Making Waves

Produced by Darren Copeland.
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This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  1. 1d ago

    20260613 - Pride Concert with Barry Truax and Kat Estacio - Making Waves

    On today’s episode of Making Waves we are playing back electroacoustic pieces and discussion from a concert that took place in-person and online as part of Pride celebrations on June 6, 2026 in South River, Ontario, Canada.   Last month we included an interview with Barry Truax and we listened to his piece What the Waters Told Me from his Elemental Trilogy. We will play from this concert the other two pieces in the Trilogy, which are How the Winds Caressed Me and When the Earth Mourned for Me.   The second half features the Toronto-based soundmaker and researcher Kat Estacio. They draw on their Tagalog ancestry in their work. Estacio’s performance begins with traditional repertoire from the Kulintang, which is an Indigenous gong ensemble tradition from Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. They transition from that to a sonic exploration of the gong sounds along with sounds of rice being dropped into a metal sculpture that was fabricated by Estacio. Following the performance we will listen to a Q&A with the artist facilitated by the concert host Victoria Fenner. Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  2. May 9

    20260509 - What the Waters Told Me with Barry Truax - Making Waves

    Today’s episode focuses on the pioneering work of composer, author and educator Barry Truax, who recently received the Order of Canada. He will lead us through his personal artistic history linking his early work in computer and electroacoustic music with his role in soundscape studies and the World Soundscape Project. These strands came together in the 1990’s with his implementation of sampled sound in Granular Synthesis. They were later explored in his use of the convolution signal processing techniques that were developed by Tom Erbe for his program Soundhack. A good portion of host Darren Copeland’s discussion with Barry Truax will be reserved for the piece What the Waters Told Me. Truax will play samples of it and explain how he uses those techniques to transform the sounds of water into sounds that are latent with a sense of voice and emotional resonance. Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  3. Apr 11

    20260411 - Mark Timmings and Brady Marks on The Wetland Project - Making Waves

    Coming up on Earth Day (April 22) many campus and community radio stations around the world participate in The Wetland Project, a 24 hour broadcast of the soundscape from ṮEḴTEḴSEN or Saturna Island, British Columbia. Back in November 2024, Making Waves host Darren Copeland spoke to project organizers Mark Timmings and Brady Marks.  On today’s episode we will feature that conversation and end the show by lining up the local time of this broadcast with the recording from 2015 that will play on Earth Day. The soundscape recording featured in The Wetland Project was produced with the assistance of Eric Lamontagne.  This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  4. Mar 14

    20260314 - Sandpaper Hammock by Aliyah Aziz - Making Waves

    This edition of Making Waves begins with a performance of Sandpaper Hammock by Aliyah Aziz that was recorded February 21st, 2026 in South River, Ontario, Canada. In this performance Aliyah Aziz uses electromagnetic 'listening gloves' to probe various electronic devices on the table in front of her. At other times, she will activate with the help of audience members the sewing machine instrument from Anju Singh’s sound installation at NAISA which was featured in the previous episode of Making Waves. After the performance Aliyah Aziz joins host Darren Copeland in conversation about Sandpaper Hammock. The video of this performance will be posted on the NAISA Tube YouTube channel.  You can read more about Sandpaper Hammock at this link.  Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art that is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  5. Feb 14

    20260214 - Anju Singh on Material Transmissions - Making Waves

    Part of last month’s show included Anju Singh playing her interactive electromagnetic sound sculpture Material Transmissions. On today’s show we will talk to Anju Singh more about the sound sculpture and intersperse that conversation with more performances on it.  Some of those are made by audience members who attended the exhibition opening back on January 8th. Through the sound sculpture visitors explore the sounds of a sewing machine through electromagnetic pickups and contact mics. A set of four tactile transducers playback whispered vocals in the exhibition space that are emitted through a series of four suspended hand-made dresses. Material Transmissions is part of her MECHANICAL HYMNS project, a series of works exploring the relationship between machines, industrial materials, and mechanical elements through sound, noise, and transmitted audio.  Anju Singh is a Vancouver media artist and noise musician. Along with industrial materials she uses space, volume and texture as the main tools in her sound palette. She pushes extreme dynamics and unconventional sonic applications to build installations and compositions for immersive sonic experiences. To see the installation you can also experience this episode of Making Waves on the NAISATube YouTube channel. Making Waves is a one hour program about radio art and sound art produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  6. Jan 10

