Sound Connections is constructed from 3 distinctive sounds. They are all from technologies that used sound to provide human connection across long distances. The sound sources include morse code, a dial up modem “handshake” and a shortwave interval signal from Radio Canada International.

Anton Pickard is a multimedia practitioner who uses images, video and sound for personal expression and has been doing so in various forms for over 45 years. He continues to explore new ways of expression with the emergence of new media tools and techniques. Some of his work is available at: www.antonpickard.com

The Deep Wireless 17 Compilation Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2023 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The works on the album are curated on the theme “Remote Connections”. The album includes a cross spectrum of radio and transmission art practices and includes work created for performances, gallery installations and online audio that brings together influences from documentary, poetry and electronic music among others. 

Editions 9 through 16 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 17 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 17

Anton Pickard - Sound Connections

Postcard From South River by Yan St-Onge is part of an album pieces by Canadian musicians, sound artists and media artists Victoria Fenner, Yan St-Onge, Troy Ouellette and Anton Pickard.

The pieces on the album were made during the weekend intensive workshop 48hr Sound Art Challenge that was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art. The workshop provided an environment for sound artists to create a short sound art piece during a short residency at Warbler's Roost in South River, Ontario, Canada.

Participating artists were encouraged to make a piece less than 5 minutes in duration that spoke to the 'here and now' to someone real or imagined, familiar or unfamiliar.

Album photo by Anton Pickard.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit media arts organization in South River, Ontario, Canada that presents exhibitions, performances and broadcasts spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Explore NAISA's soundcloud page for more sound art and radio art.

Yan St-Onge - Postcard From South River

Rutmeat says about this piece, "“I don’t really want to prescribe anything to the listener. The piece is made w contact mics, beaded belongings and a cymbal on the floor.” The piece is mixed by Oscar Vargas.

RUTMEAT is a project by Gwich’in sounder Jeneen Frei Njootli. RUTMEAT has worked with the initiative Constellations and been invited to sound from Dawson City Yukon to New York City. 

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

Your Violence is Soft by Rutmeat

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.

Lingap by Kat Estacio And Dale Bazar

Using a NASA recording of a pulsar as a starting point, String Pulse by Bekah Simms interweaves processed sounds of space with electric guitar recordings performed by Graham Banfield that are part of Simms’ personal library. There is a serendipitous synergy to these two seemingly disparate sounds - electric guitar seems to live easily amidst sometimes grainy, sometimes rumbling recordings of stars, planets, and other galactic objects. Various interpretations of “pulsar” are used throughout the short work, from the recording itself to granulation in the shape of Carl Sagan’s pulsar map to regular flashes of short, bright guitar harmonics. "String Pulse" was created as part of the Turbulent Forms workshop in 2017 with guidance from Dan Tapper.

JUNO award-winning Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments. Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe and she has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competition selections, nominations, and prizes. Bekah Simms is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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.

String Pulse by Bekah Simms

Neurotransmits (anagram of ‘number stations’) is an electroacoustic composition that explores the eerie and mysterious world of number stations. Featuring sounds from ‘The Buzzer’, ‘The Pip’, Lincolnshire Poacher, among others from different countries. The sounds of the number stations are woven together with the electronic hum and other electronic apparatus, evoking a sense of cold war operations. Other sounds mimic capacitors discharging such as bullets and bouncing balls.

Cláudio de Pina is a sound artist, improviser, organist and composer. He is the Titular Organist of the historical organ at the Parish of Ajuda in Lisbon and a researcher in GIMC (CESEM). He holds a DAS in contemporary organ music and a MA distinguished with the Dean’s Honour Roll 2018. Currently he is a PhD candidate and FCT fellow in the same field (ESML/FCSH). He has studied at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, Hot Jazz Club and in Physics Engineering (FCUL) along with further studies with Adrian Moore, Åke Parmerud, Annette Vande Gorne, Barry Truax, Gilles Gobeil, Hans Tutschku and Trevor Wishart.

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.

