Newsletter for November 2019 (Vol.14; Iss. 11)
Produced by New Adventures in Sound Art
www.naisa.ca

1) SOUNDplay Festival Oct 4, 2019 – Jan 6, 2020
2) SOUNDplay Festival Exhibitions
3) SOUNDplay Performances / Screenings
4) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art Jan 17 – Mar 30, 2020
5) Deep Wireless Exhibitions

1) SOUNDplay Festival

Oct 4, 2019 – January 6, 2020
https://naisa.ca/festivals/soundplayseries/

NAISA’s fall SOUNDplay Festival, established in 2002, is a meeting point for experimentation in sound art and new media, encouraging new avenues for exploration.

“NAISA’s 2019 edition of SOUNDplay completes NAISA’s programming cycle exploring the theme ‘Off the Beat(en) Track.’ Although that theme undeniably references NAISA’s journey from Toronto to the Near North in Ontario, it also serves as a point of departure for artists journeying to far off places or for revealing less familiar details that may lie hidden in very familiar places. SOUNDplay 2019 invites audiences to wander down a new path where time and space may be organized differently and where alternative ways for exploring the familiar reveals unfamiliar layers of detail.” – Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

SOUNDplay includes exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist talks and workshops and this year features works by artists Gordon Monahan, Geronimo Inutiq and more at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River.

2) SOUNDplay Festival Exhibitions

https://naisa.ca/festivals/soundplayseries/installations/

Kinetic Transmissions by Gordon Monahan
Continues to Jan 6, 2020, Thursday to Monday, 10am – 4pm, PWYC
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 106 Ottawa Ave., South River, ON

Kinetic Transmissions, created in 2016, uses audio signals to create kinetic movements in motors. The audio vibrations are transmitted through the motors and into resonant objects such as drums, which amplify the audio recordings. At the same time that the audio recordings are transmitted and amplified into the drums, they also cause other motors to tremble and shake in kinetic gestures. These audio-induced movements, in turn, provide kinetic motions that result in percussion events, such as motors that have bells or sea shells attached to them, or wires that play wine glasses or drums as percussion objects.

Off the Beat(en) Track video installation screening
Continues to Jan 6, 2020, Thursday to Monday, 10am – 4pm, PWYC
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 106 Ottawa Ave., South River, ON

NAISA completes its year long exploration of the theme “Off the Beat(en) Track” with a video installation screening of works exploring auditory and visual rhythms with works by Darsha Hewitt with Nelly-Eve Rajotte, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Myriam Boucher, Jeff Morris and an early film by Canadian animation pioneer Norman McLaren.

3) SOUNDplay Festival Performances / Screenings

https://naisa.ca/festivals/soundplayseries/performances/

By Land and Water by Geronimo Inutiq
Nov 15, 2019, 6pm to 9pm FREE
White Water Gallery, 122 Main Street East, North Bay

“By Land and Water” is a live audiovisual performance by Geronimo Inutiq with ambient electronic music, and manipulated video footage that will take place during the Downtown Gallery Hop at The White Water Gallery in North Bay and the North Bay Film Festival. Taking us across northern Ontario roads and waterways, and following the road beyond into other provinces – video segments are slowed down, manipulated, and rearranged to form an abstract visual narrative, with the countryside as the main focus of reflection. This performance is a co-presentation with Near North Mobile Media Lab, White Water Gallery and NAISA.

The audio-visual works of Geronimo Inutiq
Nov 17, 2019, 2pm Admission by Donation
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 106 Ottawa Ave., South River, ON

By combining video jockeying with the practice of DJ-ing, archives and original material can be presented in an experimental cut-up approach. Artist Geronimo Inutiq has brought his audio-visual works into performance spaces as well as museums and art galleries, and has seen this base of video remix evolve to documentary video and experimental film. This screening / artist talk is a co-presentation with Near North Mobile Media Lab, White Water Gallery and NAISA.

4) Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art

January 17 – March 30, 2020
https://naisa.ca/festivals/deep-wireless/

A celebration of Radio and Transmission Art presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. It begins with Art’s Birthday celebrations in mid-January and continues until spring with performances, special radio broadcasts, interactive installations, and workshops at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River. Deep Wireless 2020 features an installation exhibition and workshops by Michael Waterman and Jesse Stewart as well as works by Ayesha Barmania.

Ice and Stone
an exhibition of works by Michael Waterman and Jesse Stewart
Jan 17 – Mar 30, 2020, Thursday to Monday, 10am – 4pm, PWYC
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 106 Ottawa Ave., South River, ON

As part of this exhibition, sound and media artists Michael Waterman and Jesse Stewart will be collaborating with students from local schools to build a set of outdoor sound sculptures made from water in both frozen and liquid states. The frozen “ice” instruments will be built and presented outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in January and the liquid “melting” instruments will be built and presented at NAISA in late March.

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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
106 Ottawa Ave., South River, ON, P0A 1X0
705-386-0880 / naisa@naisa.ca