    20260110 - Deep Wireless 20 Album and Anju Singh performing Material Transmissions - Making Waves

    Today's episode plays pieces from the 2026 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. To begin, Anju Singh performs her new sound installation Material Transmissions, an electromagnetic sound instrument which the audience can also play.  The recording was made for the opening of the festival on January 8th, 2026. Following that the remainder of the show consists of pieces from the 20th Deep Wireless radio art compilation. The album includes sound art and radio art works that respond to the theme Sound Culture.  We will hear (in this order) Diviso in due by Cristian Gabriele Argento, Transcription: LoveLanguageLoss by Linda Rae Dornan,“¿Aún recuerdas mi voz?” by Marco Neri, The Loud Mechanical Hum that Seems to Be Getting More and More Frequent by Haley Sheppard, and finally, Liquid Polyphonies by Landforms (who are Lotte Nijsten and Gillis Van Der Wee). This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  7. 12/13/2025

    20251213 - Death as a Natural Transformation with Claude Schryer, Azul Carolina Duque, Kenneth Newby and Wendelin Bartley - Making Waves

    Guest Host Claude Schryer from the conscient podcast has invited three Canadian sound artists to have a discussion in response to the phrase, ‘death as a natural transformation of energy and consciousness, not an end’  All three artists have been on past episodes of the Conscient podcast which is about Art and the Ecological Crisis. They are Azul Carolina Duque (e211 art as medicine), Kenneth Newby (e207 living with grace) and Wendelin Bartley (e222 restoring our connection with nature).  Initially Making Waves invited Claude Schryer to chair a discussion on climate change. This discussion touches on the climate crisis but through the subject of death. Death in the sense of how spirit and consciousness continues when the body goes back to the earth. What might this spirit and consciousness sound like? How might this heightened awareness relate to climate change? At the top of show we play the opening from Chasm by Kenneth Newby, off his album From Solitude: music for spectral orchestra. At the end we play Wendelin Bartley’s composition Stone Mysteries from her 2012 album Sound Dreaming. Mid-way through the program she sings part of The Keening of the Three Marys, which was taught to her by Mary McLaughlin. At another point, Azul improvises a vocalization that she may do as a Death Doula.  Her album Telurico features her work as a folk singer. Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

  8. 11/08/2025

    20251108 - Artists and Climate Change - Conscient interviews with Joan Sullivan and Tina Pearson - Making Waves

    Today we are featuring two interviews from the Conscient podcast series. Conscient is produced by Claude Schryer in Ottawa. It revolves around conversations with artists about the climate emergency. The show includes an extensive collection of interviews and discussions with a diverse range of artists that are all tackling the climate emergency in their own unique and distinctive ways.  The majority of the show will feature a longer interview that Claude did with Joan Sullivan for episode 96 of Conscient. Joan is a photo artist in Rimouski Québec who has devoted her work to confronting the realities of climate change. In her view nobody is exempt from having a role to play in the energy transition. In terms of energy and consumption, the world is currently in a liminal space between what was and what lies ahead.  Making Waves concludes with a conversation between Claude Schryer and Tina Pearson. It was recorded for episode 220 of Conscient in September 2024. Tina Pearson asks, "what is art anyway?" How can artists use their talents to allow people to listen more deeply - and also to leave time and space to breathe and consider.  In between the interviews we will listen to the soundwalk composition Intertidal Room by Jaceck Smolicki. Recorded at slack tide in the Vancouver harbour at Stanley Park, Smolicki’s composition contrasts the linear rhythms of industrial sea cargo with the cyclical rhythms of the water lapping at shore.   Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.

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This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. https://naisa.ca/

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  • Creator
    Produced by Darren Copeland.
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    134
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Making Waves