Ears Have Eyes

EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly program featuring sound art, spoken word, and experimental music submitted by local, national, and international artists. Today’s theme, RADIANT WAVES, comes from the invisible transmissions moving through our bodies at all times - washing over us and our environment, emitting outwards from inside us, passing through us without our noticing, flowing back and forth in an infinite connection between ‘self’ and ‘world.’

ARTISTS:

Benoit Bories

Eryk Salvaggio

Jon Middleton

Magda Lambropoulou

Ryan Pratt

Serge Bulat

Zoundskaap

To learn more about the artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

The work on this month’s program arrive as an emergence - shaking off the cold and rust and loneliness of Wintertime, and flowering outwards into the sun. As we here in Calgary/Mohkinstsis emerge from a cold winter into the uncertain thaw of Spring, we share the residual creative output of that long, dark time. Today's compositions respond to the sprouting of nature after the winter subsides, the slow portrait of a person through documentary storytelling, the revealing of a place through field recordings, the unfolding of feelings through music…. each piece reveals something about emerging into a new awareness, environment, or context - as if melting through the snow.

ARTISTS:

Andrew Davidson

Audrey Lane Cockett

Cristian Estrella

Eryk Salvaggio

Masha Kashyna

Phantom Orchid (Kira Sawatsky)

Simon Le Boggit

Sylvi macCormac

Tibor Donath

Today’s program is part of The Hibernation Project, a multidisciplinary art series we organize every winter, starting as a domestic intervention in our house and yard and expanding outwards onto tobogganing hills, digital media platforms, public parks, and radiowaves near you.

To learn more about the artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

Our theme today is a fusion of ECHO and ECOLOGY, drawing from the lush interspace between sound & environment. Today’s artworks span field recordings, political commentary, sounds from ecosystems in crisis, the voice of rivers, and experimental instrumentation responding to ECHOLOGY as a conceptual framework.

ARTISTS:

Akari Komura

alëna korolëva

Audrey Lane Cockett

Costas Frantzis

Fulya Uçanok

Jarek Lustych

Matt Rogalsky

Morten Poulsen

Rafael Diogo

Rigoberto Gallardo

Thanks to our friends at CJSW for inviting us to cultivate this bizarre program - especially Tyra, Lily, Adam, and Kaamil.

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

This month, we're celebrating the One Year Anniversary of EARS HAVE EYES! We started imagining this radio show during The Hibernation Project (our annual collaborative wintertime art series) as a response to the global pandemic and subsequent social distancing. We were trying to figure out ways to share art spaces that don't require physical proximity between people, but could still feel intimate.

As we see it, radio is one of the most intimate mediums. It arrives in your ears as clear as a whisper, without sight - or rather, with incidental imagery, whatever your eyes happen to be seeing (for those of us with vision) at the moment of reception. We love the act of turning on the radio and arriving in a temporary world, intersecting with whatever’s going on already. How do we look with our ears, and listen with our eyes?

ARTISTS:

Absturtzt

brainwave research center

Cameron Naylor

Christina Milinusic

Eric Heitmann

Laura Reid

Paolo Montella

Dr. Tibor Donath

Thanks to our friends at CJSW for inviting us to cultivate this bizarre program - especially Tyra, Lily, Adam, and Kaamil.

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

For our first episode of 2023, we’re turning our ears towards science fiction sounds & speculative stories. The new year elicits speculation about the future. Where are we going? In a time marked by uncertainty and shadowed by pandemic, war, climate crisis, and social reckoning, how can sound pair with imagination to expand our sense of what’s possible? This episode of EARS HAVE EYES invited participation from artists forecasting and spell-casting the future. Whether instrumental or narrative, dystopian or utopian, outer-spacey or inner-spacey, technical or magical, this month’s episode invited artists to squint into the distance, imagining what could be.

ARTISTS:

Alfredo Cerrito

Chelidon Frame

Gregory Kramer

Marie Kollek & Teddy Larue

Moody Alien

Thomas Ellison

Wayne DeFehr

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

In our last program of 2022, we’re exploring the cyclical relationship between endings and beginnings. As one year draws to a close, another begins, in a rhythm that moves not in a line or a circle, but a slow spiral through time and space.

This month's episode features an interview with Stephanie Loveless, Director of the Center for Deep Listening, discussing A Year of Deep Listening (a tribute to Pauline Oliveros).

ARTISTS:

Ana Maria Irimia

Hilda Daniel

Jiyun Park

Jonatan Carrasco

Lauren Wong

Marek Hlavac

Misindigo

Pierrot Desperes

Stephanie Loveless (Center for Deep Listening)

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

This month, we're highlighting sound-based artworks exploring DECAY as an abstract or literal phenomenon. In the organic world, decay is tied to end-of-life cycles and decomposition through bacteria and fungi. In music, decay references the time it takes for a sound to ring out, for a note to disappear into silence. But decay is so much more. A sound can decay, a garbage dump can rot, a person’s faith in their political system can degrade over time. Anything whole can begin to decay, but this process is just a part of the cycle of recession and growth – decay is useful. It nourishes. It makes fertilizer and comfortable homes for hibernating creatures. Do not be fooled: decay is not a dead process, it is alive with happenings. Decay is the home of transformation.

ARTISTS:

Alëna Korolëva

Andre Rodrigues

Artiom Constantinov

Dixie Treichel

Erik Salvaggio

Lauren Wong

Lewis Kaye

Peter Annear

Rotting Sounds

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

This month, we're highlighting sound-based artworks exploring DECAY as an abstract or literal phenomenon. In the organic world, decay is tied to end-of-life cycles and decomposition through bacteria and fungi. In music, decay references the time it takes for a sound to ring out, for a note to disappear into silence. But decay is so much more. A sound can decay, a garbage dump can rot, a person’s faith in their political system can degrade over time. Anything whole can begin to decay, but this process is just a part of the cycle of recession and growth – decay is useful. It nourishes. It makes fertilizer and comfortable homes for hibernating creatures. Do not be fooled: decay is not a dead process, it is alive with happenings. Decay is the home of transformation.

ARTISTS:

Alëna Korolëva

Andre Rodrigues

Artiom Constantinov

Dixie Treichel

Erik Salvaggio

Lauren Wong

Lewis Kaye

Peter Annear

Rotting Sounds

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

On All Hallows Eve, the threshold between one side of the veil and the other is purportedly thinnest - a time for ghostly visitations, resonant sounds, creepy feelings, and echoing experiments. The compositions on this month’s program range from theatrical to autobiographical, encompassing sounds from cemeteries and hospitals, wild narratives and internal voices. Stay tuned for a spooky sound experience.

ARTISTS:

Arash Akbari

Eileen Mc Loughlin

Håkan Jonsson

Johannes Gerard

Lauren Wong

Nohemi Zavala

Rafael Diogo

Stephen Lilly

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]

A storm can be literal or conceptual. In this Summer of profound environmental catastrophe, both interpretations held true at different moments. A storm is a breaking point, an eruptive moment of chaos, but it is usually long-brewing, perhaps even anticipated. Sometimes you can watch a storm come slide across the prairies all day long, see it forming in the distance and drawing ever nearer, until suddenly you're inside it, and all you can do is weather the storm until it passes.

ARTISTS:

Daria Baiocchi

Jessica Wittman

Lauren Wong

NUM

Richard Gallant (Curved Walls)

Dr. Tibor Donath

To learn more about these artists or to submit your own sound art to EARS HAVE EYES, visit www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/ or email [email protected]