National Indigenous People's Day - so much to celebrate - go and knock yourselves out and check out 

Are you wanting to record a song for an album, a string quartet for a film score, some software or hardware synths for a sound design for a game, dialogue for a podcast, a piece of sound art?  When you’re creating a piece of audio, you generally follow a chain of 4 somewhat distinct stages.  Each stage has a different focus and a different set of skills.

SAW Video Media Arts Centre stands in solidarity with Black and Indigenous communities. 

With Youtube, Netflix and other video streaming sites as part of our everyday lives, we are certainly not lacking for visual content.  Sometimes, though, we would rather have some more adventurous fare and there are certainly some possibilities on hand.

Some enterprising folks have been able to keep making film even while under quarantine.  The CBC has selected 7 of these and are streaming them for free.

SAW Video Media Art Centre’s Knot Project Space is thrilled to invite you to a one time diffusion of Calla Durose-Moya’s “my friend, the don valley”, Jay Havens’ “Untitled Isolation tests (2020)” and Erin Gee + Jen Kutler’s “Presence”. Join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7pm EDT to see what the stay-at-home-web-residents’ have been up to this past month. A zoom-vernissage will be held after diffusions.

This one time diffusion will be available for viewing on sawvideo.com and facebook.com/sawvideo Thursday, May 28th at 7pm EDT.

We'll be stepping away from our computers this weekend to recharge and soak up the rays, but we'll be back in action on Tuesday. Enjoy the long weekend if you have one!

Even in these uncertain times, there are film festivals that are currently accepting submissions for online screenings; indeed there are some festivals that have been created specifically in response to the current quarantine.  Here are just a few: 

There is something so compelling about a synthesizer, something that allows you to create sounds that have never existed before.  It’s a staple of music in general and of film soundtracks and sound designs.  Sound artists rely on them to create weird and wonderful tones and textures for their work.  The first synthesizers were analog, completely electronic, clunky, chunky and very hands on.  Later, manufacturers took advantage of advances in technology to create digital synthesizers, creating more possibilities in sound creation.