This recording is from a performance that was recorded in August 2018 at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Ontario, Canada.
In this performance blablaTrains create listening paths that range from animality to a robotic society, and from heaven to hell. They strive for a dialog between nature, industrial and electronic sounds. Their performance technique is a theatrical exploration of two instruments that require a ‘choreography’ to generate sound.
To view a video of their performance visit NAISAtube on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_VoGwjl2YA
blablaTrains is a duo formed by Takuto Fukuda playing a DIY sensor instrument, and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek playing an extended Theremin. Respectively from Japan and France, they moved to Canada to study composition and to take the train. The duo develops new ways of combining narrative, theatricality and musical meaning using gestures idiomatic to their digital instruments. Both are composers and Max programmers, and in their respective careers create pieces with instruments and electronics for installations, performances, fixed media and multimedia projects.
The Sound Travels Online Album #1 is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2020 edition of the annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. The contents of the album are curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme "Transformations."
Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation of Radio and Transmission Art are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions (1-8) can be heard online at https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/
Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on NAISA's Soundcloud page.
Note that Sound Travels Online Album is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa at naisa dot ca for more information.
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
