Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
naisa.ca
1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
2) Deep Wireless Exhibitions
3) Deep Wireless Special Events
4) Deep Wireless Online Listening
1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
All events at NAISA North Media Arts Centre (unless otherwise indicated)
313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
January 9 – March 31, 2025
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The 24th annual edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art continues to March 31, 2025 in South River. This year’s Deep Wireless Festival includes exhibitions, performances, broadcasts,workshops and events and a digital album that explore the theme There is Art in Our Nature.
“The complexity of the natural world is astounding in its diversity and acoustic nuance. What are the acoustic influences of nature on the sound-making taking place today? Deep Wireless begins a year long exploration for NAISA’s 2025 programming that amplifies the collaborative relationship between art-making and nature through its 2025 theme There is Art in Our Nature. Wireless transmission of all kinds, from the Internet of Things (IoT) prototyping platform to Micro-Radio FM Broadcast, become a conduit to experience the natural world.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art
2) Deep Wireless Exhibitions
January 9 – March 31, 2025
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Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards by Jane Tingley
made in collaboration with Hrysovalanti Maheras, Faadhi Fauzi and Ilze Briede (Kavi)
The interactive artwork Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards explores the complexity of the natural world, as it plays out beyond limited human sensory perception. The work uses data collected during the summer of 2022 from a tree at the rare Charitable Reserve in Cambridge ON, as a driver for nearly all aspects of the visual, acoustic and olfactory elements in the work. The work is an interactive and sensorially rich environment that can be experienced in a parallel winter-time synchronicity at the NAISA Gallery.
The sound component of the work was created specifically for this exhibition using synthesized sounds analogous to the sounds that would have been heard in the forest. This work is the first in a series exploring ways of using technology as a tool to place human and non-human into a dialogical relationship, where both voices are equal despite perceived differences (temporal reality, im/mobility, non/verbal).
Deep Wireless Listening Room
Enjoy radio art and sound art works in a comfortable high quality listening environment. This curated listening experience is comprised of works from the Deep Wireless 19 Radio Art Compilation on the theme There is Art in Our Nature.
Local Stories on Radio Café
Grab a radio in the Café at NAISA and tune in to a curated selection of stories told by Seniors in the South River community. Learn about the experiences of people and families over the past decades. Visit the web page South River Seniors Telling Stories in order to listen to stories on demand.
3) Deep Wireless Special Events
Ice Sounds for Ice Follies Listening Event
February 15 & 16, 2025, 7 pm, Free
Olmstead Beach, Trout Lake, North Bay
The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay has partnered with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in the presentation of five audio pieces by Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis on the theme Ozhaashikwaa (The Ice is Slippery). The pieces will use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake and will be played at two special listening events during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival. There will be other performances after the event.
Using Tree Data for Media Creation by Jane Tingley
Online Workshop
March 8, 2025, 1 – 3 pm, $25
Jane Tingley will introduce the IoT prototyping platform shiftr for connecting sensor data to the Max Programming environment. She will teach participants how to think about distributed systems, and how to use shiftr as a server that interconnects these systems.
This workshop will use the same sensor data stream used by Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, which was collected from the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, ON in the summer of 2022. Tingley will lead participants in the process of importing this data stream into Max, in order to create their own sound and media creations.
4) Deep Wireless Online Listening
Deep Wireless 19 Compilation
The 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation includes works that examine the relationship of people and the natural world. Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in radio art and sound art works by Omar Reyna, Emmie Tsumura, Dann Disciglio, Matthew Driggs McMurray and Marieke Van de ven.
Making Waves
Making Waves airs the second Saturday of every month on WGXC 90.7 FM and is available as a podcast. Each month during Deep Wireless the show will profile a different artist from the festival. Listen to the full catalogue of episodes and subscribe here.
NAISA Radio
NAISA Radio broadcasts experimental radio art and sound art online 24/7. Featured shows include Ears Have Eyes by The Hibernation Collective and Music, or Noise? by Bepi Crespan.
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 Deep Wireless 2025.
Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
705-386-0880 or Email
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