Neurotransmits by Cláudio De Pina

Pigeon Band by Emmie Tsumura is included on 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation Album, which is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2025 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.  The compilation includes works by radio artists and sound artists that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna (Canada), Emmie Tsumura (Canada), Marieke Van de ven (Holland), Andra McCartney (Canada), Matthew Driggs McMurray (USA) and Dann Disciglio (USA). Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

The multi-species Pigeon Band project began with the question: “Do pigeons like music?” Two toy synth keyboards were installed on Emmie Tsumara's kitchen window sill, awaiting the daily pigeon visitors. Over several months of practice, the pigeons learned to play the keyboard as they snacked on sunflower seeds. Though each pigeon can be hard to tell apart visually, they each have their own personalities and movements. With those differences they each play a different song.

The Pigeon Band benefited from the collaboration of many artists and friends: Blunderspublik, D Badua, Julia Fenn, Charlie Glasspool, Sarah DeCarlo, Polly-Jean Vernon, Veronica Ing, The Burning Hell, Jas Nasty, Chris International, Babe Chorus, Anomalia and Charlie Petch.

The album was produced by Emmie Tsumura and mastered by Julia Fenn. It debuted as an audio-visual installation at the 27th Annual Reel Asian International Film Festival in Toronto in November 2023 and the project received support from the Ontario Arts Council. 

Emmie Tsumura is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and pigeonfluencer. She enjoys working where politics meets the every day, and advocates for more accessible, inclusive, and joyful communities through justice-oriented design strategies. She holds a masters in design from York University, with current area of research focusing on chaos, absurdity, and the occult.

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Deep Wireless 19 Radio Art Compilation

Deep Wireless 19

Emmie Tsumura - Pigeon Band

Non-predictable by Omar Reyna is included on 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation Album, which is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2025 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.  The compilation includes works by radio artists and sound artists that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna (Canada), Emmie Tsumura (Canada), Marieke Van de ven (Holland), Andra McCartney (Canada), Matthew Driggs McMurray (USA) and Dann Disciglio (USA). Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

“Non-predictable” is an exploration of  the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have emotions that fluctuate over time? This piece is arranged in three sections that are approximately 15 minutes each.

Omar Reyna is a Mexican-Canadian interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the intersection of research and the activity of making. He believes that the process of making art while experimenting serves as a form of physical thinking. Much of his artistic practice takes place in the Boreal Forest near Whitehorse, Yukon, where he lives and works.

Born in Mexico City, Omar Reyna has studied visual communication, photography, sculpture, painting, and the philosophy of image. His work has been exhibited in various countries, including Canada, Argentina, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Notably, Omar was a finalist for the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts in 2023. 

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Omar Reyna - Non-predictable

Zand by Marieke Van de ven is included on 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation Album, which is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2025 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.  The compilation includes works by radio artists and sound artists that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna (Canada), Emmie Tsumura (Canada), Marieke Van de ven (Holland), Andra McCartney (Canada), Matthew Driggs McMurray (USA) and Dann Disciglio (USA). Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

ZAND is artistic research with sand grains as material, concept and sound. Viewed from different perspectives, the sand grains become a place to explore and wander. A composition of subtle grains to colossal layers of sound and back again. A movement, a duration, a route.
 
As a composer and sound artist, Marieke Van de ven likes to zoom in on environmental sounds. Starting with the sound of sand was a sonic adventure where texture and associations with the material were guiding the process. In search of the meaning of the ordinary under our feet and always returning to the origin of the material.

Marieke van de Ven creates sound walks, podcasts, audio stories, electro-acoustic compositions and field recordings. Inspired by the sounds surrounding us, she investigates the musicality and narratives formed by nature and urban environments. Within the stratification of field recordings, abstract sounds, interviews and text, she explores the relationship between sound and storytelling.  To download and purchase Zand, visit Marieke Van de ven's Bandcamp page - https://mariekevandeven.bandcamp.com/

