Newsletter for June 2025 (Vol.20; Iss. 6)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) Sound Travels Festival opens June 12
2) Sound Travels Festival Exhibitions
3) World Listening Day Weekend events July 18 – 20

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1) Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art

June 12 – September 15, 2025
All events at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River
Thursday – Monday, 10am – 4pm
Unless otherwise indicated
naisa.ca/festivals/sound-travels

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) launches its 27th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with summer-long events that feature indoor and outdoor exhibitions as well as special World Listening Day weekend events July 18 to 20.

“The complexity of the natural world is astounding in its diversity and musical nuance. South River is located in a region where the natural world has had many impacts on art making. Sound Travels 2025 uses NAISA’s theme for the year —There is Art in Our Nature — this time to provide audiences with the opportunity to hear what is below the water’s surface, to listen in to the sounds that exist in the rivers and lakes, which in the Almaguin Highlands have historically served as passage ways between communities.” — Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art

Sound Fishing at South River Cascade, photo by Darren Copeland

2) Sound Travels Exhibitions

Haptic Voices by David Bobier and Jim Ruxton
June 12 – September 15, 2025
Pay By Donation
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Haptic Voices is a large scale ten channel vibro-tactile wall with the potential for 10 independent streams of sound signals. Visitors are invited to stand against the wall to experience vibrations that are controlled using an iPad. Using vibration as the final output, Haptic Voices is equally accessible to the Deaf, hard of hearing and able-bodied communities to experience the wall. Join the artists for an opening night Artist Talk on June 12 at 7pm.

Voice of the Water by Eric Powell
July 18, 2025 and ongoing
Pay By Donation
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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. The Artist’s goal is to create a venue for contemplation, catharsis, and a deeper engagement with the surrounding environment.

Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters
Ongoing

The Sensation of Distribution re-invites visitors to explore the unnoticed or imminent sonic and aesthetic potential of our built environment by connecting the exploration of acoustic pipe resonance with a more domestic vernacular.

Decomposing Piano Exhibition and Events
Ongoing, Open Improv monthly – 2nd Sunday of each month (June – September), 2pm

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

Eagle Lake, Machar Township, photo by Nadene Thériault-Copeland

3) World Listening Day Weekend Events July 18 – 20

A weekend celebration with Performances, a Workshop, SOUNDwalks and an Artist Talk
July 18 – 20, 2025
Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Road, South River, Ontario
$225 for Weekend Pass which includes 2 nights On-site Accommodation.
Registration & booking

Echoes Between Us Outdoor Performance and SOUNDwalk by Corinne Alice, in Wonderland
July 18, 7pm (rain or shine)
$15 or Free with $225 Weekend Accommodation Pass
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Echoes Between Us is an immersive outdoor experience in two parts created by Corrine Alice, in Wonderland who is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Almaguin Highlands. The performance will begin with a guided soundwalk inviting participants into deep listening, attuning to the layered soundscape of Warbler’s Roost. After the walk, she will give a solo performance using live looping, voice, and other instruments in intuitive response to the environment.

Morning SOUNDwalk
July 19, 9:30am (rain or shine)
Free

Celebrate World Listening Day weekend with a silent walk through the forests and lakefront of the Warbler’s Roost property led by NAISA Executive Director Nadene Thériault-Copeland.

Underwater Sound Recording Workshop by Eric Powell
July 19, 1 – 4pm (rain or shine)
$45 or Free with $225 Weekend Accommodation Pass
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What does the world sound like underwater? Cast a hydrophone into the lake and find out. Eric Powell will lead participants on an exploration of the underwater sounds of Deer Lake. Equipment provided.

Concert – Sound Map of the Housatonic River by Annea Lockwood
July 19, 7pm
$15 or Free with $225 Weekend Accommodation Pass
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Created in 2009 A Sound Map of the Housatonic River is the third in Annea Lockwood’s seminal series of river sound map pieces. The piece takes the listener on an imaginary voyage from the source of the Housatonic River in the Berkshire Mountains to the river’s mouth in Long Island Sound, Connecticut. The mid-summer journey includes sounds from the natural world and those placed there by the human commercial activity.

Artist Talk on Voice of the Water by Eric Powell
July 20, 1pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
Admission by Donation

Eric Powell will introduce the Voice of the Water installation at NAISA and talk about the evolution of his project which uses a rotary telephone to connect listeners to underwater recordings.

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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