Newsletter for April 2026 (Vol.21; Iss. 4)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) Spring Soundscape Workshop Intensive
2) Springscape Series + Events
3) NAISA 2026 Call for Submissions: Still Here
4) Pride Concert Launches Sound Travels Festival

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1) Spring Soundscape Workshop Intensive

May 1 – 3, 2026
$339 (with 2 nights accommodation), $215 (with no accommodation)
NAISA North Media Arts Centre & Warbler’s Roost, South River
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Advance registration required

Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art, this immersive recording and composing workshop invites participants to explore the rich soundscape of Warbler’s Roost through attentive listening, field recording, and creative composition. Activities encompass soundwalking, recording and editing of field recordings, and finally, composing a short soundscape composition responding to the theme of Sound Culture.

2) Springscape Series + Events

April 2 – May 31, 2026
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124 South River
naisa.ca/festivals/springscapes/

New Adventures in Sound Art presents the 2026 edition of Springscapes, an annual series that highlights the dramatic changes that take place in the natural soundscape from winter to spring and includes a community-made installation, workshop intensive and two livestream events. This year’s theme is Sound Culture.

“The notion of a Sound Culture is most evident in the spring in the north where imitation and social interaction play out in the acoustic biophony. By considering animal vocalizations as meaningful sound expression rather than background noise, Springscapes suggests a way of listening that highlights relationships between species and landscape.” – Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, NAISA

Darren with Zoom Birdhouse

Almaguin Community Soundscapes
April 2 – May 31, 2026, Open Thursday – Monday, 10am – 4pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
Admission by Donation

Almaguin Community Soundscapes is an exhibition that surrounds one with the sounds of spring using a multi-channel speaker system and recordings made by residents of the Almaguin Highlands. The spring season is a special time of the year in the region as the snow melts, the ice breaks up on the lakes and the arrival of insects and birds is loudly announced by the sounds made by peepers.

To contribute sounds from a location you know in the Almaguin Highlands consult these guidelines or visit us at NAISA. Listen to a selection of the recordings from this community project by visiting Aporee.org

Voice of the Water by Eric Powell
Permanent Installation | Ongoing
Pay By Donation

Voice of the Water is an interactive rotary telephone-based listening station. Using sounds collected from inside the lakes and rivers around South River, Voice of the Water encourages listeners to connect with the local waterways as they explore the boundaries and overlaps between planes of existence. Visit here for more information.

Wetland Project
April 22, 2026, 12:00am – 11:59pm
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Celebrate Earth Day 2026 with the 10th annual Wetland Project slow radio broadcast on April 22. Connect with the circadian rhythm of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh on Saturna Island, BC. The sounds of birds, frogs, insects and airplanes take over the airwaves for this twenty-four-hour experience in “slow radio” created by artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings.

Reveil
May 2, 2026, 12:00am – 1:00am
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Reveil (2014—) is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 2 May 2026 in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light.

3) NAISA 2026 Call for Submissions: Still Here

Deadline: May 31, 2026
Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation
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New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme “Still Here” for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art’s 2027 programming.

After 25 years, NAISA is ‘Still Here’ still thriving despite barriers it has faced. Who are the communities and persons that are also ‘still here’ that continue to evolve and develop a unique voice, despite the barriers they too have faced? In this call for submissions, we are inviting artists to submit works that consider the theme ‘Still Here’, that communicates their unique voice and the journey it took to get there. At the 25-year mark, NAISA is not planning a retrospective, but rather looking to branch out and present artists that have persevered and developed their own compelling story.

Works submitted by Canadian sound artists will also be eligible for the James Bailey award and the Andra McCartney award.

4) Pride Concert launches Sound Travels Festival

June 6, 2026 at 7pm
naisa.ca/festivals/sound-travels/

The Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art opens on June 6 at 7pm EDT with a Pride Concert featuring a performance by Kat Estacio as well as The Elemental Trilogy by Barry Truax, who recently was awarded the Order of Canada. The concert will be in-person and live-streamed with a Q&A component. This concert is sponsored by Almaguin Pride.

Other highlights of Sound Travels includes the mechanical water installation Waterscape by Lina Choi opening June 11 and the Sound Travels Intensive July 15 – 19 with four days of workshops, mentoring and listening sessions at Warbler’s Roost.

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New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of sound art. NAISA is partially funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. NAISA would also like to thank Reuten Construction, Charles Street Video, and Warbler’s Roost for their sponsorship of its Spinrgscape Series 2026.

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Inquiries & general information:
Nadene Thériault-Copeland, Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
313 Highway 124, South River, ON P0A 1X0
705-386-0880