Audio artists in Residence for 2005:

Kelley Jo Burke
Regina, Saskatchewan
kellyjo@radiosite.ca

Kelley Jo is an award-winning playwright and poet, a director, documentarian, and broadcaster. Her plays and poetry have been produced and published in Canada, and around the world, including her stage play, Charming and Rose: True Love, which has been staged over thirty times in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, and her most recent radio play Big Ocean, which was heard in 7 countries in 2000.

She directs and produces for stage and radio. Recent productions include the CBC Sunday Edition's radio production of Kevin Kerr's Unity 1918 , Sunday Showcase's broadcast of Andrea Menard's The Velvet Devil, and Ken Mitchell's Sarah Binks and of Merelda Fiddler's My Indian Brother, heard on around the country on National Aboriginal Day 2004.

Her radio documentaries include Mothers of Miscarriage, Fat Girls Sweet and most recently The Word for World is Imagination, the Many Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin , all for CBC's IDEAS. Kelley Jo has been a regular contributor to CBC's national and regional current affairs shows, including This Morning, an associate producer with IDEAS, and is the spoken word host and producer of CBC Saskatchewan's Gallery.

Chris Brookes
St.John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
chris@radiosite.ca

Chris Brookes, a former Vice-President and Vice-Chair of CSIRP, is a Canadian feature maker whose work has won numerous international awards for radio documentary. These include a Grand Prize from the New York Festival World Media Awards for "Death at the Door", a portrait of El Salvador, and a Prix Europa Special Commendation for Radio Documentary for "Mucho Corazon". His "The Promised Land of the Saints" placed fifth in the Prix Europa 2004 Top Ten Radio Documentary Category.

Chantal Dumas
Montreal Quebec
chantal@radiosite.ca

Chantal writes:

"Music? Non music ? For me the question is irrelevant. My work belongs to the field of sound, of listening and perception. Concerned with narrative forms, I developed a method of sound writing articulated around several points: an attitude careful of the point of view, a sound documentation based on personal sound recordings (soundscape) and the circulation of narration between sound, text and musical lines. I understand the medium (radio, CD, etc.) as an empty box with a large range of useful possibilities.

My work can be listened to as one strolling through numerous spaces: mental or physical, architectural and urban, natural or cultural. Spaces which have their own acoustic and emotional resonance. Fiction is never far behind the documentary and realistic aspects of my productions. But as early as the first manipulation of the sound, the sound recording itself, can one still talk about reality? What happens to reality through the process of recording?"

Over the last 14 years, Chantal has produced more than 25 pieces broadcast on public radio in Canada and abroad (Europe, USA, Australia).

She has won two awards at the International radio competition Phonurgia Nova in Arles, France: the first documentary prize for LE PETIT HOMME DANS LA REILLE (2001) and the fiction prize for LE PARFUM DES FEMMES (1997).

Chantal's last release, Radio Roadmovies (a double CD from 326music) relates in sounds a journey in Canada. Last September, she attended Matchmaking at Suzhou Creek in Shanghai to develop and present an installation in situ (sounds-words) called Montreal-Shanghai Bridge. She's now working on TANZ a 52 radio art production about dance for Deutschland Radio in Berlin.

She lives in Montreal where she works as an independent audio and radio artist.

We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of audio artists of years past:

Rita McKeough
Nova Scotia-born Rita McKeough is a musician and audio artist. Currently teaching at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, Rita has been producing major audio installations and site works since 1977. Incorporating audio in her works in integral ways, Rita has performed and exhibited audio installations in galleries and at sound symposiums throughout Canada. She is also a writer, and contributed to Radio Rethink: Essays on Art, Sound and Transmission (Banff Centre for the Arts, 1993).

Frieda Werden
Frieda is the Spoken Word Coordinator for CJSF Radio at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She immigrated from Texas to Canada in 2002. A writer, journalist, TV and radio producer who has been active in women's movement since 1969, Frieda has been a producer of weekly radio programs by and about women around the world since 1987. She is also producer of WINGS (http://www.wings.org), an all-women independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs. In recent years, Frieda has become a well known public speaker on women's communication issues and community media.

John K. Muir
John K. Muir continues to be passionately devoted to the oral/aural tradition. It's through this discipline that he has gained skills and thirty years experience as a broadcaster, administrator and technician. Mr. Muir's formal experience began as a chorister in Ottawa and continued in England where he learned something of the art of campanology at a village church. Later, he apprenticed as recording technician at the Putney Bridge Studio of "Electronic Music Studios", while working as a rigger on music concerts.

