Newsletter for September 2024 (Vol.19; Iss. 9)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
naisa.ca
1) Sound Travels Exhibition – Sixteen Chimes
2) 48-Hour Sound Art Challenge
3) SOUNDplay Festival opens September 27
4) SOUNDplay Exhibition & Artist Talk
5) SOUNDplay Screenings
6) Work Space at NAISA
1) Sound Travels Exhibition – Sixteen Chimes by Alexandre Klinke
June 20 – September 23, 2024
Thursday to Monday, 10 am to 4 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre
Pay By Donation
New Adventures in Sound Art’s (NAISA) Sound Travels events continue until September 23, 2024 with Sixteen Chimes by Alexandre Klinke which is demonstrated and discussed in this video.
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.
2) 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
This weekend intensive invites artists to create a sound art miniature in a 48-hour period on the theme Reimagine. What opportunities do present-day events offer 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.
3) SOUNDplay Festival
September 26, 2024 – January 6, 2025
www.soundplay.ca
New Adventures in Sound Art’s (NAISA) is proud to present the 23rd edition of its SOUNDplay Festival, NAISA’s annual fall festival that encourages new avenues of exploration between sound and new media. Artists included in this year’s festival include Colin Frank, Laura De Decker, Stefan A. Rose, Herménégilde Chiasson, Edgardo Moreno, Véro Marengère, April Martin and Ben McCarthy.
“This year’s SOUNDplay Festival connects NAISA’s 2024 theme of Reimagine to the immense world of play available to artists wishing to abstract both images and sounds. This year’s artists Reimagine places, actions, and 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
4) SOUNDplay Exhibition + Artist Talk
September 26, 2024 – January 6, 2025
Thursday to Monday, 10 am to 4 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
Pay By Donation
More information
Still image from A Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs by Colin Frank
A Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs by Colin Frank
This interactive installation by Colin Frank (pictured above) allows visitors to virtually explore machine sounds from the city of Sherbrooke, Québec. Machines pervade urban environments, yet their sonic performances are often overlooked. From air conditioners to electrical boxes, mechanical sounds resonate all around us, forming urban soundscapes that are frequently ignored. Visitors can navigate a virtual audio-visual environment comprising of field recordings and 3D models the artist made of machines encountered in Sherbrooke. Through the compression and digitization of those everyday spaces, the industrial urban environment becomes unexpectedly aesthetic, providing a re-imagination of the city whereby non-humans have their own voices, and beauty arises from the functionality of industrial objects.
Artist Talk by Colin Frank
September 26, 2024, 7 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
Pay By Donation
Join Colin Frank on the opening night of the installation A Sound Map of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs. He will contextualize the piece in relation to his past work as a percussionist and sound artist.
5) SOUNDplay Screenings
Reimagined Realities
October 26, 2024, 7 pm
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario
$12, Get advanced tickets
Still image from Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin
A screening of video works that treat sound, image and language with equal importance in communicating ideas and in the diverse ways they abstract from perceptions of reality. The screening will be hosted in the great room at Warbler’s Roost. Included on the program is Peinture Noire by Laura De Decker, Stefan A. Rose & Herménégilde Chiasson, Postcard by Edgardo Moreno, Hydra by Véro Marengère and Lake Composition by April Martin and Ben McCarthy.
Water (Deshkan Ziibi)
December 12, 2024, 12 noon – 12 midnight
In-person at the artLAB, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario
Livestreaming on YouTube
More information
New Adventures in Sound Art with support from Other Sights will be presenting a new audio-visual version of the Wetland Project by Brady Marks and Mark Timmings as part of the 12 hour in-person and streaming event Water (Deshkan Ziibi) which is taking place at the artLAB Gallery. This edition of the event is curated by Christof Migone, Sheri Osden Nault, and Ruth Skinner. Wetland Project has been presented previously by the artists as a radio broadcast that was aired on NAISA Radio last Earth Day in April among many radio and online stations around the world. The new version is being made in collaboration with sound engineer Eric Lamontagne and computer programmer Gabrielle Odowichuk.
6) Work Space at NAISA
Recording and Sound Editing at NAISA
NAISA has a new work space suitable for podcasting, livestreaming, Zoom meetings, or for just a comfortable space with good internet to get some work done! $50/day or $10/hour for work space or $75/day or $15/hr with audio equipment and short orientation included. $35/hr for technical assistance or instruction. Above Rates include HST. Available during opening hours – Thursday to Monday, 10 am to 4 pm. Email NAISA to book.
New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of sound art.
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. NAISA would also like to thank Reuten Construction, Charles Street Video, and Warbler’s Roost for their sponsorship of SOUNDplay 2024.
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