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Making Waves

This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art"s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media

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History of Art's Birthday with Hank Bull, Elisabeth...

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2024/01/13

On the 17th of January one million and 61 years ago someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water and Art was born. Making Waves starts off the New Year of 2024 looking back at the history of celebrating the birthday of Art. We will begin with the artist Hank Bull who has participated in many Art's Birthday celebrations since its origins in Fluxus and Mail Art. After that, we will listen to Elisabeth Zimmermann from Kunstradio at the ORF radio in Austria followed by Ward Weiss (also known as

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Curating from a 12 Word Sentence with Christof Migone...

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2023/12/09

On this edition of Making Waves, host Darren Copeland has a conversation with Christof Migone about his unique series of curated broadcasts organized around a 12 word sentence - "You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death." They discuss how the event started, what motivated him and how his approach to curation is different for this event than for exhibitions and performances that he has curated previously. You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death will be aired on Wave Farm's

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Kelly Ruth Weaves Music and Art Together in Second...

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2023/11/11

Today’s show features Kelly Ruth from Edmonton who has adapted her skills as a weaver, visual artist and musician to make live sound art performances on the digital multimedia platform of Second Life. The loom is used both as a visual centrepiece in her performances and is used as a musical instrument amplified with contact mics and modified with live electronics. In her conversation with Host Darren Copeland she talks about bringing her interests together, particularly during the pandemic, and

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A Conversation with Don Ritter about "O telephone" -...

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2023/10/14

Host Darren Copeland talks with Canadian interactive media artist Don Ritter for this episode of Making Waves, which is also available as a video podcast on the NAISATube YouTube channel. Don Ritter's sound installation "O telephone" is currently being shown at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Canada. Ritter and Copeland discuss the use of sound in Ritter's interactive media works since the 1990's and how "O telephone" is a much different piece than his other works. The installation

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Borderline Mapping with Jessica Thompson - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2023/09/09

Jessica Thompson is a Canadian media artist working in sound, performance and mobile technologies. NAISA is presenting an adapted version of her project Borderline which maps sound data onto economic and social data.Borderline is an app downloadable for mobile iOS devices and it can be used in any city, town or village - wherever you happen to be. Borderline is also the basis for an exhibition at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre which includes an analog style of map-making that those living in

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Insect Sound Reception and Resonant Tubes - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2023/08/12

This episode of Making Waves features an interview with Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac about the sound making and sound reception of insects along with recordings of their installation Secret Reception. Later in the show we play Creatures of the Ice by Eldad Tsabary from the Deep Wireless 5 double CD produced in 2008. The show ends with a short interview with Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters on their installation Sensation of Distribution, which uses resonant plumbing tubes to create confusion

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Importance of Environmental Sound with Alëna...

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2023/07/08

Sound from the natural world and the urban environment are not background sounds for film and other experiences but rather they are sounds rich in associations and meaning. They are deserving of foreground attention. Filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Heather Frise along with sound artist Alëna Korolëva join Host Darren Copeland to discuss the importance of environmental sound in their thinking and work. Hoolboom and Frise's film "Listening (with Hildegard Westerkamp)" and Korolëva's soundscape piece

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Almaguin Highlands Community Soundscapes - Making Waves

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2023/06/10

On today’s episode of Making Waves you will hear soundscape recordings made in the Eastern part of Parry Sound District of Ontario or what is locally known as the Almaguin Highlands. NAISA invited local residents in the area to place a bird feeder on their home property. Inside that bird feeder was an audio recorder that captured the overnight soundscapes of spring. Over the course of this hour we will sample highlights from the recordings that were made between April 18th and May 27th of 2023.

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Reveil 10 in Review with Dawn Scarfe, Maria...

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2023/05/13

For today's edition of Making Waves we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Reveil - the 24 hour dawn chorus broadcast that took place Saturday May 6, 2023 - by mixing sounds from the broadcast with a discussion between host Darren Copeland and Reveil founders Dawn Scarfe, Maria Papadomanolaki and Grant Smith.

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Faisal Karadsheh, Anton Pickard, Juro Kim Feliz -...

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2023/04/08

This episode of "Making Waves" replays the online listening gathering "Remote Connections" presented by NAISA for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art on March 4, 2023. Included on the show is Faisal Karadsheh's "to be heard (soundwalk’in_2021)," which is derived from recordings of street protests in Toronto responding to national and international events, as well as Anton Pickard's Sound Connections which features the sounds of dial up modems, morse code and the RCI shortwave

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Remote Connections with Prachi Khandekar and...