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Marieke Van de ven - Zand

Meta-Frequency Field Recording: Salt Lake City // Ensign Peak by Matthew Driggs McMurray is part of the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation Album, which is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2025 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.  The album includes works by radio artists and sound artists that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna (Canada), Emmie Tsumura (Canada), Marieke Van de ven (Holland), Andra McCartney (Canada), Matthew Driggs McMurray (USA) and Dann Disciglio (USA). Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

Ensign Peak is a prominent lookout point near downtown Salt Lake City. Per historical accounts, early settlers used this hill to survey the valley, perform religious services and receive divine messages.  Matthew Driggs McMurray hiked to Ensign Peak to record whatever signals and messages were present on the same hilltop site.   There are three layers to the ‘Meta-Frequency’ recording capture that he made:

 Layer I: The Natural (ORTF stereo)
 Layer II: The Physical (Weather radio)
 Layer III: The Electromagnetic (EMF scanner)

The EMF antenna scans included 1) the open environment, 2) the electromagnetic fields created by the recording equipment itself, and 3) the artist's own body (acting as a conduit for radio signals).

Matthew Driggs McMurray is an experimental electronic musician, Emmy Award winning composer, and sound designer based in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Matthew Driggs McMurray - Meta-Frequency Field Recording: Salt Lake City // Ensign Peak

Black Poplar 86.3 MHz by Dann Disciglio is included on the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation. The compilation includes works that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna, Emmie Tsumura, Marieke Van de ven, Andra McCartney, Matthew Driggs McMurray and Dann Disciglio.  Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

This recording of the inner vibrations of a black poplar tree (45°22'53.6"N 92°42'17.6"W) is taken from a series of land artworks in which sounds detected within the bodies of living trees are broadcast into their surrounding environments in real time. These sounds are detected by attaching industrial grade accelerometers to various sections of the tree, e.g., the trunk, branches, roots and are transmitted over FM and UHF frequency ranges. They are accessible in their environments via a radio receiver.

Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist who utilizes technology to explore notions of intelligence & vitality in biological and abiological systems. Disciglio’s work manifests as compositions, installations, performances, and screen based media which challenge his audience to encounter the world differently - acoustically, temporally, ecologically, perceptually - according to the techne of the work itself.

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Dann Disciglio - Black Poplar 86.3 MHz

Waiting Games And Widespread Smoke (feat. Narcy) by Andra McCartney is included on 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Compilation Album, which is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2025 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.  The compilation includes works by radio artists and sound artists that examine the relationship of people and the natural world.  Unheard and unexpected encounters with nature are brought to life in works by Omar Reyna (Canada), Emmie Tsumura (Canada), Marieke Van de ven (Holland), Andra McCartney (Canada), Matthew Driggs McMurray (USA) and Dann Disciglio (USA). Info and more radio art compilations are available here - https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD18

This piece is based on a train trip from Toronto to Vancouver that Andra McCarthy took in August 2018. In the piece she reflects on the journey, and the widespread smoke and freight delays that structured it. The way that she worked with the sounds was inspired by a quote from Dylan Robinson's curatorial score Soundings (Kingston ON 2018)  "the sub-frequency of colonial labour resonates your body". Vocals are by Andra McCartney and Narcy (the Narcicyst). This piece premiered by New Adventures in Sound Art, South River, ON, in multi-channel form realized by Darren Copeland.

Andra McCartney (1955-2019) is a sound artist and composer that led public SOUNDwalks and created gallery installations, recordings, performances and radio works. Her works were heard on CBC radio, and on 1st Deep Wireless Compilation CD along with releases by Terra Nova and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. 

After completing her PhD dissertation at York University on the soundscape work of Vancouver composer Hildegard Westerkamp, Andra taught at Concordia University and published articles with Organised Sound, Leonardo Music Journal, Perspectives of New Music, Musicworks, Axis Voor de Kunsten V/M, Contact!, Array, Resources for Feminist Research, and Borderlines, as well as chapters in several edited volumes, including Performing Nature, Aural Cultures, Gender and Music, Ghosts in the Machine. 

