18th Annual SOUND TRAVELS FESTIVAL of SOUND ART

New Adventures of Sound Art is pleased to present the 18th edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, which opens July 1 and runs until August 26, 2016 with events throughout the summer in Toronto and in South River. Sound Travels explores sound in a variety of ways – through site-specific and interactive artworks, multi-channel concert works, and soundscape performances. As part of this annual summer-long celebration of sound art, NAISA presents these performances, indoor and outdoor interactive sound installations and the 10th annual Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES) at various venues including Geary Lane (360 Geary Ave), the Canadian Music Centre, Toronto Island and in the Near North at Warbler’s Roost (South River, ON).

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL ELECTROACOUSTIC SYMPOSIUM (TIES)
Aug 10 – 13, 2016
Geary Lane, 360 Geary Lane, and the Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
$70/$40 student
To register go to: https://naisa.ca/ties-registration/

The tenth annual Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium on August 10-13 – once again co-presented by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the Canadian Music Centre – features multifaceted artist John Oswald as Keynote Speaker this year. Governor General award-winning and prolific media artist, composer and saxophonist, John Oswald is known for his famous Plunderphonics recordings among a host of other engaging and original projects. Also included are paper sessions, and lecture-recitals as well as concerts on the evenings of August 10th, 11th, & 12th & the afternoons of August 12th & 13th and include works by international participants in the symposium selected by an international peer review committee. TIES 2016 is sponsored by FACTOR.

SOUND TRAVELS PERFORMANCES

Sounds Lost and Found - World Listening Day Concert
Co-presented with the Canadian Music Centre
July 16, 8 PM
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
$10

As part of World Listening Day, three composers and sound artists – Victoria Fenner, David Jensenius, and Fleshtone Aura (Andrew Zukerman) - have been invited by NAISA and the Candian Music Centre to create multichannel soundscape pieces on the theme of Sounds Lost and Found. All of the sound materials for the pieces will be drawn from the soundscape apps/sites Found Sound and Radio Aporee.

Tickets available through the CMC:
https://musiccentre.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1a000004EPYzEAO

Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium performances
August 10,11,13, 7:30 PM and August 12,13, 3:30 PM @ Geary Lane, 360 Geary Avenue, Toronto
$15/$10 student

This series of TIES 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.

Two Retrospectives: John Oswald and Paul Dolden
Aug 12, 2016 @ 7:30 PM
Geary Lane, 360 Geary Avenue, Toronto
$15/$10 student

A special feature of this year’s Sound Travels Toronto Festival will be a concert on August 12 focusing on works by two highly distinguished voices in Canadian electroacoustic music: Governor General award-winning and prolific media artist and composer John Oswald, known for his famous Plunderphonics recordings among a host of other engaging and original projects; and Paul Dolden, winner of over 20 international music awards, is an innovator in the use of his unique approach to audio technology, using it as a platform from which to launch or capture otherwise impossible musical performances. The concert will feature the world première of Dolden’s Air of the Rainbow Robe and Feathered Skirt, a new work commissioned by NAISA with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

INSTALLATIONS

Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet
July 4 - Oct 28, 24/7, FREE
Between the pier and the boardwalk on Centre Island
Toronto Island, Toronto, ON

Synthecycletron was commissioned in 2006 by New Adventures in Sound Art and has been a Toronto Island favourite amongst Toronto cyclists and visitors ever since. It is an interactive installation where the public generates power by pedaling on stationary bicycles which in turn activate synthesizers and generate sounds connected to the pedaling movement.

'Birth and Death Frequencies’ from A Time to Hear for Here (2007) by John Oswald
Co-presented with the Canadian Music Centre
Aug 8-26, Mon to Thurs, 9 AM to 5 PM & Fri, 9 AM to 1 PM
Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
FREE Admission

The Birth and Death Frequencies is a component from John Oswald's site-specific sound installation for the Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum. Using the high frequency characteristics of directional speakers this component from the expansive reflection on time, space and Canadian identity gave the illusion of sounds whispering into the ear of the visitor. Although magical and mysterious, it was also rarely heard as it was situated in a remote part of the Crystal. For the month of August, the Birth and Death Frequencies will be heard anew where they will receive special focus in the composer’s lounge of the Canadian Music Centre.

New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. NAISA is partially funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation.

Media Inquiries: Nadene Thériault-Copeland [email protected]
Festival information: www.naisa.ca/soundtravels