Bill Burns
Bird Radio, 2008
Multimedia installation
and radio broadcast
Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly
Photo: Shannon Hennigar
Bureau de change, On Air
Radio Free Banff
July 12 – September 28, 2008
Curators: Naomi Potter and Pandora Syperek
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 3-6 p.m.
As part of the Walter Phillips Gallery’s 75th anniversary project, Radio Free Banff presents lively weekly shows, hands-on workshops, and public events that connect to the history of radio art at The Banff Centre and highlight current investigations into radio as a site for aural experimentation. Stay tuned to www.radio90.fm or listen in the Butterfly Garden by the Gallery.
Weekly schedule (PDF)
Filtered Air
Filtered Air is a series of live events by invited guests who play with the radio as an alternative space for experiencing our quasi-natural surroundings.
Performance: Bill Burns, Bird Radio: Friday, July 18, 6 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Talk: Sabine Breitsameter, Acoustic Ecology, Thursday, July 31, 7 p.m.
Radio Workshop and Performance: Build and Perform Your Own Micro-Transmitter with Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King, August 16 and 17, 2008, 1-5 p.m., performance at 6 p.m. on Sunday
Broadcast: Anna Friz, Short Horizon: August 14, 28, September 11, 25, 5 p.m.
Performance: Kelly Andres, Songbike:
Friday, September 19, 1 – 7 p.m.,
Saturday, September 20, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Fresh Air
Fresh Air features weekly live, interactive programming that both listens and speaks to nature.
Every Friday at 5 p.m.
July 12, 3-6 p.m.
Fresh Air live at the opening reception: A Well Kept Shop
Lana Palmer, Rich Dawson, and Jesse Lund
July 25, 5-6:15 p.m.
Landscape and Escape
Lana Palmer, Rich Dawson, and Jesse Lund
August 1, 5-6:15 MST
Classics of Sonic Media Art
Sabine Breitsameter
August 8, 5-6:15 p.m.
Beyond the Sublime
Robert Patterson
August 15, 5-6:15 p.m.
Lost Songs
Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King
August 22, 5-5:15 p.m.
Live at 5 with Lesbian National Parks and Services
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
August 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Heard Locations
Bruce Montcombroux
August 29, 5-6:15 p.m.
Radio4U Redux - For Banff
Robin Lambert
September 5, 5-6:15 p.m.
JETTY!
The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA Les Phonoréalistes
September 12, 5-6:15 p.m.
On the Wind
Annie Martin
September 19, 5-6:15 p.m.
Elk Radio
Peter Hobbs
September 26, 5-6:15 p.m.
Rocky Mountain Discs
Michael Birchall
Songbike
Show your town, tell your stories, ride your bike!
Friday, September 19, 1 – 7 p.m.
Saturday, September 20, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Become a tour guide and take artist Kelly Andres on a one-hour bicycle ride of your Banff. Andres will accompany you with her mobile sound lab, Songbike, transforming your narrated ride into a unique soundscape composition broadcast live to the world on www.radio90.fm.
Individuals or groups of up to three are invited to participate. This event is free, but you have to schedule your bike tour by calling the Walter Phillips Gallery at 403-762-6281.