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@naisasoundart.bsky.social
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Sound Art Gallery and Café in South River, Ontario, Canada active on YouTube, Soundcloud and other online locales.

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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Latest episode of Making Waves is about the impact of #PaulineOliveros and Deep Listening @deeplistening.bsky.social on #contemporaryart practice and #experimentalmusic. The show features @annebourne.bsky.social #juliawhite and @stepifany.bsky.social naisasoundart.substack.com/p/naisa-soun...
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NAISA Sound Byte 26 - Impact of Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening with Julia White, Anne Bourne & Stephanie Loveless
Radio interview with three Canadian artists about the influence of Pauline Oliveros on their work.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Online and in-person artist talk with artist Julia White for the opening of her new sound and sculpture installation ‘By the Light of the Wild Within’. Access via registration at naisa.ca/purchase-tic...
Exhibition Poster for Soundplay Festival with headline Artist Talk and Exhibition Opening 'By the Light of the Wild Within' by Julia White. Poster has white background green writing and a photograph detail from one of the sculptures.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What is it to design sound to be heard on a telephone? Find out in this next issue of NAISA Sound Bytes and listen in to the conversation with sound artist Eric Powell via the Making Waves radio show broadcast on WGXC Wavefarm. naisasoundart.substack.com/p/naisa-soun...
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NAISA Sound Byte 25 - Listening Back to Voice of the Water with Eric Powell
Eric Powell and Darren Copeland discuss soundscape recordings and compositions used in Powell's telephone sound sculpture
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Waterscape sound sculpture by Lina Choi is in the next NAISA Sound Bytes post, along with a transcript of discussion about the sound works she makes exclusively with #water sounds. open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 24 - Listening to Water with Lina Choi
Waterscape sound sculpture and discussion with Montréal-based artist Lina Choi
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Making #soundart #outdoors in #nature naisasoundart.substack.com/p/naisa-soun...
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NAISA Sound Byte 23 - Sound Travels 4-day Creation Intensive
NAISA presents 4-day Intensive July 16 to 20 at Warbler's Roost, South River, Ontario
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Learn from artist Lina Choi about making #soundart from #water #sounds during a talk this Saturday June 20 at 1 pm EDST. Pay What You Wish. Online and In-Person at NAISA in South River. Online Access and registration at naisa.ca/purchase-tic...
hydrophone inside an aquarium with water wheels.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
kat estacio performing using kulintang gongs Mindanao (Southern Philippines). estacio bridges archipelago narratives of percussive sound making and land-based tending from a Diasporic perspective. Join them online on June 6 at 6 pm EDT. Concert details and tickets at naisa.ca/festivals/so...
Filipinx musician Kat Estacio is bowing a large upside bronze gong. Before them is a set of five Kulintang gongs.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Barry Truax, a composer who received the #OrderOfCanada for his pioneering work in #electroacoustic music and #Soundscape research, is featured on Making Waves, airing May 9, 11 am EDT on @wgxc-90point7fm.bsky.social. Link to audio and transcript: open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 22 - What the Waters Told Me with Barry Truax
Interview with the pioneering electroacoustic composer and soundscape researcher Barry Truax
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
On CBC Radio Morning North Markus Schwabe took some time away from the spring flood updates to talk to NAISA Artistic Director @darcope.bsky.social Darren Copeland about spring sounds - and to listen to them. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Wetland Project is an #EarthDay tradition. A 24 hour #slowradio #naturesounds Broadcast. Learn all about it on the April edition of Making Waves for WGXC Wave Farm with guests Brady Marks & Mark Timmings. Audio and transcript in next NAISA Sound Byte. open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
Text on image reads NAISA Sound Byte 21 - The Wetland Project, an Earth Day Tradition.  The image background has the repeated letters earth spelled out in green and red font and continuously with no spaces over three lines.  As a result different words are formed.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Latest NAISA Sound Byte on Substack has a video of the Feb 21 #transmissionart #electromagnetic #soundart performance by Aliyah Aziz, along with an interview about her Sandpaper Hammock project. open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 20 - Sandpaper Hammock by Aliyah Aziz
Performance by Aliyah Aziz using electromagnetic sensors followed by an Interview about her writing and sonic explorations in Sandpaper Hammock
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland was on CBC Up North yesterday reflecting on the origins and evolution of the #soundart #gallery and #non-profit operating in #northernontario. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Picture of Jonathan Pinto with the accompanying text "Up North with Jonathan Pinto" and a play icon with the text "New Adventures in Sound Art turns 25"
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Interview with #noise #artist Anju Singh on her #electromagnetic #soundart #sculpture Material Transmissions. Watch on NAISATube YouTube Channel or via this Substack article which includes a full text transcript - open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 19 - Anju Singh explores machine noise in Material Transmissions
Interview with Vancouver artist and performances on her electromagnetic sound sculpture
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy #WomensDay2026. NAISA Radio is broadcasting No ‘go-go girls (on the dancefloor)’ by Shortwave Collective at 1 pm EDT every Sunday in March. Listen here - naisa.ca/naisa-radio/ The piece investigates the gendered and discriminatory codes embedded in CB radio slang.
