Category: audio art

just received word that skin will be programmed at cineworks’ group exhibition who will give up their distinctions? in vancouver in september 2008.  at the moment we are trying to figure out what form the work will take, but it looks likely that it will be a looping projection with the audio track on headphones, which is my ideal format.

update: the sound will be piped into the space.  skin will be looped and presented with another video by clint enns, prepare to qualify.  latest info is that this exhibition will be part of SWARM 2008, a festival of artist run centres in vancouver.  the festival and screenings will  be september 5 and/or 6.

the website and address is here.  if you are in the neighborhood please drop by.

i am at the unbelieveable sound symposium here in st john’s newfoundland.  they brought me here to install my sound piece kolkata garden.  we found a beautiful place near the “fluvarium”, in a clearing in a protected park.  it was really perfect.

i am meeting all sorts of interesting artists from a variety of disciplines.  check the website for some of them.  if you ever have a chance to get out here, do it!!!

i’m at the deepwireless festival of radio art this weekend, as part of the performing quartet of myself, chantal dumas, andreas kahre, and kathleen kajioka. on tap are workshops and performances and live 12 speaker disseminations of radio pieces. i am particularly excited to see/hear tetsuo kogawa’s keynote speech and performance tomorrow morning. this festival is getting bigger and bigger, and the work of nadene and darren is really making this festival a major event in audio/radio art here in north america (and, dare i say it, internationally).

update sunday: attended tetsuo kogawa‘s lecture and performance at 9am this morning. i am completely blown away. it is rare that such a level of theoretical grounding and articulation accompanies such masterful artistic execution. or at least its rare that we get a glimpse of both sides. kudos to naisa (see link above) for a) programming kogawa san and b) creating a context for both of these sides of this amazing artist.

in other news, some media for my piece @ deepwireless can be found below.

video here (thanks to justin @ transom.org)

in performance:

tetsuo kogawa’s workshop:

the webpage for my project at madrid abierto is up. it looks so much cooler in spanish!

i also just received notice from the nice folks there that my piece will be closing the festival, on feb 22 @ 1900h, madrid time on 93.2 FM.  also of course on the interweb at

 http://www.me.es (click on “Radio 3” and then on “Escuchar Radio 3”).

enjoy.

just got word that i received funding to create ice field, an 8 channel audio installation that will use digital noise and audio detritus and south asian rhythmic theory. look for it in a flourescent-lit bare white room near you.

thanks are in order to the toronto arts council.

UPDATE: where you are has been featured in both weekly arts magazines in toronto!  click here for the eye weekly mini interview (scroll about halfway down for where you are).  click here for the excellent writeup about the piece in now magazine (the piece is at the bottom of the page):

Next to smell, sound often gives us the most powerful sense of time and place. Debashis Sinha puts callers in two cities at once: any reveller walking through Zone B need only call 1-888-432-5995 to hear audio art pieces constructed from sounds recorded on the streets of Kolkata , India. Sinha’s piece accentuates the odd transpositions of time and space constantly foisted upon us by telecommunications and media. Walk around with both sides of your mind on opposite sides of the planet.

see  you @ nuit blanche