Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
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1)SOUNDPlay Festival
2) SOUNDplay Exhibition
3) Online Event – Water (Deshkan Ziibi)
4) SOUNDplay Video Shorts
5) Making Waves Monthly Podcast Series
6) Work Space to rent at NAISA
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1) SOUNDplay Festival
September 26, 2024 – January 6, 2025
All events at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River unless otherwise indicated.
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.
2) SOUNDplay Exhibitions
All events at NAISA North Media Arts Centre (unless otherwise indicated)
313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
SOUNDplay Exhibitions continue to January 6, 2025 Pay by Donation
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A Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs by Colin Frank
This interactive installation by Colin Frank 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.
View a special video edition of the Making Waves podcast which features Colin Frank explaining his installation in an interview with NAISA Artistic Director, Darren Copeland.
The Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
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.
NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition
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.
3) Online Event – Water (Deshkan Ziibi)
December 12, 2024, 12 noon to 12 midnightIn-person at the artLAB, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario
Livestreaming on YouTube
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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.
The 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.
4) SOUNDPlay Shorts
Four short videos were created with the artists included in the Oct 26 Reimagined Realities screening that explain their works. Featured is ceramic artist April Martin and composer/writer Ben McCarthy on Lake Composition, audiovisual artist Véro Marengère on Hydra, digital artist Laura De Decker and media artist Stefan Rose on their work Peinture Noire made with Herménégilde Chiasson and Edgardo Moreno on his work Postcard.
The episodes are also featured in the new NAISA Sound Bytes edition on Substack.
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5) Making Waves Radio Show and Podcasts
Making Waves is aired on the second Saturday of every month on WGXC 90.7 FM in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art’s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.
6) Work Space to rent at NAISA
Rate for just the room (no gear): $50/day or $10/hour
Rate including the use of NAISA’s a/v equipment: $75/day or $15/hour
$35/hr for Technical Instruction or Assistance.
NAISA has a new work space suitable for podcasting, livestreaming, Zoom meetings, or for just a comfortable space with great internet to get some work done. Available during opening hours – Thursday to Monday, 10 am to 4 pm. HST not included in above prices. Email naisa@naisa.ca for more information or to book your time.
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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