NAISA's Birthday Sound Bash Performance By Rick Sacks March 26, 2011

For the month of March, NAISA's installation space will be filled with everyday man-made objects especially selected for the interesting sounds they make when struck or played, offering you a chance to play with sound and manipulate it live. Every Saturday evening there will be performances by Toronto sound artists to help raise funds for NAISA’s educational and presentation opportunities for sound and media artists.

For those not able to attend in person, you can download-by-donation the many audio recordings of the found objects and performances on them by other supporters of NAISA, beginning March 1st. Download audio by donation starting March 1st: recordings of performances & found objects www.naisa.ca/eshops/esoundbash.php  Celebrate with a bash that lasts!  Thanks to Sound Bash sponsor Charles Street Video.

March 1st also marks the launch date of NAISA's installation space as a rentable space for sound and media artists. Go to www.naisa.ca/rent.html for more info.

March 26 performance by Rick Sacks (www.rixax.com)
Rick Sacks performs as a percussionist with Arraymusic, The Glass Orchestra, New Music Concerts, Aventa, Art of Time, Red Sky, Evergreen Club Gamelan and others. He conducts chamber music and gives workshops in percussion and electronic music. Recent activity includes tours to Beijing and Shanghai as co-composer and music director for Red Sky’s TONO; tours to Europe with Aventa; creating “The Adventures of the Smoid” for shadow puppets and Indonesian Gamelan; Composing music for two Roseneath Theatre children’s shows that are touring the U.S. and; Developing and commissioning new repertoire for the MalletKat (including a new work by Darren Copeland commissioned through the Ontario Arts Council to be performed April 16th). Rick is the artistic director of the Array New Music Centre in Toronto.

Official Website: http://www.naisa.ca/SoundBash.html