Newsletter for January 2025 (Vol.20; 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 Special Events
4) Deep Wireless Online Listening

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1) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art

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

The 24th annual edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art opens in South River on January 9. This year’s Deep Wireless Festival includes exhibitions, performances, broadcasts, Ice Follies workshops and Events and a digital album that explore the theme There is Art in Our Nature.

“The complexity of the natural world is astounding in its diversity and acoustic nuance. What are the acoustic influences of nature on the sound-making taking place today? Deep Wireless begins a year long exploration for NAISA’s 2025 programming that amplifies the collaborative relationship between art-making and nature through its 2025 theme There is Art in Our Nature. Wireless transmission of all kinds, from the Internet of Things (IoT) prototyping platform to Micro-Radio FM Broadcast, become a conduit to experience the natural world.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art

2) Deep Wireless Exhibitions

January 9 – March 31, 2025
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Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards by Jane Tingley, made in collaboration with Hrysovalanti Maheras, Faadhi Fauzi and Ilze Briede (Kavi)
Artist Talk & Opening – January 9, 2025, 7 pm

The interactive artwork Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards explores the complexity of the natural world, as it plays out beyond limited human sensory perception. The work uses data collected during the summer of 2022 from a tree at the rare Charitable Reserve in Cambridge ON, as a driver for nearly all aspects of the visual, acoustic and olfactory elements in the work. The work is an interactive and sensorially rich environment that can be experienced in a parallel winter-time synchronicity at the NAISA Gallery.

The sound component of the work was created specifically for this exhibition using synthesized sounds analogous to the sounds that would have been heard at rare. This work is the first in a series exploring ways of using technology as a tool to place human and non-human into a dialogical relationship, where both voices are equal despite perceived differences (temporal reality, im/mobility, non/verbal).

Deep Wireless Listening Room

Enjoy radio art and sound art works in a comfortable high quality listening environment. This curated listening experience is comprised of works from the Deep Wireless 19 Radio Art Compilation on the theme There is Art in Our Nature. Visit the radio page for details on the works.

Local Stories on Radio Café

Grab a radio in the Café at NAISA and tune in to a curated selection of stories told by Seniors in the South River community. Learn about the experiences of people living in the area over the past decades. Visit the web page South River Seniors Telling Stories in order to listen to stories on demand.

3) Deep Wireless Special Events

Storytelling Celebration on Art’s Birthday
January 17, 2025, 1 – 3 pm, Free

On January 17, come for cake and listen to stories as told by South River Seniors who have been gathering weekly to share stories and memories as part of the South River Storytelling Project for Seniors with funding from the Government of Canada through the New Horizons for Seniors program. These sessions have led to a weekly Podcast and NAISA Radio program South River Seniors Telling Their Stories. January 17 is also Art’s Birthday, a celebration of Art around the World. To experience other Art’s Birthday parties visit the Arts Birthday Mesh.

Tree Frog – Sla-dai-aich by Ben Donoghue
Radio Art Performance for online and in-person audiences
February 1, 2025, 6 pm (Dinner available at 5:15 pm)
Online audiences register in advance for access
General $12. Vegan meals for additional $8-9.

Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts – expanding the community’s boundaries of the possible. In this work interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio collide through loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.

Online listeners will enjoy a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences will see the performance as well as experience a localized FM broadcast in the gallery. Both audiences will join together in a discussion about the powers of radio to strengthen community ties.

Ice Sounds for Ice Follies Listening Party
February 15 and 16, 2025, 7 pm, Free
Olmstead Beach, Trout Lake, North Bay

The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay has partnered with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in the presentation of five audio pieces by Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis on the theme Ozhaashikwaa (The Ice is Slippery). The pieces will use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake and will be played at two special listening parties during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival.

4) Deep Wireless Online Listening

Deep Wireless 19 Compilation

The 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation launches February 1 and includes works that examine the relationship of people and the natural world. Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in radio art and sound art works by Omar Reyna, Emmie Tsumura, Dann Disciglio, Matthew Driggs McMurray and more.

Making Waves

Making Waves airs the second Saturday of every month on WGXC 90.7 FM and is available as a podcast. Each month during Deep Wireless the show will profile a different artist from the festival. Listen to the full catalogue of episodes and subscribe here.

NAISA Radio

NAISA Radio broadcasts experimental radio art and sound art online 24/7. Featured shows include Ears Have Eyes by The Hibernation Collective and Music, or Noise? by Bepi Crespan.

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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 Deep Wireless 2025.

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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