Making Waves

Winter Diary Revisited , a new work by Claude Schryer, was the first presentation of the 2022 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art which took place on Sunday February 6th at the new NAISA North Media Arts Centre, a building recently purchased by New Adventures in Sound Art. This radio documentary is a tribute to R. Murray Schafer who passed away in August 2021. Schafer’s writing an...

This episode of Making Waves features pieces from the upcoming Deep Wireless 16 album that will be released online later this month at www.naisa.ca. Deep Wireless is a festival of radio and transmission art presented annually by New Adventures in Sound Art. The pieces you will hear in this sequence mix poetry, electromagnetic sounds and music. Thematically they conjure various notions of place. A...

This month's episode features Ben Donoghue and his 16mm film Pierre Radisson: Fjord and Gulf from 2017, which has recently been adapted for digital presentation available online at https://www.naisa.ca/ until December 20th. The film presents the daily activity and environment of the ship’s work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, providing a window into a portion of the invis...

Visual and Media Artist Tansy Xiao from New York and Electroacoustic composer Véro Marengère from Montréal join Darren Copeland in a conversation about their new video works plus thoughts on how to define their work and reflections on creating during the pandemic. Here are links to the pieces being discussed: Roserade by Véro Marengère and Bone and Air by Tansy Xiao.

Today’s episode features discussions with visual artist Julia White and singer-composer-video artist Laurel MacDonald. Both artists are from NAISA’s SOUNDplay festival. Julia White uses sound recordings of creaks and other small water ways in her exhibition called WATER Shadows. The subject of water weaves through different aspects of this work, which is also informed by her practice in deep liste...

This episode goes back to an online listening gathering that took place on August 14, 2021. It featured Canadian sound art works by Zoe Gordon from Thunder Bay, Helena Korbath from Vancouver, Lucille Kim from Hamilton and Keri Latimer Winnipeg. The format of the show is like a writing club where artists and enthusiasts gather online to listen to pieces and share their impressions and comments. The...

Artist Tosca Terán along with Andre Greville - make up the duo Nanotopia. Together they have created the sound installation the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine which turns a Grow Room into a Fungi and Sprout music generator. Fine electrodes placed within roots of mycorrhizal plants, receive bio-data and translate this activity into electronic music. Tosca Terán joins NAISA Artistic Director Darren Cope...

This episode of Making Waves focuses on World Listening Day with composer Eric Leonardson from Chicago and filmmaker Raquel Castro from Lisbon. In conversation with host Darren Copeland they cover the theme of the Unquiet Earth and also the relevance of considering sound when talking about global phenomena such as Climate Change and COVID-19 pandemic. World Listening Day takes place on July 18 eve...

This episode of Making Waves profiles two artists that come to sound art via other artistic disciplines and who are showing work this summer at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Ontario. Jonathan Tyrrell is trained in architecture and is creating interactive media placed-based works that he describes as event-based architecture. Sandy McLennan is a filmmaker and photographer using h...

This special 90 minute episode features interviews with artists who operate permanent open microphone livestreams that were included in the Reveil broadcasts of daybreak that happened four weeks ago on the first weekend in May. The first hour of the show features Zach Poff who created the Pond Station livestream that continually broadcasts underwater sound from a spring-fed pond that is located on...

Following the broadcast of Reveil on May 1st, NAISA is featuring two episodes of interviews with individuals who facilitated livestreams of daybreak from their home localities for Reveil . Today’s episode begins with Elizabeth Chitty, an interdisciplinary artist in St. Catherines, Ontario, then following her, Rob Mackay and Andrew Laforet about the livestream from Point Pelee National Park, and fi...

This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a South River-based Canadian organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster...

20 Years of Radio Art at NAISA with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey: This edition of Making Waves includes parts of an online presentation from March 12, which marked the 20th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art and the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Radio artists Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey joined host Darre...

This edition of Making Waves is a replay of an online presentation on February 6, 2021 that included three works by poet and broadcaster Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora) - Stereo Ribbons, tsi tkaronhya ke and Sky Woman Falling. The works are connected by indigenous origin and cosmology stories, which as Rogers says are, "important and generational hereditary tales which root us, as Indigenous peopl...

Today's episode of Making Waves revisits NAISA's 2021 Art’s Birthday Listening Party. On January 17, 2021 a groups of artists met online to listen and discuss each other’s realizations of a text score by Anne-F Jacques called Piece for objects found in the street . There were many other celebrations of Art on January 17. For a history of Art’s Birthday visit the Art’s Birthday site .

Today’s episode of Making Waves features conversations with two artists from the Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art festival - Montreal sound artist Anne-F Jacques and Edmonton journalist and radio artist Don Hill. In the second half Don Hill explains his interest in transporting Counterpuntal Radio over to interactive media with his new installation Story Trees. In the first half, Anne-F Ja...

This episode of Making Waves features a livestream performance from October 25 2020 by Debashis Sinha called Adeva (version000_01) , which was co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. The performance explores Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applied to the text and sound world of the Veda scriptures. The performance also included video animation which can b...

In this program Sandy McLennan, a filmmaker from Port Sydney Ontario, is interviewed by Darren Copeland. McLennan talks about how his hand-made 8mm and double 8mm films are made, the role that time plays in the creative process, and how he approaches the sound composition of his films much differently then the production of the image.

In this episode on AI and Modular Synths, we explore techniques - both new and old - used to produce sounds and images for two livestream performances taking place on October 17 and 24, 2020. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Debashis Sinha, a Bengali Canadian composer and media artist about applying Artificial Intelligence to Veda scriptures to produce the sounds and images in his perf...

On today’s edition of Making Waves we feature interviews with Bentley Jarvis and Teresa Connors. David Arthur met up online with Bentley Jarvis over rural internet connections to discuss Jarvis’ sound sculpture Constant Plancks which has been on exhibit outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Canada. The sculpture consists of two tall cedar structures with built-in loudspeake...

As part of World Listening Day on July 18 NAISA hosted three online meet ups where participants produced soundscape recordings in their home environments inspired by a text score by composer Tina Pearson called Towards a Reciprocal Listening . Through this edition of Making Waves we will share the soundscapes collected by the participants along side their commentary reflecting on their experiences...

New Adventures in Sound Art is releasing a compilation on soundcloud for its Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. Guest Host David Arthur explores a selection of the pieces on the release and offers his responses and perspectives. Included are pieces by Léa Boudreau, Matheos and Georgios, Christopher Lock, Barry Truax and Juan Carlos Vasquez.

A discussion about listening and recording with Matthew Rogalsky in reference to his installation “Octet" which will open at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre on June 25. At the end of the show we will re-visit NAISA’s May 30 performance with two works by David Eagle - "Through Autumn Mist" and “Tactus" (with Jordan Wyshniowsky, Cello).

Calgary composer David Eagle discusses with Darren Copeland his works that will be presented on the May 30, 2020 online concert hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art. David Eagle explains his intentions behind mixing different sound media and musical idioms in his compositions - soundscape recordings, oral archival recordings, instrumental ensembles, live electronics and solo cello.

In this episode of Making Waves NAISA’s Darren Copeland talks to Grant Smith, Maria Papadomanolaki and Dawn Scarfe. For the past six years they have been celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day in a truly unique way. As the collective Soundcamp they produce Reveil , which is a world-wide radio program that follows the sounds of daybreak from timezone to timezone through an open and parallel netw...