EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 23
Airing Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM & Golden Co-Op Radio
RAPID EAR MOVEMENT:
songs for sleeping, sounds for dreaming
ARTISTS:
AnimaeNoctis
ChillArt
Dave Madden
Ferran Destemple
Jorge Martínez Valderrama
Mollet del Vallés
Serge Bulat
This program is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett, and curated, produced, and edited by Caitlind Brown. Thanks to CJSW & Golden Co-Op Radio (especially Kaamil and Claire) for supporting this show! This program is volunteer-run.
EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly sound art radio program airing on CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, and Golden Co-op Radio in Golden, BC. You can listen to podcasts of previous episodes here.
Late Autumn in Calgary is like a dream, floating in between the hard glittering whiteness of Wintertime and grey, nebulous days of Fall. Nights grow longer towards the Hibernal Solstice, and mammals feel a natural pull towards sleep. Normally, as people, we balance our mammalian impulses against human responsibilities, but this month’s episode of EARS HAVE EYES invites you to give in, to lay in the dark and fall into a waking slumber as sound artists guide you into R.E.M…. RAPID EAR MOVEMENT.
This episode of EARS HAVE EYES comes with special instructions. If you can, sit in the dark and listen with your eyes closed. Come dream with us.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW & Golden Co-op Radio!
AnimaeNoctis
AnimaeNoctis is a multimedia/disciplinary EuroAmerican duo: Silvia Marcantoni Taddei (1994) & Massimo Sannelli (1973). Their public activity begins in 2019 after several years of alternative studying + self healing. Music is the core of their activity.
About Flame of Quest:
“A few sentences by Nyarlathotep from Dream-Quest Of The Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft is metamorphosed in an improvised/unquiet yet firm piece: ‘But you, Randolph Carter, have braved all things of earth’s dreamland, and burn still with the flame of quest. You came not as one curious, but as one seeking his due.'”
AnimaeNoctis is developing a new concept album based on Lovecraft’s Kadath cycle, to be released by NN Records in 2024.
ChillArt
ChillArt (Csilla Ida Toth) is a Hungarian sound artist, sound therapist, vice-principal of a high school in Budapest and a lover of sound bowls. In 2004 she was introduced to the mysticism of sound baths and sound bowls. In 2018 she started using sound bowls as a sound therapy tool and developed her skills in treating sleep disorders to a professional level. But her new album contains sounds that promote colourful dreaming…
About First Bowl:
“The silence of the Universe is pervaded by a multitude of vibrations. Close your eyes, flow with the frequency of the waves. Feel the interplay of colors lurking in the darkness… the sustaining power of red, the freshness of orange, the serenity of yellow, the all-pervading calm and harmony of green, the purity of blue, the soaring of violet… I am surrounded by the radiance of white. Float on the Ocean of Calm.”
This composition is from Super Sound Bowls, an album made with sound bowls, gong, koshi chime, rainstick and ocean drum by ChillArt. Other Sonic and Produced by serial EARS HAVE EYES sound artist, Dr. don Ath.
Dave Madden
Dave Madden’s (BM, MM) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. Madden uses percussion, found objects, turntables and synthesis to create new sonic environments based on foggy memories of warehouses, rituals, subterranean boogeymen, submarines and other heterotopia, melatonin dreams et al.; build it, and it really did happen. Madden’s current direction moves through Tudor’s rain forests with a backpack stocked with Hugh Davies’ contact mics, lost Stockhausen tape loops, Crank Sturgeon’s magnets, and three quarters of a Buchla that needs some repairs.
About 2 AM Promo:
“This work represents the feelings of comfort and wonderful isolation when lucidly enjoying radio programs after most folks have retired for bed.”
Ferran Destemple
Ferran Destemple is a poet and experimental artist. He has also worked in the sound and visual field. He believes that, today, poetry is not simply text. The text expands and infects other artistic spheres. You can see his curriculum here.
About In this fractured dream:
“The dream as a lost paradise. The dream as a lost childhood. The dream as a strange object. The sound like a fragment, a remnant of the dream. The sound as a memory of the dream. We sleep to travel to the land of dreams. We sleep to summon, to call upon desire. All of us want to return to that lost paradise. But we know that it is not possible because dreams are fractured, broken.”
Jorge Martínez Valderrama
As a composer and sound artist, Jorge Martínez Valderrama‘s work reflects on various aesthetic phenomena and concepts within contemporary, electro-acoustic and acousmatic music. His work is based on field recording and is developed under the concepts of perception, alteration, poetics and pareidolia. His artistic interest focuses on listening and reflecting on the implications of sound in different contexts and ecosystems, collective creation and sound-environmental activism.
Sueño 11 (Dream 11) is sound poetry in collaboration with the Peruvian writer María Miranda. This piece is a work that talks about fear, about madness and discouragement, that uncontrollable being that lives within us and astonishes us, leaving us motionless and gasping. The work arises within soundscapes, vocalities, gestures, murmurs, which seem to spring from our thoughts. The word is constantly articulated and opens towards different vocal horizons on a mantle that evokes nature and the illusory silence of the mind.
Mollet de Vallés
Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona-based artistic worker, he has studied labour relations at the University of Barcelona and painting courses at the Escola Massana, art and design school
About Bosque:
“No metrics, no rhythm, no harmony. No rules…”
Serge Bulat
Serge Bulat is a multi-disciplinary artist, hailing from the Moldovan-Ukrainian border town. After experiments with various art forms, immigrated to US. Known for the IMA-winning LP Queuelbum, psychological installation Inkblot & the experimental game Wurroom. In recent years traveled to 13 countries, collecting signature & disappearing sounds which are the basis for his sonic experimentations.
Clock Drift / Bit Sllip’is part of the global Music for Sleep project, initiated by Cities and Memory in 2023. The project’s mission is to induce, aid, and boost sleep. The offered piece features field recording of the Dettifoss waterfall (Iceland) provided by project’s contributor Free To Use Sounds. ‘Clock Drift / Bit Sllip’ itself is also part of the larger body of work in development since the pandemic (music for the mind) to be released in the near future. “Think of it as a sound pill to keep your mind steady, imagination in line, visualization ready, and vibe present, while being taken to places of your choosing” – Serge Bulat.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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