Newsletter for August 2024 (Vol.19; Iss. 8)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
naisa.ca
1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
2) Sound Travels Exhibitions
3) Laurier Woods SOUNDwalk
4) Sound Art Workshop
5) 48-Hour Sound Art Challenge
6) SOUNDplay Festival opens September 26
7) Decomposing Piano Exhibition
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1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
June 20 – September 23, 2024
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
http://www.soundtravels.ca
The 26th edition of NAISA’s Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art is currently running with indoor and outdoor exhibitions, SOUNDwalks, Sound Art Workshops and weekly Open Improvs.
“This year’s Sound Travels Festival invites visitors to listen for hidden structures and relationships in seemingly unrelated, even chaotic events. Works in Sound Travels reimagine the relationship of chaos and order in the auditory experiences we encounter both in art and in everyday life.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
June 20 – September 23, 2024
NAISA North Media Arts Centre
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Click on Picture for Video explanation by Alexandre Klinke. Photo by Darren Copeland
Sixteen Chimes by Alexandre Klinke
Sixteen Chimes is a sound art installation that features 16 chime bars, controlled electronically by a custom-made circuit. By placing the chimes in different parts of the gallery, the installation emphasizes the spatial nature of sound, and its interplay with distinct acoustic spaces. The generative aspect of the piece is determined by the irregular beats that each chime makes, repeating every 1 to 25 seconds, which can be modified by people in the audience from a knob located with each chime. The result is an ever-changing composition that is affected by the audience’s interaction with the piece.
The Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
The Sensation of Distribution connects the exploration of acoustic pipe resonance with a more domestic vernacular. Mounted on NAISA’s exterior walls to impersonate furnace vents and erupting from the ground, The Sensation of Distribution re-invites visitors to explore the unnoticed or imminent sonic and aesthetic potential of our built environment.
Borderline South River: Collective counter mapping through sonic geographies by Jessica Thompson
Borderline is a critical mapmaking project that uses sound to illuminate social and economic differences in local geographies.
3) Laurier Woods SOUNDwalk
Aug 17, 2024 at 3 pm
Laurier Woods, North Bay. Meet in the Parking lot at the end of Brule Street (just off Franklin Street)
FREE
SOUNDwalk in South River from July 2018. Photo by Stefan Rose.
Go on a SOUNDwalk and explore the sounds of Laurier Woods during the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Nature Festival with NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Nature Festival is a day long event organized each year by the Friends of Laurier Woods, North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority, and the Nipissing Naturalists Club.
4) Sound Art Workshop
August 24, 2024, 1 – 4 pm
$50
Advance Registration Required
Register Here!
In this workshop led by NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland, you will learn how to record your voice, make short field recordings, edit your recordings and share your final creation at the end of the workshop. No experience with audio is necessary. The workshop is a great point of entry for accessing the new Workshop Studio at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River. Advance Registration required – limited capacity.
5) 48-Hour Sound Art Challenge
October 18 – 20, 2024, 4 pm – 4 pm
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario
General $283, includes 2 nights accommodation with breakfast.
Advance registration required
Deer Lake in autumn, photo by Anton Pickard
This weekend intensive invites artists to create a sound art miniature in a 48-hour period on the theme REIMAGINE. The push for renewal to meet climate goals suggest new structures and terms for moving forward. What opportunities do those present creatively? What new stories do you imagine hearing?
The 48-hour Sound Art Challenge will take place at Warbler’s Roost, a 14-acre rural, forested and lake-side property in the Almaguin Highlands. NAISA will provide assistance with access to its supply of equipment. Participating artists should bring their own portable recording devices and computers and other tools necessary for their creation. Peer learning and sharing will be encouraged throughout the process and NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland will facilitate and assist participants. Results of the 48-hour Sound Art Challenge will be aired on NAISA Radio and NAISA’s social media channels after completion.
6) SOUNDplay Festival
September 26, 2024 – January 6, 2025
http://www.soundplay.ca
NAISA is pleased to launch the 23rd edition of its SOUNDplay festival beginning on September 26 with an exhibition of Colin Frank’s interactive sound installation A Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs and will conclude with a special AV adaptation of The Wetland Project being screened for the youandiarewaterearthfireairoflifeanddeath series organized by Christof Migone. More festival details in the next NAISA Sound Channel.
7) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition and Events
Open Improv – Every Sunday at 2 pm, July 8 – August 26, 2024
Click on Picture to Listen to performances on the Decomposing Piano
The Decomposing Piano has been transforming outside the NAISA North Media Arts Centre since December 2022. It continues to reveal new timbres and shifting tunings by the day and sometimes even by the hour. A YouTube webcam focused on the piano brings out the soundscape of the main thoroughfare through the piano’s decaying architecture. NAISA is hosting Sunday afternoon jam sessions using the Decomposing Piano which will be facilitated by NAISA Executive Director and pianist Nadene Thériault-Copeland.
New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of sound art.
NAISA is partially funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
313 Highway 124
South River, ON
P0A 1X0
705-386-0880
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