Making Waves

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 performances. An audio-visual version of The Wetland Project will be included in the Water themed edition of the livestream event on Dec 12 called You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death.

Making Waves is one hour program about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 beauty of industrial urban environments. Watch NAISATube for the video version of this episode and to see the installation. Visit Colin Frank's YouTube channel to watch performances of Noise Fields by Colin Frank and a sound world for small things by Colin Frank and Sam Gillies. 

Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 The Listening Room had on the direction of his work. All of the pieces in the Sonic Hugs collection can be heard on the Bandcamp site for the project. In this program we will listen to Eve Klein’s Mantra of Enfolding, Ros Bandt’s Sonic Hugs, Cat Hope’s 7 Options and Jim Denley’s Mixmaster Troposphere.

This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 effects pedals. In the conversation she reflected on the branching and roots themes in her performance as well as about other points of inspiration for her work.

Christine Charette wrote the following about Roots that Braid Themselves:

"From the world of Electroacoustic Music and Musique Concrète, I explore the profound influence of forest biomes and the symbiotic enchanted world it hides underground. I use recorded sounds from life, distilled through a sampler, and weave them with the sounds of piano, synth. Drawing my sounds intuitively, I allow the forest and its underground networks to inhale and exhale through me, resonating in their vibration, and translating their Affect. I create a space that transports the listener to where worlds of microbial seed banks exist, stardust and roots that braid themselves into stories, where the belly of the Earth speaks."

Click Here to See a Video of the performance featured on today's show.

Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 in Vancouver.

Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 in Vancouver.

Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 Near North. Last year in May on "Making Waves," we featured some of these recordings, and on today's show, we will listen to a new collection recorded these past two months. 

Featured today are recordings made at the following locations: Old Highway Road in Magnetawan on April 9 at 7:20 a.m.; the village of South River on April 14 at 6:30 a.m.; Bray Lake in Machar on May 19 at 4:15 a.m.; Chapman Strong Road in Strong on May 20 at 1:10 a.m.; and Highway 534 in Powassan on May 31 at 5:00 a.m.

This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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 Patrick Sykes. Click Here to listen to "Sun Song."

This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and 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 art in the here and now from a northern perspective.