A founding member of CSIRP who has severed two terms on the CSIRP Board, John has been the General Manager for Trent Radio in Peterborough, Ontario, for the past several years. John has taught workshops at previous Full Moons, and has been 'gear guy' at the camp.

Darren Copeland
All of Darren Copeland's compositional output is for the tape medium and draws entirely from environmental sounds. He has studied composition under Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham). His acousmatic works have received mentions in competitions and have appeared on numerous compilation CD releases. In addition to composing, he has written articles about listening and environmental sounds. He also serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) and produces concerts and residencies called Sound Travels for New Adventures in Sound Art.

Darren's most recent work breaks open the boundaries between acousmatic music, radio art, and theatre. Most recently, he has produced the historical soundscape documentary The The Toronto Sound Mosaic in collaboration with Richard Windeyer, an updated version of Gwendolyn McEwan's verse drama for radio Terror & Erebus, and the soundscape concert work Driving Through Turbulence. Visit Darren's web site.


Andy Posthumus
Andy Posthumus was our "gear guy" in both 2000 and 2001. At the time, he had a bit more spare time than he has now. In the fall of 2000, he began the job of News Director at CKUA in Alberta. Time and distance prevent him from joining us again next year. We miss him. In addition to a great knowledge of production equipment and radio, Andy also has been involved in many theatre productions and is very interested in merging his interest in theatre with his expertise in radio. Andy, we hope you learned as much from us as we did from you!


Andra McCartney
Andra was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK in 1955. Andra lived in several other British ports before moving to Canada with her immediate family in 1968. She recently moved to Montréal, Québec, where she teaches Sound in Media for the Communication Studies department at Concordia University in Montreal. Andra makes multimedia soundscapes, working with her own location recordings to create web sites, CD ROMs, tape works and performances that are evocative of her experiences of places, and their sonic and sociopolitical resonances. She uses moving microphones, digital filters and multitrack composition to focus attention on intricate subtleties and sonic undercurrents in everyday life. Her sound works are available on CDs as well as online. Andra was Artist in Residence in 2000 and 20001, and she is also on the board of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Visit Andra's Web site.

Michael Waterman
Micheal is an audio and visual artist living in Peterborough. He was Full Moon's artist in residence in 1999 and 2000. As Trent Radio's artist-in-residence, Michael has created interactive and improvisational radio-art programs including radio-guided sound walks, and a live audio link with artists in Winnipeg and Los Angeles. He has been involved in numerous performance and curatorial projects including the exhibition "Soundtracks: visual art with an audio component" at ArtSpace. (shown in this picture with Elizabeth Waterman)

Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard is an internationally renowned artist whose contributions to the development of audio art are immeasurable. She is also a wonderful human being who listens deeply to her world and the people in it. Though she is not able to join us this year, we acknowledge her as one of the co-creators of Full Moon. Her presence and influence will be with us with each passing Full Moon (and hopefully she can come back again in the near future!) Visit Hildegard's web site.

Victoria Fenner
Victoria co-developed the concept for Full Moon Over Killaloe and for the first four years was the person who gave the event continuity, wrote the grant applications and and provided administrative support. She was inspired to create an audio art camp after she heard about the Radiola Salon, a two week artist retreat in the Netherlands where artists came together to explore the artistic possibilities of radio at the estate of a Dutch nobleman. That was twenty years ago. Ever since, her goal was to produce something similar in a distinctively Canadian environment. She decided the most "Canadian" thing to was to be like the Group of Seven and take to the woods. Victoria approaches audio art as a radio producer and believes that radio has undeveloped creative potential as artspace. She has produced art-based radio works in many locations, some of which can be found on her web site at www.magneticspirits.com.

Tim Rivers-Garrett
Along with being a co-founder of Full Moon, Tim took the role of official "groundskeeper" for the first three years of Full Moon. He is the proprietor "Sticks and Stones", the retreat centre which was Full Moon's home for the past two years. A dreamer and doer of so many fine projects, he was the driving force behind the establishing Killaloe's Homegrown Community Radio station, CHCR. Tim welcomed and "grounded" us in many ways -- his calming influence and knowledge of the local community helped us all feel comfortable in this place we decide to call home for a week. He is also a great story teller and sound-walker -- he hears and understands his community at a profound level.