This is a playlist of sound art interpretations of Anne-F Jacques' text score "Piece for objects found in the street" realized for NAISA's celebration of Art's Birthday 2021.  NAISA is New Adventures in Sound Art. Enjoy more albums and playlists on soundcloud.com/naisa or at naisa.ca.  You can view a video of Anne-F Jacques' own interpretation of the piece at https://youtu.be/lbKPTOHgXkM

Thanks to the many contributors and participants of this project.  Happy 1,000,058th Birthday Art!

Piece for objects found in the street
Text score for Art’s Birthday by Anne-F Jacques

Even though Art's Birthday 2021 has passed NAISA welcomes more interpretations of this piece. The instructions below suggest a way to perform and record an audio piece using found objects. You will need a recording device (digital recorder, phone, etc) and headphones. The completed piece can either be an audio or video file of 5 minutes maximum, and uploaded to a media sharing location (YouTube or Soundcloud). Share the link to your realization by email to outreach at naisa dot ca. You can also decide to keep it as a private experiment.

 1.   Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting yourself a coffee. Bring back:

   - a disposable coffee cup
   - a dense heavy object
   - a long, thin object
   - another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you

2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another way of securing it. Start recording.

3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).

4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.

5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing with it).

6. Stop the recording.

7. Edit and Mix as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed above.

Art's Birthday 2021 - Piece for objects found in the street

The word "thawra" translates to "revolution" in Arabic.

This mix is inspired by and dedicated to all people on the frontlines of resisting oppression and exploitation. The spoken word poem performed by Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd & Palestinian oud musician Clarissa Bitar in the beginning of this piece carries significant meaning in the current moment, as Palestinians in Jerusalem are faced with the violent colonial dispossession of their homes and their land. 

From Turtle Island to Palestine, from Latin America to Afghanistan and everywhere in-between, our struggles are united. I hope that this mix can energize you and breathe some life into our struggle for justice. 

A special thank you to Mayworks Festival of Working People and Arts, without whom this piece would not be possible.

Image credit: Beiruts Bright Side/BBS

#SaveSheikhJarrah

thawra ثورة

Welcome to The Last Stand podcast, a mini-series on the social life of forests, reparative land management, and just climate futures on the occasion of Creative Time’s newest public art commission, Kamala Sankaram’s experimental opera of the same name.

Expanding over five parts and ten hours, Sankaram’s The Last Stand invites us into 300 years of sonic history told entirely through field recordings. As the years unfold, the human impact on the forest becomes visceral: species disappear, storms intensify, and the drone of highways and planes becomes constant. At the heart of The Last Stand is the fundamental truth that our planetary survival depends on collaboration with our natural neighbors.

The Last Stand runs from Thursdays to Sundays starting at 8am through 6pm from September 18 – October 10, 2021 in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Creative Time projects are free and open to the public. No tickets or advance registration is required.

Visit creativetime.org for more information.

The Last Stand podcast series is produced by Patrick Smith. The music for the podcast is excerpted from The Last Stand by Kamala Sankaram.

EPISODE THREE- Rhizomatic Networks and Mutual Aid

In this episode, professor, lawyer, and organizer Dean Spade talks with mycologist Peter McCoy about applying the characteristics of fungal networks to the political work of resource distribution, resilience building, and solidarity. 

Dean Spade is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonment, gender, race, and social movements. Dean has spent over two decades working in social movements working to end prisons, borders, poverty, and war and support people trying to survive right now. In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color, and which operates on a collective governance model. Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Spade published the widely acclaimed book and toolkit Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). Alongside his book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, Dean's writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Out, In These Times, Social Text, and Signs.

Peter McCoy speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. As an interdisciplinary, systems-oriented mycology educator with 17 years of experience, Peter is considered one of the most prominent voices in the modern mycology movement. His work is widely regarded as pioneering in the topics of accessible mushroom cultivation and mycoremediation, while his in-depth mycological knowledge has also elevated his voice to one of the foremost in the less-explored fields of fungal evolution, fungal communication, and the history of fungi in human cultures. McCoy’s works include: Radical Mycology, A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi, MycoCycle, an Applied MycoRemediation Firm, Mycologos, a Mycology education organization, Podcast Interview: On Fungi and the Birth of the Modern Psyche.

