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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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20250913 - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2025/09/13

apè aliermo from VenusFest in Toronto interviews sound artist Rani Jambak. Jambak’s music is influenced by the many traditions and musical cultures that can be found in Minangkabau and her birthplace in Medan, Indonesia. In the last 5 years her main focus has been to re-interpret in musical form Minangkabau philosophy and ancestral knowledge which includes creating her instrument based on a traditional water wheel with a series of wooden pestles, the Kincia Aia.The beginning and end of the episode

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20250809 - River Agency with Annea Lockwood - Making...

Making Waves ·

2025/08/09

Composer Annea Lockwood talks about her work with river sounds throughout her 50 plus years of composing. Her sound map installations of the Housatonic, Danube and Hudson Rivers (and others she has made recently) underscore the value of water in shaping life on earth. Rivers not only bring energy, but Lockwood points out that rivers also have an agency of their own. That agency pushes back against the western inclination to want to control and dominate the course of water flow. In the second half of

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20250712 - Voice of the Water with Eric Powell -...

Making Waves ·

2025/07/12

Does water have a voice? On today’s show we explore that question through listening to underwater sounds and Darren Copeland’s conversation with sound artist Eric Powell. In his sound installation la Voix de la riviere Powell modified a rotary telephone and connected it to a live transmission of the Haute Yamaska River in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He is currently working on a new iteration Voice of the Water that also uses the rotary phone, but this time to playback sounds of rivers, creaks

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20250614 - Vibro-Tactile Art with Satoshi Morita and...

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2025/06/14

This is the first of two episodes about vibro-tactile artworks. These are artworks that are centred in sound, but the sound medium bypasses the cochlea and transmits to listeners directly through their bodies. The first half of the show is a conversation that host Darren Copeland had with Satoshi Morita. Morita is a Japanese sculptor and sound artist based in Germany. He created a number of vibro-tactile works in the mid to late 00's including Sound Capsule, Sonic Helmut and Sonic Suit. He is

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20250510 - Remembering Andra McCartney with Hildegard...

Making Waves ·

2025/05/10

In this edition of Making Waves we pay tribute to the work of the late Andra McCartney who died in 2019. She was a composer, radio artist, educator, biographer and musicologist active in Canada in the fields of electroacoustic music and soundscape studies. Her colleagues and close friends Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young join us in this episode to share their experiences of working with her and spending time with her.The show includes excerpts of her radio piece “Waiting Games

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20250412 - Marieke Van de ven and composing with Sand...

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2025/04/12

On today’s show we are going to listen to the long form sound art composition Zand by Dutch sound artist Marieke Van de ven. And after listening that host Darren Copeland will have a conversation with her to learn more about the piece.Zand explores sand grains as material, concept and sound. Viewed from different perspectives, the sand grains become a place to explore and wander. A composition of subtle grains to colossal layers of sound and back again. A movement, a duration, a route.As a composer

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20250308 - Pigeon Band and Ensign Peak - Making Waves

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2025/03/08

On today’s show we listen to two works that capture animals and environments in interesting and unique ways. Both works come from the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation, which is now available on soundcloud.We are going to spend the majority of the show listening to and talking about the multi-species project Pigeon Band, which began with the question: “Do pigeons like music?”Two toy synth keyboards were installed on Emmie Tsumara's kitchen window sill, awaiting the daily pigeon

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Performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue -...

Making Waves ·

2025/02/08

Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. 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 a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order

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20250111 - Omar Reyna's Sounds of Turbulence - Making...

Making Waves ·

2025/01/11

On today’s episode of Making Waves we will be listening to “Non-predictable” by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we will talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilation album from The Deep Wireless Festival. Over the next four episodes of Making Waves we will be featuring artists from Deep Wireless.Reyna’s work “Non-predictable” is an exploration of the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have

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20241214 - Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April...

Making Waves ·

2024/12/14

On today’s show we will be listening to Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin and we will also be talking to them about the piece after we listen to it.Lake Composition is a work made for video installation but is also appropriate in a radio context. If you are interested in getting an idea of the images in the video work there is a trailer for the piece here:Lake Composition TrailerLake Composition includes poetic journal-like text fragments written by Ben McCarthy. His texts reflect

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Mark Timmings and Brady Marks on The Wetland Project...

