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VICTORIA
FENNER: Victoria is an Ottawa-based
audio artist who has spent the past two decades exploring
the medium of sound. Her interest in Audio Art began in
1982, when she produced the "newsounds gallery" at Vancouver
Cooperative Radio. Since that time, she has been produced
many pieces of her own, as well as curating the Radiant
Dissonance series for the Canadian Society for Independent
Radio Production. In August 1999, in the hopes of reviving
the audio art tradition in Canada, she held an "audio art
retreat" called Full Moon Over Killaloe (www.fmok.org).
The week-long camp brought together audio artists from across
Ontario and Quebec, to work and listen in a collaborative
setting. Fenner held her second retreat this past summer,
and now hopes to make the Full Moon Over Killaloe an annual
event.
The
piece Fenner has created for Out of the Blue is called "No
Time for Silence". As Fenner explains, "'No Time for Silence'
is about losing our quiet spaces and getting back to them
again. These spaces can be both geographic and spiritual.
The noise in this piece refers to the noise in our outer
environment, but it is also a metaphor for the noise inside
our minds.The
piece explores how easy it is to lose the clarity which
is so important if we are to hear ourselves and our world,
and how we can lose our place on the earth when our human
noise drowns out natural rhythms."
Fenner
is currently working on a suite of sound pieces for the
Region of Ottawa Carleton, using audio art to explore and
reflect four separate locations in Ottawa. You can hear
her initial sound walks at www.community-media.com
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