Newsletter for December 2024 (Vol.19; Iss. 12)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) SOUNDplay Exhibition
2) SOUNDplay Online
3) Making Waves Radio Show and Podcasts
4) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
5) NAISA Café, Gallery and Work Studio

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1) SOUNDplay Exhibitions

SOUNDplay Exhibitions continue to January 6, 2025
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A Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs by Colin Frank
This interactive installation by Colin Frank allows visitors to virtually explore machine sounds from the city of Sherbrooke, Québec. Machines pervade urban environments, yet their sonic performances are often overlooked. From air conditioners to electrical boxes, mechanical sounds resonate all around us, forming urban soundscapes that are frequently ignored. Visitors can navigate a virtual audio-visual environment comprising of field recordings and 3D models the artist made of machines encountered in Sherbrooke. Through the compression and digitization of those everyday spaces, the industrial urban environment becomes unexpectedly aesthetic, providing a re-imagination of the city whereby non-humans have their own voices, and beauty arises from the functionality of industrial objects.

View a special video edition of the Making Waves podcast which features Colin Frank explaining his installation in an interview with NAISA Artistic Director, Darren Copeland.

The Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
Mounted on NAISA’s exterior walls to impersonate furnace vents and erupting from the ground, The Sensation of Distribution re-invites visitors to explore the unnoticed or imminent sonic and aesthetic potential of our built environment.

Borderline (Almaguin Highlands): Collective counter mapping through sonic geographies by Jessica Thompson
Borderline is a critical mapmaking project that uses sound to illuminate social and economic differences in local geographies. Visitors to the NAISA North Media Arts Centre are invited to contribute to a large-scale soundmap of the Almaguin Highlands by borrowing a toolkit to map sounds in one of the villages of their choice.

NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition
The Decomposing Piano has been transforming outside the NAISA North Media Arts Centre since December 2022. It continues to reveal new timbres and shifting tunings by the day and sometimes even by the hour.

2) SOUNDplay Online

Water (Deshkan Ziibi)
December 12, 2024, 12 noon to 12 midnight
In-person at the artLAB, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario
Livestream on YouTube

New Adventures in Sound Art with support from Other Sights will be presenting a new audio-visual version of the Wetland Project by Brady Marks and Mark Timmings as part of the 12 hour in-person and streaming event Water (Deshkan Ziibi) which is taking place at the artLAB Gallery. This edition of the event is curated by Christof Migone, Sheri Osden Nault, and Ruth Skinner. Wetland Project has been presented previously by the artists as a radio broadcast that was aired on NAISA Radio last Earth Day in April among many radio and online stations around the world. The new version is being made in collaboration with sound engineer Eric Lamontagne and computer programmer Gabrielle Odowichuk.

Water (Deshkan Ziibi) is the fifth in a series of 12 annual events. Each year, the event focuses on a word of the 12-word phrase “You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death,” and activates it in myriad ways. This year’s event will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our, as Isabelle Stengers put it, “humid brains.”

Reimagined Realities Screening
Four short videos were created with the artists included in the Oct 26 Reimagined Realities screening that explain their works. Featured is ceramic artist April Martin and composer/writer Ben McCarthy on Lake Composition, audiovisual artist Véro Marengère on Hydra, digital artist Laura De Decker and media artist Stefan Rose on their work Peinture Noire made with Herménégilde Chiasson and Edgardo Moreno on his work Postcard. Watch on YouTube.

The episodes are also featured in the new NAISA Sound Bytes edition on Substack. Subscribe here.

3) Making Waves Radio Show and Podcasts

Making Waves is aired on the second Saturday of every month on WGXC 90.7 FM in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art’s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. Listen to the full catalogue of episodes and subscribe here.

4) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art

January 9, 2025 – March 31, 2025
All events at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River unless otherwise indicated
naisa.ca/festivals/deep-wireless

Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art returns in January for the 24th annual edition with transmission art installations, broadcast performances and online listening curated on the theme “There is Art in Our Nature.” Featured will be a new version of Jane Tingley’s work Foresta Inclusive:(ex)tending towards that includes a new sound design created in collaboration with Hrysovalanti Fereniki Maheras. This interactive artwork explores the complexity of the natural world as it plays out beyond the limits of human sensory perception. The work takes recorded data transmitted from a forest and translates it into images, sounds and smells.

5) NAISA Café, Gallery & Work Studio

As well as a media art gallery, the NAISA North Media Arts Centre includes the NAISA café with a new expanded Vegan and Gluten Free menu and a work studio that visitors can book to make recordings, participate in Zoom calls or to simply use as a comfortable work space with reliable internet. If you are looking for a winter escape in the beautiful Almaguin Highlands, Check out our menu, our work studio, and what’s on in the gallery.

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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 SOUNDplay 2024.

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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