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NOISE welcomes JiaJia Li & Laura Reid - the artistic directors for The Instrumental Society of Calgary! We'll discuss the 2025-2026 season, as well as the upcoming concert "American Haiku" on November 23rd. All this and the best in experimental and avant-garde music!

Playlist:

• Jorjiana - Time
• Astrocolor - Nightflight
• Cheng² Duo - Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano, "Shifting Baselines": I. Steady stroll—Flowing
• Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet - Limestone & Felt
• Michael Ponder & Ian Jones - Two Pieces for Viola & Cello: I. Lullaby
• Michael Ponder & Ian Jones - Two Pieces for Viola & Cello: II. Grotesque
• Joey Waronker & Pete Min - Greener Grass
• Noam Lemish - San Francisco is my Copenhagen
• Amir ElSaffar - For the Victims of Genocide
• Karneef, featuring Evan Shay - It's How You Say It
• MAGELLA - Control
• Lucrecia Dalt - no death no danger
• Who Cares - Simple Lines of Enquiry

Let the NOISE envelop you. You can relax. It's safe here.

Playlist:

• Gladhanding - Bones Girl
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Saber Tooth Millipede
• UNDERGROUND SPIRITUAL GAME - Above Ground
• Valley Voice - Stars, Engines
• Flying Horse Big Band - Giant Steps
• Zazie Productions - Pivot and Deflect
• Joshua Asante - But, You Can Kiss Me
• Kathleen Yearwood - Wormwood
• Iconoclast - Comfort Me
• Yea Big, Jon Byler Dann, and Tatsuya Nakatani - Fever Two
• Kate Wyatt - Finding
• Rafiq Bhatia - At Midnight On A Black Sand Beach, The Raging Tide Begins To Speak
• Quiet Winter - triangle
• Arid Landscapes - RTMK
• Buildings & Food - Cameras North
• Gayle Young and Robert Wheeler - Iceberg Star Chart

It's a night of sonic adventure on this episode of Noise! Out-there Jazz, ethereal electro-acoustic sound collages, and harsh noise experimentations are all on the menu! DIG IN!

Playlist:

• ROSALÍA, featuring Bjork & Yves Tumor - Berghain
• Kathy Kennedy - Hatsiko
• Wyzaker - Hypnic Jerk!
• Benjamin Fortin - Hero
• Noam Lemish - Song For Rona
• Alex Fournier // Triio - Basalt Pillars and the Field Outside the Ferrimagnetic Order
• Yoni Mayraz, featuring Callum Connell - Vacation
• Ginger Beef - Angela
• Jessica Moss - Washing Machine
• Tortoise - Works and Days
• Buildings & Food - Clear Skies
• Lea Bertucci - In This Time
• Yowie - Grimgribber
• Gazelle - Heaven Smile
• DEATHLETTUCE - the king of pop
• Eldritch Moratorium - INTRO (MR. OLYMPIA)
• Eldritch Moratorium - DEMONSTRATION 1 (MY THRILL)
• Echthros - Children Of The Nations

It's Halloween! It's NOISE! What more do ya need?

Playlist:

• Night Chill - 7 Witches
• Gisela Romero - La Malaguena
• Kathleen Yearwood - The Third Part of the Trees
• Radioactive Vampire Teeth - GOD'S GOO
• Alley Goop - Tabata
• Psst Shh - Wild Internet Church
• Midnight Channel - Internet Friends
• Alix Fernz - L'asphalte
• Karneef - If Only You Could See Your Face Right Now
• stef.in - Leave Unattended and Suffer the Consequences
• Rich Brown - Heart of a Lonely Woman
• Andrew Staniland - The Laws of Nature: Electricity Grid
• Sarah Houston - Lost Dreams
• Gisela Romero - Volver Volver
• Hermitess - The Birds Never Left
• Hermitess, featuring Rebecca Bruton - Swansong
• Ghost Cartridge & Mantrakid - Therapy
• Gayle Young & Robert Wheeler - Seaweed Slowly Shifting

It's that time of year again! Welcome to the CJSW FUNDING DRIVE: NOISE EPISODE! Special Guests! Great Tunes! Donation Incentives Galore!! (CDs, LPs, Merch, and wait until you hear the $500 donation level incentive!!!)

Playlist:

• FACT - Pretentious Man Hates Modern Music in 1926!
• Dial Up - Baby
• John Frusciante - Someone's
• Ladytron - Another Breakfast with You
• Medeski Martin & Wood - Orbits
• Eine Kleine China - User Illusion II
• Eine Kleine China - Carpe DM
• Joel Jeschke - Experimentations
• Calgaréal - Points de Fuite (Live)
• Hermitess - Three Bells
• Hermitess - Green Blade
• Ginger Beef - Flashback

Funding Drive proper is right around the corner! Head over to https://cjsw.com/donate to donate today! OR donate during Funding Drive Week - October 17th to 24th for special show-specific incentives!

