Ectoplasm emerging from a medium in 1920 (Creative Commons)
EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 45
Airing Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
RADIO WHISPERS:
haunting radio & radio hauntings
Part 2
FEATURING:
Chris Cresswell & 315 Ensemble
Clare M. Duckett
Nonnon
Raphaël Amour Corniglion Faccioli
Ron Coulter
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.
While the Northern Hemisphere enters into a festive winter season, we’re returning to the spooky spirit of Autumn for Part 2 of RADIO WHISPERS. This month’s episode features experimental music, spoken word, and sound art leaning into the ethereal hauntings of radio. Artists explore the strange space between frequencies, literally or metaphorically, covering everything from field recordings on shortwave radio to spooky spoken word stories about the life (and death) of domestic silk moths.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
Chris Cresswell
Room tone. Radio static. Sampled ephemera, field recordings, and no input mixers. Chris Cresswell is a Syracuse, NY based composer and sound artist who builds his musical worlds out of sonic artifacts and cultural refuse.
About Lost Art of Losing Sleep:
“This work is the first work I’ve written for 315 Ensemble. It premiered on March 25, 2017 and was recorded in May 2017 for commercial release. The work was subsequently revised during the recording and mixing process. The work is accompanied by a short poem.
woven fragments
wash over him
as he
rediscovers
the lost art
of losing sleep“
Clare M. Duckett
Clare M. Duckett is an artist, musician, life-documentarian, and caregiver for a majestic dog named Ernie.
About Memento Mori:
“A domestic silk moth (Bombyx mori), awakens from its metamorphic slumber to discover the terrible fate of its younger silk worm comrades. The moth decides to leave its human captors an ominous in the cloth produced by its friends’ labour.”
Nonnon
Dave Madden’s (aka Tulpamancers, nonnon, dj_webern) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour, “Paint it Black” and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. He uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of sound to perform all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back-to-back with Anti-Pop Consortium. Dave is currently focused on Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for Squidco.com
About Gesang des Zauberarztes:
“This work represents the feelings of thought paralysis in the face of White Coat medicine.”
Raphaël Amour Corniglion Faccioli
About Raphaël Amour Corniglion Faccioli: “La Geste Amuptée.”
About à l’autre corps (raide*) attenant:
“The ruins of the abandoned murderer’s impulse give rise to regret’s revival through the corpse’s lingering sorrow”
“L’égoïsme désabusé porté à l’autre corps (raide*) attenant,
Compulsif et charnel, une destruction ordonnée jusqu’ au bout,
Pour un narcissisme exacerbée, la perte de soi contre l’oubli.”
Ron Coulter
Ron Coulter (b. 1978, USA) is a percussionist, composer, and improviser. As a performer, he has toured internationally appearing in 50 U.S. states, and 11 countries. As a composer, Ron has created more than 440 original compositions for various media across numerous genres.
Occidental is composed from field recordings captured in the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming, using shortwave radio, microphones, and overnight tape recordings of various rooms. Those recordings span 2015 to 2023 and the composition was completed in 2025 in Casper, WY.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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