EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 17
Airing Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM
PART 1 of 2
SOUND DEATH:
endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare
SOUND ARTISTS:
Aloïs Yang
DAWN PHASE
DUMA
Eduardo García (not part of FOSE)
Heloise Tunstall-Behrens + Auclair
Jol Thoms
Featuring an interview with Kalas Liebfried & L.M. Ramsey, Co-Curators of Fragments of Sonic Extinction (FOSE).
Cover image care of FOSE.
Co-hosted by Wayne Garrett & Caitlind Brown, produced and edited by Caitlind Brown, supported by Kaamil Kareemi and CJSW 90.9 FM.
EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly sound art radio program airing on CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary/Mohkinstsis. You can listen to podcasts of previous episodes here.
This is Part 1 of a 2-part theme called SOUND DEATH. Participating artists share sound art, music, spoken word, and interviews around sounds that are endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare.
This month, we’re featuring work from Fragments of Sonic Extinction (FOSE), a project taking the form of a group exhibition in Munich, Germany and an interactive website. FOSE explores the extinction of natural sounds, focusing on the sonic character of the extinction process and its relationship with cultural histories and global catastrophes related to the anthropocene. The curators commissioned eight new works from artists across the globe, presented live for an exhibition in Munich this May, and released on a multimedia website you can access from the comfort of your own home. This episode features an interview with the co-curators, Kalas Liebfried (Munich) and Laura Margaret Ramsey (Toronto). http://www.sonicextinction.net
We’ll be featuring FOSE artists this month and next month, interspersed between other sound-based artworks responding to the theme of our two-part mini-series, SOUND DEATH.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW!
Aloïs Yang
Aloïs Yang is a conceptual media artist, performer and experimental musician. He uses sound as the primary medium that is interconnected with data of context, visual, lighting, and human interaction.
About Cycles of Rebirth and Redie:
During the summer of 2022, one of the large-scale wildfires in Europe was ignited at Bohemian Switzerland national park. The energetic dynamics of that fire was recorded both in the air and on the surfaces of the fire ring as sound vibrations. It was then emitted back to the fire ring with a pair of surface transducer speakers. The fire is heard through a block of ice made from collected local rain, with a pair of hydrophones inside, as a durational sonic happening, determined by the completion of the melted ice.
[DAWN PHASE]
[Dawn Phase] is a collaborative sound project initiated by L. M. Ramsey and Kalas Liebfried.
Kalas Liebfried is a multidisciplinary artist based in Munich, Germany. Central to his installations and performances is the exploration of the sculptural and socio-political potentials of sound.
L. M. Ramsey is a Toronto-based archivist and imaging specialist. Her artistic practice is informed by archival structures, computational ecosystems, and the ethical considerations of non-human animals, plants and machines.
Junk Anima is a sample-based synthetic sound work illustrating the unique sonic experience of whales and its invisibilization by humans in Antarctic waters.
DUMA
Duma are a Kenyan industrial grindcore and noise duo including vocalist Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) as well as guitarist and producer Sam Karugu. The band’s name, Duma, means “darkness” in the Kikuyu language.
About Black Rhinos (shot to extinction for their horns):
When darkness envelops the earth, and humankind swallows up the last remaining Black Rhino, we are met with the careful soundings of DUMA’s newly commissioned work. A deep growling narration leads us through the echoes of gunshots, a saw to the horn, and the last guttural cry of the Black Rhino.
Eduardo García
Eduardo García (Mexico City, 1994) studied Fine-arts at Mexico City ‘s Centro de Arte Mexicano. His work is mainly produced around soundscape and scientific data sonification. His work has been presented at festivals in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Greece, Japan and Mexico.
Surrounded Nature was created from field recordings at Chapultepec woods in Mexico City. Chapultepec is the biggest and most important preserved nature area in the city, however, it’s surrounded by a different number of avenues in which there exists a constant car flow; the recordings present a night walk from inside the woods into the avenue.
Heloise Tunstall-Behrens + Auclair
Heloise Tunstall-Behrens is a composer, producer and performer of both electronic and acoustic music as well as a vocalist.
Auclair is a British-Rwandan music and sound artist. Her work explores rhythm, voice and electronica – treating everyday life like new mythologies and taking an embodied approach to exploring ideas with sound.
Dance Off is inspired by the concept of the colony of bees as one organism – just as neurons work together to make up a brain. It is the interaction of each individual bee with each other that creates the collective – just as the interlocking parts of a hocket (a melody divided between two or more parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other) are combined to create one melody.
Jol Thoms
Jol Thoms is an artist, educator and experimental theorist based in London, UK. His critical practice interrogates the West’s troubled relationships with Nature, Technology, and the Cosmos
(Haunting Genetics of) A Tuskless Mutation considers the epigenetic alterations in the remaining two species of African Elephant that has resulted in a ‘tuskless mutation’ resulting from ivory poaching and loss of habitat.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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