Past Performances

Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts - expanding the community's boundaries of the possible. In this work interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio collide through loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.

Online listeners will enjoy a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences will hear a localized FM broadcast over dinner. Both audiences will join together in a discussion about the powers of radio to strengthen community ties.

The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay is partnering 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 parties during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival.

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.

For full details on content, pricing and scheduling visit the workshop webpage

For full details on content, pricing and scheduling visit the workshop webpage

Echoes Between Us is an immersive outdoor experience in two parts created by Corrine Alice, in Wonderland. She is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Almaguin Highlands. The performance will begin with a guided soundwalk inviting participants into deep listening, attuning to the layered soundscape of Warbler’s Roost. After the walk, she will give a solo performance using live looping, voice, and other instruments in intuitive response to the environment. The sounds will rise and fall in conversation with the natural world. This piece explores connection between breath and bird call, silence and song, artist and audience. At its heart, it’s an invitation to remember that the land is always speaking, if we learn to listen. The concert is the first event in a weekend long celebration of World Listening Day.

Here is a video of the performance component.

This indoor multi-loudspeaker concert continues a weekend long celebration of World Listening Day and this year's focus by NAISA on water sounds. Created in 2009 "A Sound Map of the Housatonic River" is the third in Annea Lockwood's seminal series of river sound map pieces. The piece takes the listener on an imaginary voyage from the source of the Housatonic River in the Berkshire Mountains to the river’s mouth in Long Island Sound, Connecticut. The mid-summer journey includes sounds from the natural world and those placed there by the human commercial activity.

What does the world sound like underwater? Cast a hydrophone into the lake and find out. Eric Powell will lead participants on an exploration of the underwater sounds of Deer Lake. Meet at Warbler's Roost. Equipment provided. Event happens rain or shine.

This performance by Rani Jambak features an instrument that she developed called the Kincia Aia. It is inspired by the traditional water wheel from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Kincia Aia has 10 pestles that can be activated manually and it plays many layers of live sound and pre-recorded samples.

It is almost rare to see the traditional waterwheel now in Minangkabau, because of new technology and from the lack of current in the springs and rivers resulting from climate change in the area. The purpose of the instrument is to recall ancestral wisdom and creativity and to raise awareness about the current climate conditions.

Jambak’s music is influenced by the many traditions and musical cultures that can be found in Minangkabau and her birthplace in Medan, Indonesia. Medan is a unique city as it has 8 original ethnic groups which makes it very rich in sound diversity. In the last 5 years her main focus has been to re-interpret in musical form Minangkabau philosophy and ancestral knowledge. Starting from learning the culture and history through its sounds, to creating instruments like the Kincia Aia, and from understanding history through Tambo Alam Minangkabau, a manuscript about the origin of Minangkabau from the early 19th century.

This performance is supported by the VenusFest in Toronto.