Making Waves

Artist Tosca Terán along with Andre Greville - make up the duo Nanotopia. Together they have created the sound installation the Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine which turns a Grow Room into a Fungi and Sprout music generator. Fine electrodes placed within roots of mycorrhizal plants, receive bio-data and translate this activity into electronic music. Tosca Terán joins NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland in this episode of Making Waves to explain her approach to creating music from fungi and mycelium.

This episode of Making Waves focuses on World Listening Day with composer Eric Leonardson from Chicago and filmmaker Raquel Castro from Lisbon. In conversation with host Darren Copeland they cover the theme of the Unquiet Earth and also the relevance of considering sound when talking about global phenomena such as Climate Change and COVID-19 pandemic. World Listening Day takes place on July 18 every year. The 2021 edition features a 24 hour broadcast on Wave Farm, NAISA Radio and the YouTube channel of the World Listening Project. The show is book-ended with hydrophone recordings by Elizabeth Chitty in St. Catherines, Ontario and from Zach Poff's Pond Station at the Wave Farm in Acra, NY.

This episode of Making Waves profiles two artists that come to sound art via other artistic disciplines and who are showing work this summer at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River Ontario. Jonathan Tyrrell is trained in architecture and is creating interactive media placed-based works that he describes as event-based architecture. Sandy McLennan is a filmmaker and photographer using hand-made analog techniques. He has created the interactive installation "My Place Here and Now," which through workshops with Grade 7 students at South River Public School, mixes pinhole photography and interactive digital sound.

This special 90 minute episode features interviews with artists who operate permanent open microphone livestreams that were included in the Reveil broadcasts of daybreak that happened four weeks ago on the first weekend in May. The first hour of the show features Zach Poff who created the Pond Station livestream that continually broadcasts underwater sound from a spring-fed pond that is located on the Wave Farm property. It can be heard online or on the radio at 1620 AM in the vicinity of the Wave Farm in Acra. My discussion with Zac started with the topic of bat sounds, which is an interest shared with Mike Bullock who is featured in the last half hour of the show. Mike Bullock operates an open microphone livestream from his home in Florence, Massachusetts. An open microphone livestream is similar to a webcam except it streams audio rather than video from the environment. You can hear Mike Bullock’s stream online and listen to examples at the Ears in Space website.

Following the broadcast of Reveil on May 1st, NAISA is featuring two episodes of interviews with individuals who facilitated livestreams of daybreak from their home localities for Reveil . Today’s episode begins with Elizabeth Chitty, an interdisciplinary artist in St. Catherines, Ontario, then following her, Rob Mackay and Andrew Laforet about the livestream from Point Pelee National Park, and finally, a conversation with Thomas Evdokimoff about the livestream he did for Reveil from downtown Vancouver. The interview with him includes his experiences earlier this year livestreaming from the floating Blue Cabin artist residency space in the False Creek area of Vancouver.

This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a South River-based Canadian organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression.

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This edition of Making Waves is a replay of an online

Today's episode of Making Waves revisits NAISA's 2021 Art’s Birthday Listening Party. On January 17, 2021 a groups of artists met online to listen and discuss each other’s realizations of a text score by Anne-F Jacques called Piece for objects found in the street. There were many other celebrations of Art on January 17. For a history of Art’s Birthday visit the Art’s Birthday site.

Today’s episode of Making Waves features conversations with two artists from the Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art festival - Montreal sound artist Anne-F Jacques and Edmonton journalist and radio artist Don Hill. In the second half Don Hill explains his interest in transporting Counterpuntal Radio over to interactive media with his new installation Story Trees. In the first half, Anne-F Jacques explores the sounds of objects - from the everyday, the natural and the discarded. She has made a text score for Deep Wireless for which NAISA invites listeners to this program to record their own interpretation. Details: https://naisa.ca/naisa-events/arts-birthday/performances/