Recipe for a celebration of creativity on the airwaves: send out a call for new works, make a compilation CD, get it on the airwaves and encourage more people to help with the celebration by playing, listening and creating too…

And we are getting a tremendous response from community radio stations across North America and quite a few from Europe as well in doing just that. Along with playing the CD, there are programmers that have created space for live performances of radio art including Les Arts et Les Autres on Radio-Canada, The Audible Woman on CIUT-FM, as well as Why Not?, Art on Air and Electric Storm / Missing Sense on CKLN-FM.

The Deep Wireless radio art compilation was first created as part of the 2004 Deep Wireless festival with the intention of fostering both the creation of radio art through the annual call for submissions, and awareness for radio art by disseminating it to the general public via radio broadcasts. Deep Wireless 2 consists of a small portion of the pieces collected in an international call for submissions on the theme “Belonging” and represents some of the many talented radio and sound artists from around the world.

Deep Wireless 2 was released on April 15, 2005 and distributed to radio stations across North America and Europe. If you would like a copy of the CD for radio play, please e-mail naisa@soundtravels.ca with your address, programme and station information and a copy will be mailed to you. Deep Wireless 2 is for radio use only and not for re-sale.

MP3’s of most of the pieces are available for listening below. Enjoy and please send your comments.

CD 1 1/ Deep Deep Wireless (an intro) by Gregory Whitehead 0:20 2/ As We Know by Gregory Whitehead 2:25 (listen) 3/ Losing It (excerpt) by Katharine Norman 4:15 4/ Night Ascends From the Ear like a Butterfly by Hideko Kawamoto 8:12 (listen) 5/ Pants On Fire / Liar Liar by Marjorie Chan 13:17 (listen) 6/ Walking in Bad Circles by Joan Schuman 3:26 (listen) 7/ J’apprivoisie La Rue Saint-Andre by Andrea-jane Cornell 7:20 8/ Tuning In (Section 1) by Linda Okeeffe 9:02 (listen) 9/ The Harvey Christ Radio Hour presents: The Big Baptizing! 13:36 (listen) 10/ Soul of the City by Eldad Tsabary 7:58 (listen) 11/ FREEDOM HIGHWAY by Emmanuel Madan 6:46

CD 2 1/ Soundbite Society by Milena Droumeva 10:05 (listen) 2/ redo / speaking song by Debashis Sinha 4:49 (listen) 3/ Arctic Sun Arctic Wind by Audrey Churgin 4:46 (listen) 4/ Esquizofrenia (Schizophrenia) by Alexis Perepelycia 9:59 (listen) 5/ Loud is Paramount by Lisa Gasior 6:01 6/ In Silent Time by Richard Windeyer 12:21 (listen) 7/ Pop Titles You by Pamela Z 3:42 (listen) 8/ Rocket by Aura Bogado 6:20 9/ 9.17.2003 by Mike McFerron 4:47 (listen) 10/ Blacktop by Jay Needham 12:41 (listen)