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) Laurier Woods SOUNDwalk
5) Sound Art Workshop
6) Decomposing Piano Exhibition
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1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
June 20 – September 23, 2024
All events at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
unless otherwise indicated
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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) launches its 26th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with summer-long events that include indoor and outdoor exhibitions, SOUNDwalks, Sound Art Workshops, weekly Open Improvs, and special World Listening Day events on July 18.
“This year’s Sound Travels festival invites visitors to listen for hidden structures and relationships in seemingly unrelated, even chaotic events. Works in the festival 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
The Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
2) Sound Travels Exhibitions
June 20 – September 23, 2024Pay By Donation
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Sixteen Chimes by Alexandre KlinkeSixteen 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 (Almaguin Highlands): 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. Visitors to the NAISA North Media Arts Centre are invited to contribute to a large-scale soundmap of the Almaguin Highlands by borrowing a toolkit to map sounds in one of the villages of their choice, or by using the Borderline mobile iOS app. Click here to download the app.
3) World Listening Day Events
Including Roots That Braid Themselves
July 18, 2024, 7:00 pm
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River
Every year NAISA joins a global community that celebrates World Listening Day which occurs on the birthday of the late Canadian composer, educator and writer R. Murray Schafer. This year the event is coordinated on the theme Listening to the Weave of Time. NAISA’s celebration will include an Ambisonic soundscape work by Edmonton sound and new media artist Shawn Pinchbeck as well as a site-specific performance of Roots That Braid Themselves by Métis multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette. The event begins with a SOUNDwalk through the lakeside forests on the Warbler’s Roost property led by NAISA Executive Director Nadene Thériault-Copeland.
4) Laurier Woods SOUNDwalk
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Nature Festival
August 17, 2024, 10 am – 4 pm
Laurier Woods, North Bay. Meet in the Parking lot at the end of Brule Street (just off Franklin Street).
FREE
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. Darren will lead SOUNDwalks at various times throughout the day.
5) Sound Art Workshop
August 24, 2024, 1 – 4 pm
$50
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.
6) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition
Open Improv – Every Sunday at 2 pm, until August 26, 2024
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. Starting on July 8th, NAISA began hosting Sunday afternoon jam sessions for the summer using the Decomposing Piano which is facilitated by NAISA Executive Director and pianist Nadene Thériault-Copeland.
Listen here to performances on the Decomposing Piano.New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) 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
New Adventures in Sound Art is located in the traditional territory of the Anishinabewaki peoples covered by the Williams Treaty (1923) and Robinson-Huron Treaty (1850). New Adventures in Sound Art recognizes the significant ongoing contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to aural culture in Canada.
Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
705-386-0880 or Email
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