Making Waves

On today's show we listen to spring soundscapes from the region of Canada where "Making Waves" is produced. This year and last year, residents of the Almaguin Highlands region in Northern Ontario had the opportunity to place sound recorders out overnight in order to share the soundscape that is familiar to them. The Almaguin Highlands is a collection of rural villages with populations under 2,000...

This episode features pieces by Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar, and AJ Cornell that convey emotions and meaning through the ethereal world of electronic sound and electromagnetic energy. Together we will listen and talk about their pieces -responding to what resonates and stirs the imagination. And we will learn about the context in which the pieces were made. This monthly one hour prog...

On today’s show we listen to three radio art pieces: Neurotransmits by Cláudio De Pina, String Pulse by Bekah Simms, and London Punch by Keith de Mendonca. All three artists join host Darren Copeland to talk about their pieces and offer comments about each other’s work. Thematically the pieces explore sounds associated with radio and electromagnetic waves and reflect approaches to evoking images a...

This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF. VLF is Very low Frequency Radio or what is often referred to as Natural radio because it makes audible to human ears the electromagnetic waves that encircle the earth. Dan Tapper is a British sound artist based in Toronto and in the second half of the show we will play his radio piece about VLF called "Some Call it Noi...

On today’s episode of "Making Waves," Montreal acousmatic composer Robert Normandeau talks about his late mentor Francis Dhomont. Dhomont came to Montreal from France in the late 1970’s where he composed the radiophonic piece “Sous le regard d’un soleil noir,” a piece so important to Dhomont that he counted this as his first-ever work even though he was already in his fifties. Acousmatic art has h...

On the 17th of January one million and 61 years ago someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water and Art was born. Making Waves starts off the New Year of 2024 looking back at the history of celebrating the birthday of Art. We will begin with the artist Hank Bull who has participated in many Art's Birthday celebrations since its origins in Fluxus and Mail Art. After that, we will listen to...

On this edition of Making Waves , host Darren Copeland has a conversation with Christof Migone about his unique series of curated broadcasts organized around a 12 word sentence - "You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death." They discuss how the event started, what motivated him and how his approach to curation is different for this event than for exhibitions and performances that he has...

Today’s show features Kelly Ruth from Edmonton who has adapted her skills as a weaver, visual artist and musician to make live sound art performances on the digital multimedia platform of Second Life. The loom is used both as a visual centrepiece in her performances and is used as a musical instrument amplified with contact mics and modified with live electronics. In her conversation with Host Dar...

Host Darren Copeland talks with Canadian interactive media artist Don Ritter for this episode of Making Waves, which is also available as a video podcast on the NAISATube YouTube channel. Don Ritter's sound installation "O telephone" is currently being shown at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Canada. Ritter and Copeland discuss the use of sound in Ritter's interactive media works...

Jessica Thompson is a Canadian media artist working in sound, performance and mobile technologies. NAISA is presenting an adapted version of her project Borderline which maps sound data onto economic and social data. Borderline is an app downloadable for mobile iOS devices and it can be used in any city, town or village - wherever you happen to be. Borderline is also the basis for an exhibition at...

This episode of Making Waves features an interview with Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac about the sound making and sound reception of insects along with recordings of their installation Secret Reception . Later in the show we play Creatures of the Ice by Eldad Tsabary from the Deep Wireless 5 double CD produced in 2008. The show ends with a short interview with Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters on...

Sound from the natural world and the urban environment are not background sounds for film and other experiences but rather they are sounds rich in associations and meaning. They are deserving of foreground attention. Filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise along with sound artist Alëna Korolëva join Host Darren Copeland to discuss the importance of environmental sound in their thinking and work...

On today’s episode of Making Waves you will hear soundscape recordings made in the Eastern part of Parry Sound District of Ontario or what is locally known as the Almaguin Highlands. NAISA invited local residents in the area to place a bird feeder on their home property. Inside that bird feeder was an audio recorder that captured the overnight soundscapes of spring. Over the course of this hour we...

For today's edition of Making Waves we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Reveil - the 24 hour dawn chorus broadcast that took place Saturday May 6, 2023 - by mixing sounds from the broadcast with a discussion between host Darren Copeland and Reveil founders Dawn Scarfe, Maria Papadomanolaki and Grant Smith.

Today's episode of Making Waves focuses on two artists from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Album. Darren Copeland talks to Nicole Goodwin in New York who under the name GOODW.Y.N. and with the help of her collaborator Michael Carr (aka Face Mason), wrote and recorded Inner Spaces: Live From Quarantine. In their words, "Inner Spaces is born of a parallel world to ours. It is the voice of revolution...

On today’s episode of Making Waves we will share broadcasts from the Northern Virtual Broadcast Service led by Geronimo Inutiq as part of his project "I am Calling Home". Inutiq will be visiting NAISA in the coming week for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. That gave Darren Copeland the opportunity to talk with Geronimo about the topic of home and the special resonance it h...

The 17th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Album will be released in February and we will listen to "Fuori è dentro" by Giuseppe E. Rapisarda to begin this episode. After that we will play a documentary produced by Michelle Wilson about her installation Forced Migration which will be on exhibit at the newly renovated NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River from February 6 to March 27, 20...

In today’s show Hector Centeno discusses his piece Space_03 which was commissioned by NAISA. Space_03 is derived directly from an attentive and phenomenological exploration of a specific geographical/physical location using spatial audio and photogrammetry.

Vancouver-based artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall are featured in this episode of Making Waves. They have been collaborating on a variety of ecologically focused new media and sound works, since 2004. They co-lead research-creation projects, recently Wild Empathy—immersive art exploring old-growth trees and ancient forests—and currently Branching Songs, sound art that listens to...

This month on Making Waves we continue listening to more in the Soundportraits series by Jørgen Teller from Denmark. Soundportraits are impromptu pieces made through one-on-one chance encounters. Jorgen Teller was stationed inside a tent at a different location each day. He would record sounds made by the visitors and then create spontaneous electronic compositions from the sounds he recorded crea...

Today’s show is about sound portraits. A sound portrait is like a caricature made from a brief encounter in a public place - only that instead of creating a visual likeness of a person, a musical and sonic one is made. Jørgen Telller from Copenhagen was in residence recently at NAISA and over three days he produced about two dozen "Soundportraits" of persons living in or touring the South River ar...

This month on Making Waves includes sound art created in public outdoor spaces and focus on two projects that open up access to the music making process. In the first half host Darren Copeland talks to Jesse Stewart and Matt Edwards of Mixed Metaphors about their approach to interactive art in public settings. They will share their experiences making their latest works Orbits and The Gong Show . I...

On last month’s show we featured flute improvisations recorded by Ellen Waterman outdoors in a rural waterfront location. The improvisations were guided by her physical response to the natural surroundings and were an interpretation of her instructional score Bodily Listening in Place. In today’s show Ellen Waterman will explain that score and the background and research behind it. The score draws...

Two weeks ago Wave Farm's WGXC and New Adventures in Sound Art both participated as broadcast partners for Reveil , a 24-hour broadcast of dawn chorus open microphone livestreams that follows the emergence of daylight from time zone to time zone across the entire planet. Reveil coincides with NAISA programming that focuses on the local soundscape in South River Ontario. On today’s show we are goin...

On today’s show we have a conversation with Michelle Macklem and Jess Shane. They are the producers of Constellations , a sound art and experimental narrative podcast program that unravels the distinctions between documentary, sound art, fiction and music. This episode includes "Pointing At Canopus" by Arif Mirbaghi and a Mystery box mix by Nicole Pingon which were both created for Constellations.