soundscapes collected by the participants along side their commentary reflecting on their experiences at the location and personal responses to the text score.The soundscapes heard in the program can be explored on Radio Aporee. In order of appearance are the following commentaries and contributions: 8 Wendigo Way, Toronto with Wendalyn Bartley; 26 […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.New Adventures in Sound Art is releasing a compilation on soundcloud for its Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. Guest Host David Arthur explores a selection of the pieces on the release and offers his responses and perspectives. Included are pieces by Léa Boudreau, Matheos and Georgios, Christopher Lock, Barry Truax and Juan Carlos Vasquez.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.A discussion about listening and recording with Matthew Rogalsky in reference to his installation “Octet" which will open at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre on June 25. At the end of the show we will re-visit NAISA’s May 30 performance with two works by David Eagle – "Through Autumn Mist" and “Tactus" (with Jordan Wyshniowsky, Cello).
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Calgary composer David Eagle discusses with Darren Copeland his works that will be presented on the May 30, 2020 online concert hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art. David Eagle explains his intentions behind mixing different sound media and musical idioms in his compositions – soundscape recordings, oral archival recordings, instrumental ensembles, live electronics and solo cello.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In this episode of Making Waves NAISA’s Darren Copeland talks to Grant Smith, Maria Papadomanolaki and Dawn Scarfe. For the past six years they have been celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day in a truly unique way. As the collective Soundcamp they produce Reveil, which is a world-wide radio program that follows the sounds of daybreak from timezone to timezone through an open and parallel network of audio livestreams provided by volunteer streamers, field recordists and science researchers. Each hour produces a new awakening of sounds from a different part of the world. Reveil will be heard on Wave Farm Radio […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Impressions of Place: Ayesha Barmania, Don Hill and Jeffrey Sinibaldi. NAISA invited Podcaster Ayesha Barmania from Peterborough Ontario to create a radio portrait of NAISA's home town of South River (and vicinity) using interviews collected by NAISA over the past 3 years with residents from the local community. The piece she made was called A Good Ways North. Also on the show is WRGO or What is Really Going On by Edmonton radio artist Don Hill and Disconnect by Niagara sound artist Jeffrey Sinibaldi.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Continuing from the previous episode of Making Waves, NAISA features more from Michael Waterman and Mannlicher Carcano. Included in the mix is an interview that Darren Copeland did with Michael Waterman about Songs of Ice and his other transmission art installations as well as sounds from the Art’s Birthday telematic performance by Mannlicher Carcano from January 17, 2020.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Mannlicher Carcano started making experimental noise in Winnipeg in 1987 before dispersing to various cities and using community radio phone lines as a means to keep the group playing together. NAISA's Darren Copeland met up with Mannlicher Carcano member Michael Waterman (known as Porter Hall in MC-parlance) who is working on a new installation at NAISA. Michael is sharing with Making Waves an excerpt of the current episode from their radio show, which is aired every Saturday on CHMR in St. John's Nfld from 2:30 to 4:40 EST. https://chmrfm.weebly.com/saturday.html
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Geronimo Inutiq is an electronic music producer, DJ and multimedia artist from Iqaluit, Nunavut who is now based in Montreal. He joins Darren Copeland from New Adventures in Sound Art to discuss his recent work which combines archival films of the Canadian North with electronic music.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves takes listeners on a tour of Gordon Monahan's installation Kinetic Transmissions. During the show Gordon Monahan explains his use of audio signals to drive small motors which pass the audio through resonant instruments and objects. He also explains how he uses this technique and other variations in his other works. Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Making Waves re-visiting two artists featured two years ago who both create sound art with Saws – Sonia Paço-Rocchia and Alan Bloor. The first half hour of the show includes an interview with Paço-Rocchia about her installation Lames@NAISA and the second half hour has a performance by Alan Bloor that was recorded August 31, 2019 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Making Waves looks to the future with a sound art installation by Stephanie Castonguay made by children and in the second half of the show Making Waves gazes into the past with an interview with Alexis Bhagat on archiving audio art.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Garth Paine is an Australian composer and interactive media artist teaching at Arizona State University. Upon his first visit to Arizona he became fascinated with the soundscapes of the deserts of the American south west and from this interest he formed a community-engaged research team to study and document the soundscapes of national monument parks in close distance to Phoenix. One of the many outcomes of Listen(n) is a Virtual Reality sound installation which allows listeners to experience these unique soundscapes in a surprisingly life-like way with the simple combination of a 360 degree photograph and an ambisonic soundscape recording. […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Darren Copeland interviews Udo Noll about the online sound mapping project Radio Aporee and the distinctive way in which it conceives of transmission art as an open-ended multi-user medium.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Andra McCartney in conversation with Darren Copeland talks about her two works created fifteen years apart. Both works were made from cross-Canada train trips. The first during the winter of 2003 and the second while the wild fires were happening last summer in Northern Ontario and British Columbia. Both works will be broadcast from NAISA on May 3 at 7 pm on NAISA Radio.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On today's edition of Making Waves we listen to two sound documentaries from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art – Kime Ani by Edzi'u and Gateway by Benoit Bories. Both pieces are included on the Deep Wireless 14 online album. Kime Ani are words in the Tahltan language, translated to mean “home coming” or also “let’s go home.” Included here is a seven part electronic work created from a selection of vintage audio samples from Edzi’u’s three generations of grandmothers and matriarchs. A mixed race Tahltan-Tlingit electronic singer/songwriter and composer, Edzi’u mixes electronic music with classic songwriting […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In advance of Josh Gumiela's visit to NAISA in February, Josh discusses how he uses the electromagnetic energy emitted from cellphones for the raw material of the music produced in his installation "Immobile Device."