In 2002, she edited an issue of the journal Organised Sound on the topic of soundscape composition. In 2006, she co-edited with Dr. Ellen Waterman a special issue of Intersections Journal of Canadian Music, based on papers presented at the “In and Out of the Sound Studio” Conference on gender and sound technologies, which she directed at Concordia University in July 2005. You can hear her works on the andrasound Soundcloud page.

Deep Wireless 19 Credits for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA):
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Andra McCartney - Waiting Games And Widespread Smoke (feat. Narcy)

South River Seniors Telling Their Stories is a community-made collection of stories, anecdotes, aural history and reminiscences told by Seniors who live in South River, Ontario.

Recorded on October 16th, 2024 at the South River Friendly Circle in South River, Ontario, Canada are the voices of Keith Thornborrow, Myrna Hickingbottom, Keitha Redmond, Sandra Train, Nadene Thériault-Copeland and Darren Copeland.

The stories in this series are broadcast on NAISA Radio every Saturday at 1 pm and are available as a podcast or as individual audio segments on @naisa

“South River Seniors Telling Their Stories” is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art as part of the South River Storytelling Project for Seniors. The project is funded by the Government of Canada through the New Horizons for Seniors program.

73 - South River had many entrepreneurs -  John Dyke was one of them

Episode 6 of South River Seniors Telling their Stories. A program of stories, anecdotes and aural history capturing life in the village of South River.  South River is located in the Almaguin Highlands region of Parry Sound District about half way between the cities of Huntsville and North Bay in Ontario, Canada.

Today’s episode is from a recording made on October 16th, 2024 at the South River Friendly Circle. It features stories collected by Keith Thornborrow - including the Cadger and the River Drivers and Nancy the Moose.  Those stories sparked discussion about the many highway businesses that sprung up after the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets. Those businesses reached a peak in the early 2000’s before the Highway was re-routed to bypass South River in 2011. Other businesses have played a part in the life of the village, such as Standard Chemical, logging camps, lumber mills and the many roadside attractions that faded away after the highway bypass opened.

In today’s episode you will hear the voices of Keith Thornborrow, Myrna Hickingbottom, Keitha Redmond, Sandra Train, Nadene Thériault-Copeland and Darren Copeland.


South River Seniors Telling Their Stories - ep6

South River Seniors Telling Their Stories is a community-made collection of stories, anecdotes, aural history and reminiscences told by Seniors who live in South River, Ontario.

Recorded on October 23, 2024 at the South River Friendly Circle in South River, Ontario, Canada are the voices of Keitha Redmond, Joy Campbell, Nadene Thériault-Copeland and Darren Copeland.

The stories in this series are broadcast on NAISA Radio every Saturday at 1 pm and are available as a podcast or as individual audio segments on @naisa

“South River Seniors Telling Their Stories” is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art as part of the South River Storytelling Project for Seniors. The project is funded by the Government of Canada through the New Horizons for Seniors program.


91 - I hear a train.. the train is coming

The ice is not just treacherous above the surface. The ice is a place where old things lay dormant. I wanted to create something of an audible thriller piece by establishing suspense, and building a feeling of dread from what may be uncovered, or what may be waiting to be freed. I did this by using sounds of scraping, digging and deep pulsating bass tones for rhythmic timing to play with a sense of urgency. Tension is built and held in the listener, allowing the feeling to linger before slowly allowing it to fade

Shaughn Martel is a queer and non-binary experimental media artist practicing in Toronto, Canada. Their work is inspired by the unseen and unheard worlds of natural phenomena, networks of technology and the gaps in human faculties. Shaughn pushes creative boundaries of physical materials, and infrastructure by experimenting with the sound of wifi data, and the sounds of personal devices of electro-magnetic fields. In 2023 Shaughn was awarded the Nora E. Vaughn Award and graduated with honors from OCAD University with a BFA in Integrated Media. In 2022, they were the first recipient of the James Bailey Award by New Adventures in Sound Art.

Waiting... by Shaughn Martel was created for the 2025 edition of the Ice Follies Festival, a presentation by Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay with artistic and technical support from New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA).  Works by Canadian artists Stephanie Dupuis, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling and Kyle Vanderlaan are also part of this album and presentation. All of the pieces on the album use ice sounds recorded by the artists on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake, and in the case of Lina Choi, the St. Lawrence River in Montreal.  

