A slow-burning visual and aural tapestry takes you inside an imaginary museum of transistor radios. The curator lounges on a red sofa, and silently extols the virtues of several items in his collection. An announcer babbles incoherently in Yiddish. and a lone laptop jockey coaxes out a series of androgynous landscapes. - Zev Asher
This performance was recorded May 2003 at the Rivoli, Toronto.
Zev Asher (1963-2013) was a Montreal-born filmmaker and musician. He performed extensively in North America, Europe, and Japan with the duo Nimrod (with Tim Olive) and his improvisational project, Roughage. Both Nimrod and Roughage appeared on a number of recordings released on labels in Canada, the U.S., Japan, France, Croatia, and Russia. Zev Asher had also produced several documentaries that covered as subjects artists from the newly-formed country of Croatia, the Nihilist Spasm Band, and the artist Jesse Powers' killing of a cat in an artwork, as well as the incomplete documentary Zev Asher:GVH.
"The Deep Wireless 15 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2021 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The album celebrates the 20th Anniversary of both New Adventures in Sound Art and Deep Wireless and is comprised of past performances produced for the festival by New Adventures in Sound Art.
Editions 9 through 14 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 NAISA's Soundcloud page.
Note that Deep Wireless 15 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"
