“I don’t just want to be a passive listener,   I want to be more involved”. Scott Stevens

Radiant Dissonance Volume Two is a series of ten half hour radio programs by Canadian Audio Artists. Each program is produced in its entirety by the artist, and includes twenty minutes of original audio artwork, and ten minutes of discussion by the artist.

Radiant Dissonance is intended for a general audience, and offers an entertaining and wide ranging introduction to audio art in Canada.

Radiant Dissonance will be heard in campus and community radio stations in Canada beginning in the spring of 2003. Download the liner notes here.  (PDF 72K)

The Artists

Victoria Fenner, the curator and producer of Radiant Dissonance

Victoria Fenner has initiated a number of projects focused on radio as artspace, most notably the “Full Moon” Audio Art Camp, now in its fifth year. Her latest project is the “Creative Radio Initiative”, a series of Ontario based workshops focused on radio art forms such as drama, documentary, electronic words, soundscapes and audio art. She has worked as an independent radio producer and audio artist for nationally distributed radio projects such as “More Than Just a Dozen - Women in Global Development”; “Children of the Earth - Children, War and Poverty”; “Global Youthspeak - Youth Voices to the World”; and two editions of “Radiant Dissonance”. She has also worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in many capacities, most recently with Radio One’s storytelling and experimental audio program “Outfront”. She continues to work composing independent media artworks, which can be found at www.magneticspirits.com.

James Bailey and Ron McFarlan - Toronto, Ontario
James Bailey has been mucking about with tapes and electronic sounds since the mid-‘70s. “Electric Storm” began as a monthly radio programme in the early ‘90s, but when it became weekly a few years later, additional help was needed. This came one night in a fortuitous phone call from Ron McFarlan, another dabbler in found and electronic sounds who, a few years earlier had his own programme, “Visceral Landscapes,” also on CKLN. Ron gave the new weeks their other name, “A Missing Sense."

Wende Bartley - Toronto, Ontario
Wende Bartley combines her love of exploring a wide range of sonic expressions with the tools of electroacoustic technology. Since re-discovering her voice through workshops with Richard Armstrong, she has pursued a deepening relationship with the “sounding body”, deepening her awareness of the power of sound vibrational energy. Recent electroacoustic concert works include “Visitation from the Seven Hathors” for violist Laura Wilcox; “An Underbelly”, which was co-composed with bass clarinetist Lori Freedman; and the music-driven theatre work entitled “The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth” for vocalist Fides Krucker based on texts by Anne Carson. http://www.soundtravels.ca/bartley.html

Chris Brookes - St. John’s Newfoundland.
Chris Brookes is an independent audio producer whose audio art work has been presented at the St. John’s International Sound Symposium, Ottawa’s SAW Gallery, Amsterdam’s Boundless Sound Festival, Oslo’s RadioKino Festival, and Radiant Dissonance.
His documentary features for public radio have won over 30 awards, and have been broadcast in the U.S.A, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Canada.
He has also written and directed for television, is a published author and playwright, and has taught documentary feature-making at radio festivals and workshops across North America and Europe. He lives under the cliff in St. John’s, Newfoundland where Marconi made the world’s second radio broadcast. http://www.batteryradio.com

Audrey Churgin - Ottawa, Ontario
Audrey Churgin’s practice also includes play-writing and audio production. Her latest audio work can be experienced on-line at the virtual gallery, Artengine, and is featured in the internationally touring Bookmobile Project. Other recent exhibitions include the Templates for Activism Project, in Ottawa and Encuentro internacional de Arte, Homagea los Pueblos Indigenas in Santiago, Chile. Audrey Churgin is represented by Gallerie St.Laurent-Hill in Ottawa. She has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the US. http://www.artengine.ca/Dir_Portfolios/achurgin

Darren Copeland - Toronto Ontario
Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer based in Toronto.
He has studied electroacoustic composition at Simon Fraser University and University of Birmingham. His concert and radio works have received mentions in international competitions and appeared on CD releases including Rendu Visible on the empreintes DIGITALes label. http://www.soundtravels.ca

Chantal Dumas - Montreal Quebec
Sound and radio artist Chantal Dumas explores new forms of narration through sound. As an independent artist, she has created and produced more than 25 pieces since 1993. Her stories are performed in festivals and broadcast by national radio in Canada, Europe and Australia. Her live projects incorporate dance, sound installation and theater. Her radio works are published on Ohm/Avatar, Nonsequitur and 326music.

