13 Jul 2015

New Adventures in Sound Art: Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art

Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art
June 27 - Sept 27, 2015
Toronto Events at Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St) & on Toronto Island
Near North Events at Warbler's Roost, South River, ON
www.soundtravels.ca

Soundhackers Intensive Pass $75 / Youth Summer Camp $75 / Symposium/Performance Pass $70/$40
Single Concerts: $10 - $15 / Outdoor events free / Installations are Pay What You Can (recommended $5)

The 17th annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art will open with the NAISA Sound Art Drop In and end with the 9th annual Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES). It will also include interactive installations and performances. Featured artists include Nicolas Collins, Bosch & Simons, and Wendalyn Bartley, Marla Hlady/Eric Chenaux, Stephanie Moore, Barry Prophet & Janice Pomer, Matt Rogalsky and Sonia Paço-Rocchia.

'In a world that often focuses too much on the visual, Sound Travels, once again brings about a refreshing change as it presents works by sound artists that extract compelling musicality and wordless dramas from everyday sounds often taken for granted. From this lush auditory experience, audiences author their own imaginary world in their mind's eye.' – Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art.

SOUND TRAVELS PERFORMANCES

World Listening Day Performances
July 18, 2013 @ 8:00 PM, $10
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON

NAISA awakens your ears to new sounds with a World Listening Day performance with Sonia Paço-Rocchia followed by a waterfront soundwalk at sunset.

Site & Sound by Barry Prophet & Janice Pomer
Aug 1, 2015 @ 8:00 PM, $10
Warbler's Roost, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON

Barry Prophet & Janice Pomer perform on glass lithophones, made & found instruments. Pomer will explore the kinaesthetic subtleties of Prophet's 'Bamboo Quiver' while Prophet performs the digital Theremin & Sound Art controlled by Audio Cubes. Experience sounds that can be seen and images that can be heard.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Concerts
Aug 19 & 21, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Aug 21 & 22, 2015 @ 2:30 PM
Wychwood Theatre
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #176, $15/10

This series of TES concerts include works chosen by an international jury of electroacoustic practitioners, which provide a snapshot of the latest research and exploration in sound art happening around the world.

Sound Travels Concert - Unstable Rationality
Aug 20, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Wychwood Theatre
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #176, $15/10

Unstable Rationality refers to the tendency of Nicolas Collins to go beyond the cutting edge in his exploration of sound and interactive systems. The performance by Nicolas Collins reflects his renewed interest in the quirky performance possibilities of unstable electronic circuits, especially damaged or misused ones, often in interaction with more rational computer software. Also, included will be a performance by Matt Rogalsky which arose through a recording made in Kingston Penitentiary (first opened in 1833), which he managed through subterfuge.

Sound Travels Concert - Unstable Reality
Aug 22, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Wychwood Theatre
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #176, $15/10

A performance of new works by Stephanie Moore and Wendalyn Bartley. Bartley's work was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art through funding from the Ontario Arts Council and originated from exploration during last year's Sound Travels Intensive. Stephanie Moore will be presenting a trilogy of new works called Lunar Cycle which use fixed media and solo double bass performed by Adam Scime.

SOUND TRAVELS INSTALLATIONS

Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet Interactive installation now open 24/7 on Toronto Island
July 15 - Oct 31, 24/7, FREE
Between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
Toronto Island

Visitors that encounter the Synthecycletron, a favourite amongst Toronto cyclists, generate power by pedalling on stationary bicycles which in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds connected to their movements.

Soundball (Dancehauling)
By Marla Hlady and Eric Chenaux
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to warblersroost.ca/contact/

Soundball (Dancehauling) is an instrument/sculpture that viewers can manipulate as a way to play with sound composition. Soundball includes traditional Irish, Scottish and English dance music. One ball allows you to manipulate the foot-beating rhythm and the other bowed guitar sonorities.

NAISA in Pictures
By Stefan Rose
July 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
at Warbler's Roost event space, 3785D Eagle Lake Rd, South River, ON, PWYC
For directions go to warblersroost.ca/contact/

NAISA In Pictures is a selection of photographic prints, made using both analog and digital cameras, that document NAISA's concerts, performers, composers, and participants since 2000. Composition, texture, and colour are terms that are equivalent in music and images, and Stefan A. Rose has met the challenge of capturing the essence of events in time, with the split-second precision of photography. His images parallel the performances, inhabiting a world of light and motion, shadow and stillness. This spectrum of visible and near-visible, the apparent and suggested, points to environments imbued with metaphor, memory, and meaning.

Mirlitones
By Bosch & Simons
August 19, 2015
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street, #252
When audiences enter the NAISA Space they will see seven to twelve white PVC pipes suspended in the air and swinging in a pendulum-like fashion. The pipes are covered at the top end with a membrane and their motions are controlled by pneumatics so that they produce low buzzing tones in the space.

Mirlitones was commissioned by DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands for the exhibition Kunst Werkt, April-September 2012. The title refers to a primitive instrument that has appeared in a multitude of forms in various parts of the world. All these instruments exist of a hollow form with a membrane mounted that can be brought into vibration by blowing or singing. The best-known member of the family is the kazoo used until present times in pop music.