We hear it in our homes, shops, restaurants, cars, and piped out onto the streets...Radio plays a major role in our community's soundscape. As radio producers, we have a significant impact on the sounds which our communities hear, but how often do we think about how our programming is reflecting this? What role does our own unique voice play in the radio soundscape?

Deep Wireless Radio Workshop is a two day workshop for community radio producers who want to explore the soundscape of their communities and their own place within the soundscape. It is also suitable for artists of all types who want to listen deeply, hear clearly, and use those sounds in their artistic production.

The Weekend's Activities will include:

-discussions about radio and soundscape, challenging our own assumptions about the sounds we present on the radio and why

-basic technical skills - recording and composing the soundscape

-intensive listening skills workshops

-discussions about acoustic ecology -- shaping the quality of our sonic environment

-soundscape composition - listening to the work of composers who recreate the environment through composition

Wende Bartley is a Toronto based composer of vocal and electroacoustic music. She works in various genres, from opera, music theatre, and chamber works to film, video, installation and radio. Her compositions work with sound as energy vibration, and her vocal works incorporate a full range of vocal vocabulary. She also teaches sonic arts at Ontario College of Art and Design.

Victoria Fenner has worked in broadcasting for over 20 years in community broadcasting and for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A composer and radio producer, she has also initiated and produced a number of projects focused on radio as artspace, most notably the "Full Moon Over Killaloe" Audio Art Camp, now in its third year.

Anne Bourne is a composer, cellist and vocalist. She has performed and recorded internationally as a soloist and with many well-known artists. Bourne holds a Deep Listening' teaching certificate from Pauline Oliveros' Rose Mountain retreats in New Mexico. She initiated an improvising choir called Sonar Mara, within which she teaches listening, sounding and improvisational composition.

Darren Copeland is an electroacoustic composer who has created work for a variety of media including radio. In addition to composing, he has written articles about listening and environmental sounds, is president of the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE), and is Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art.

CSIRP gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. With $100 million in annual funding from the province's charitable gaming initiative, the Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, recreation, environment and social service sectors.