Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
naisa.ca
1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
2) Deep Wireless Exhibitions
3) Deep Wireless Workshop and Online Listening
4) NAISA 2025 Call For Submissions – Sound Culture
5) Springscape Events + Soundscape Workshop Intensive
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.
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 Workshop and Online Listening
Using Tree Data for Media Creation Workshop by Jane Tingley
Online Workshop
March 8, 2025, 1 – 3 pm, $25
Advance Registration Required
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.
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.
4) NAISA 2025 Call For Submissions – Sound Culture
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation
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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme Sound Culture for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art’s 2026 programming.
How do the sounds of a community reflect and convey its ethics, philosophies and general way of life? How does the design of space and the sounds found there form the sonic identity and character of a community?
March 12, 2026 marks NAISA’s 25th anniversary! Moving from Toronto in 2017 to the rural village of South River in the Almaguin Highlands region has also meant a change in NAISA’s Sound Culture from the urban south to the rocks, lakes and forests of Northern Ontario. Our audience includes those who are in search of a deliberate change in the composition of life experiences and the resulting acoustic rhythms. We are interested in presenting works by artists that reflect their Sound Culture in our unique location.
Radio Art Works submitted by Canadian artists will be eligible for the James Bailey award and submissions from artists new to the field of sound art living in Northern Ontario are eligible for the Andra McCartney Mentorship award.
5) Springscape Series + Soundscape Workshop Intensive
April – May, 2024
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Springscapes is an annual series that highlights the dramatic changes in the natural soundscape from winter to spring. NAISA will once again be celebrating the immersive re-awakening of the Almaguin Highlands with the Community Soundscape Installation and the annual Soundscape Workshop Intensive.
Soundscape Workshop Intensive
May 2 – 4, 2025
$339 (with 2 nights accommodation)
$215 (with no accommodation)
NAISA North Media Arts Centre & Warbler’s Roost, South River
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The annual soundscape weekend intensive will take place May 2 to 4, 2025 at Warbler’s Roost, which is on a rural 14-acre property 22 km west of the village of South River, Ontario. This year’s edition will focus on recording, editing and composing – individually and collaboratively – of soundscape compositions, or field recording works, that respond to the theme There is Art in Our Nature.
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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