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.The Deep Wireless radio art album is available for listening at https://soundcloud.com/naisa/sets/deep-wireless-14/ In this episode of Making Waves we listen to four of the pieces from the album – Tapping the Air by Sebastiane Hegarty; Ways of Listening by Zoe Gordon; Tsikatsi by Edgardo Moreno; and I Dreamt This Was My Home by Helena Korbath. The Hegarty piece times with the 118th anniversary of Marconi's first 'over the horizon' wireless transmission.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Jane Tingley on anyWare, an interactive distributed sculpture. Darren Copeland interviews Canadian media artist Jane Tingley on her interactive distributed sculpture called anyWare, which will be on exhibit at NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario, Canada from January 17 to April 1, 2019.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In this edition we go back to a lecture by Aaron Labbe speaking in July 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. The show concludes with Richard Lainhart’s White Night, which is a landmark piece that predates Ambient Music and that was completed in Albany during a snowstorm in 1974.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.On the October 2018 edition of Making Waves Darren Copeland interviews two artists using Virtual Reality from completely different backgrounds. Lisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe cross-genre filmmaker from Toronto and Christine Webster is a composer and media artist from Paris France. Making Waves is produced monthly by New Adventures in Sound Art in South River, Ontario, Canada. Lisa Jackson's film Biidaaban: First Light is on exhibit in October and November 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre and Christine Webster's The Empty Room will be shown on October 27 as part of the presentation A Listening Voyage Through Gaming […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This episode of Making Waves features two very different methods for creating interactive and collaborative sound art works. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Mario van Horrik. He is one half of a collaborative team with Petra Dubach that have been active as a multidisciplinary duo since 1983. They will be guests of NAISA September 28-30 with their installation Waves Playground and live performance Table Piece. In the second half of the show we will listen to a performance by BlablaTRAINS that took place recently on August 4 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River. Blablatrains […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Alexis O'Hara performs her work The City of Sighs and discusses her live performance practice with Darren Copeland. The City of Sighs is a piece for solo vocals and live electronic processing. In it O'Hara randomly selects a poster-sized cue card that serves as both a cue for changing the sections of her performance and as a trigger for emotional states associated with the act of sighing that are explored in each section of the piece. The performance was recorded at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Canada on July 28, 2018.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.The July edition of Making Waves celebrates World Listening Day. In the first half hour Darren Copeland interviews Victoria Fenner and Stefan Rose about their audio-visual collaboration Seeing Sound that ponders why to add visuals to sounds. In the second half we go on a walk with South River nature recordist Glenn Hubert. We will learn how he records wolf howls on his property about 30 kilometres from the nearest paved road. You can Listen to Glenn’s wolf recordings at https://www.gmhcafestore.ca/products/wolves-of-algonquin and listen more to the interview with him on the NAISA soundcloud page. NAISA’s World Listening Day events can […]
- by "Jana Winderen and the art of underwater recording." Darren Copeland interviews Jana Winderen about her approach to sound recording and her motivations for exploring underwater sound in particular. Included in the show is her piece "The Noisiest Guys on the Planet" available on Touch's Bandcamp page – https://janawinderen.bandcamp.com/album/the-noisiest-guys-on-the-planetThis monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a South River-based Canadian organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Grant Smith and Maria Papadomanolaki discuss the Reveil sound camp project and look back at its five year history of broadcasting the soundscapes of daybreak from around the world. At the end of the program NAISA shares a multi-location soundscape recording made at Warbler's Roost during the Sound Camp held in South River, Canada.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Making Waves episodes for January through April, 2018 feature artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show includes performances and discussion with Martin Marier, which was recorded on January 17 and 19, 2018 during Art's Birthday at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Martin Marier is a composer and digital music instrument builder. He created the instrument 'The Sponge.' Given the mythology behind Art's Birthday, it is certainly an appropriate instrument for celebrating the birthday of Art.
