Making Waves

This month on Making Waves Nadene and Darren go on a guided tour with Canadian artist James Kirkpatrick to learn about his circuit-bent sound sculptures on exhibit at NAISA North Media Arts Centre. Intermixed with their conversations are excerpts from Kirkpatrick’s performance at NAISA as Thesis Sahib, which conclude with a humorous take of his home town of London, Ontario. For photos of the artwo...

This month: On Making Waves NAISA presents an August 2017 recording of a performance from the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with Sonia Paço-Rocchia from Montreal and Alan Bloor from Toronto. They both used saw blades as the focus of their sound exploration. Paço-Rocchia's performance of Scies used saws automated with celloloids and transformed with live signal processing. Alan Bloor's perfor...

In this month's Making Waves, Brian Connolly speaks with Chantal Dumas and Sonia Paço-Rocchia, both of whom are featured artists at the Sound Travels event that has been taking place this week at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium. Brian speaks to both sound artists about their journey from their earliest involvements in sound art to their creative approaches today. Chantal outlin...

This Making Waves broadcast features an interview with media artist David Rokeby about his seminal 1992 interactive work Very Nervous System, installed through September 4, 2017 at the new NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario. Video documentation of David Rokeby playing Very Nervous System is available at https://instagram.com/p/BV-VuDvl52n/.

Last weekend Wave Farm featured dawn chorus recordings from around the world as part of Reveil 2017. NAISA in South River also participated in Reveil with a 24 hour broadcast of the soundscape from Warbler's Roost, a rural property 22 km west of South River. This show features a recording that condenses the 24 hour period prior to the Dawn Chorus time-frame, which this year was dominated by rain....

The April 2017 edition of Making Waves finishes our coverage of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art in Toronto. In this program we feature fixed media radiophonic works by Parisa Sabet, Joan Schuman and a live electronics work by Martín Rodríguez.

Bekah Simms interviews Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh of Instant Places about their approach to making generative and long form installations and performances. Instant Places launches on January 17th a new online installation for the Deep Wireless Festival at http://carbon.naisa.ca/

The February 2017 edition of Making Waves profiles the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Darren Copeland interviews Nichola Feldman-Kiss and members of SubZeroArts about their respective installations Bread and Circuses and Transmissions. The show concludes with an excerpt of a 2008 performance by Toronto turntable duo Insideamind, which is taken from the Deep Wireless 12 Radio...

Today's show for Making Waves features a selection of performances from NAISA's 2016 SOUNDplay series in Toronto.

To showcase the SOUNDplay festival in Toronto and the Canadian Sound Art Caucus meetings, Bekah Simms interviews sound artists from across Canada - Shawn Pinchbeck, Amanda Dawn Christie and Myriam Bleau.

This month on Making Waves we are playing soundscape pieces by Dan Tapper, James Bailey, Nimalan Yoganathan, Nico Arnáez and Michelle Macklem that visit natural environs around the world - the Amazon, Iceland, and the near north region of Ontario.

This month: Interviews with Wende Bartley and Lisa Conway. They are part of Silo Solos a sound installation made for the in/future exhibit at Ontario Place in Toronto. 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 Toronto-based organization that...

In this month's edition of Making Waves Bekah Simms interviews composer Paul Dolden about his work featured in the Sound Travels festival in Toronto. 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 Toronto-based organization that presents performa...

In advance of World Listening Day, Bekah Simms interviews Udo Noll and David Jensenius about their respective locative soundscape apps Radio Aporee and Found Sound. This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA).

On this edition of Making Waves, Bekah Simms interviews John Oswald on his early analog work Vertical Time, his seminal plunderphonic work Dab and his large scale sound installation for the Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum.

The April 2016 episode of Making Waves features past performances from NAISA’s Deep Wireless festival in Toronto, which presents radio and transmission art from around the world. We will present three pieces on today's show: Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis's The Pencil Project; NRRF's B-Radio: Voyage to the Forbidden Planet; and Jocelyn Robert's Philosophie Zoologique. This monthly program...

Monthly edition of radio art show from Darren Copeland and NAISA.

Knut Aufferman and Sarah Washington are interviewed on this month's "Making Waves" from Darren Copeland from New Adventures in Sound Art. Washington and Aufermann, from Uerzig, Germany, run Mobile Radio.