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2023/03/11

Today's episode of Making Waves focuses on two artists from the Deep Wireless 17 Radio Art Album. Darren Copeland talks to Nicole Goodwin in New York who under the name GOODW.Y.N. and with the help of her collaborator Michael Carr (aka Face Mason), wrote and recorded Inner Spaces: Live From Quarantine. In their words, "Inner Spaces is born of a parallel world to ours. It is the voice of revolution in a society gone mad, the voice of hope for the hopeless." In the second half of the show Copeland

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I am Calling Home with Geronimo Inutiq - Making Waves

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2023/02/11

On today’s episode of Making Waves we will share broadcasts from the Northern Virtual Broadcast Service led by Geronimo Inutiq as part of his project "I am Calling Home". Inutiq will be visiting NAISA in the coming week for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. That gave Darren Copeland the opportunity to talk with Geronimo about the topic of home and the special resonance it has for him. Geronimo Inutiq is an urban Inuit and a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary artist from

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Michelle Wilson - Making Waves

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2023/01/14

The 17th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Album will be released in February and we will listen to "Fuori è dentro" by Giuseppe E. Rapisarda to begin this episode. After that we will play a documentary produced by Michelle Wilson about her installation Forced Migration which will be on exhibit at the newly renovated NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River from February 6 to March 27, 2023.

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Hector Centeno - Making Waves

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2022/12/10

In today’s show Hector Centeno discusses his piece Space_03 which was commissioned by NAISA. Space_03 is derived directly from an attentive and phenomenological exploration of a specific geographical/physical location using spatial audio and photogrammetry.

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Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall - Making...

Making Waves ·

2022/11/13

Vancouver-based artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall are featured in this episode of Making Waves. They have been collaborating on a variety of ecologically focused new media and sound works, since 2004. They co-lead research-creation projects, recently Wild Empathy—immersive art exploring old-growth trees and ancient forests—and currently Branching Songs, sound art that listens to trees for the forest. Their installations The Sound of Tree Rings and Tree Earth Sky will be featured

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More Soundportraits by Jørgen Teller - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2022/09/10

This month on Making Waves we continue listening to more in the Soundportraits series by Jørgen Teller from Denmark. Soundportraits are impromptu pieces made through one-on-one chance encounters. Jorgen Teller was stationed inside a tent at a different location each day. He would record sounds made by the visitors and then create spontaneous electronic compositions from the sounds he recorded creating a musical portrait of his encounter. Included are portraits made at Mikisew Park, The Crystal

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Soundportraits with Jørgen Teller - Making Waves

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2022/08/13

Today’s show is about sound portraits. A sound portrait is like a caricature made from a brief encounter in a public place - only that instead of creating a visual likeness of a person, a musical and sonic one is made. Jørgen Telller from Copenhagen was in residence recently at NAISA and over three days he produced about two dozen "Soundportraits" of persons living in or touring the South River area. Making Waves will share a selection of these portraits and they will be introduced by Jørgen Teller

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Jesse Stewart and Matt Edwards of Mixed Metaphors -...

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2022/07/09

This month on Making Waves includes sound art created in public outdoor spaces and focus on two projects that open up access to the music making process. In the first half host Darren Copeland talks to Jesse Stewart and Matt Edwards of Mixed Metaphors about their approach to interactive art in public settings. They will share their experiences making their latest works Orbits and The Gong Show. In the second half of Making Waves pieces in the NORDIC SoUNDPORTRAITS series of 2012 by Jorgen Teller are

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Ellen Waterman, Part II - Making Waves

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2022/06/11

On last month’s show we featured flute improvisations recorded by Ellen Waterman outdoors in a rural waterfront location. The improvisations were guided by her physical response to the natural surroundings and were an interpretation of her instructional score Bodily Listening in Place. In today’s show Ellen Waterman will explain that score and the background and research behind it. The score draws on her research and thinking on Improvisation, Deep Listening, Signed Music and music making across

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Reveil and Ellen Waterman - Making Waves

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2022/05/14

Two weeks ago Wave Farm's WGXC and New Adventures in Sound Art both participated as broadcast partners for Reveil, a 24-hour broadcast of dawn chorus open microphone livestreams that follows the emergence of daylight from time zone to time zone across the entire planet. Reveil coincides with NAISA programming that focuses on the local soundscape in South River Ontario. On today’s show we are going to feature a selection of spring soundscapes from Warbler’s Roost in South River plus we will feature

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