"In a world that often focuses too much on the visual, Sound Travels 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.

ONGOING ANNUAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION on TORONTO ISLAND

Synthecycletron by Barry Prophet Interactive installation now open 24/7 on Toronto Island
June 27 - Oct 16, 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.

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SOUND TRAVELS PERFORMANCES

An Octopus in the Market
Aug 4, 2012 @ 10am - noon
at the Stop Farmer's Market, Barn 5 outdoor walkway, 601 Christie St

Live outdoor Sound Art Performances by Octopus. Octopus is an eight limbed percussionist that is the sum of Germaine Liu + Mark Zurawinski. Over the past few years, they have collaborated with a host of Toronto-based groups, improvisers and composers, and have had the privilege of performing at a number of great Canadian music festivals including, The Guelph Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival – Next Wave Series, Sound Travels Festival, 416 Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. Recently they have been working on composing, and commissioning a body of new duo percussion works.

Sound Travels Intensive Concert
Aug 11, 2012, @ 8:00 PM $5
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252

Performance of work created by artists participating in the week-long Sound Travels Intensive. Hear and see experimental sound art performances at the explorative “bread-board” stage.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Concerts
Aug 15 & 16, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
$15/10 (free with Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium admission)
Wychwood Theatre
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #176

NAISA and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community host two concerts with 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.

Flocking, Concert with performances by Terri Hron, Trevor Wishart and Paul Dutton
Aug 17, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
$15/10 (free with Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium admission)
Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176

NAISA welcomes recorder player and composer Terri Hron who will present a work of her own plus perform works composed by Emilie Cecilia Lebel, Robert Normandeau, and Paula Matthusen which will also be featured on her upcoming CD release Flocking Patterns. Following Hron's performance is a “back by popular demand” performance of Tomás Henriques' work Duality from last year's Symposium with Henriques' performing on his unique instrument the Double-slide Controller and integrating it with the NAISA spatialization system. The evening of live performances will conclude with a duet sound singing improvisation by Toronto's original sound singing legend Paul Dutton and Sound Travels guest artist Trevor Wishart.

Artist Salon with Terri Hron
Aug 18, 2012, 10 am to 12 pm
FREE Admssion
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252

After you have explored the fabulous Farmer's Market at the barns come up to the NAISA Space and join Terri Hron in a special free performance and artist talk. She will talk about her live works for recorder and electronics and for the Canadian repertoire she is developing for this unusual combination. She will perform a number of works from this repertoire and she will also be joined by violinist Andréa Tyniec in a new work created for her called A Love Song for M.A.D.

Encounters Concert with Trevor Wishart
Aug 18, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
$15/10 (free with Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium admission)
Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie Street #176

Encounters in the Republic of Heaven is an 8-channel sound-surround piece completed on January 1st 2011 based on speaking voices recorded in the North East of England where Trevor Wishart was A.C.E. Composer-in-Residence from October 1st, 2006 to September 2009, based at the University of Durham. The piece is constructed in 4 Acts of approximately 20 minutes each, combining portraits of individual speakers (accompanied by sounds and imaginary instruments derived from the voices themselves) with computer animation of the entire community of voices - speech that waltzes, speech that locks in harmony, clouds of speech that circle the audience, culminating with speech that transforms into song.

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SOUND TRAVELS INSTALLATIONS

Ghostwood a/v by Michael Trommer
Aug 15 to 18, 2012 – Wed 6-10pm; Thurs-Sat 7-10 pm
Aug 24 to 26, 2012 – Fri 7-9 pm; Sat 11am -1 pm & 7-9 pm; Sun 2-4 pm
Reception with artist Aug 15 @ 6 pm
Admission by Donation ($5 suggested)
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252

Ghostwood a/v is an audio-visual installation which investigates the psychogeography of Ontario's northern wilderness. It is primarily focused on the use of infrasound, provided by specially-constructed tactile transducers, and is supported with a single-channel video component. It is part of an ongoing series of sound-art projects which investigates the liminal spaces which exist between humans and their natural environment. The project title is a reference to those suburban neighbourhoods in which the sole memory of what has been displaced or eradicated as a result of their construction survives in the now-prosaic street names ('Valleyview', 'Forest Hill', etc.). This version of the project focuses on the 'near north', rural areas where the encroachment of civilization has clearly begun, but in which nature has yet to be suppressed as a dominating force.

PulseCubes by Ryo Ikeshiro
Aug 15 to 18, 2012 – Wed 6-10pm; Thurs-Sat 7-10 pm
Aug 24 to 26, 2012 – Fri 7-9 pm; Sat 11am -1 pm & 7-9 pm; Sun 2-4 pm
Reception with artist Aug 15 @ 6 pm
Admission by Donation ($5 suggested)
NAISA Space, 601 Christie Street #252

PulseCubes is an interactive sound installation. Visitors are invited to become part of an implicit feedback loop whose other components include a set of small cubes on a flat surface, computer vision and digital signal processing. The cubes are tracked by a web camera positioned overhead and processed through a partially opaque system implemented in the programming environment Max/MSP/Jitter. Audience interaction is created through the placement and movements of these cubes acting as a control device which in turn results in the production of audio and physical vibrations.

Trace by Tristan Whiston & Moynan King
Co-Presented with FADO
Aug 24 to 26, 2012
August 24, 7-9pm (opening and performance)
August 25, 11am-1pm AND 7pm-9pm (installation and performance)
August 26, 2pm-4pm (installation and performance)
Admission by Donation ($5 suggested)
Christie Studio, 601 Christie Street #170

trace: evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something

Can one man stand amidst his many voices and find herself there? Can one man sing harmony with different parts of himself? Can we trace the sound of ourselves as we change? If so, what remains of the original voice?

trace is an interdisciplinary work integrating sound, video, live performance and installation in an exploration of voice. This immersive sound based installation uses archival recordings taken before and during Tristan Whiston’s gender transition from female to male along with recent recordings and live vocals. Throughout the room are 12 speakers through which the audience can piece together their own experience of a multi-part soundscape with each speaker playing a single element or part. Audience is invited to contribute to the performance by entering one of the installation’s beach inspired changing huts and, using old-fashioned technology, create their own vocal recording, eliciting an experience of auditory self-reflection.

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SOUND TRAVELS INTENSIVE & SYMPOSIUM

Sound Travels Intensive for Sound and Media Artists
Aug 7 to 11, 2012
$175 registration fee (note registration fee also includes a free Sound Travels concert pass)
NAISA Space, 601 Christie #252, Toronto

The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists, composers and musicians from across Canada and around the world to create and present new work in Toronto, exchange ideas with others, and hone their skills in diverse aspects of sound, media and electroacoustic practice. Five intense days of workshop sessions, private instruction and creative activity culminate in a public concert presentation at Toronto's Artscape Wychwood Barns. This year's Intensive features masterclasses by renowned acousmatic composer Trevor Wishart, alongside core workshops in audio production (Darren Copeland), interactive audio & MaxMSP (David Ogborn), DIY electronics plus guest lectures by Emilie LeBel and more. Participants must apply by Friday July 15 at 12 noon Toronto time to be eligible for a limited number of scholarship and billeting possibilities.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
August 15 - 18, 2012, $70/$35
Wychwood Theatre and Christie Studio, 601 Christie St, Toronto

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) are pleased to announce the 6th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2012. At the heart of this 6th annual symposium will be a keynote lecture by Sound Travels featured artist Trevor Wishart (UK). The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC's online journal, eContact!