Photo by Alejandra Lara.

Ice Follies 2025

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Shaughn Martel - Waiting...

Murmuring Beneath by Lina Choi was created for the 2025 edition of the Ice Follies Festival, a presentation by Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay with artistic and technical support from New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA).  Works by Canadian artists Stephanie Dupuis, Shaughn Martel, Genevieve Kiessling and Kyle Vanderlaan are also part of this album and presentation. All of the pieces on the album use ice sounds recorded by the artists on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake, and in the case of Lina Choi, the St. Lawrence River in Montreal.   Photo by Alejandra Lara.

Lina Choi - Murmuring Beneath

"This piece is my first time working with sound as a medium in this way. There are a huge variety of sounds involved in the freezing and thawing of the lake; having a relationship with large body of water over years of time means becoming familiar with the sound of human interaction with many forms of water. These sounds bring up a lot of different types of nostalgia for me. My one regret is that I wanted to include the sound of a campfire. Fire knows all about slippery ice." - Genevieve Kiessling

Genevieve Kiessling's sound art piece was created for the 2025 edition of the Ice Follies Festival, a presentation by Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay with artistic and technical support from New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). Works by Canadian artists Shaughn Martel, Stephanie Dupuis, Lina Choi and Kyle Vanderlaan are also part of this album and presentation. All of the pieces on the album use ice sounds recorded by the artists on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake, and in the case of Lina Choi, the St. Lawrence River in Montreal.

Genevieve Kiessling - Ice Follies Piece

Cross Waves is a Canadian Sound Art series presented by New Adventures in Sound Art that includes performances and internet radio programs curated by eight media artists representing various regional and cultural perspectives in Canada: Chantal Dumas, Steve Bates, Jason Ryle, Peter Courtemanche, Janna Graham, Christof Migone, Anna Friz and Eleanor King.

CrossWaves 6 - "Material Sounds" curated by Anna Friz



South River Seniors Telling Their Stories is a community-made collection of stories, anecdotes, aural history and reminiscences told by Seniors who live in South River, Ontario.

The stories were collected in a weekly storytelling circle at The South River Friendly Circle and are broadcast on NAISA Radio every Saturday at 1 pm. The stories are also available as a podcast or as individual audio segments on @naisa

“South River Seniors Telling Their Stories” is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art as part of the South River Storytelling Project for Seniors. The project is funded by the Government of Canada through the New Horizons for Seniors program.


South River Seniors Telling Their Stories - ep22

South River Seniors Telling Their Stories is a community-made collection of stories, anecdotes, aural history and reminiscences told by Seniors who live in South River, Ontario.

The stories were collected in a weekly storytelling circle at The South River Friendly Circle and are broadcast on NAISA Radio every Saturday at 1 pm. The stories are also available as a podcast or as individual audio segments on @naisa

“South River Seniors Telling Their Stories” is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art as part of the South River Storytelling Project for Seniors. The project is funded by the Government of Canada through the New Horizons for Seniors program.


272 - Younger brother had nine lives

271 - Ervens sold the farm then became a Golf course

264 - Saturday Night outings 1st of July picnic at EagleLake

258 - Grew up where Eagle Lake golf course is now delivering ice, milk and eggs to the tourist

262 - Henry and Emma Erven loved gardening

261 - Lots of Snow in the Winter Time... logging in Lount

Cross Waves #8: “Noodaagun Beacons” 
curated by Jason Ryle

As societies based on orality, Indigenous cultures have an intricate and special connection to sound itself. Histories, teachings, stories, and information transmitted from mouth to ear, from ear to heart and mind…and to action. The spirit of Indigenous sound waves - Noodaagun in the Anishinabe language - are explored in this collection of works created by Indigenous artists from across Canada. We are surrounded by Indigenous sound waves and this land has been bathed in the sounds of Indigenous people for millennia. With the recent cultural and artistic renaissance of Indigenous media arts, Indigenous artists working in audio are creating sonic embodiments of their experiences and representations of their culture; aural beacons that invite you to listen and share in the legacy of this land. 

