In the month of April, the producers of the annual SOUND TRAVELS event, New Adventures in Sound Art, bring you DEEP WIRELESS: a celebration of Radio Art.

RADIO in AMBIENCE

RADIO in CONCERT

RADIO in THEATRE

Radio Art on the Internet

Radio Art on the Radio

SOUNDwalk

Radio That Hears the Soundscape - A Radio Workshop

Free Seminars

Historical Background

Media Contact Information

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This special presentation by The Ambient Ping features several experimental artists making extensive use of radio as a live ambient sound source.

Opening the night, Jakob Thiesen and "audio contortionist" Neil Wiernik plan a "soundclash of biblical proportions" using live short-wave radios being shredded with custom sound manipulation software. Granular-synthesis is the word of the day as they remix material from from each others computers on the fly.

Susanna Hood and Nilan Perera perform the last set with radio(s) prepared to be constantly scanning through stations, lingering sometimes on a clear signal and sometimes on the in-between static, bleeps and whirs. Applying treatments and loops, they will be merging the signals with electric guitar, voice and other odds and ends. The sound information from the radio will direct the rest of their sound choices, from mimicking to accompanying the radio. Sometimes the audience will hear only their interpretation of the source materials and not the sound of the radio itself. (top)

Hosted by The Whole Note editor David Pearlman, RADIO in CONCERT is an electroacoustic concert presented in a radio format that will feature live and recorded sounds moving around the listening space. Seminal works will be presented including Bernard Parmegiani's "Dedans Dehors", Jonty Harrison's "Unsound Objects", Wende Bartley's "Rising Tides of Generations Lost" with veteran British composer Jonty Harrison performing the spatialization. Also included are live performances of two works by John Cage, "WBAI" and "Radio Music". These works give new meaning to the words live radio as "Radio Music" uses radio itself as the instrument and "WBAI" uses the instruments of radio production to create a soundscape conceived by local ambient/experimental DJ Chris Twomey. (top)

Hosted by Don Zentner from CIUT and Kristiana Clemens from CKLN, RADIO in THEATRE invites the audience to participate in a live radio show which will include two surround sound radio dramas originally commissioned by the CBC. "Terror and Erebus", by the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen is directed by Lynda Hill with Darren Copeland as producer and Sound Designer and includes the voices of R.H. Thompson and Cedric Smith. "A Dream Play" written by August Strindberg was adapted for radio by Darren Copeland and directed by Lynda Hill, and includes the voices of actors Ken Kramer, Alison Sealy-Smith, and mezzo-soprano Jean Stillwell. Along with Interviews, there will be a special Canadian version of "News in a Blender" by Greg Williard from WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin. (top)

SOUNDwalking is a way to experience the city of Toronto with yours EARS and not your eyes. As part of international noise awareness day, sound ecologist and radio artist Victoria Fenner will lead you on a short guided listening walk through downtown Toronto focusing on important downtown soundmarks. To take your imagination on a virtual soundwalk, link over to Richard Windeyer's Soundwalk Through Downtown Toronto.

Recipe for A Quiet Diet - from the League for the Hard of Hearing (1 888 NOISE 88)

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New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to offer FREE seminars to those who are interested in exploring the sound arts. There will be a booklet & CD on Radio Art available to each attendee. No experience in music is necessary. To register please e-mail nadene@istar.ca or call 905-793-7231. Book now as space is limited.

April 19, 2002, 2 PM

April 26, 2002, 2 PM

Lynda Hill, artistic director of Theatre Direct Canada who has directed many stage plays and radio dramas, and Darren Copeland, a Toronto based electroacoustic composer and sound designer will discuss and demonstrate the different aspects involved in creating a radio drama. Discussions will include the differences between a play staged in a theatre and a play staged for radio drama and the use of multi-dimensional placement of the sound (ie. diffusion) to enhance the sound experience. There will also be a live demonstration of how sound effects are done with some examples from "A Dream Play" and "Terror and Erebus". (top)

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND - The development of radio for public consumption began in the 1920s with privately funded radio stations in North America and state-run radio stations in Europe. Experiments with tape technology in the 1940s brought about a new stream of experimental music called musique concrète (ie. music in which the sonic material is derived from recorded sound). The first examples were music for radio plays composed by Pierre Schaffer at the studios of Radio France in Paris in 1948. Composers of musique concrète were the first to develop techniques for manipulating sounds recorded on tape and who formed the "Groupe de recherches musicales" along with several other composers including Bernard Parmegiani. Between 1948 and 1980, 935 works were composed in their studios including pieces by Varèse, Messiaen, Berio, Stockhousen, Boulez, and John Cage. Jonty Harrison, Wende Bartely, and Darren Copeland represent recent generations of composers influenced by musique concrète. (top)

Publicity & Marketing: Nadene Thériault (416) 910-7231 or nadene@istar.ca

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