Making Waves

Impressions of Place: Ayesha Barmania, Don Hill and Jeffrey Sinibaldi. NAISA invited Podcaster Ayesha Barmania from Peterborough Ontario to create a radio portrait of NAISA's home town of South River (and vicinity) using interviews collected by NAISA over the past 3 years with residents from the local community. The piece she made was called A Good Ways North. Also on the show is WRGO or What is R...

Continuing from the previous episode of Making Waves, NAISA features more from Michael Waterman and Mannlicher Carcano. Included in the mix is an interview that Darren Copeland did with Michael Waterman about Songs of Ice and his other transmission art installations as well as sounds from the Art’s Birthday telematic performance by Mannlicher Carcano from January 17, 2020.

Mannlicher Carcano started making experimental noise in Winnipeg in 1987 before dispersing to various cities and using community radio phone lines as a means to keep the group playing together. NAISA's Darren Copeland met up with Mannlicher Carcano member Michael Waterman (known as Porter Hall in MC-parlance) who is working on a new installation at NAISA. Michael is sharing with Making Waves an ex...

Geronimo Inutiq is an electronic music producer, DJ and multimedia artist from Iqaluit, Nunavut who is now based in Montreal. He joins Darren Copeland from New Adventures in Sound Art to discuss his recent work which combines archival films of the Canadian North with electronic music.

This episode of Making Waves takes listeners on a tour of Gordon Monahan's installation Kinetic Transmissions. During the show Gordon Monahan explains his use of audio signals to drive small motors which pass the audio through resonant instruments and objects. He also explains how he uses this technique and other variations in his other works. Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers, video,...

Making Waves re-visiting two artists featured two years ago who both create sound art with Saws - Sonia Paço-Rocchia and Alan Bloor. The first half hour of the show includes an interview with Paço-Rocchia about her installation Lames@NAISA and the second half hour has a performance by Alan Bloor that was recorded August 31, 2019 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre.

Making Waves looks to the future with a sound art installation by Stephanie Castonguay made by children and in the second half of the show Making Waves gazes into the past with an interview with Alexis Bhagat on archiving audio art.

Garth Paine is an Australian composer and interactive media artist teaching at Arizona State University. Upon his first visit to Arizona he became fascinated with the soundscapes of the deserts of the American south west and from this interest he formed a community-engaged research team to study and document the soundscapes of national monument parks in close distance to Phoenix. One of the many o...

Darren Copeland interviews Udo Noll about the online sound mapping project Radio Aporee and the distinctive way in which it conceives of transmission art as an open-ended multi-user medium.

Andra McCartney in conversation with Darren Copeland talks about her two works created fifteen years apart. Both works were made from cross-Canada train trips. The first during the winter of 2003 and the second while the wild fires were happening last summer in Northern Ontario and British Columbia. Both works will be broadcast from NAISA on May 3 at 7 pm on NAISA Radio .

On today's edition of Making Waves we listen to two sound documentaries from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art - Kime Ani by Edzi'u and Gateway by Benoit Bories. Both pieces are included on the Deep Wireless 14 online album. Kime Ani are words in the Tahltan language, translated to mean “home coming” or also “let’s go home.” Included here is a seven part electronic work crea...

In advance of Josh Gumiela's visit to NAISA in February, Josh discusses how he uses the electromagnetic energy emitted from cellphones for the raw material of the music produced in his installation "Immobile Device."

The Deep Wireless radio art album is available for listening at https://soundcloud.com/naisa/sets/deep-wireless-14/ In this episode of Making Waves we listen to four of the pieces from the album - Tapping the Air by Sebastiane Hegarty; Ways of Listening by Zoe Gordon; Tsikatsi by Edgardo Moreno; and I Dreamt This Was My Home by Helena Korbath. The Hegarty piece times with the 118th anniversary of...

Jane Tingley on anyWare , an interactive distributed sculpture. Darren Copeland interviews Canadian media artist Jane Tingley on her interactive distributed sculpture called anyWare , which will be on exhibit at NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario, Canada from January 17 to April 1, 2019.

In this edition we go back to a lecture by Aaron Labbe speaking in July 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. The show concludes with Richard Lainhart’s White Night, which is a landmark piece that predates Ambient Music and that was completed in Albany during a snowstorm in 1974.

On the October 2018 edition of Making Waves Darren Copeland interviews two artists using Virtual Reality from completely different backgrounds. Lisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe cross-genre filmmaker from Toronto and Christine Webster is a composer and media artist from Paris France. Making Waves is produced monthly by New Adventures in Sound Art in South River, Ontario, Canada. Lisa Jackson's film B...

This episode of Making Waves features two very different methods for creating interactive and collaborative sound art works. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Mario van Horrik. He is one half of a collaborative team with Petra Dubach that have been active as a multidisciplinary duo since 1983. They will be guests of NAISA September 28-30 with their installation Waves Playground and live...

Alexis O'Hara performs her work The City of Sighs and discusses her live performance practice with Darren Copeland. The City of Sighs is a piece for solo vocals and live electronic processing. In it O'Hara randomly selects a poster-sized cue card that serves as both a cue for changing the sections of her performance and as a trigger for emotional states associated with the act of sighing that are...

The July edition of Making Waves celebrates World Listening Day. In the first half hour Darren Copeland interviews Victoria Fenner and Stefan Rose about their audio-visual collaboration Seeing Sound that ponders why to add visuals to sounds. In the second half we go on a walk with South River nature recordist Glenn Hubert. We will learn how he records wolf howls on his property about 30 kilometres...

"Jana Winderen and the art of underwater recording." Darren Copeland interviews Jana Winderen about her approach to sound recording and her motivations for exploring underwater sound in particular. Included in the show is her piece "The Noisiest Guys on the Planet" available on Touch's Bandcamp page - https://janawinderen.bandcamp.com/album/the-noisiest-guys-on-the-planetThis monthly program is pr...

Grant Smith and Maria Papadomanolaki discuss the Reveil sound camp project and look back at its five year history of broadcasting the soundscapes of daybreak from around the world. At the end of the program NAISA shares a multi-location soundscape recording made at Warbler's Roost during the Sound Camp held in South River, Canada.

Making Waves episodes for January through April, 2018 feature artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show includes performances and discussion with Martin Marier, which was recorded on January 17 and 19, 2018 during Art's Birthday at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Martin Marier is a compose...

An artist talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2, 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artist. He talks about his past installations, documentaries, and radio theatre performances.

Today's show features an Artist Talk by Andrew O'Connor recorded on February 2nd at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Andrew O"Connor is a Toronto radio and transmission artist. He talks about his past installations, documentaries and radio theatre performances. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from th...

Making Waves for January through April, 2018 will be featuring artists from the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Today's show features an interview with Alexis O'Hara, whose interactive installation SQUEEEQUE will be exhibited at NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario from February 16 to April 16, 2018. In the second half...