hand reaching out holding a portable CB Radio.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NAISA's annual #SoundArt #callforsubmissions is due May 31, 2026 on the theme Still Here. Categories include Sound Art, #Electroacoustic, #Sound+Image, #RadioArt, #TransmissionArt, #Interactive #Installation. See alt description for artists featured in the photos. Info at naisa.ca/.../naisa-ge...
Alexandre Klinke playing two of the automated chimes in his sound installation Sixteen Chimes.  The chimes are on a tall white plinth with four windows in the background.Christine Charette performs in the forest with an upright piano under a shed roof.  Decorated on the beams of the roof are mask sculptures and there are a series of rusted cans suspended from the roof.Rani Jambak sings into a microphone on a stand with a speaker and electronic controllers down below.Kristine Diekman demonstrates the sculpture Secret Reception she made with Tony Allard and Ben Pagac. Her hands touch a table illustrated with series of hand drawn enlargements of insects.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Aliyah Aziz having a blast exploring an antique sewing machine connected to electromagnetic pickups worn on her hand. She performs tonight online and in-person. Ticketed access and info at naisa.ca/festivals/de...
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In “Sandpaper hammock” Aliyah Aziz uses custom-made gloves to draw out the sounds of #electromagnetic frequencies from CRT monitors and other electric devices. She performs online/in-person show on Feb 21, 7 pm EST at NAISA. #soundart #radioart #transmissionart Tickets at naisa.ca/purchase-tic...
Aliyah Aziz wearing rainbow coloured gloves holds them over a CRT monitor and audio gear.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#SoundArt #Improv for #ArtsBirthday on Jan 17 at NAISA with Ian and Sue Franklin on the right and Nadene Thériault-Copeland on the left. Sewing machine is part of electromagnetic sound instrument made by Anju Singh for her installation. Full video on NAISATube at youtu.be/lOeVfbdnjys
Left side is photo of Nadene Thériault-Copeland playing inside of an upright piano outdoors in the snow.  Right side is Ian and Sue Franklin indoors at NAISA. Ian is holding an electromagnetic pick up over an antique sewing machine and Sue is playing a slide whistle.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Tell a #Story through #Sound (without words). Record winter #soundscapes during a weekend workshop at Warbler’s Roost in South River (Northern Ontario) Feb 6-8. All levels of Experience are welcome. Details at naisa.ca/festivals/de...
Snow on trees in a forestBlack audio wire dangles into a hole of water that has been made in ice and that is surrounded by snow.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#Death as a natural transformation of energy and consciousness, not an end. Making Waves radio program @wgxc-90point7fm.bsky.social hosted by Claude Schryer with Azul Carolina Duque, Kenneth Newby and Wendalyn Bartley. Listen at wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s...
A web meeting snapshot with the headline "Death as Transformation". Pictured clockwise from top-left is Claude Schryer, Darren Copeland, Kenneth Newby, Wendelin Bartley and Azul Carolina Duque.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#Livestream starting for 12 hours at the top of the hour. Wonderful blend of #performanceart, #mediaart, #videoart and #soundart. Youtube link and more info - youandiarewaterearthfireairoflifeanddeath.com/project/eart... Listen on NAISA Radio - naisa.ca/naisa-radio/
Logo that reads "Earth 2025 December 12 12-12"
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Coming up in 2 weeks! Dec 12 from noon to midnight. Listen on NAISA Radio to the 12 hour broadcast coming live from ROUNDING space (Kenderdine Gallery) at USask Galleries, Saskatoon Curated by @christofmigone.bsky.social and Jake Moore. www.naisa.ca/naisa-radio/
logo for December 12 performance "Earth Okâwîmâw Askiy" 2025.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Wonderful footage by Joan Sullivan of public interaction with the Ice Voices exhibit that she made with Robin Servant @robinservant.bsky.social. vimeo.com/1137020507 #interactiveart #artinstallation #climatechange #soundart #mediaart #photography
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ICE VOICES / LA VOIX DES GLACES
An interactive sound-art installation that gives voice to the nonhuman in the context of climate change. Created by Joan Sullivan and Robin Servant, it was presented…
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Joan Sullivan speaks in this short video about the importance of using our non-visual senses when trying to understand the impacts of #climatechange. The artwork shown is from the #interactive #installation "Ice Voices" she created with composer @robinservant.bsky.social . #soundscape #photography
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Joan Sullivan and @robinservant.bsky.social describe their personal response to #climatechange on the St. Lawrence River in their #interactiveart #soundart #installation. See video and transcript on NAISA Sound Byte 16 in Substack - open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 16 - Ice Voices with Joan Sullivan and Robin Servant
Interactive artwork about the disappearing ice on the St. Lawrence River
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Indonesian sound artist Rani Jambak performed at @naisasoundart.bsky.social on Sep 20. It was a moving and memorable experience. Video of full show available on NAISATube - youtu.be/hQRqU-Kb3jo?...
