Audio Art Retreat and Workshops
Barry Rueger
Explore the sounds around you. Learn to listen. learn to use your
sonic environment to make art.
Have you ever thought of traffic sounds, or a waterfall, or
voices on the street as works of art that you can use in your radio
production? From August 29st to September 5th, sound artists from
across Canada will be meeting with radio people to look at new ways of
collecting and manipulating sound.
Full Moon Over Killaloe will take place from Sunday, August 29th to
Saturday September 5th at Killaloe, Ontario. It will be a week long
retreat that will give you a chance to explore soundwalking, sound
workshops and concerts, independent creative time, and to work with
established artists to develop new sound art pieces.
Beginners and seasoned audio artists alike are welcome. People
of all skills levels are encouraged to attend, especially radio people
who haven’t explored sound art before.
The registration fee of $200 (CDN), includes meals and rustic
campground accommodation (BYOT - bring your own tent).
There's still space - register now!
A whole series of workshops, retreats, concerts and
performances are being planned to encourage artists and
would-be artists to create new forms of sound art. Guest artists
will be:
Hildegarde Westerkamp, an internationally renowned audio artist
and electroacoustic composer based in Vancouver. Her
compositions deal with the acoustic environment, with urban, rural
or wilderness soundscapes; with the voices of children, men and
women; with noise or silence; music and media sounds; and with
sounds of different cultures. Hildegarde has traveled to many
cities and countries to perform and teach, including Brazil,
Germany, India and most recently, Jerusalem. She has composed
film soundtracks, and many sound documents for radio including
community radio and the CBC.
Michael Waterman, audio artist in residence at Trent Radio,
Peterborough. He has created many interactive and
improvisational radio art programs including radio-guided sound
walks and live international audio links with artists in Winnipeg and
Los Angeles. Michael is a founding member of the audio collage band
"Mannlicher Carcano", whose members are primarily interested in low-fi
media. Their witty "garage band" style improvisations exp loit
everything from portable record players to the incomparable 1970
woodgrain Casio keyboard, and the Optigan (an early sound sampler).
Full Moon website: http://www.trentu.ca/trentradio/fmok/
If you can’t manage a whole week of sound exploration, you might
want to take part in "Bells and Whistles", a beginner sound art
workshop happening in Ottawa, Ontario the weekend of August
21st and 22nd. This is a two day sound art workshop designed to
encourage artists and producers to use sound in creative
non-traditional ways. For example, visual artists wanting to use
sound sculpture in a gallery, sound poets using "found sound", or
radio producers wanting to explore new ways of composing radio
programs are all welcome. "Bells and Whistles" takes place at the
National Library of Canada, Room 156, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm on each
day Registration is only $50 (CDN) for this 2 day workshop.
Facilitator will be Hildegarde Westerkamp.
Bells and Whistles webpage:
http://www.synapse.net/~rueger/bells.html
These audio art events are presented by the Canadian Society for
Independent Radio Production in partnership with CKCU 93.1
Ottawa; Trent Radio 92.7 Peterborough; and 102.9 FM CHCR
Homegrown Community Radio in Killaloe. With thanks to the
Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton; the Canada Council and
the Ontario Arts Council for funding support.
For further information, contact: Victoria Fenner 613-725-9799
until Jul. 29, thereafter at 613-274-4441 fen...@synapse.net
John Muir Trent Radio 705-748-1777 jkm...@trentu.ca