Ears Have Eyes

Our program this month features work from local, national, and international sound artists and musicians with a focus on tranquility and the expanse of each moment. This collection of sound artworks, poetry, and experimental music is intended to provide space to relax and bask in the hidden gentle flow of the Summer - a quiet place too often obscured beneath the frantic energy stirred up by hot weather and busy schedules. Join us as we explore the introspective and infinite space of a moment between moments.

ARTISTS:

Audrey Lane Cockett

Chuck Johnson

Daria Baiocchi

D. C. Gale

Lauren Wong

Manja Ristic

Dr. Tibor Donath

Who Cares?

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]

Our program this month features work from local, national, and international sound artists across Turtle Island, Asia, and Western and Central Europe. Their work is challenging - rising in voices of dissent, instruments of revolution, calls for decolonization, field recordings from political protests, responses to anti-abortion legislation, and artworks shining light on everyday injustice. And yet, what is challenging to listen to is also empowering to say. Each participant speaks from their heart, sometimes in riddles, sometimes in musical compositions, and sometimes in blazing words. The terrain we’re covering today is broad and specific to each artist’s point of view, but the common thread is thick and daring. On this Summer day, we invite you to hear these red hot works, and let them light a fire within you.

ARTISTS:

Anna Friz

January Rogers

Jared Tailfeathers

Kevin Logan

Natalia Mamcarczyk

Stephanie Quilliams

Dr. Tibor Donath

The Worst Mankind

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]

RISING WATER: over, around, and through

Rising water is personal and political, caught between the cold tinkle of ice in a glass on a hot summer day, and the slow rise of oceans brought about by carbon dioxide emissions melting polar ice caps. Water is a caress and a rush, essential and deadly. Here in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, we are approaching the 9th anniversary of the 2013 flood. We consider the tension between how rivers move, like snakes across the landscape, shifting in a serpentine and every-changing pathway, and our built environment, home to hundreds of thousands of Calgarians, constructed from right angles of wood and steel and concrete, and spilling out across a flood plain.

Rising water is personal. Rising water is communal. Rising water is global. The artists on this week’s program explore the theme through storytelling, myth, metaphor, and soundscape, inviting you to wade in, beginning - as always - with your ears.

ARTISTS:

Audrey Lane Cockett

Christina Milinusic

Daria Baiocchi

Deep Dive Sound

Lauren Wong

Manja Ristic

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]

From road trips to immigration, meditations on nationhood to outer space travel, the upcoming sound works meditate on the theme of JOURNEY through place-ness - the places we’ve been, the places we are, the places we move through, come from, escape, dwell in, get stuck, stick out, are displaced from, yearn for, and aim towards.

The idea of 'place' is not solid, but unfolding in simultaneous layers, dependent on personal embodiment, acknowledged histories, and cultural perspectives. Lucy Lippard talks about place as “multicentred,” localized in a map of memories, political and personal. “All places,” she writes, “exist somewhere between the inside and the outside view of them, the ways in which they compare to, and contrast with, other places.”

ARTISTS:

Calum Robertson

Curved Walls

D. C. Gale

Eduardo Gama

Edzi'u

Kathleen Moors

Lauren Wong

Tyler Stewart

WalkingLab

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]

THE TIME BETWEEN US // PART 2: duration &

anticipation, chronological or nonlinear

The sound works on this program explore,

deconstruct, or reimagine the relationship between sound and time. Artists on THE TIME BETWEEN US address time as a human experience, knowledge and learning passed

between generations, grief as a process of time unfolding, time travel, and

sound as a signifier for the passing, slowing down, speeding up, and stopping

of time.

ARTISTS:

Edzi’u

Curved Walls

Noel Begin

Tawni Bias

Special thanks to Noel Begin for speedy work, and to CJSW for accommodating this special two-part episode on short notice.

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]

THE TIME BETWEEN US // PART 1: duration & anticipation, chronological or nonlinear

In this program, sound artists, musicians, and storytellers explore, deconstruct, and reimagine the relationship between sound and time. Some compositions are nostalgic, others philosophical; some dissect grief, others reflect on the accumulations of time. A sonic excursion across decades and right back to the moment these soundwaves touch your eardrums, the time between us narrows just a little bit through the enduring sound works of these artists.

True to form, we've split this program into two parts, spread across radio time. Stay tuned for THE TIME BETWEEN US // Part 2.

ARTISTS:

Audrey Lane Cockett

Lesick vs. Woulg

Lodgepole Kind

Nikki Reimer & Chris Reimer

Reiko Yamada & Artur Majewski

WKO

With thanks to Rebecca Bruton for her contribution from Graveyards & Gardens, including excerpts of sound from Caroline Shaw.

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]

What is the relationship between soundscapes and landscapes? Between sound and place? Between wildness and wilderness? Our second episode of EARS HAVE EYES uses Wild(er)ness as a theme for artists, musicians, and journalists to explore the too-often ignored sonorous space beyond human soundscapes. Beautiful, spatial, observational, and at times political, these soundscapes invite the listener on a wild adventure - ears first.

ARTISTS:

Alexandra Spence

Annie Dunning

Bert Crowfoot, featuring the voice of Elder Mary Thomas

Christina Milinusic

Curved Walls (Richard Gallant)

Derek Haussecker

Jean-Paul Perrotte

Robin Minard

Rucyl Frison

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]

The first of three radio-based Hibernation themes, EARS HAVE EYES: spatial conjuring and ear specific art for the radio explores the interspace between senses. This radio program invited artists to submit audio works exploring the spatial aspects of sound to “illustrate” invisible worlds. Whether creating synaesthetic experiences, mapping the relationship between sound, sight, and identity, or using sonic means to create shapes, volumes, or places, EARS HAVE EYES invites the listener to reconsider the relationship between sight and sound.

SOUND ARTISTS:

Alexandra Spence

Chris Dadge

Hair Control (Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne)

Jamilah Malika Abu-Bakare

John Abram

Noel Begin

Rosina Skulsky & Caitlind Brown

Tunnel (Jen Reimer & Magnus Tiessenhausen)

Wihtikow ᐃᐧᐦᑎᑯᐤ

For more information about the artists or to submit your own sound art, visit https://hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/