Cross Waves is a Canadian Sound Art series that includes performances and internet radio programs curated by eight media artists representing various regional and cultural perspectives in Canada: Chantal Dumas, Steve Bates, Jason Ryle, Peter Courtemanche, Janna Graham, Christof Migone, Anna Friz and Eleanor King. 

The programs in the Series were made between July 2014 and December 2015. The content is contextualized by the curators through commentaries and essays that provide a comprehensive overview of sound art throughout Canada since the 1980's. 

To read more visit - http://naisa.ca/festivals/cross-waves-series/

Cross Waves 8 - "Noodaagun Beacons" Curated by Jason Ryle

'Hyvät matkustajat' began as a "sonic postcard from Finland", using soundscape field recordings from around the country. The original material was later further developed as material for sonic exploration and spectral transformations. Everything in 'Hyvät matkustajat' is made from the original field recordings that first gave birth to the piece.

James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a composer and a performer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic music, improvisation, sound art, and audiovisuals. He is a lecturer at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre of De Montfort University.

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

Deep Wireless 13

James Andean - Hyvät matkustajat

‘Caught Between Two Worlds (Seen Off Scarborough)’ is a new take on the myth of the ‘selkies’: the seal people. The work combines the artist’s narrative with field recordings of the sea (at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK); recordings of family members discussing the selkie myth; original music and sound art.

Sarah Dew is a songwriter, composer, sound artist, singer, pianist, penny whistler, music teacher, choir leader and performer. Currently she is studying for Masters in Music degree (MMus) at Hull University, UK. Her work is inspired by her local coastline, where she records people and places of personal significance, adding credibility and an archival angle to the immersive experience of her creations.

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 12 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

Sarah Dew - Caught Between Two Worlds (Seen Off Scarborough)

Gateway invites listeners to feel the ecological and social changes affecting the Kiewa Valley and High Country in Australia. It is created by little stories that describe the relationship between people and their environment.

Gateway is a sound art project produced by the Bogong Center for Sound Culture. Fieldwork was made possible with the assistance of B-CSC's supported residency program, French Institute and the municipality of Toulouse.

Benoit Bories is a sound documentary maker and acousmatic composer. He creates works for radio (France Culture, Arte radio, RTBF, RTS, live performance and theater. He has won several prizes and mentions in international festivals (Prix Phonurgia, Prix Europa, Prix Bohemia, Prix Italia, Sheffield Audio Award).

The Deep Wireless 14 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2019 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 Off the Beat(en) Track.

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 14 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 14

Deep Wireless

Benoit Bories - Gateway

"The Garden of Sonic Delights" invites the listener to enter an imaginary soundscape (one that R. Murray Schafer might describe as a “soniferous garden”) richly filled with sounds that may remind us of the actual sounds of water, wind, insects, animals and birds. Our visit will take us through the afternoon until the next morning, hopefully leaving us delighted and refreshed.

Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication and formerly the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music.Truax’s multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around the world. His music is published on Cambridge Street Records (https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/cdlist.html) and 50 complete stereo versions of his pieces are available on Sonus (https://sonus.ca/artiste/CP-1811/Barry_D_Truax?tri=titre) in recognition of his fifty years composing electroacoustic music.

The Sound Travels Online Album #1 is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2020 edition of the annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. The contents of the album are curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme "Transformations."

Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation of Radio and Transmission Art are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions (1-8) can be heard online at https://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 Sound Travels Online Album 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 at naisa dot ca for more information.

Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland

SOUND TRAVELS online album 1

Barry Truax - Garden of Sonic Delights

This performance of Mask/Mirror by Alessandro Bosetti was recorded at the 2009 Deep Wireless Radio and Transmission Art festival at the Wychwood Theatre in Toronto. 

A few months before the performance Bosetti wrote a note to himself: "Try to create a mask that that doesn't have anything to do with anything. He kept wondering what that could mean until he started to imagine Mask/Mirror.

