Your Radio is their Stage
presents
SOUND ART WORKSHOPS
February 7 to 24, 2022

Learn & Create With Four Renowned Sound Artists
Ellen Waterman – Martin Arnold – Ellen Moffat – Bennet Bedoukian
Enthusiasts & Curious welcome – No experience needed – Free!

This initiate was made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada the only organization mandated to financially support campus and community radio stations in Canada.

All sessions will be conducted over ZOOM


Interactive sound/noise/ improv group
Ellen Waterman
How can we make meaningful connections through music across divides of physical isolation and social difference? In these three workshops, Ellen Waterman will guide participants through a series of creative exercises in musical improvisation over Zoom including techniques for improvising, making graphic scores for improvisation, and storytelling through sound.
No previous experience in improvisation is needed, and you don’t have to know how to play an instrument.
The emphasis will be on active listening and playful exploration in a safe and supportive environment.
Monday February 7, 2-3pm
Monday February 14, 2-3pm
Monday February 21, 2-3pm

Register here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Musique Concrete
Sound Composition: Sample, Stretch, Play
Ellen Moffat
This workshop in sound uses audio recordings as the working material for sound composition and Audacity, a digital audio software, to process the sound. This approach to composition refers to “musique concrete”, an experimental method that expanded ways of composing by using technology such as tape recorders, reel-to-reel tape machines, and electronic tape to process sound. Pioneered in the 1940’s by Pierre Schaeffer, musique concrete is the beginning of electronic and computer-generated sound. The influence of musique concrete continues in contemporary music and sound art such as DJing, hip hop, and noise music.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a basic tool kit for working with digital sound. The workshop will be structured as two sessions.
The first session (Feb 10) is an introduction to the software and to methods for processing sound (stretching, looping, sampling, and more). After this session, you will develop your own composition.
The second session (Feb 24) is an opportunity to share your work and exchange ideas and your processes with other participants.
In advance of the first workshop, please download and install Audacity, a free open-source cross-platform application on your computer: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
Check the compatibility of the version of Audacity with your computer. Closer to the workshop, you will receive a link to sound files; download them onto your computer. We will use these sound recordings to explore processes and effects in the first session. For your own composition, you may want to make your own sound recordings.
Bring your headphones (if you have them), curiosity, and a sense of exploration. Be ready to play.
Thursday February 10, 4-6pm
Thursday February 24, 4-6pm

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Financial Realities
Bennett Bedoukian
For this workshop, Bennett will be exploring the financial realities of being an Artist. He will be
looking specifically at the choices and repercussions of various aspects of choosing a life in the arts.
Wednesday February 9, Noon – 1:30
Wednesday February 16, Noon – 1:30

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Psychedelic Field Recording
Martin Arnold
Martin Arnold will briefly present field recording and the increasingly prominent part it plays in variety of sound art practices (including music). He’ll then discuss ways that participants can creatively engage field recording, even if their only available recording technology is their smartphones. The psychedelic aspects of these engagements have to do with ways in which the recordings will subtly, even insidiously deviate from what we’ve come to accept as aural documents of reality. This will emerge from the manner in which the recordings are created and/or processed, involving everything from multiple devices recording the same source, sticking devices in cardboard tubes and wine glasses, and messing with results using Digital Audio Workstations (Martin will be demonstrating possibilities using the free shareware Audacity).
Friday February 11, 2 – 3:30
Friday February 18, 2 – 3:30

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Artist bio’s

Ellen Waterman
Ellen Waterman’s distinctive musical practice blends flute and vocalization through improvisation. She has performed at national and international festivals and venues including Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, Guelph Jazz Festival, Suoni Per Il Popolo, and the Onassis Stegi in Athens. Ellen has participated in artist residencies including the Sound Travels Festival (Toronto), the Chicago Creative Music Workshop (Chicago Jazz Festival), and Koumaria (Sellasia, Greece). Her current projects include the improvisation duo Pama with Michael Waterman (theremin and invented instruments), and a commission for an environmental improvisational piece for New Adventures in Sound Art. Ellen holds the Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada at Carleton University where she directs the research centre for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada. www.carleton.ca/mssc Back in the 90s, Ellen was a prof at Trent University in Cultural Studies. She has fond memories of drinking coffee and talking with folks in the Trent Radio kitchen and plundering the record library.
https://pama2.bandcamp.com/album/a-map

Ellen Moffat
Ellen Moffat’s sound installation and performance projects use experimental processes for sound generation using assorted materials, objects, and actions. She is currently based in London, ON.
http://www.ellenmoffat.ca

Bennett Bedoukian
Bennett Bedoukian is a member of the Armenian diaspora, musician, concert promoter, and letterpress printer residing in traditional Michi-Saagiig territory/treaty 20/ Havelock Ontario. As a drummer, he plays with Mark Molnar as Horseman, Pass By. & with the Craig Pedersen Quartet. He has presented numerous shows, pre-pandemic of course, most notably the Navigable Straits series that ran out of Sadleir House, which included performances by Jessica Moss, Sandro Perri, and Marc Ribot. Since 2016 he has operated O Underworld! Press, which focuses on printing fine-press books, broadsides, and concert posters, all with handset monotype and lino-cuts. Currently Bennett is ‘performing’ at Artspace most nights as part a larger project entitled The Hidden Anatomy.

Martin Arnold
Toronto-based sound artist, Martin Arnold, has written music for many wonderfulmusicians, both in Canada and abroad. Examples of this music can be found onhis Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/martinarnold).
Martin is also an active member of Toronto’s improvisation and experimentaljazz/roots/rock communities performing on live electronics, banjo, melodica,and guitar. Martin teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Need more info? Email Laurel at lpaluck@trentradio.ca

This initiate was made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada the only organization mandated to financially support campus and community radio stations in Canada.