Tonight we celebrate with Jazz, Dark Ambient, Harsh Noise, and MORE!

Playlist:

• FACT - none of my friends smoke anymore
• Ginger Beef - Takeout
• Baltimore Jazz Collective - Link to Lateef
• Heather McKay - Eleven Reasons Why
• Karneef, featuring Housefly - Cyber Criminal
• Brigette Fontaine - L'Homme Objet
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
• The Lightmen Plus One - Energy Control Centre
• Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
• Author & Punisher - Meadowlark
• Echthros - The Children of the Nations
• BONE CRATE - From These Hands
• MindRec_ - Liminal Winter
• The Exit Bags - Waterboarding School
• The Stooges - Dirt
• Eliot Krimsky - Time Waves
• Patrick Watson, featuring MARO - The Wandering

NOISE is joined by Sarah Rosenfeld, the Calgary Counselling Centre's Associate Director of Counselling Initiatives. We'll be discussing all things related to the 20th annual National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) initiative.

From October 6-12, you can check in with how you're feeling through their free, anonymous online screening quiz at areyoufeelingok.com.

Playlist:

• Midnight Channel - Oats
• SANAM - Sayl Damei
• Mary Halvorson - Full of Neon
• Joe Bowden - Music Is Life
• Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery
• Sandra Sutter - Trapeze Girl
• Peter Campbell - My Mood Is You
• Hermitess - Winter Cometh
• Peter Gagliardi - Nowhere Optimist
• David Occhipinti - Ice Dance
• Ethan Levy and Alex Stevens - Two Silent Passengers
• Brian Baggett - ...and so it is
• Buildings & Food - Room in Dreams
• Oruã & Reverse Death - Plum Walker
• Eric Chenaux Trio - Hello Eyes

SUBMISSION SPECIAL II

It's back! Tune in for the second edition of the Submission Special! Hear artists from around the World who have sent their music to Noise! Jazz, Contemporary Classical, Experimental, Harsh Noise, Electronics, and more!

Playlist:

• miserable.noise.club - Vehemence
• Jasmati, Grand Trunk, Atsushi Ikeda - Florida Stream
• Toolie Bleu - phantasma
• DEATHLETTUCE - JAWBREAKER
• Shane Krause - Conjunctions I for saxophones
• Porous Treatment - Grating Against the Ever Evolving Grain
• Boreal Path - Trembling Upon the Void
• Yea Big & Greg Saunier - No Timing (preview edit)
• ATO - Trial Voyage
• Dear Rain - Cosmos
• Arts&Crafts - 1958
• Valley Voice - Wishlow
• Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill - Golden Voices
• Dory Haley - Katerina Gimon: Shadow-Light, III. New Light
• No Hay Banda / Steven Takasugi / Huei Lin - The Spasms of Trapped Animals

Playlist:

• Chief Adjuah, featuring Elena Pinderhughes - Of a New Cool
• Joey Calderazzo - The Oracle
• Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band - Return of the Prodigal Son
• Chris Smith - The Day I Tried To Live
• Dan Rosenboom - Coordinate 2: Apophis
• Jairus Sharif - Mawu
• Flur - Nightdiver
• Eliot Krimsky - Transmission
• Brian Baggett - Adrift
• Who Cares - Glimpses: Kotekan
• Jim O'Leary - 3 Polish Songs: No. 3, Nocturne
• No Peeling - Can I Pet That Dog?
• No Peeling - Bank Holiday
• computer fight - past man
• Art Star - Rodeo Boots
• The Weather Station - Body Moves
• The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

The Boys are back in town! Join Steve, Adrian and Chad as they kick out the jams on this episode of NOISE!

Playlist:

• Tebby & The Heavy - Soothe
• Zabus - Zaum
• Uboa - Wasted Potential
• The Exit Bags - Her Ghost is Gone
• NECHT - ...And So Across The Bloody Lake We Did Sail In Silence
• Bicep, featuring Silla - Takkuuk
• Andrew Staniland - The Laws of Nature: Duet
• Jetski - After Midnight
• Iggy Pop - La vie en rose
• Justin Gray - Pendulum
• Die Spitz - Throw Yourself to the Sword
• Yfel 1710 - Witchcraft Commandment
• Periodeater - The Southern Exile
• Venusberg Cardinal - Hieronymus
• Hate Eternal - The Art of Redemption
• At the Gates - The Burning Darkness
• Nurse With Wound - HEASGEBEDDA BUDGERIGAR / NAAAAGH HA