The Sound Travels Sound Artwork Pageant affords a summer season’s price of programming at New Adventures In Sound Artwork (NAISA) in South River, Ontario. “There may be Artwork in Our Nature” is the theme for the twenty seventh version of the Pageant.
One of many highlights would be the weekend lengthy World Listening Day tour July 18 to twenty, with the primary exhibit on the NAISA location, one that’s accessible to the arduous of listening to, that opened June 12. The Pageant lasts all summer season, till September 15, 2025.
Sound Travels Sound Artwork Pageant: June 12 to September 15, 2025
“The complexity of the pure world is astounding in its variety and musical nuance. South River is positioned in a area the place the pure world has had many impacts on artwork making. Sound Travels 2025 makes use of NAISA’s theme for the yr — There may be Artwork in Our Nature — this time to offer audiences with the chance to listen to what’s beneath the water’s floor, to hear in to the sounds that exist within the rivers and lakes, which within the Almaguin Highlands have traditionally served as passage methods between communities,” says Darren Copeland, Creative Director, New Adventures in Sound Artwork, in a press release.
Summer season Interactive Exhibitions
Haptic Voices (June 12 to September 15)
NAISA’s summer season exhibition options the vibro-tactile sound set up Haptic Voices by David Bobier and Jim Ruxton of the VibraFusionLab.
The wall sculpture invitations guests to lean again in opposition to it to expertise sound vibrations by way of their our bodies. The set up really transmits sound by way of the physique, and as such, it’s an expertise that’s equally accessible to Deaf, arduous of listening to and listening to individuals.
The sounds are created from compositions by Bobier, Ruxton and others created specifically for the set up.
Voice of the Water (beginning July 18)
Voice of the Water is a everlasting set up by Eric Powell that may develop into one of many common choices of the NAISA gallery. Voices of the Water is an interactive rotary telephone-based listening station. Listeners will hear sounds collected from the lakes and rivers round South River recorded by native residents.
World Listening Day Weekend (July 18 to twenty)
This weekend sound escape celebrates World Listening Day, an annual occasion the shines a highlight on the usually forgotten significance of listening to the environment. Actions happen at NAISA in South River, and at Warbler’s Roost on Deer Lake.
- Friday July 18 at 7 p.m.: Burk’s Falls vocalist Corinne Alice, In Wonderland will carry out Echoes Between Us, an immersive and participatory expertise;
- Saturday July 19: There might be a morning SOUNDwalk and a day underwater sound recording workshop led by Eric Powell, with a live performance of one in every of Annea Lockwood’s traditional river sound map items at 7 p.m.
- Sunday July 20 at 1 p.m.: An artist speak by Eric Powell introducing his new set up on the NAISA gallery.
On-line Listening
In case you can’t make it, you may get pleasure from radio artwork and sound artwork 24/7 at NAISA Radio, together with the month-to-month Making Waves radio present.
You may also try movies of their previous exhibits on their YouTube channel.
Occasion Particulars
NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART Presents: The twenty seventh annual Sound Travels Pageant of Sound Artwork
- The place: NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Freeway 124, South River
- When: June 12 to September 15, 2025
- Prices: Exhibition and Talks are Pay by Donation. World Listening Day Weekend is $15 for Performances and $45 for Workshop or $225 for Weekend Move with Lodging.
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.