Ice Follies 2025

New Adventures in Sound Art, 2025

For Ice Follies 2025, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), led by sound artist Darren Copeland, will present a collection of audio compositions created from the sounds of ice on Lake Nipissing. These pieces, composed by local participants, will feature the unique, ephemeral sounds of the ice, exploring the festival’s theme, “The Ice is Slippery.” The compositions will offer a sonic reflection on the transient nature of ice, blending natural soundscapes with additional texts and audio elements. The completed works will be showcased at a listening party during the festival and made available online.

Artist Bio:

Darren Copeland, a sound artist since 1985, is the founding Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). His work spans multichannel spatialization for live performance, fixed media composition, soundscape, radio art, and sound installation. Copeland studied electroacoustic composition at Simon Fraser University and the University of Birmingham. His compositions, published on the empreintes DIGITALes label, often blend abstract and referential sound materials. He has created radio art works commissioned by public radio in Europe and North America, and sound installations exploring the relationship between sound and place. Copeland also writes about sound art and curates performances and installations for NAISA, continually developing new spatialization practices in the field.

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