Report from Toronto

I landed on Monday and jumped right into activities at NAISA. Most of the week was dedicated to a hand wound coil workshop. I showed some coils I, explained the basic theory of electro-magnetism and got everyone that wanted to build a simple solinoid, a pick-up and an output device. The end of the workshop included the demo of a super hacked electronic bow playing a one stringed instrument made out of a broken microphone stand. One of the participants made a coil that could pick up electro-magnetic fields radiating from electronic devices like hand drills, electric wiring, cell phones and computers. Very cool sounds.

New Adventures in Sound Art

Amongst all the other things I have been up to are the preparations to participate in a residency in Toronto with the NAISA folks August 4-9. I'll be giving a workshop on how to build electro-magnetic coils for sound art based applications, running the Kite Lab, giving an artist talk on wind coil sound flow at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2009 , and hopefully giving a performance, Against the Wind. I write hopefully because it's an outdoor event and very dependent on the weather conditions. Never the less , weather permitting, I will be out at Sir Winston Churchill Park almost daily running the Kite Lab , so folks will be able to catch Against the Wind in some form or another.