EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 41
Airing Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
A SHAPE IN THE CLOUDS:
soft & sonorous, soaring skyward
FEATURING:
Byrne:Kozar:Duo
Dawn Device
Jorge Ramos
Kate Alderton
Tom Scott
Wajda Tamer
This program is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett and edited by Caitlind Brown. Thanks to CJSW, Golden Co-Op Radio, and NAISA (especially Kaamil, Claire, and Darren) for supporting the 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 our June & July episodes, we’re turning our eyes (and ears) skyward for an exploration of atmospheric sounds, ambient music, and cloudy noises. Part 2 deconstructs abstract and literal relationships with the theme, ranging from “mysterious powers,” sonic wanderlust, spatial compositions, and dreamlike worlds, to literal field recordings of jet-planes flying across the sky.
A fun side-note: this program was edited together in an airplane while we were, quite literally, “a shape in the clouds.”
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
Byrne:Kozar:Duo
A composer, sound artist, guitarist, educator, and radio host, Chris Cresswell is a curious musician whose work betrays his affection for sonic wanderlust.
Created by New York City and Boston based soprano Corrine Byrne and trumpeter Andy Kozar, the Byrne:Kozar:Duo presents historically informed performances of Baroque music for natural trumpet and soprano in addition to commissioning new works for modern trumpet and soprano.
Half remembered, half from dreams, all that’s left is dirt and sky looks at love and intimacy through the prism of loss. Each movement is a fragment, a wisp, of what was, what is, what might be. After letting go of memories, of expectations, all that’s left is dirt and sky.
Dawn Device
Dawn Device is the Cologne/Vienna based duo project of Heinrich Lenz and Marius Mertens. Equally at home in the world of ambient textures and of noise walls, the two friends create a raw and unique blend of electronica, drone and noise.
Based on the artists residency stay at Last Ship, Khajuraho, End of Time explores field recordings through the lens of sonic space-building. Utilizing AI-tools to deconstruct the field recordings taken during the residency, it constructs a surreal sonic landscape, shaping individual elements of the soundscape into a still related but dreamlike estranged whole.
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multi-award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, choral, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists and/or institutions on artistic contributions and computer music design. As an artist for the European Network for Opera Academies, he is the London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composer for 2024/2025.
About Electronik Peace:
“During Mahatma Gandhi’s stay in England in 1931, when the Columbia Gramophone Company requested him to make a record for them, Gandhi pleaded his inability to speak politics and added that, at the age of sixty-two, he could make his first and last record which should, if wanted, make his voice heard for all time. Confessing his anxiety to speak on spiritual matters, on October 20, 1931, he read out his old article On God.
For the purpose of this work, I extracted the following passage: There is a mysterious power that pervades everything.”
Kate Alderton
Kate Alderton is a Brighton-based artist, performer, and dream-tender whose work explores the fertile space between dreaming and wakefulness through sound, installation, performance, and collective dreaming. Rooted in a practice she calls “dream activism,” her work listens deeply to the voices of the earth and the more-than-human world, weaving dream imagery back into waking life. Living with anuralia (a lack of inner monologue), Kate’s art is shaped by a profound sensitivity to silence, embodiment, and the unspoken spaces between people, nature, and dreams.
Medicines of the Soul explores deep listening, dream activism, and ways of listening to the voice of the ‘other-than-human world’. You are listening to the sound of a dream…Elements of a dream have been carefully lifted through the layers of deep imagination and placed into test tubes. Sound layers have been created with dream and reality, past and future to create the sounds emanating from deep within the dream.
Tom Scott
Tom Scott works with film, video and sound (field recordings) creating installations, film, video and audio works, individually and in collaborations. He has contributed to Artists collectives and taught multimedia. These days he make things for the enjoyment.
About Growling Jets:
“Recorded at Springfield Park, Walthamstow Marches, London. The marsh itself is bounded to the South by the Lee navigation and on the elevation Springfield Park, then to the North by Coppermill Lane Water Works and train lines, to the East again train lines and finally to the West is an open space over Warwick Reservoir, a large body of water. Each area contributing to the acoustic dynamic from that particular area.“
About Brent Geese:
“Each year, the Brent Geese land and feed for the winter on the local eel grass until they return to Siberia for breeding. The work just captures the murmurings and chatter of the Geese, an easterly wind was blowing, a groin offered shelter. The Geese too busy they didn’t notice me, as l slowly moved to place the recorder in the lee of the groin.”
Wajda Tamer
Wajda Tamer is an antidisciplinary artist based in The Hague and Budapest, with an academic background in both experimental music and film. Their practice circles around multiple layers of personal and cultural introspection, and a holist attempt to explore poetic interrelations between various media, usually resulting in multimedia performances. This multifaceted investigation is shaped by archiving processes, and the principles of somatism while living in socially-technologically embedded bodies.
About What We Bring From Above:
“What We Bring From Above” is an introspective sound art piece based on psychosomatic experiences. I was first crystallized in the form of poetry and then born into the current poetically driven sonic body.
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Special thanks to CJSW.
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