Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Toronto and Montreal. Since 1998 she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. From the childhood fiction of "the little people in the radio" to documentary remixes of live political events, she creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes.
Anna has performed and exhibited widely across Canada, and at international venues and festivals such as Third Coast Audio Festival (Chicago, IL), PS 122 (New York, NY), AS220 (Providence, RI), Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), the Fifth International Biennial of Radio (Mexico City), Arte Nuevo Interactiva (Yucatan), Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Belfast, IE), Club Transmediale/ Bootlab (Berlin, DE), Die Akademie der Künste (Berlin, DE), Art+Communication (Riga, LV), Von Krahl (Tallinn, EE), Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), Digitales (Brussels, BE), Radiophonic 07 (Brussels, BE), Observatori (Valencia, ES), RadiaLX (Lisbon, PT). Her work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Québec Delegation in Mexico, and the SOCAN Foundation. Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Danmark, Spain, and Mexico, and heard on independent airwaves in more than 15 countries.
Anna is a free103point9.org transmission artist and frequent contributor to ORF Kunstradio , Austria.
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Ongoing Work:
Respire: a performance piece that has grown out of "You are far from us", focussing on breath, static, and transduced radio transmission interference patterns, narrowcast through a multi-channel transmitter and receiver array. First performed at RadiaLX 2008 in Lisbon, recently shown at the Surrey Arts Centre, Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, and booked in installation form for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, in 2009.
You Are Far From Us a performed installation for 65+ radios and 4 transmitters, premiered at Radio Revolten in Halle, Germany, October 2006, featured at Radiophonic 07, Bruxelles, October 2007, and at Art+Communication: Spektropijia in Riga, Latvia in 2008.
Dancing Walls Stir the Prairie : an ongoing collaboration with Chicago sound artist Eric Leonardson .
Short Horizon : Compositions made from the imagined and actual intercepted fields of electro-magnetic and acoustic signals in and around Toronto, Canada. I am particularly interested in the relative flatness and depth perceivable in both acoustic and Hertzian space, and in the diminishing horizon in the city as a result of urban design and an exponential increase in wireless infrastructure (or EM clutter). To be released on CD in 2009 through L.O.T. Experiments in Urban Research , and free103point9.org
The Joy Channel : Created together with Emmanuel Madan . An experimental audio/radio piece contemplating the state of radio 150 years in the future. First commissioned by Radiovisionen: 250 Years of Radio" series at Tesla, Berlin in October 2007. To date, The Joy Channel has been performed live at Tesla, Berlin, and the radio version aired nationally on ORF Kunstradio , Austria. The 5.1 version was recently part of the "Aural Cinemas" exhibition in at eikonos NFS Bildkritik in Basel, Switzerland, and will soon be touring with the sonic-cinema event ((audience)) in various North American cities.
Recent Projects:
Extremity Cassette : A generative audio piece created for Art's Birthday together with Absolute Value of Noise .
Ice breaker . A new 4-dimensional research work initiated by Owen Chapman, with George Stamos, Tara Rodgers, Yvan Cazabon and others. Residency in March 2008 in Montreal, May 2008 in Ottawa.
Somewhere a voice is calling : a performance for 2-channel radio array, VLF antennas, and live video manipulation, performed with Absolute Value of Noise and Glenn Gear.