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Kincia Aia by Rani Jambak
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Joan Sullivan et @robinservant.bsky.social affrontent la crise climatique dans leur installation sonore La Voix des glaces. balado-conscient.simplecast.com/episodes/e16...
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Robin Servant and Joan Servant spoke yesterday with Daniel Aubin on Radio Canada's Le Matin du Nord about their new installation Ice Voices. #installationartists #soundart #electroacousticmusic ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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Une exposition sonore et tactile sur « la voix des glaces » | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Le matin du Nord : Une exposition sonore et tactile sur « la voix des glaces »
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NAISA Sound Byte 14 - Rani Jambak's musical response to climate change in West Sumatra open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...
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NAISA Sound Byte 14 - Rani Jambak's musical response to climate change in West Sumatra
apé aliermo guest hosts on the Making Waves radio show on WGXC Wave Farm
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
West Sumatran sound artist Rani Jambak talks to apè aliermo about creating music reflecting the reality of climate change in her country. Listen on the next edition of the Making Waves radio show. wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s...
Rani Jambak triggering electronic sounds with usb button interface and a wooden pestles to her left.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Annea Lockwood shares why recording river sounds matters to her on today's edition of Making Waves. Her river sound map works, like the one for the Hudson River, anticipate by decades current interests in sound mapping. Listen at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/d... #soundscape #fieldrecording
Composer Annea Lockwood is wearing headphones on a river shore. She is leaning back against a sloping concrete wall that curves into a river, possibly a place to put in boats.  She is wearing a black T-shirt and is smiling.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
David Bobier and Jim Ruxton on the history and philosophy behind their ground-breaking and multi-sensory collaborations with #artists in the #deaf and #disabled communities in #Canada using #vibro-tactile technology. Enjoy on NAISATube with captioning - youtu.be/y80wnNfhRio
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David Bobier & Jim Ruxton on Haptic Voices and the Vibrafusion Lab
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Kinvaaaaarrgh Pond 💀/ Wellness Regime @tzombini.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I think it was this one, but I might have seen it at an exhibition in Oxford or Cambridge www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/...
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Callers take part in Iceland glacier sound installation
A unique work of art, unveiled today, invites viewers to phone a glacier in Iceland - and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A #Rotary #Telephone modified so that gallery visitors to NAISA can listen to the sounds of lakes and rivers in the South River area. Sound Artist Eric Powell described it last week on #CBC #AsitHappens www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Black Rotary Telephone with tombstone design and cradle for the handset mounted beside the phone.  Internal mechanisms of the phone were modified by artist Eric Powell for the sound installation Voice of the Water in a gallery presentation at New Adventures in Sound Art.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Corinne Alice, in Wonderland in rehearsal at Warbler's Roost for show happening at 7 pm tonight for #worldlisteningday. #experimentalmusic #soundart #outdoorart #forest #soundmeditation #almaguinhighlands #southriver
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Story on CBC Sudbury on art installation at NAISA that lets visitors call a lake or River. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
CBC story screenshot with headline “New Northern Ontario art installation lets visitors call a local River or lake.”
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Escape the heat and enjoy listening settings like this one. #soundart #concerts, #workshops, #soundwalks and #installations with Eric Powell, Annea Lockwood and Corinne Alice, in Wonderland. July 18 to 20 at Warbler's Roost, 20 km west of #southriverontario. Details and booking at naisa.ca
Calm lake at dusk with overhanging pine tree. Photo taken at Deer Lake in Lount township west of South River, Ontario, Canada.
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Cabin Radio @cabinradio.ca · 26/06/2025
A culture centre in Sweden is inviting Indigenous artists from northern Canada to participate in a new art residency program. Here's how to apply.
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New residency invites Indigenous artists to northern Sweden
A culture centre in Sweden is inviting Indigenous artists from northern Canada to participate in a new art residency program. Here's how to apply.
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Listen again: ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN ASMR / 22nd June 2025 Playing tracks by Tina M. Pearson, Angela Winter, zakè & Pallette, zakè & Pallette – Breathe Jolanda Moletta & Karen Vogt, Machinefabriek and more. @winterstrix.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/anti...
