What People Are Saying

I am impressed by the remarkable range of Victoria’s connections within the audio art and broadcasting communities of Canada and the United States; from the Ottawa Valley to Cambridge Bay to Vancouver to Brooklyn to the Appalachian Mountains. She’s one of those rare individuals who positively flourishes when individuals from diverse audio production backgrounds are brought together for a common purpose.
Garth Rennie, Communication Studies Department, University of Windsor

Victoria's ability to teach by opening and courageously sharing her personal vibes is not only orgasmically inspiring, it's healing by example.
Tina Turner, Reclaiming Venus

Master soundscape artist Victoria Fenner proves you don't need narrative to tell place stories. I'm blown away by the shear luxury of hearing 7:47 of Arctic Circle life. There's a gentle native expansiveness and unhurried emptiness occasionally stamped by the artist as she plays with and in the sound environment. Broadcast this and help audiences learn to hear as babies again. Transcendent naive / outsider / folk music ending - beautiful as a setting arctic sun.
Michael Joly, Cambridge-based producer and recording artist

Victoria Fenner is a gem. Through her work with soundwalking (as posted on http://www.magneticspirits.com) an exceptional aural threshold has been opened and ready for further exploration . . . a glimpse of the synthesis of inner and outer experiences as soundscape is available to the sound artist within us all.
Debra Hetherington Day, visual artist living in Gananoque, Ontario.

I have been visiting Magnetic Spirits for some time and you made me start to listen to my surroundings in a new and different way. Earlier I have had some doubts about internet and its function of being a complement to airborne radio. All the stuff going on, on my screen at the same time, make me loose hearing focus. So when i do find something worth listening to, I usually turn off the screen and just listen...
Gunnar Strom, Härnösand, Sweden

You’re brave! I know that doing a soundwalk with teens in the middle of a conference, around Chicago, wasn’t easy .. and yet you did a grand job. Thanks so much!
Johanna Zorn, Third Coast Audio Festival

Victoria Fenner has The Ear. Her contagious enthusiasm and attention to every particular combine to create works and workshops of exceptional quality. I so appreciate her ability to hear the extraordinary amidst the noise of the daily.
Penn Kemp, artist and poet

Beautifully recorded and mixed sound. Perfection. Nothing less. Fenner created an exquisite audio landscape with this piece. I want to go there now!
Dmae Roberts, producer, The Breast Cancer Monologues

I am in awe of your uniqueness.
Martin J. Cosgrove

Victoria is very committed to the projects she directs. As a facilitator and education, she has an open and non-dogmatic approach to teaching. Students have a lot of say and self-direction in their studies when Victoria is at the helm. Given the individual nature of audio art, she is the right person to facilitate people’s search for an individual voice. She has the vision and committed energy to realize projects over a long period of time that are vital and relevant to the community.
Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art

Victoria is an energetic and inspirational person who knows the field of audio art very well. We recently worked together on a series of programmes for CBC Radio’s “Outfront” featuring the audio art and artists of Quebec. It was a pleasure to work with her on this project and without her skills and knowledge, it never would have come to fruition. I cannot think of a person who would be better placed or qualified to introduce young people to the world of imaginative expression in the medium of sound.
Steve Wadhams, Senior Producer, CBC Radio

I will be in touch, as, after listening to your episode of Radiant Dissonance, you are the kind of person that I want to represent audio art for the show with an interview. You articulate good ideas that people need to hear to enhance their interpersonal experience with "odd" sound.
Dan Crall, Indiana Public Radio

I just looked at your new website. Now I finally know what you do. Loved the poem “Be here … not there”. You should have some sound on your opening page.
Love, Mom

E-mail: fenner@magma.ca

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