EventsDebaser presents A Sonic Bridge
Woodside Hall, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
November 7, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Access your electromagnetic imagination through an evening of radio art
This fall 2025 Stonecroft Semester, join us to explore the Art of Transmission with an evening of groundbreaking radio art and performance presented by Debaser. Explore the radical potentialities of analog radio through the work of artist and author Paul Jasen and media and sound artist Florence-Delphine Roux.
Artist and author Paul Jasen (A People of Oscillators) will discuss his project The ether is free, a “fictive radioscape” released as an audio recording, radio transmitter kit and text. Discover the electromagnetic wilderness of natural radio, the interventions of pirates and shortwave spies, and consider how accessible DIY media might help new collectivities take root beyond the reach of The Platform.
Florence-Delphine Roux will present her performance Chronique d’Ether where she captures, perturbs and reveals radiophonic and electromagnetic frequencies in an interactive dialogue between space, antennas and her body. Through electronic craft and electromagnetically responsive sculpture, Roux cultivates an environment of attentive listening, unsettled by the noise of the world.
This event is part of Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Transmission. The event is free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.
Access: The Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre’s (CDCC) parking lot, Para Transpo drop-off and main entrance are located at 290 Lisgar street. The main entrance has an accessible ramp. CDCC is accessible, with an elevator and barrier-free washrooms.
Parking: Paid parking is available at CDCC’s parking lot at 290 Lisgar street. Metered parking is also available on many nearby streets.
Participants
Florence-Delphine Roux is a digital and sound artist from Nionwentsïo/Quebec City, now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal Canada. Her work explores the convergence of art, science and technology, emphasizing the radio medium. Her creations manifest as listening experiences, immersive sound installations, performances, art videos, and radio pieces.
Paul Jasen is an Ottawa-based artist, author and educator. His audio projects in recent years have often explored the idea of ‘a music without us’ via handmade electronics, radio and modular synthesis. His book Low End Theory: Bass, Bodies and The Materiality of Sonic Experience plumbs the much-mythologized field of low-frequency sound, discovering the many ways that vibratory phenomena can texture felt-space and modulate fleshy thought.
