Neurotransmits (anagram of ‘number stations’) is an electroacoustic composition that explores the eerie and mysterious world of number stations. Featuring sounds from ‘The Buzzer’, ‘The Pip’, Lincolnshire Poacher, among others from different countries. The sounds of the number stations are woven together with the electronic hum and other electronic apparatus, evoking a sense of cold war operations. Other sounds mimic capacitors discharging such as bullets and bouncing balls.
Cláudio de Pina is a sound artist, improviser, organist and composer. He is the Titular Organist of the historical organ at the Parish of Ajuda in Lisbon and a researcher in GIMC (CESEM). He holds a DAS in contemporary organ music and a MA distinguished with the Dean’s Honour Roll 2018. Currently he is a PhD candidate and FCT fellow in the same field (ESML/FCSH). He has studied at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, Hot Jazz Club and in Physics Engineering (FCUL) along with further studies with Adrian Moore, Åke Parmerud, Annette Vande Gorne, Barry Truax, Gilles Gobeil, Hans Tutschku and Trevor Wishart.
The Deep Wireless 18 Compilation Album is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2024 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The works on the album 'reimagine' the voices and sounds of broadcast transmission and uncover the ghosts of the ether and the latent musicality between station signals. Featured on this album are works from Canada, Portugal and the UK by Bekah Simms, Keith de Mendonca, Cláudio de Pina, Martín Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, AJ Cornell and Rutmeat.
Editions 9 through 17 of the Deep Wireless Compilation are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions can be heard online at naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/
Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on this compilation album.
Note that Deep Wireless 18 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@naisa.ca for more information.
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda
New Adventures in Sound Art acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinabe peoples covered by the Williams Treaty (1923) and Robinson-Huron Treaty (1850). New Adventures in Sound Art recognizes the significant ongoing contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to aural culture in the country known as Canada.
