Lingap n. (tagalog): compassionate care

One of the ways Kat Estacio learned to tend to and receive care from community during the pandemic was through food. She looked at the work being done by community pantries that had popped-up across the Philippines like the Maginhawa Community Pantry in Quezon City and Community Fridges in Toronto; these local and decentralized initiatives addressed food security in ways that governments (and it’s partnered community agencies) could not.

Kat started building the track with a bell/chime synth sound to spell out “Kumain k n b” (have you eaten) in Morse code. This message is usually how she and her beloveds show their care, by asking if we had eaten. She took inspiration from the time when Banana Ketchup was invented (wartime era) and used the rhythm of the Morse code as a foundation to build the piece. The notes she used are based on the tuning of the Kulintang, which is accompanied by some pads and drums. Dale then added kulintang rhythms, flute and some fat beats. Their guiding principle is 8+5: using the 8 gongs of Maguindanaon kulintang from Mindanao and 5 for the pentatonic scale of Kalinga music from Northern Luzon. Together it is 13, the number of the divine feminine, an invitation to turn towards our caring nature and to nourish ourselves and our community. A reminder that to care for each other is revolutionary, that there is strength in togetherness, and what is fed and cared for is what flourishes. Lingap was included in Nusasonic Radio, episode 5: Banana Ketchup, produced by HERESY and WSK.

Kat Estacio is a multimedia artist, musician, educator and organizer based in Tkaronto/Toronto. They create experiences centred in meaning-making and expressing emotion and story through sound and music. They are also a member of nationally acclaimed Filipinx gong artpop outfit, Pantayo.

Dale Bazar is a composer and an arranger who incorporates and explores the use of traditional Filipino instruments in his works. He studied Asian music at the University of the Philippines. He is also a teacher and a guitar player by trade.

The Deep Wireless 18 Compilation Album is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2024 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The works on the album 'reimagine' the voices and sounds of broadcast transmission and uncover the ghosts of the ether and the latent musicality between station signals. Featured on this album are works from Canada, Portugal and the UK by Bekah Simms, Keith de Mendonca, Cláudio de Pina, Martín Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, AJ Cornell and Rutmeat.

Editions 9 through 17 of the Deep Wireless Compilation are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions can be heard online at naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/

Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on this compilation album.

Note that Deep Wireless 18 is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa@naisa.ca for more information.

Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

New Adventures in Sound Art acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinabe peoples covered by the Williams Treaty (1923) and Robinson-Huron Treaty (1850). New Adventures in Sound Art recognizes the significant ongoing contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to aural culture in the country known as Canada.

Deep Wireless 18

Lingap by Kat Estacio And Dale Bazar

B-Radio is a series of radio shows mashing b- list genres with radio art. For Deep Wireless, the NRRF cosmo-noise-nauts voyage into uncharted territories of deep (radio) space. This piece is an excerpt from a May 2013 live telematic performance between collective members in Toronto and Chicago.

NRRF is a collaborative effort to make unlicensed translocal neighborhood radio art. NRRF mashes b-list film genres with radio art to structure the improvisational nature of its shows. The core group consists of Jonny Farrow, Anna Friz, Steve Germana, Jeff Kolar, and Peter Speer, with Sarah Knudtson (documentation). For more information on NRRF: https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/59pd5w

The Deep Wireless 15 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2021 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The album celebrates the 20th Anniversary of both New Adventures in Sound Art and Deep Wireless and is comprised of past performances produced for the festival by New Adventures in Sound Art.

Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions can be heard online at naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/

Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on NAISA's Soundcloud page.

Note that Deep Wireless 15 is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa@naisa.ca for more information.

Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Deep Wireless 15

Deep Wireless Albums

NRRF - B - Radio - Voyage To The Forbidden Planet

Visiting Grandpa is a multi-channel soundscape based on my memories of my grandfather. It was written when I learned that the Iranian revolutionary guard demolished the historic cemetery of Baha'is in Shiraz (Iran), where my grandfather's remains were buried as well as those of many other Baha'is'.
I'd like to thank my husband, Kamran Fallah, for the translation of the original text into English; Nika Khanjani, for her powerful narration of the story; and Roya Sepehri, for creating a serene atmosphere by chanting prayers beautifully in Persian.

Parisa Sabet is an Iranian composer based in Toronto. Parisa’s compositions have a unique and lyrical quality that stems out of blending elements of Eastern and Western’s musical languages. Parisa is a recipient of several grants and scholarships including the 2016 Irene R. Miller and Anoush Khoshkish Fellowship in Music, the 2015 Ann H Atkinson Prize in Composition, the 2014-2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and the John Weinzweig Graduating Scholarship. She was also a recipient of a 2013-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship. Professionally, her compositions have won various competitions and have been performed in different venues in North America. Currently, she is pursuing her DMA in composition at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Christos Hatzis. For more information, please visit: http://www.parisasabet.com

Deep Wireless 13 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2018 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The contents of the album were curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme Sonic Reflections.

Editions 9 through 13 of the Deep Wireless Compilation are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions can be heard online at naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/

Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on NAISA's Soundcloud page.

Note that Deep Wireless 13 is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa@naisa.ca for more information.

Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Parisa Sabet - Visting Grandpa

Live performance by Martin Marier on his digital musical instrument The Sponge performed on January 17, 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River.

Martin Marier at NAISA - Art's Birthday Performance

Gateway

Kime Ani

(2018) for string quartet, 6 channel tape, PVC tubes, and DMX lights

live performance recorded on April 5, 2018
by Spektral Quartet
CHIMEFEST
Logan Center for the Arts
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

mixed by Ted Moore
CHIME Studio
University of Chicago

circle by Ted Moore

NAISA project 

Piece for objects found in the street (2021)
by Anne-F Jacques

realised by Ryoko Akama on 10th January
objects collected between Almondbury Village and Huddersfield town in the midst of national lock down 2021.

My usual scavenging people's skips and picking up litters from street ceased in April 2020. It was an important life routine. In the meantime, I walk more in the deep woods from small to large. 

Objects used here were collected during my one hour walk. not too perfect but did the tasks. 

One thing impossible was 'take-out coffee' so an old and small cardboard box with a lid was used.

Piece For Objects Found In The Street

Music Concrete, Noise, Minimal. For Art’s 1 000 058th birthday and Anne-F

o.t. (pour Anne - F.)

Based on a text score by Anne-F Jacques as part of Art's Birthday 2021 with NAISA. Sounds recorded with mics inside a tin can and open placement. Found objects. Post production - noise reduction only, no effects, no EQ, no compression.

Sounds from a can - Art's Birthday

Realization of a text score by Anne-F Jacques for Art's Birthday 2021. The text score required one to use a take out coffee cup and lid over top of a microphone or portable audio recorder - in a sense, taking the place of a contact microphone. I didn't have a paper coffee cup on hand so I used a portable coffee thermos.  The last part of the score asks to open the window or door, allowing some outside sound in.  However, the day of the recording the sound ambience was very quiet - mid-winter in the country.  So this last part is difficult to discern other than the playing of the objects is captured through air transmission rather than through the material of an object such as coffee thermos.

Realization of Anne-F Jacques' "Piece for objects found in the Street"

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a Canadian non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Cross Waves and SOUNDplay. 
NAISA's Soundcloud page features the Deep Wireless online compilations. recordings of past performances, and select editions of its Making Waves radio program for WGXC at the Wavefarm in Acra, NY.

Lingap by Kat Estacio And Dale Bazar

NAISA

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