Newsletter for January 2024 (Vol.19; Iss. 1)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art
2) Deep Wireless Exhibitions
3) Deep Wireless Broadcasts and Online Listening
4) Deep Wireless Workshops
5) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition

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1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art

January 14 – April 1, 2024
www.deepwireless.ca

NAISA opens the 23rd annual edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art on January 14, 2024 on the theme Reimagine with exhibitions, online broadcasts, workshops, a special Art’s Birthday broadcast and the launch of NAISA’s 18th edition of its Radio Art online compilation. All events are presented at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River in the Almaguin Highlands.

“For Deep Wireless 2024, artists have Reimagined the electromagnetic sphere and have considered the sounds of transmission as a musical instrument: from converting solar data into images to uncovering the musical potential of the noise between stations and finally to reimagine the piano as a sound art instrument.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art

2) Deep Wireless Exhibition

www.naisa.ca/festivals/deep-wireless/installations
January 14 – April 1, 2024
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Helios 2024
by Dan Tapper
Artist will be in attendance for the opening launch January 14, 2024

Helios 2024 is an interactive sound installation by Dan Tapper that celebrates the sun in its phase of solar maximum. Using solar data gathered from space organizations alongside DIY devices, seen and unseen structures are converted into images and sound, allowing us to reimagine the sun and engage with its energy in new ways. The exhibition combines old and new works from Tapper’s long-term project Turbulent Forms and his practice of capturing cosmic data and converting it into audiovisual installations, physical data objects, digital images, and sound works.

Borderline South River: Collective counter mapping through sonic geographies
by Jessica Thompson
Ongoing

Borderline is a critical mapmaking project that uses sound to illuminate social and economic differences in local geographies. During the exhibition, visitors are invited to contribute to a large-scale soundmap of the Almaguin Highlands by borrowing a toolkit to map sounds in areas of their choice, or by using the Borderline iOS app. The sounds collected will be added to the map on an ongoing basis until the end the exhibition.

3) Deep Wireless Broadcasts and Online Listening

Art’s Birthday Weathered Piano Exchange
with Jesse Budel and Nadene Thériault-Copeland
January 17, 2024
Listen during 24 Hours of Radio Art on CITR-FM in Vancouver and on the program Electric Sense on CIUT-FM in Toronto

Improvisors Jesse Budel and Nadene Thériault-Copeland have been exchanging birthday presents for Art in the form of audio recordings of weathered pianos. The improvisations were recorded over the month of December and explore the full range of sonorities of the piano – Nadene Thériault-Copeland on the Decomposing Piano installation at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario, Canada, and Jesse Budel at the Murray Bridge Piano Sanctuary in South Australia. This collaborative artwork brings together shared interests in Weathered Pianos as well as a musical discourse created from recordings made on location during the Canadian winter and the Australian summer.

Deep Wireless 18 Compilation
Launching February 1, 2024

The Deep Wireless 18 Compilation includes works that Reimagine the voices and sounds of broadcast transmission and uncovers the ghosts of the ether and the latent musicality between station signals. Featured artists include Martín Rodriguez, Bekah Simms, Keith de Mendonca, Kat Estacio, AJ Cornell, Jeneen Frei Njootli’s project Rutmeat and more.

NAISA Radio
Ongoing 24/7
www.naisa.ca/naisa-radio

NAISA broadcasts online radio and sound art works 24/7 featuring radio documentaries and soundscapes as well as many thought-provoking podcasts produced by sound artists, including iMMERSE! by Charlie Morrow and Conscient by Claude Schryer.

4) Deep Wireless Workshops

Space Data Toolkit Workshops
January 27 and February 17, 2024 – 1 to 3 pm
Each workshop $25
Click Here to Register

Dan Tapper has been building a software toolkit for artists that wish to work with open source space data in a variety of different artistic media. The first workshop will be focused on specific methods of gathering and working with solar data and the second workshop on more generalized methods of accessing data and conceptualizing and executing ways of processing it into audiovisual work.

5) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition Continues

Outdoors at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River

The Decomposing Piano continues to reveal new timbres and shifting tunings by the day and sometimes even by the hour as it decomposes outdoors. A YouTube webcam focused on the piano brings out the soundscape of the main thoroughfare through the piano’s decaying architecture.

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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 Charles Street Video, Reuten Construction, and Warbler’s Roost for their sponsorship support of this year’s edition of the Deep Wireless Festival.

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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