EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 35
Airing Wednesday, January 8, 2024 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
SUBLIMINAL/SUBLINGUAL:
under the ears and inside the tongue
ARTISTS:
Aliyah Aziz
Christie Blizard
Dave Madden
The Koax Choir
This program is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett. This episode edited by Wayne Garrett. Thanks to CJSW, Golden Co-Op Radio, and NAISA (especially Kaamil, Claire, and Darren) for supporting this show!
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.
For the first episode of the new year, we’re exploring the strange and hazy sounds floating just out of focus – somewhere on the fringe between science fiction, tongue twisters, and the fantastic phonic frequency that can only be heard and not told. We’ve included Abstractions, stories, and experiments, including (but not limited to) experimental music, spoken word, fantasy, fiction, and more. Tune in and sail away with us, under the ears and inside the tongue….
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
Aliyah Aziz
Aliyah Aziz is a multidisciplinary storyteller, poet and musician who uses light to talk about shadows, and sound to physically move them through us. Her expressions take many forms, from multimedia moving collages of archived material, experimental sound and poetry compositions, interactive media installations, to live performances. Her work is an exploration of identity and the power that stories hold, from the history of our shadows to the projection of our futures.
What has been pulled apart? It is only distorted. The separation is an illusion. It is smoke and mirrors and paths drawn in the sky. PULL APART is a recording of an improvised Tape composition featuring a field recording taken during the Canadian International Airshow in September. Rather than the sounds of the planes, the recording was taken on a walk down the viewing path by the lake, and includes an excerpt of sound when the planes were not flying, instead a recording of the crowd gathered to watch. In the sonic distortion of the sounds on tape afterwards, it is this recording that became a sound that echoes that of the planes piercing the sky. Sound becomes an echo to interrogate, not separate from source. There is a violence that cannot be filtered out of what we hear, an underlying presence in the stories we tell ourselves in cognitive dissonance.
Christie Blizard
Christie Blizard is a musician and artist living in Texas, USA. Their work tries to understand the dimensions between life and death. Sound frequencies have become their primary medium.
About The New World:
“The piece was recorded live with various synthesizers and eurorack modules. I was trying to use sounds to communicate with ghosts and different energies that can move through the electrical frequencies. I am also a visual artist, so I was approaching sound composition like painting, with textures through improvised choices to evoke a felt space with tension and extra terrestrial energies.“
Dave Ronson
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 in foggy memories of warehouses, rituals, subterranean boogeymen, submarines and other heterotopia, melatonin dreams et al.; build it, and it really did happen. Dave is a member of Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for The Squid’s Ear.
About Murder, if no ill-lit side mane named: I still lion-fire drum:
“My original artist statement of this and the other two movements of The Svelte II (2016, revised in 2020) rallies a warning against automation and “mechanizing the human condition.” “…you and/or yours will implode while your world dissolves,” I regurgitated after piecing together the music and consequently listening to the sampled text for a month. It’s 2024 and a machine can write my entire resume. Where are we going?”
The Koax Choir
The Koax Choir is a shifting group of musicians in Austin, Texas who rehearse and perform the vocal sound art work of Josh Ronsen and other composers. They have contributed to 3 compilations from the French label
The Clifford Simak Project collects vivid descriptions of sounds from the science fiction writings of Clifford Simak. These are all the sounds of aliens, creatures, time warps, bizarre contraptions that Simak cannot write about without describing sonically. The score is open to any number of musicians playing any type of instrument. Here, in its fourth performance, the piece is performed by the Koax Choir, Josh Ronsen, Ann Armstrong, Lee Ann Cameron, Scott Telles, Wendy Ryan during a group show at Northern-Southern art gallery based on works of literature.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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