New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization, based in Toronto, that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Arts Birthday and SOUNDplay. 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. This objective will be achieved through the exploration of new sound technologies in conjunction with the creation of cultural events and artifacts.
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Playing the NAISA Space
Dates:
Fri Oct 16, 2015 13:00 - Sun Oct 25, 2015
Location:
Toronto,
Canada
Playing the NAISA Space
Interactive Installation where the audience is the sound artist
Sound Design by Matt Miller
October 16, 17, 23, 24 and 25
Exhibition hours: Fri 1-4 pm; Saturday 10am-3 pm
plus during Sounds Scary at the Boo in the Barns event and after the 16th and 25th performances at the NAISA Space
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
PWYC Admission
NAISA bids farewell to the soundscape of the Barns by asking sound artist Matt Miller to record and amplify every nook and cranny of the space in order to provide you the public with a chance to remix the sounds of our space and create your own impromptu composition in tribute to NAISA's past seven years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every visitor to our interactive installations – past, present and future – is considered a sound artist regardless of how modest you may consider your qualifications. Matt, has given you all of the tools you need, now let your auditory imagination go wild.
Interactive Installation where the audience is the sound artist
Sound Design by Matt Miller
October 16, 17, 23, 24 and 25
Exhibition hours: Fri 1-4 pm; Saturday 10am-3 pm
plus during Sounds Scary at the Boo in the Barns event and after the 16th and 25th performances at the NAISA Space
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
PWYC Admission
NAISA bids farewell to the soundscape of the Barns by asking sound artist Matt Miller to record and amplify every nook and cranny of the space in order to provide you the public with a chance to remix the sounds of our space and create your own impromptu composition in tribute to NAISA's past seven years at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every visitor to our interactive installations – past, present and future – is considered a sound artist regardless of how modest you may consider your qualifications. Matt, has given you all of the tools you need, now let your auditory imagination go wild.
14th annual SOUNDplay series
Dates:
Sat Oct 03, 2015 00:00 - Fri Oct 30, 2015
Location:
Toronto,
Canada
14th annual SOUNDplay series
October 3 - 30, 2015
the NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252 + other locations
www.soundplay.ca
The 14th annual SOUNDplay Series is a meeting point for experimentation in sound art and new media encouraging new avenues for exploration. Located at the NAISA Space and the Array Space, SOUNDplay 2015 includes multi-media performances, installations, and artist talks. SOUNDplay opens with a Scotiabank Nuit Blanche presentation of Re-Collect, 2013 by Jane Tingley and Michal Seta (co-presented by the City of Toronto and OCAD in association with NAISA) and ends with Trilogie d’ondes with Gilles Gobeil and Suzanne Binet-Audet (presented by Array Music in association with New Adventures in Sound Art).
This 14th edition also features interactive installations, artist talks and media art performances that pay special tribute to the NAISA Space at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every nook and cranny that has an interesting sound has been mic’d and processed by sound artist and NAISA staff member Matt Miller to provide artists and audience alike with a palette of timbres and rhythms to remix and re-compose.
October 3 - 30, 2015
the NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252 + other locations
www.soundplay.ca
The 14th annual SOUNDplay Series is a meeting point for experimentation in sound art and new media encouraging new avenues for exploration. Located at the NAISA Space and the Array Space, SOUNDplay 2015 includes multi-media performances, installations, and artist talks. SOUNDplay opens with a Scotiabank Nuit Blanche presentation of Re-Collect, 2013 by Jane Tingley and Michal Seta (co-presented by the City of Toronto and OCAD in association with NAISA) and ends with Trilogie d’ondes with Gilles Gobeil and Suzanne Binet-Audet (presented by Array Music in association with New Adventures in Sound Art).
This 14th edition also features interactive installations, artist talks and media art performances that pay special tribute to the NAISA Space at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Every nook and cranny that has an interesting sound has been mic’d and processed by sound artist and NAISA staff member Matt Miller to provide artists and audience alike with a palette of timbres and rhythms to remix and re-compose.
NAISA Youth Summer Sound Art Camp
Dates:
Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:20 - Wed Jun 24, 2015
Location:
Toronto,
Canada
Pre-registration required - go to https://naisa.ca/education/register/
For more information go to http://naisa.ca/education/youth/
part of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
Scholarships available (see below for details)
General $75
This sound art camp is for youth aged 12-17 to create art entirely with sound, radio, electronics, and/or performance through exploration according to their own individual interest - through building a NAISAtron (a unique light-responsive mini synthesizer), a micro-transmitter, and working with basic recording and editing software. Art completed during the workshop will be featured on NAISA’s 24/7 web radio. A great introduction for youth who wish to be involved with recording technology, electronic music composition, electronics assembly, or even soldering. All equipment will be provided by NAISA and no experience is necessary. Note: A limited number of scholarships are available. Please contact Nadene at naisa@naisa.ca for more information or to find out about scholarships. Limited spots available. Registration required.
