The Sound Travels Sound Artwork Competition provides a summer season’s value of programming at New Adventures In Sound Artwork (NAISA) in South River, Ontario. “There’s Artwork in Our Nature” is the theme for the twenty seventh version of the Competition.
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 exhausting of listening to, that opened June 12. The Competition lasts all summer season, till September 15, 2025.
Sound Travels Sound Artwork Competition: June 12 to September 15, 2025
“The complexity of the pure world is astounding in its range and musical nuance. South River is situated 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’s Artwork in Our Nature — this time to supply 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 time 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 towards it to expertise sound vibrations via their our bodies. The set up really transmits sound via the physique, and as such, it’s an expertise that’s equally accessible to Deaf, exhausting 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 can turn out to be 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 our surroundings. 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 can be a morning SOUNDwalk and a day underwater sound recording workshop led by Eric Powell, with a live performance of one in all Annea Lockwood’s traditional river sound map items at 7 p.m.
- Sunday July 20 at 1 p.m.: An artist discuss by Eric Powell introducing his new set up on the NAISA gallery.
On-line Listening
When you can’t make it, you may take pleasure in radio artwork and sound artwork 24/7 at NAISA Radio, together with the month-to-month Making Waves radio present.
You may as well try movies of their previous reveals on their YouTube channel.
Occasion Particulars
NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART Presents: The twenty seventh annual Sound Travels Competition 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 Cross with Lodging.
Extra info on their web site [HERE].
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