Episode Three — Rhizomatic Networks and Mutual Aid

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes is a book and sound project.
http://www.rienakajima.com/becomingsounds.html

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

Ashanti Alston is an anarchist, a prison abolitionist, and a former member of the Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army. He was a political prisoner for over a decade and continues to work with the Jericho Movement for the freedom of all political prisoners. We talked with Ashanti about his life, his political work, state repression, prison abolition, and his thoughts on the current political moment.
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/07/28/47-ashanti-alston

Treyf Podcast

47 Ashanti Alston

As 2020 comes to a close, SoundCloud is proud to announce “i am OTHER, Volume 2,” a compilation turned passion project by Pharrell’s creative collective i am OTHER. Featuring ten independent Black artists hand-picked by i am OTHER, the project sources on-platform talent in real-time and highlights the voices speaking up and out about empowerment, unity, and racial injustice. SoundCloud and i am OTHER will also make a contribution to support organizations working on the frontlines of empowering marginalized communities and advancing social change. 


Stream now on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/soundcloud/sets/i-am-other-vol-2/s-nlpPZhuy1JT

Stream now on all stores! https://fanlink.to/iamothervol2

Lyrics

Against The Wall
Performed and composed by Harrison First, Marley Waters

Verse (Marley Waters)
Ainʼt no freedom in my mind I need away out. Sick and tired of sitting on our
hands, watch it play out.
Hash-tagging Black Lives
Black Bodies Laid Out
Cops Kill a Nigga Get Promoted Better Pay Outs
One Too Many Kings Killed By The Chrome
Send Your Baby Off they Might Never Make It Home
Pressures From The System Trying To Tamper With My Soul
Suffer on These Streets Blood Stains On The road
Pre hook
Malcolmʼs Pain In The Music
This right here a Revolution
Trying to take whatʼs ours,
What we worked so hard for,
Canʼt stop now
We keep pushing
Hook
Way too long had our backs against the wall
back against the wall
X4
Rap Bridge (Harrison First)
Love me or hate me
or live in light
Show me a gun before you choose to read my rights
Want me to run
So you can shoot me in the night
Iʼm not your boy

Harrison First & Marley Waters - Against The Wall

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

For Anne-F Jacques "piece for objects found in the street"

1. Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting
yourself a coffee. Bring back:
- a disposable coffee cup
- a dense heavy object
- a long, thin object
- another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you
2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering
it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another
way of securing it. Start recording.
3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in
contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).
4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin
object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.
5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing
with it).
6. Stop the recording.
7. Edit as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed in the introduction.

on my walk, i picked up a book from the library (Tronti's Workers and Capital), a coffee (cup+lid) and a long dry piece of grass.

tronti coffee cup long grass -piece for objects found in the street

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"

Gambletron's multi-tonal AM RadioTheremin was created, tuned and played with during this live performance using many radios and boomboxes. Gambletron interacted with the instrument by adding electronics, musical saw and their voice into the ever-morphing, interactive, massive, polyphonic chord produced by the radios.   This performance was transmitted live using a short-range transmitter and was accompanied by a video created by Johnny Forever Nawracaj. This recording is an excerpt of the performance from February 2016 at Trinity Square Video, Toronto.

Gambletron is a Queer, non-binary, interdisciplinary sound/performance artist and musician based out of Montréal.  They are known for their noise-electronic improvisation, multi-tonal “AM Radio Theremin”, roving transmitted “Field Trips”, “Noise Karaoke.” and performance based media collaborations with artist Johnny Forever Nawracaj.  Gambletron has toured internationally and participated in various festivals and residencies around the world.

"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

Gambletron - Coppice: Multi-tonal AM Radio Theremin with Transmission (2016 live excerpt)

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.

tronti coffee cup long grass -piece for objects found in the street

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