Cover image: a double exposure haunting in 1899 (Creative Commons)
EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 44
Airing Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
RADIO WHISPERS:
haunting radio & radio hauntings
Part 1
FEATURING:
AnimaeNoctis
Azurite Sun
Felix Mayer
Joseph Young
Murmuri
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.
We took a brief break in October to make space on CJSW for coverage of Calgary’s municipal election. This month we’re back with a belated Halloween episode featuring experimental music, spoken word, and sound art leaning in to the ethereal hauntings of radio. We’re featuring artists exploring the strange mysteries unearthed when wandering between frequencies, literally or metaphorically. We received so many submissions, we’ve decided to split this theme into two episodes. This is Part 1 of 2.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
AnimaeNoctis
Silvia Marcantoni Taddei (November 26, 1994) and her husband Massimo Sannelli (November 27, 1973) are AnimaeNoctis since 2019: a multimedia/multidisciplinary roaming duo dealing with filmmaking, post-porn, photography + modeling, e-publishing, video/dance, video/performance, music. They are based in Novi Sad, Serbia.
About Mr. Freeman in Area 51:
Anthropologist Jerry Freeman entered the notorious Area 51 in 1996. He saw things that human cannot imagine. This scattered track pays homage to his otherworldly trip.
Azurite Sun
Azurite Sun (Léa Thirion) is a composer, sound artist, photograph and video artist based in Lyon, France. She writes for instruments, experimental rock, voice, and the electroacoustic medium, and also performs as a songwriter. Originally intending to pursue a career in film restoration, she developed a long-standing affection for experimental cinema, that naturally led her toward an experimental approach to sound.
About Le rêve de Wandjina (Wandjina’s Dream):
Wandjina’s dream is a cinematic and noisy journey through suspended memories and sonic apparitions. Born from fleeting moments of instrumental, modular and vocal improvisation, the piece gradually took shape through a process of sonic reworking and transformation. The instruments, ghoul-like voice, and themes form a tangle of layered atmospheres, like the lingering hints of a perfume, or sonic-stained glass windows. It is as if we’re floating on haunted parallel waves, where music discharges electrical impulses, where telecommunication noises give us access to a secret code, beyond beyond.
Felix Mayer
Felix Mayer (1990) is a trombonist, composer, and sound artist based in Braunschweig. In bands, collectives, and ad-hoc constellations, he explores the boundaries of improvisational and instrumental practice. His compositional work focuses on alternative forms of notation such as text and game pieces, video scores, and improvisational concepts.
He creates radiophonic works, installation-based audio plays, and concert-installations in interdisciplinary collaborations with artists from literature, dance, film, and performance. His site-specific and often multichannel sound installations examine possibilities of communication, connection, and relationship through inherently distorting tools.
Engaging with experiences of fragmentation and shifting perceptions of closeness and distance, he explores the associative and sonic potential of everyday objects such as tin cans, oil barrels, and trash bins.
About Airpop 1:
“The same day I found out about the open call for another edition of the beautiful on air – on site festival, I stumbled upon the Wide-band WebSDR – a web-controlled shortwave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente. I spent hours experimenting with the interface, gliding through frequencies and exploring the radiophonic flux of shortwave radio. The process was full of surprises: fleeting textures, concrete pitches, melody-like gestures, snippets of radio stations, amateur radio operators speaking in various languages — constantly shifting. I recorded around two hours of this. The resulting composition draws entirely from the material, using it in its pure form. Only minimal filtering and binaural panning were applied. I’m fascinated by the randomness and poetic potential of these transmissions — fleeting encounters, flickers of connection in shifting fields. Special thanks to the operators of the WebSDR at the University of Twente for making this tool publicly accessible.“
Joseph Young
Joseph Young lives and works between Britain, Ireland and Germany; an established artist and researcher working in sound, performance and inclusive design, he was awarded an Irish Research Council scholarship for his practice-based PhD at SMARTlab UCD, Killruddery: Listening to the Archive (2019-2023).
In April 2024, his geo-located soundtrail The Ancestors, was officially opened to the public alongside a limited edition publication Mapping the Ancestors, commissioned by Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, and an accompanying vinyl album Sonic Hauntings in a Big House was released in December 2024 by Farpoint Recordings, supported by The Arts Council, An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Recent exhibitions include Edges, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland & Watts Gallery, UK (2024); Immersion, Soft Machine Gallery, USA (2023); The Destruction of Language (after Le Madame), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023); Make Futurism Great Again, Estorick Collection, UK (2018); The Missing Paintings, Towner Art Gallery, UK (2017).
“Echoes and stones, Tape recordings of ancestral empires” (Young, 2023)
Sonic Hauntings in a Big House emerged from a practice-based PhD research project, Killruddery: Listening to the Archive (2019-23). In his debut album for Farpoint Recordings, sonic hauntologist Joseph Young summons the rich and complex histories of the Big House in Ireland through field recordings, voice(s) and retro-futuristic sonic layering. Through exploring the extensive family archive held at Bray’s Killruddery House & Gardens, Young devised both a geolocated soundscape in Killruddery’s grounds and this accompanying record, which further proposes a spectral glimpse of a lost past.
Murmuri
Murmuri is an Australian experimental sound-art duo comprising Raúl Sánchez i Jorge and Brian O’Dwyer who delve into ambient, drone and acousmatic territories.
Their 2025 release You Can’t Discuss the Ocean with a Pond Frog unfolds like a suspended moment of listening, layered drones, manipulated noise, prolonged tones pull the listener into deep space.
Through subtle shifts and sustained atmospheres they explore sound not merely as melody but as form, texture and reflection—inviting attention to what lingers, does not quite resolve, and echoes beyond the label ‘music’.
In As the Wind Cuts a Smile on Your Face, Murmuri, the experimental sound duo of Raúl Sánchez i Jorge and Brian O’Dwyer, craft a piece that feels suspended between transmission and breath. Built from layered drones, tactile field recordings, and faint melodic traces, the track moves like air disturbed by memory, at once intimate and distant, human and elemental. Its title suggests both tenderness and violence, a paradox echoed in the slow-shifting textures that unfold across its length. Within the context of Radio Whispers, the work can feel like a signal half-caught, half-remembered: a quiet broadcast from the liminal space between listener and landscape, where sound becomes an act of sensing rather than declaring.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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