For more information go to http://naisa.ca/education/youth/
part of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
Scholarships available (see below for details)
General $75
This sound art camp is for youth aged 12-17 to create art entirely with sound, radio, electronics, and/or performance through exploration according to their own individual interest - through building a NAISAtron (a unique light-responsive mini synthesizer), a micro-transmitter, and working with basic recording and editing software. Art completed during the workshop will be featured on NAISA’s 24/7 web radio. A great introduction for youth who wish to be involved with recording technology, electronic music composition, electronics assembly, or even soldering. All equipment will be provided by NAISA and no experience is necessary. Note: A limited number of scholarships are available. Please contact Nadene at naisa@naisa.ca for more information or to find out about scholarships. Limited spots available. Registration required.
NAISA Sound Art Drop In for children 4-12
Dates:
Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:00 - Sun Aug 02, 2015
Location:
Toronto,
Canada
Admission by donation
Join us on Saturdays and Sundays from June 27 to August 2 at the NAISA Space where children big and small can become sound art performers and active listeners both through learning how to craft and shape a performance on the exciting NAISA Sound Bash Installation, and through learning how to better understand our everyday sound environments through listening exercises. Drop by the NAISA Space and let your children test the programme out for themselves.
Join us on Saturdays and Sundays from June 27 to August 2 at the NAISA Space where children big and small can become sound art performers and active listeners both through learning how to craft and shape a performance on the exciting NAISA Sound Bash Installation, and through learning how to better understand our everyday sound environments through listening exercises. Drop by the NAISA Space and let your children test the programme out for themselves.
TransX Transmission Art Symposium performances
Dates:
Fri May 22, 2015 00:00 - Sat May 23, 2015
Location:
Toronto,
Canada
May 22 & 23 @ 8 PM @ the Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie #176
Each night: $15/$10 student or FREE with TransX Symposium registration
The first night of the TransX Transmission Art Symposium features performances by keynote speakers Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington who are artists in residence during Deep Wireless co-presented by NAISA and the Goethe-Institut Toronto. They will be joined by Peter Flemming performing with a new sound sculpture he had been developing. The second evening will include works by Doug Van Nort, Elliott Fienberg and Sarah Boothroyd.
May 22 - Tonic Train (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington)
& VibWav by Peter Flemming
Tonic Train is the long-standing experimental electronics duo of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann (aka Mobile Radio). The combination of Sarah's homemade circuit-bent instruments and Knut's feedback mixer creates a rich spectrum of fundamental electronic noises. They combine two methods of electronic music production: the appropriation of electronic circuits to make components produce otherwise unwanted sounds and the improper use of audio equipment to make it feed back. This includes a specific interest in radio technology, and micro transmission is an important part of the sound field they create.
VibWav by Peter Flemming - All materials have a natural resonant frequency. VibWav is a sound performance based on this simple but intriguing phenomenon. Heavily improvised with makeshift instrumentation, a variety of objects are brought in and out of resonance over the full range of the audible spectrum.
May 23 - A dispersion of elements by Doug Van Nort, Audible Conversions by Elliott Fienberg & Castles in the Air by Sarah Boothroyd
A dispersion of elements by Doug Van Nort intersects the open airwaves nature of transmission arts with the distributed potential of telematic music performance. Audible Conversions by Elliott Fienberg uses a wind sensor that in turn controls an AM/FM radio which is then further processed inside a computer. Castles in the Air by Sarah Boothroyd explores: Death and reason; Dark matter and dreams; Black holes and belief; Fear and infinity.
Each night: $15/$10 student or FREE with TransX Symposium registration
The first night of the TransX Transmission Art Symposium features performances by keynote speakers Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington who are artists in residence during Deep Wireless co-presented by NAISA and the Goethe-Institut Toronto. They will be joined by Peter Flemming performing with a new sound sculpture he had been developing. The second evening will include works by Doug Van Nort, Elliott Fienberg and Sarah Boothroyd.
May 22 - Tonic Train (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington)
& VibWav by Peter Flemming
Tonic Train is the long-standing experimental electronics duo of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann (aka Mobile Radio). The combination of Sarah's homemade circuit-bent instruments and Knut's feedback mixer creates a rich spectrum of fundamental electronic noises. They combine two methods of electronic music production: the appropriation of electronic circuits to make components produce otherwise unwanted sounds and the improper use of audio equipment to make it feed back. This includes a specific interest in radio technology, and micro transmission is an important part of the sound field they create.
VibWav by Peter Flemming - All materials have a natural resonant frequency. VibWav is a sound performance based on this simple but intriguing phenomenon. Heavily improvised with makeshift instrumentation, a variety of objects are brought in and out of resonance over the full range of the audible spectrum.
May 23 - A dispersion of elements by Doug Van Nort, Audible Conversions by Elliott Fienberg & Castles in the Air by Sarah Boothroyd
A dispersion of elements by Doug Van Nort intersects the open airwaves nature of transmission arts with the distributed potential of telematic music performance. Audible Conversions by Elliott Fienberg uses a wind sensor that in turn controls an AM/FM radio which is then further processed inside a computer. Castles in the Air by Sarah Boothroyd explores: Death and reason; Dark matter and dreams; Black holes and belief; Fear and infinity.