Mask/Mirror is a sampler that processes recordings of spoken language in real time. It uses samples of Bosetti's voice creating the ambiguous situation of being interrupted by himself all the time and of having to resort to all possible resources to keep making sense. The sampler follows both sound and meaning criteria in sorting, organizing and processing samples and formulating utterances. It randomly manages sample banks of words making it possible to determine the syntactic form of a phrase (for example noun - verb - noun) but not the actual words the phrase it's made of. Mask/Mirror is a software tool based on Max/Msp that interacts with Bosetti's spoken voice during performances. It also explores the sounding character of the voice/speech material through sound processing and pitch tracking. 

Alessandro Bosetti is a composer and sound artist. He works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions along with electroacoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies,trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Since he's curious about differences he travels. Just in 2006 he's been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy.

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 Album

Alessandro Bosetti - Mask/Mirror

Christof Migone has been using contact microphones to manipulate gutted reel-to-reel machines in his live improvisations since about 1998. At first principally in the context of his work with Alexandre St-Onge in the duo undo, but also in all sorts of other configurations, with the groups Set Fire to Flames, l’oreille à Vincent, Fly Pan Am, Klaxon Gueule, Mecha Fixes Clock; and with individuals Tim Hecker, Martin Tétreault, Sam Shalabi, and Magali Babin. He usually does not like to title these types of live performances, but in 2004 organizers asked for a title, so "Fingering" came to mind, and he has been using that title or variations on it ever since.   

This performance of "Fingering" was recorded at the NAISA Space, Toronto on June 2, 2012 in an event curated for the Deep Wireless Festival by Nick Storring. Other performances of Fingering can be heard at https://christofmigone.bandcamp.com/album/fingering 

Christof Migone is an artist, curator and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, performances, intimacy, complicity, endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Pres, 2001). He has released solo audio cds on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral) and has been the recipient of commissions from the Tate Modern, Dazibao, Kunstradio, Centre for Art Tapes, New Adventures in Sound Art, Radio Canada, New American Radio. He is a founding member of Avatar (Québec City). He currently lives in Toronto and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario.

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

Christof Migone - Fingering

"Herd" is a performance which turns an ear to materials, such as caribou antlers, to sound the transmission of embedded and layered ancestral knowledge. This performance was aired live on NAISA Radio in a special Art's Birthday broadcast on January 17, 2017 in Nipissing Territory from White Water Gallery in the the exhibition "wnoondwaamin | we hear them," (curated by Lisa Myers). The exhibition called for the occupation of sound waves, exploring the capacity of these energies to access knowledge and memory. "wnoondwaamin | we hear them" was organized and circulated by Trinity Square Video with the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

It is acknowledged that this recording took place in Robinson-Huron Treaty territory and that the land on which it took place is the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg people and, specifically, the Nipissing First Nation.

Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist and a core member of the ReMatriate Collective. Her practice concerns itself with Indigeneity-in-politics, community engagement and productive disruptions. She has worked as a performance artist, workshop facilitator and crime prevention youth coordinator. As one of the five finalists of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Jeneen Frei Njootli's work "wind sucked in through bared teeth" (2017) was included in an eponymous exhibition featuring the finalists at the National Gallery of Canada. 

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

Jeneen Frei Njootli - Herd

Andrea-Jane Cornell improvises with field recordings, radio waves, and object-instruments. For this live performance recorded at the NAISA Space, Toronto in May 2015, she worked mainly with objects and machines left behind and never reclaimed, coaxing out their resonant properties and squeaky parts populating a soundscape with a confluence of broken, and sometimes silent elements.

A gleaner of sonorities, Andrea-Jane Cornell has been transforming sonic material over radio channels, and in live performance since 2003. Her approach employs additive synthesis evolving over long periods of time interjecting the meditative  with moments of rupture and détournement. She composes, designs, and mixes sound for film and video, and is a member of Le fruit vert, with artist Marie-Douce St-Jacques.          

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"

Andrea-Jane Cornell - Objets oubliés / Objects left behind

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.

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