Newsletter for June 2023 (Vol.18; Iss. 6)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) NAISA 2023 Call For Submissions on the theme Reimagine
Deadline extended to June 30, 2023
2) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art 25th anniversary
3) Sound Travels Exhibitions and Events
4) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition and Events

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1) NAISA 2023 Call For Submissions on the theme Reimagine

Deadline extended to: June 30, 2023

Categories: Interactive Installation (indoor and outdoor contexts), Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Videomusic, Radio/Transmission Art
For more information, visit our website
Online Application Form

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme Reimagine for consideration in New Adventures in Sound Art’s 2024 programming. Submitted works will also be considered for two annual awards.

2) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art 25th Edition

June 15 – September 4, 2023
www.soundtravels.ca

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) launches its 25th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with summer-long events that include indoor and outdoor exhibitions as well as online and in-person concerts. The festival will also include NAISA’s annual participation in World Listening Day events in July.

“NAISA marks the 25th anniversary of its Sound Travels Festival by including interactive artworks that imagine alternative ways of listening and responding to the acoustic environment. This year’s Sound Travels artists explore the theme Remote Connections by transforming common everyday sounds through interactive sculptural objects and experiential listening.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art

3) Sound Travels Exhibitions and Special Events

NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
June 15 – September 4, 2023
Pay By Donation

The Sensation of Distribution
by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters

The Sensation of Distribution is a reprise of Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters’s 2019 work, The Distribution of Sensation, which they created while artists in residence at The Bentway, a large, urban public space situated under an elevated highway in downtown Toronto. The re-installation of this work at NAISA blends the pipe sculptures into a more domestic vernacular. Mounted on NAISA’s exterior walls to impersonate furnace vents and erupting from the ground to suggest rogue plumbing gone awry, The Sensation of Distribution re-invites visitors to explore the unnoticed or imminent sonic and aesthetic potential of our built environment.

Secret Reception
by Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac

Secret Reception combines art and bioacoustics to creatively engage the public in questions about sound reception in more-than-human worlds. This sonic art installation offers new paradigms for hearing, through the design of haptic objects and tactile interfaces that use vibration to transmit sonic information. Drawing on scientific research that examines how insects detect sound through body parts, we transpose insect hearing to the human listening experience using sonic impulses that emulate the way insects receive them.

Learning Through Listening
World Listening Day Events
July 15 @ 7pm Online Only
July 18 @ 7pm In-Person at Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River
Tickets $12, Advance Registration Required

NAISA’s contribution to World Listening Day this year features a SOUNDwalk exploring the mid-summer soundscape of Deer Lake in Lount Township (22 KM west of South River) as well as a screening of Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp) by filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise and Accidental Wilderness by media and sound artist Alëna Korolëva.

The online presentation will include a Q&A with the artists. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of people from six continents have participated in World Listening Day since its inception in 2010. The annual grass roots event is about engaging with important questions related to listening, ecology, and the future. To host a World Listening Day event in your home region, visit worldlisteningday.org.

4) NAISA’s Decomposing Piano Exhibition and Events

NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
Open Improv – Every Saturday at 1 pm starting June 3rd
Guest Performances – June 24, July 28 and August 26, 2023, 7:00 pm
Pay by Donation

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. A YouTube webcam focused on the piano brings out the soundscape of the main thoroughfare through the piano’s decaying architecture. Starting on June 3rd, NAISA will be hosting Saturday jam sessions using the Decomposing Piano which will be facilitated by NAISA Executive Director and pianist Nadene Thériault-Copeland. There will also be special performances featuring artists from the local region playing the Decomposing Piano at 7 pm on June 24, July 28 and August 26.

Listen here to performances on the Decomposing Piano. Listen here to the CBC Radio interview about this exhibition.

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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.

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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