EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 30
Airing Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, New Adventures in Sound Art, & Golden Co-Op Radio
METEORITE:
summer nights, dazzle + burn
ARTISTS:
Christina Milinusic
Curved Walls
Frederico Pessoa
Midnite Gossip
Radio Echo Collective (featuring work by Emilia Martin)
As of this month, EARS HAVE EYES is available on New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) Radio!
Photo by Caitlind Brown
EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly sound art radio program airing on CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, Golden Co-op Radio in Golden, BC, and NAISA Radio in South River, Ontario. You can listen to podcasts of previous episodes here.
Our August episode responds to the annual phenomenon of the Perseids meteor shower, seen streaking across the sky every Summer in the Northern Hemisphere. We’re exploring Summer nights as an evocative environmental condition for people, animals, plants, and other sonic adventures in the dark – especially under a sky full of shooting stars.
Hosted by Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett, produced by Caitlind Brown, edited by Caitlind Brown, supported by Kaamil Kareemi of CJSW 90.9 FM, Claire Dibble of Golden Co-op Radio, and Darren Copeland of NAISA Radio. This program is volunteer-run. Thank you to the artists for sharing their work with us!
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
Christina Milinusic
Christina Milinusic is an AV technician and artist whose practice involves creating immersive sound art using field recordings and synthesizers to explore and deepen listeners’ connection to the sonic world. By mixing and arranging auditory elements, Christina creates compositions that enhance awareness of the aural environment. Her work, influenced by acoustic ecology and the sounds of daily life, fosters a deeper engagement with our soundscape.
Marmot Meteorite is a sound art piece crafted from a binaural recording taken in Banff National Park. This composition seeks to transport listeners to the heart of the natural landscape, immersing them in the subtle symphony of nature. The title reflects the juxtaposition of the earthly and the extraterrestrial, drawing a parallel between the auditory presence of marmots in the alpine environment and the mysterious descent of meteorites. The work creates an immersive auditory experience that captures the intersection between the terrestrial and the cosmic.
Curved Walls (Richard Gallant)
Curved Walls is the solo project of Calgary based multi-instrumentalist session musician and Hermitess member Richard Gallant. Utilizing a diverse assortment of stringed instruments both ancient and modern, Gallant constructs rich sonic tapestries that contrast and build on the distinct timbral identities of his wide collection of traditional instruments. Expect to hear the medieval tones of the Hurdy Gurdy and Psaltery contrasted against ambient electronics and heavy electric guitar riffs, all blended together into intricately organized studio confections designed to delight the ear of the headphone aficionado. Boldly experimental, while still maintaining keen melodicism and meditative, harmonic grounding, Curved Walls takes the adventurous listener along on a rich and rewarding sonic excursion.
About Meteorite:
“Couldn’t resist attempting to make some sort of meteor shower using the hurdy gurdy and bowed psaltery. Beginning with the hurdy gurdy droning where the initial punch of a meteor through the atmosphere is the sound of the dog (floating bridge that makes buzzing sounds as you crank the wheel with slight changes in motion). Followed by improvised melodies from the bowed psaltery acting as meteor trails giving each a unique signature.“
Frederico Pessoa
Frederico Pessoa is a musician who collects soundscapes and everyday events for their reinterpretation into electroacoustic and radio pieces, audiovisual works, and multimedia performances. He has written texts at the intersection of literature and the sociology of listening, aiming to explore, through words, the possibilities of mobilization created by sound. He holds a postgraduate degree in Philosophy and a master’s and doctoral degree in Arts from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Biofonia was composed from a processed nocturnal field recording, aiming to provide a sound experience that resembles the interaction of different species in a given place, full of beings that express themselves sonically – an interaction that slowly changes but remains cohesive.
Midnite Gossip
Midnite Gossip is a Calgary-based Cinematic Indie-Pop duo, comprised of Nicky Markin and Mickey Valenz. Their evocative signature sound is both “pretty and gritty” as they fuse alternative, indie-pop, trip-hop, and electronica elements – drawing inspiration from acclaimed artists like The XX, Phantogram, Nine Inch Nails, and St. Vincent. Midnite Gossip’s eclectic, energetic live set both inspires and “moves” audiences as it takes them on a cinematic sonic journey and creates a high vibe atmosphere with massive beats, soaring vocals, animated stage presence, and custom visual production.
About Lost in the Night (instrumental):
“We were scheduled to perform at “Satellite Music and Arts Festival” (2023) in the Drumheller Badlands and discovered that we would be performing on the same night as the Perseids meteor shower. So we wrote and produced this song to perform beneath the meteor shower. We have submitted the instrumental mix to give it a more spacious feel.
This piece is currently unreleased, but we perform it as part of our live sets.“
Emilia Martin of Radio Echo Collective
Radio Echo is a location-independent radio collective focused on reverberating stories overshadowed by long-unexamined and -unrevised world views. It focuses on echoing stories through an intersectional feminist standpoint and it works on the ground of a landscape for multiple voices to thrive and create vibrations that subvert the main narratives.
Radio Echo members are Sophie Allerding, Beatrice Cera, Lina von Jaruntowski, Lea Novi, Emilia Martin and Renata Mirón.
Emilia Martin is an artist working primarily with photography, sound and writing and since 2021. Emilia is in the process of researching and creating a body of work that focuses on how meteorites function in the history of modern science, mythologies, folk tales and folk beliefs, culminating into a book to be released this September.
A curious stone is a sound piece originally broadcasted on Radio Echo on 12.08.2022 during the perseid meteor shower night. Meteorites hold a great contradiction: they are first-hand witnesses of outer space, travellers from deep time, offering a glimpse into the origin of life on Earth. And yet, they are rocks whom we attribute with passivity, confinement and silence, symbolising the inability to communicate or express.
The sound piece invites the listeners to experience multiple perspectives on a meteorite, rather than as simply a cosmic, foreign body. It is part of Emilia Martin’s long term research where she investigates the history of meteorites through myths and tales and their place in the history of modern science.
Created by: Emilia Martin, Jelle Havermans, Shelby Scott
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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