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Explore water sounds during #WorldListeningDay July 18-20. Join us for a weekend escape in Northern Ontario. Concerts, SOUNDwalks, Workshops, Talks. Works by Annea Lockwood, Eric Powell and Corinne Alice, in Wonderland. #explorealmaguin #soundscape #acousticecology #water #retreat #wld2025
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Open Calls for Audio @audiocalls.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Porto 🇵🇹 Call for Abstracts: Explorations on Sound & New Media Art Conference on the theme ‘Urgencies’ will delve into the intersections between sonic agency, conflicts, listening, care, and resistance. Deadline to submit is July 31st. artes.porto.ucp.pt/en/art-cente... @kode9.bsky.social
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Lean back against this wall of #speakers to experience sound and music through your body. Haptic Voices by David Bobier @davidbobier.bsky.social and Jim Ruxton of #Vibrafusionlab opens June 12 at NAISA. A #sound #installation accessible to #deaf and #hardofhearing people.
vibro-tactile loudspeakers are suspended from a self-supporting metal frame.  In front of the frame is the back of an iPad attached to a metal stand and to the side of the frame is a box and laptop on a desk.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Deadline for NAISA Call for Submissions is coming up - May 31. NAISA is accepting sound art work submissions. #soundart #calls #callforsubmissions #callforworks #experimentalmusic #mediaarts #soundscape #radioart #transmissionart naisa.ca/opportunitie...
3 part picture. Clockwise from top: Exterior view of NAISA North Media Arts Centre, a brown single story building with wheelchair ramp on right side and outdoor weathering upright piano on left side; Kristine Diekman playing the Secret Reception installation of hand drawn insects; Michael Waterman playing tubes of ice with mallets from Songs of Ice.3 part picture. Clockwise from top: Exterior view of NAISA North Media Arts Centre, a brown single story building with wheelchair ramp on right side and outdoor weathering upright piano on left side; Kristine Diekman playing the Secret Reception installation of hand drawn insects; Michael Waterman playing tubes of ice with mallets from Songs of Ice.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Remembering Andra McCartney with Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young. Radio show airing this Saturday on WGXC 90.7-FM Wave Farm available here - wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s... #women #music #ecology #soundscape #gender #electroacoustic
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Wave Farm | Making Waves: 20250510 - Remembering Andra McCartney with Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
NAISA Radio is broadcasting a #slowradio soundscape of a wetland marsh from #saturnaisland for 24 hours tomorrow on #EarthDay (April 22). Broadcast courtesy of The Wetland Project with Mark Timmings and Brady Marks. Info at naisa.ca/festivals/sp... or go here to listen - naisa.ca/naisa-radio/
Google Earth map image of Saturna Island, BC, Canada
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Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We invite you to join WLP during its next Session on Listening—Tuesday, April 22nd (10 pm UTC+0 / 5 pm UTC-5). What can be done to cut through the noise of today’s world? How do we find truth and understanding amid the chaos? Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Composing with Sand is the topic of the next episode of Making Waves. Our guest this month is Dutch sound artist Marieke Van de ven. Listen on WGXC Wave Farm Saturday at 11 am or visit the link to listen at your leisure. wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s... #sand #radio #soundart #experimentalmusic
Cover for the album Zand by Marieke Van de ven consists of red lines crossing the screen.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Almaguin Community Soundscapes exhibit surrounds one with sounds of nature recorded by residents of the Almaguin Highlands. Info here: naisa.ca/festivals/sp... #soundscape #nature #fieldrecording #SoundArt #naturesounds
A room with a window letting in sunlight, a bird feeder hangs from a string next to a monitor displaying a top-down view of a forested area with a road through it. On the screen the text says "Almaguin Community Soundscapes. Highway 534 Powassan, May 19th 2024 @ 4:40 AM."An image of a woman interacting with a keyboard to manipulate a large interactive exhibit on the screen in front of her. The screen provides a top down view of a snowy looking forest and reads "Almaguin Community Soundscapes. Highway 124 Sundridge, April 28th @ 11:30 PM & April 29th @ 5:45 AM."A man interacts with a bird feeder used for recording sounds in the Almaguin Community Soundscapes exhibit in front of the interactive screen display with a top-down view of a forest.Man in a forested area holding an audio recording device in his hand in front of one of a birdfeeder hung on a large tree
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Icy weather has our space closed today at NAISA. However the Decomposing Piano continues to run on NAISATube (while the power is still working). There are also playlists of past performances on the NAISATube channel. www.youtube.com/live/7Ou3eya...
Weathered Upright Piano outdoors with snow on the keys and ledge.
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NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NAISA is pleased to launch its 2025 Call For Submissions on the theme “Sound Culture.” Deadline May 31, 2025. Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation naisa.ca/opportunitie...
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NAISA Call for Submissions | New Adventures in Sound ArtNAISA Call for Submissions – New Adventures in Sound Art
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