New Adventures In Sound Art (NAISA) is a Toronto-based
non-profit organization established in 2001 that produces and presents an international array of artists within
its performances and installations. Spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art,
annual NAISA festivals include Deep Wireless, Sound Travels and SOUNDplay. NAISA’s artistic director is radio and
sound artist Darren Copeland.
Deep Wireless devotes the month of May to bringing radio and
transmission art into the public ear with live-to-air performances on CKLN in Toronto, a compilation CD, special
commissions for CBC Outfront and the international Radio Without Boundaries conference for radio producers,
radio and sound artists and those with a general interest in radio.
Sound Travels brings sound art to the vehicle-free Toronto Island
in the summer and includes site-specific sound sculptures as well as indoor and outdoor performances and installations.
SOUNDplay pushes the boundaries of sound and other media art
by encouraging new fusions of image, sound and text. A special interest in the past three years has been
the emerging genre of Videomusic.
AIR Goodies
Job Announcement: AIR Executive Director
AIR seeks an Executive Director to lead the organization to meet the demands of 21st-century
public service digital media. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a vision, creativity and sense of
adventure. The future of AIR is a blank screen on which to write a dream. Resumés and inquiries now being accepted.
Deadline for applications is March 15th. Complete details online.
Creative Sound Assemblage Intensive
New York City, May 7-11
AIR and Harvestworks Digital Media Center are partnering to offer a thirty-hour (five-day)
intensive in the art of creative sound assemblage for advanced radio producers working in the public radio sector.
The intensive will be taught by veteran sound artists Michael Shumacher and Hans Tammen at the Harvestworks Digital
Media Center in NYC. Class size is limited to eight. Registrants must be members of AIR
or Harvestworks. COST: $650. Details and registration application can be found here.
Radio Skills Clinics for Early Career Audio Producers
New York City, Saturdays starting in March
AIR would like to help you workshop your works in progress.
Special attention will be given to the art of the scintillating but economic interview, the smoothly spontaneous
script and the super-clean ProTools edit. Sessions will be led by AIR member and producer Laura Starecheski. Watch for
details in your e-mail inbox.
The Winter AIRspace is now online!
"Searching for Intelligent Life on New Platforms" Guest Editor: Heidi Schultz
In just a few years, on-demand content will probably be integrated into most of the media devices we use.
What does this mean for you?
AIRspace is AIR’s quarterly online journal.
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace!"
airblast@airmedia.org
Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of The New York State Council on the Arts, The John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation
deserves great art.
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