Episodes

  • Listening Gathering with Zoe Gordon, Helena Korbath, Lucille Kim and Keri Latimer

    Listening Gathering with Zoe Gordon, Helena Korbath, Lucille Kim and Keri Latimer
    Sep 11 2021
    This episode goes back to an online listening gathering that took place on August 14, 2021. It featured Canadian sound art works by Zoe Gordon from Thunder Bay, Helena Korbath from Vancouver, Lucille Kim from Hamilton and Keri Latimer Winnipeg. The format of the show is like a writing club where artists and enthusiasts gather online to listen to pieces and share their impressions and comments. The works featured are on the NAISA Soundcloud album titled Sound Travels 2 - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#soundtravelsalbum2 Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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. 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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    58 mins
  • Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine with Tosca Terán (aka Nanotopia) - Making Waves

    Mycorrhizal Rhythm Machine with Tosca Terán (aka Nanotopia) - Making Waves
    Aug 14 2021
    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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    58 mins
  • The Unquiet Earth: Eric Leonardson and Raquel Castro

    The Unquiet Earth: Eric Leonardson and Raquel Castro
    Jul 10 2021
    This episode of Making Waves focuses on World Listening Day with composer Eric Leonardson from Chicago and filmmaker Raquel Castro from Lisbon. In their 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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    57 mins
  • Sound from Architecture and Photography with Jonathan Tyrrell and Sandy McLennan

    Sound from Architecture and Photography with Jonathan Tyrrell and Sandy McLennan
    Jun 12 2021
    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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    57 mins
  • Open Microphone Livestreaming with Mike Bullock and Zach Poff

    Open Microphone Livestreaming with Mike Bullock and Zach Poff
    May 29 2021
    This special 90 minute episode features interviews by Darren Copeland 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. Darren's 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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Open Microphone Livestreaming with Elizabeth Chitty, Rob Mackay/Andrew Laforet, and Thomas Evdokimoff

    Open Microphone Livestreaming with Elizabeth Chitty, Rob Mackay/Andrew Laforet, and Thomas Evdokimoff
    May 8 2021
    Following the broadcast of Reveil on May 1st, this episode of Making Waves is the first of two featuring 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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    58 mins
  • 20 Years of Radio Art with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz and James Bailey

    20 Years of Radio Art with Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz and James Bailey
    Apr 10 2021
    This edition of Making Waves includes parts of an online presentation from March 12th, which marked the 20th anniversary of New Adventures in Sound Art and the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. Radio artists Victoria Fenner, Chris Brookes, Anna Friz, and James Bailey joined host Darren Copeland for this show to reflect on different elements of Deep Wireless: Out Front CBC-NAISA collaborations, radio art cross disciplinary performance collaborations, the Radio Without Boundaries Conference and TransX Transmission Art symposium. Included on the show are the works After Exile by Victoria Fenner, Writing on Water by Chris Brookes, Hava NAiSAnniversary by James Bailey and Unbox by Anna Friz. Videos of the Brookes and Bailey pieces can be viewed at NAISAtube on Youtube. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    1 hr
  • Pieces for Objects Found in the Street

    Pieces for Objects Found in the Street
    Feb 13 2021
    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. Making Waves is a monthly program produced for WGXC Wave Farm 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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    56 mins