EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 43
Airing Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
WANDERING SOUNDS:
ruminations for the end of a season
FEATURING:
elijah jamal asani
Jason Kahn
Patrick Quinn
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.
Our last episode of the Summer is a languid listening excursion through the sound-based work of 3 artists, each with an extended sound piece. This episode is intended as a sprawling meditation, allowing the listener a slower, more expansive listening experience. As we move between seasons, we allow ourselves one last stretch through the warmth of Summer into the cool swirl of Autumn.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
elijah jamal asani
About elijah jamal asani:
“\\ son of the river wimahl \\\ òrìsà of longing \\ \ \\ soft nuances through new colours &&& infinite ((sweet))nothings \\ soon to be martyr”
About good night in muav:
“In the summer of 2022, i spent sixty nights @ the grand canyon as an artist in residence. throughout my linger alongside the canyon, i followed the native wind whisper(s) until we found quiet, i mooted each theory re: how the canyon came to be, & realized the sky never falls asleep no matter how sweet a lullaby i play.
on the fortyfourth morning, i descended into the abyss, hoping to arrive as deep into the mesial as this body allows. as i reached the middle of the chasm, i was confronted by a long throated river; upon entering, my body found the bottom of the water before my eyes could, & my fingers encircled a Zuni/Ashwi emergence point at the basal of this river. following this touch, some dwelling muav stone became loose & met me at the surface, where we drifted back to the shore together.
that evening as the muav & i soften next to the fire, the sky slowly protruded with a new hue, allowing the last clouds to gently wonder “where is my lullaby?”. a shaded question that lie somewhere in between neveragainnavy & the tone of aftereveningamber; this particular hue reflected off of the wet surface of the muav stones & began to reveal sentiments engraved upon their fractures. with every fading saturation of this skies hue, the markings on each stone became perfectly legible. upon reading a few passages, i realized that these stones were epistles addressed to the river from the canyon walls and vice versa. each slate, less a stone, & moreso a letter of adoration confessing intimate details of the relationship between the river & the desert floor that would become the canyon walls. some were letters of love with spatter for words, while others were ‘dear diary’ entries engraved by a sharp yet bent tongue.
after turning on my field recorder, i spent the rest of the night placing each gravel sentiment where the water meets the sand; being sure that the rubble written by the river faces the walls & that each slab carved by the walls commanded a view of the river. before we could ask the moon, i fell asleep next to the memories // desires of a dream.
“,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,” is an audio journal comprised of the sounds & sentiments captured on that fortyfourth night inside of the canyon; an echo of the softness etched upon those muav stones; an aide-memoire on the long-lost creation story between the river, the desert floor, & all the elements in between that remain intertwined for as long as they decide, forming what we call the grand canyon.”
Jason Kahn
Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is a musician, artist and writer. He lives in Zürich.
About Body Winds:
“voice, acoustic guitar, harmonium
Recorded on September 13-14, 2023 at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan.
Recording, mixing, mastering and cover design by Jason Kahn.
Much gratitude to Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Nigel Brown for all their help and warm hospitality during my stay in Tainan as resident artist at Ting Shuo Hear Say. Also many thanks for the generous financial support from Stadt Zürich Kultur, Pro Helvetia, and Fondation SUISA which made my trip to Tainan possible.”
Patrick Quinn
Patrick Quinn is an artist focused on sound art, tactical media, conceptual writing, and walking. He holds a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently based in New York City. His work has been published by Impulsive Habitat, Presque Tout, Neuma, Burial Recordings, Hysterically Real, Gauss PDF, among others; and he has had performances and/or exhibitions at EMPAC; House of Electronic Arts Basel; Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center; Festival of the Smallest; Unsmoke Systems Artspace; Live Performers Meeting (Cape Town); The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Since 2022, Quinn, in collaboration with Fountain House, runs a music studio for adults with severe mental illness called Green Door Studio located in Hell’s Kitchen.
About Towards a Flatter Ontology:
“Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is a philosophical approach that posits that objects, including those not traditionally considered objects (e.g., sounds, ideas, or even groups), have an independent reality that is not reducible to their relations with other objects or humans. In other words, they are not simply perceptions or interpretations in the human mind, but rather entitles that exist independently and possess their own characteristics and qualities that we as humans are not entirely privy to.
This is a very interesting concept to me as someone that identifies as a field recordist and relies heavily on my perception to capture sounds and create work. I am interested in the possibility of OOO informing my field recording practice, but what might this look like? What conceptually and technically can I do to allow the ideas associated with OOO to enter my work?
I encourage listeners of this work to reflect on the ways in which sound might act as an active agent with its own “thing-power” capable of causing effects and shaping reality.”
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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