- by Produced by Darren Copeland for New Adventures in Sound Art.An artist talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2, 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artist. He talks about his past installations, documentaries, and radio theatre performances.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Today's show features an Artist Talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2nd at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artist. He talks about his past installations, documentaries and radio theatre performances. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a South River-based Canadian organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.Making Waves for January through April, 2018 will be featuring artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show features an interview with Alexis O'Hara, whose interactive installation SQUEEEQUE will be exhibited at NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario from February 16 to April 16, 2018. In the second half of the program, NAISA previews works from the upcoming Deep Wireless 13 radio art compilation available at http://www.soundcloud.com/naisa/
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This month on Making Waves Nadene and Darren go on a guided tour with Canadian artist James Kirkpatrick to learn about his circuit-bent sound sculptures on exhibit at NAISA North Media Arts Centre. Intermixed with their conversations are excerpts from Kirkpatrick’s performance at NAISA as Thesis Sahib, which conclude with a humorous take of his home town of London, Ontario. For photos of the artwork visit NAISA’s facebook.
- by Produced by NAISA.This month: On Making Waves NAISA presents an August 2017 recording of a performance from the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with Sonia Paço-Rocchia from Montreal and Alan Bloor from Toronto. They both used saw blades as the focus of their sound exploration. Paço-Rocchia's performance of Scies used saws automated with celloloids and transformed with live signal processing. Alan Bloor's performance called Dual Abrasives combined his two projects Pholde and Knurl. It used analog effects treatments of saws.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.In this month's Making Waves, Brian Connolly speaks with Chantal Dumas and Sonia Paço-Rocchia, both of whom are featured artists at the Sound Travels event that has been taking place this week at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium. Brian speaks to both sound artists about their journey from their earliest involvements in sound art to their creative approaches today. Chantal outlines the influence of geology in the presentation of her work 'Nazca Plate', while Sonia discusses her piece 'Scies' in which the resonance of saw blades and other industrial tools is explored.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This Making Waves broadcast features an interview with media artist David Rokeby about his seminal 1992 interactive work Very Nervous System, installed through September 4, 2017 at the new NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Video documentation of David Rokeby playing Very Nervous System is available at https://instagram.com/p/BV-VuDvl52n/.
- by Last weekend Wave Farm featured dawn chorus recordings from around the world as part of Reveil 2017. NAISA in South River also participated in Reveil with a 24 hour broadcast of the soundscape from Warbler's Roost, a rural property 22 km west of South River. This show features a recording that condenses the 24 hour period prior to the Dawn Chorus time-frame, which this year was dominated by rain. The first half of Making Waves consists of a lecture by Matthew Rogalsky and Laura Cameron from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Their talk recorded at NAISA North Media Arts Centre […]
- by Produced by NAISAThe April 2017 edition of Making Waves finishes our coverage of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art in Toronto. In this program we feature fixed media radiophonic works by Parisa Sabet, Joan Schuman and a live electronics work by Martín Rodríguez.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.Bekah Simms interviews Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh of Instant Places about their approach to making generative and long form installations and performances. Instant Places launches on January 17th a new online installation for the Deep Wireless Festival at http://carbon.naisa.ca/
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.The February 2017 edition of Making Waves profiles the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Darren Copeland interviews Nichola Feldman-Kiss and members of SubZeroArts about their respective installations Bread and Circuses and Transmissions. The show concludes with an excerpt of a 2008 performance by Toronto turntable duo Insideamind, which is taken from the Deep Wireless 12 Radio Art compilation now available on the NAISA Soundcloud page.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.Today's show for Making Waves features a selection of performances from NAISA's 2016 SOUNDplay series in Toronto.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.To showcase the SOUNDplay festival in Toronto and the Canadian Sound Art Caucus meetings, Bekah Simms interviews sound artists from across Canada – Shawn Pinchbeck, Amanda Dawn Christie and Myriam Bleau.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.This month on Making Waves we are playing soundscape pieces by Dan Tapper, James Bailey, Nimalan Yoganathan, Nico Arnáez and Michelle Macklem that visit natural environs around the world – the Amazon, Iceland, and the near north region of Ontario.
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art.This month: Interviews with Wende Bartley and Lisa Conway. They are part of Silo Solos a sound installation made for the in/future exhibit at Ontario Place in Toronto. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a Toronto-based organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.In this month's edition of Making Waves Bekah Simms interviews composer Paul Dolden about his work featured in the Sound Travels festival in Toronto.This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a Toronto-based organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad […]
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.In advance of World Listening Day, Bekah Simms interviews Udo Noll and David Jensenius about their respective locative soundscape apps Radio Aporee and Found Sound. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA).
- by Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto.On this edition of Making Waves, Bekah Simms interviews John Oswald on his early analog work Vertical Time, his seminal plunderphonic work Dab and his large scale sound installation for the Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum.