New Adventures in Sound Art, NAISA, is, for want of a neater description, sort of a tour bus through the sounds of our environments, both everyday and exotic. The guide points out some fascinating attractions, inviting us for an immersion.
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This year, NAISA has been celebrating the 15th anniversary of its summer tours with a festival, the awkwardly named Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art, offering a variety of events, most of them at its Artscape Wychwood barns home base near St Clair Ave. and Bathurst St, as well as on Toronto Island.
The last 10 days of the festival, which start today, are crowded with intriguing options.
At its Whychwood studio, NAISA hosts two installations by Japanese sound artists Satoshi Morita and Hill Haroki that make us question how we interact with the noise and sounds and music around us. The show is open fro 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. this Wednesday through Saturday. Details here.
The 7th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium runs Aug. 14 to 16 at the Wychwood Theatre. You can purchase admission or watch some of the events via a live stream on the NAISA website. Wednesday’s opening session begins at 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday activities begin at 9:30 a.m. All the details are here.
On Friday (Aug. 16), an 8 p.m. festival concert at the Wychwood Theatre showcases the state of sound art. The two star guests, Francis Dhomont and Barry Truax, have each created soundscapes inspired by Central Station in Copenhagen (which probably sounds a lot like Union Station, minus the jackhammers). Details here.
Saturday night’s concert showcase (same time and place) has Truax taking visitors on a fantastical journey in search of the Holy Grail at the Chalice Well, which sits at the base of Glastonbury Tor in England. Details here.
There is a whole new programme, entitled Sound Travels Intensive, which concludes the festival next week with daily events from Aug. 20 to 24 — concluding with a concert on the last evening. Details here.
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French sound artist Francis Dhomont, at 86 still pushing our auditory buttons, is a pioneer in electroacoustic and acousmatic (meant to be recorded and re-played rather than performed live) music. Here is one of his shorter creations, Chambre d’enfants (Children’s Room), recorded in 1996:
John Terauds
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- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