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2024/11/09

Mark Timmings and Brady Marks from The Wetland Project in British Columbia speak to Host and NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland. The Wetland Project is an exploration of a 24-hour field recording of a marsh on Saturna Island (ṮEḴTEḴSEN) made with the assistance of recordist Eric Lamontagne. The reverberant soundscape, featuring birds, frogs and airplanes, has been shared with international audiences since 2015 in the form of slow radio broadcasts, new-media installations and musical

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20241012 - Colin Frank and Machine Hums - Making Waves

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2024/10/12

How can video games be a tool for exploring machine hums and drones? That is one of the subjects we are exploring today on Making Waves with host Darren Copeland. Colin Frank is a percussionist, composer and media artist from Ottawa and based currently in Huddersfield UK. In his installation Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs the gallery visitor uses a joystick and track ball to remix field recordings of back alley machine drones from Sherbrooke Quebec in order to uncover the hidden sonic

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Sonic Hugs with Colin Black - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2024/09/14

Today’s episode highlights the Sonic Hugs collection curated by Colin Black. Sonic Hugs features nine Australian composers and sound artists that were invited to create original radio art pieces that try to connect the ideas of "Sonic" and "Hug". I discussed with Colin Black his motives and interests in starting the project and his impressions of the outcomes and responses that emerged. He also elaborated on his experiences making and producing radio art in Australia and the impact programs like

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Roots that Braid Themselves with Christine Charette -...

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2024/08/10

On today’s show we feature multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette and her performance Roots that Braid Themselves. Christine Charette lives in the Almaguin Highlands region of Ontario. Her performance took place outdoors on July 18 at Warbler’s Roost in South River during World Listening Day. In her performance she had masks, paper sculptures and lines of text displayed on tree branches and stumps. On an elevated platform there was a weathering upright piano that she played along with various

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20240713 - Susan Frykberg, Jim Montgomery, Tina...

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2024/07/13

This episode of Making Waves reflects on the life and work of Susan Frykberg (1954-2023). It begins with a radiophonic series of pieces she made called The Audio Birth Project and features an interview with two of Susan's closest Canadian colleagues Jim Montgomery and Tina Pearson. They reflect on Susan's life in Canada, the barriers she overcame and the impact she had on experimental sound art in Canada. The pieces heard on the show are from her Astonishing Sense CD released on the Earsay label

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Spring Soundscapes from the Almaguin Highlands -...

Making Waves ·

2024/06/08

On today's show we listen to spring soundscapes from the region of Canada where "Making Waves" is produced. This year and last year, residents of the Almaguin Highlands region in Northern Ontario had the opportunity to place sound recorders out overnight in order to share the soundscape that is familiar to them. The Almaguin Highlands is a collection of rural villages with populations under 2,000 people that are locating North of Huntsville and South of North Bay in what is often referred to as the

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What exists is in the signal? with Martin Rodriguez,...

Making Waves ·

2024/05/11

This episode features pieces by Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar, and AJ Cornell that convey emotions and meaning through the ethereal world of electronic sound and electromagnetic energy. Together we will listen and talk about their pieces -responding to what resonates and stirs the imagination. And we will learn about the context in which the pieces were made.This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic

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Radio Art Sound Images with Cláudio De Pina, Bekah...

Making Waves ·

2024/04/04

On today’s show we listen to three radio art pieces: Neurotransmits by Cláudio De Pina, String Pulse by Bekah Simms, and London Punch by Keith de Mendonca. All three artists join host Darren Copeland to talk about their pieces and offer comments about each other’s work. Thematically the pieces explore sounds associated with radio and electromagnetic waves and reflect approaches to evoking images and associations without necessarily using words.This monthly one hour program is about radio art and

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VLF Radio with Dan Tapper - Making Waves

Making Waves ·

2024/03/07

This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF. VLF is Very low Frequency Radio or what is often referred to as Natural radio because it makes audible to human ears the electromagnetic waves that encircle the earth. Dan Tapper is a British sound artist based in Toronto and in the second half of the show we will play his radio piece about VLF called "Some Call it Noise". In the interview Dan referenced a documentary about VLF called "Sun Song" that was made by

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Robert Normandeau on the late Francis Dhomont -...

Making Waves ·

2024/02/10

On today’s episode of "Making Waves," Montreal acousmatic composer Robert Normandeau talks about his late mentor Francis Dhomont. Dhomont came to Montreal from France in the late 1970’s where he composed the radiophonic piece “Sous le regard d’un soleil noir,” a piece so important to Dhomont that he counted this as his first-ever work even though he was already in his fifties.Acousmatic art has had a special relationship with radio, not only because state radio stations supported the first

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