From NAISA
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) launches the 26th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art with summer-long events that include indoor and outdoor exhibitions, SOUNDwalks, Sound Art Workshops, weekly Improvs, and World Listening Day events on July 18.
“This year’s Sound Travels festival invites visitors to listen for hidden structures and relationships in seemingly unrelated, even chaotic events. Works in the festival reimagine the relationship of chaos and order in the auditory experiences we encounter both in art and in everyday life,” said Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.
Indoor and Outdoor Exhibitions
June 20 to September 23, 2024, NAISA North Media Arts Centre, pay by donation.
NAISA’s summer exhibition features Sixteen Chimes by the Vancouver-based, Brazilian-born artist Alexandre Klinke. This sound sculpture is comprised of 16 chime bars that are individually spaced around the exhibition space. Audience members control the individual speed (or tempo) of each chime through a custom-made circuit. The result is an ever-changing spatial composition using the acoustic chimes.
Also on exhibit is Borderline (Almaguin Highlands): Collective counter-mapping through sonic geographies by Jessica Thompson. Visitors to NAISA can borrow a map toolkit to map the sounds of any of the villages in the Almaguin Highlands which are then displayed in the exhibition space and online.
Continuing outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre are the Decomposing Piano Exhibition created by NAISA Staff and the Sensation of Distribution by Mitchell Akiyama and Brady Peters. Mounted on NAISA’s exterior walls to impersonate furnace vents erupting from the ground, the Sensation of Distribution is a sound sculpture that re-invites visitors to explore the unnoticed or imminent sonic and aesthetic potential of our built environment.
World Listening Day
July 18, 2024, at 7 pm, Warbler’s Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, Tickets $12
Every year NAISA joins a global community to celebrate World Listening Day which occurs on July 18. This year’s celebration will include a soundscape work composed by Shawn Pinchbeck as well as a site-specific performance by Sundridge multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette. The event begins with a SOUNDwalk through the lakeside forests on the Warbler’s Roost property led by NAISA Executive Director Nadene Thériault-Copeland.
Laurier Woods SOUNDwalk during Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Nature Festival
Aug 17, 2024, at Laurier Woods, North Bay, FREE Admission
NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland will lead SOUNDwalks during the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Nature Festival. The change of focus in a SOUNDwalk from seeing to listening brings out different associations to sounds commonly heard. The Festival is organized each year by the Friends of Laurier Woods, North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority, and the Nipissing Naturalists Club.
Sound Art Workshops
June 29, July 27 and August 24, 2024, 1 – 4 pm, $50
In these workshops with NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland, you will learn how to record your voice, make short field recordings, edit your recordings, and share your final creation at the end of the workshop. No experience with audio is necessary. The workshop can be taken once or multiple times.
Decomposing Piano Jam Sessions
Every Sunday between July 9 and August 25 at 2 pm, Pay by Donation
An interesting way to learn about improvisation is to play an instrument that is always changing. The Decomposing Piano has been transforming outdoors since December 2022 and continues to reveal new sound colours and tunings by the day. People of all ages and abilities are welcome to join NAISA Executive Director Nadene Thériault-Copeland in the discovery process.
Decomposing piano
Sound walk
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