Sarah Peebles - Toronto Ontario
Sarah Peebles is a composer, improviser and broadcaster. She integrates sounds she has gathered from natural habitats and cityscapes in Canada, the United States and Japan, including the sho, the Japanese mouth-organ used in gagaku into her electroacoustic compositions, improvisations, collaborations and sound works, often exploring alternate performance settings, such as museums, bamboo groves, temples and parks. See Studio Excelo - time-based art with a creamy filling at http://www.interlog.com/~speeb.

Janet Russell - Tors Cove Newfoundland
Janet Russell is an independent biologist and audio producer and a founding Director of the Alder Institute (http://alder.nf.ca). With Rachel Bryant she co-produces Alder’s weekly radio program Open Air: Natural History Radio from Newfoundland and Labrador. In summer, she pursues the Alder project Census & Sounds.

Douglas Samuel - Ottawa Ontario
Douglas Samuel is a sound artist, living in Ottawa, Ontario. He started out with an interest in making radio programs and quickly discovered sound-art along the way, (thanks to the Full Moon Audio Art camp). He says that discovering such a channel for artistic expression has been wonderful and he looks forward to making more sound-art available to the public.

Participating Stations

Listen to Radiant Dissonance later this year on these fine stations - contact them directly for scheduled times and dates. If your local station is not listed, let us know and we'll contact them!

Canada

CFRO Vancouver Cooperative Radio - 102.7 FM - Vancouver, BC
CJSF - 93.9 cable - Burnaby BC
CKUW - 95.9 FM - Winnipeg, MB
CKUT - 90.3 FM - Montreal QC
CHUO - 89.1 FM - Ottawa, ON
CFUV - 101.9 FM - Victoria, BC
CHMA - 106.9 FM - Sackville NB
CJLY Kootenay Cooperative Radio - 93.5 FM - Nelson BC
CJAM - 91.5 FM - Windsor ON
CFBX - 92.5 FM - Kamloops BC
CJJJ - 106.5 FM - Brandon MB
CFUR - 88.7 FM - Prince George BC
CKLU - 96.7 FM - Sudbury ON
CFBI - 97.7 FM - Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
CJSR - 88 FM - Edmonton AB
CKMS - 100.3 FM - Waterloo ON
CJSW - 90.9 FM - Calgary, AB
CKLN - 88.1 FM - Toronto, ON
CFFF - 92.7 FM - Peterborough, ON
CIOI - 101.5 FM - Hamilton, ON
CFRU - 93.3 FM - Guelph ON
CFBW- 91.3 FM - Hanover, Ontario (Bluewater Community Radio)
CAPR - Sydney, NS
CFXU - 92.5 FM - Antigonish, NS
CJTR - 91.3 fm - Regina SK
CITR - 101.9 FM Vancouver BC
CHRW - 94.7 FM - London, ON
CKDU - 97.5 FM - Halifax NS
CIUT - 89.5FM - Toronto, Ontario

International

KPFA-FM - 94.1 FM - Berkeley, California
Facolta' di Frequenza - 99,450 FM - Sienna, Italy
KTUH - 90.3 FM - Honolulu, Hawai`i
WORT -FM - 89.9 FM - Madison WI
WRPI - 91.5 FM - Troy NY
WGDR - 91.1 FM - Plainfield, VT
KUNM - 89.9 FM (Aether Fest) - Albuquerque, NM
KHEN - 106.9 FM - Salida, CO
Radio Hola - 90.5 & 91.8 FM - Nyland - Sweden
KZYX - 90.7 FM - Philo CA
KEUL - 88.9 FM - Girdwood AK
WHRW - 90.5 FM - Binghamton, NY
WNCG - 95.7 FM - Mansfield Ohio
WJFF - 90.5 FM - Jeffersonville NY
KXCI - 91.3 FM - Tucson, AZ
WFBH - 91.3 FM - Bloomington, IN
KGNU- 88.5 FM - Boulder, CO

Radiant Dissonance is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Division.

If your radio station is interested in broadcasting Radiant Dissonance, contact Victoria Fenner at fenner@community-media.com or fill out this easy order form.