Performances Presented in 2004

Radio 1 Theatre with performers Susanna Hood, Nilan Perera, Marjorie Chan and Evalyn Parry as well as special guest speakers Hildegard Westerkamp, Victoria Fenner, and Michelle Nagai.

Two different evening performances, complete with live music and sound effects, that bring back the spontaneity of live radio and respond to current events with performances by Marjarie Chan, Nilan Perera, Susanna Hood, and Evalyn Parry, alongside world premieres of radio works by Marilyn Lerner, Richard Windeyer, Sylvi MacCormac, and Marian van der Zon commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video. Directed by Darren Copeland and Lynda Hill, "Radio Theatre" promises to keep you on the edge of your seat with all the conventions of radio (past and present) turned upside-down. Radio Theatre is funded in part by the Laidlaw Foundation.

Book Launch Friday evening join us for the launch of Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, a new book Edited by Nicole Gingras and Published by Artextes Editions. (details)

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, "MAX MSP" on a PowerBook, and sampled concrête sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. This performance is co-presented by Subtle Technologies - A multi-disciplinary festival exploring the relationships between art and science

Gregory Whitehead will be performing an assortment of live radio art pieces including a live-to-air docudrama about how Prescott Bush stole the skull of the apache leader Geronimo in "Toyu Theater" style

A site-specific performance blending the arts of sculpture, music and dance. Performances will include: "Site and Sound" - a playful piece combining simple movement with traditional and non-traditional instruments, such as the Australian bull-roarer, and plastic hoses; "Glass Lithophones" - two pieces that explore the textural, rhythmic, and melodic properties of glass created and performed on Barry Prophet's micro tonally tuned glass lithophones; and "Bamboo Quiver" - a piece that includes the electronic Hand Sonic, 'Water Piano' - an electro acoustic virtual instrument Barry created combining elements of water and bowed glass - and a piece of sonic body art (the Bamboo Quiver) created for Janice Pomer by Barry Prophet which consists of forty pieces of 5' long bamboo lengths woven together at the centre with jute.

The Ghettoblaster Ensemble is a mobile sound unit designed to perform sound art wherever they find it necessary. TGE consists of 8 musicians and a conductor. The compositions are made especially for the ghetto blaster and for this constellation. This unique ensemble is a development of both the classical electroacoustic loudspeaker orchestra, and the idea of works for multi speaker setup . Saturday afternoon's performance will include: "HORN FRAGMENT" by Jakob Brandt-Pedersen, "he had never before watched a woman cry without feeling responsible" by Yasuhiro Otani, "Bells of Centreville" by Darren Copeland, "Toronto Island soundscape piece ­ jam 8 CD's" by the Ghettoblaster Ensemble, "Permutations at a pedestrians crossing" by Ture Larsen, and "Cadencia Por Un Futura Major" by Jakob Riis.

New Adventures in Sound Art will celebrate 6 years of Sound Travels events in Toronto by presenting an international array of music from some the finest electroacoustic composers in the world. The concert will include world premieres "Hastening toward the Half Moon" by Elainie Lillios and "Toronto Island Sound Mix" by Darren Copeland as well as "Hurricane Ridge" by UK artist Ambrose Field, "Migration Pétrée" by German composer Hans Tutschku, "Indigo" by Montreal artist Marcelle Deschênes and "Zheng Etudes, version 1" by Montreal composer Kevin Austin. All soundworks will be presented using an 8-channel array of speakers enveloping the audience in lush immersive sound
worlds.

The finale will include "Tonerain"by Tobias Kirstein, "Falling Drones" by Jørgen Teller, "How do you Like Your Noise ? vs. 2.2" by Søren Raagaard and the world premiere of "Balsteroid Convection" by John Oswald, created especially for and performed by the Ghettoblaster Ensemble with funding from the Ontario Arts Council.

Led by host Victoria Fenner, the afternoon will consist of 10-15 segments of works with artist commentary by artists Jean Piché, Raylene Cambell, David and Gisela Gamper. A tour of the installations with artists Matt Rogalsky, Don Sinclair, Chantal Dumas and Christian Calon will follow at 2:30pm and the afternoon of activities will end with a SOUNDwalk led by Victoria Fenner and co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology.

A multi-media presentation of live performances, video screenings, and mixed media works including works by Marcelle Deschênes, Kristi Allik, Robert Mulder, Raylene Campbell, Matt Rogalsky and a new commission by Jean Piché. Late night solo of video works by Jean Piché.

8 pm
- “Big Bang II” electroacoustic piece by Marcelle Deschênes
- “Machine Symphony” DVD video and electroacoustic music by Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder
- “Idols of Children” accordion & electronics performed and
composed by Raylene Campbell
- New commissioned HD video and electroacoustic work by Jean Piché
- “Tudor Loops” live electronic work performed and composed by Matt
Rogalsky

9:30 PM
solo Triple Screen video and electroacoustic works by Jean Piché
- Spin by Jean Piché
- eXpress by Jean Piché
- Bharat by Jean Piché

A multi-media presentation of live performances, video screenings, and mixed media works including works by Kristi Allik, Alain Pelletier/Marcelle Deschênes and a new commissioned work by Raylene Campbell “I Dream Eye.” Late night solo/video performances by David and Gisela Gamper.

8 pm
- “Funk Island” electroacoustic piece by Kristi Allik
- New commissioned work “I Dream Eye” by Raylene Campbell for accordion, live electronics, and interactive video
- "Die Dyer" video work by Alain Pelletier with an electroacoustic sound design by Marcelle Deschênes

9:30 PM
Performance See Hear Now: Visible Music - performances of live improvised music and video projection by See Hear Now (a collaboration between David and Gisela Gamper)