EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 49
Airing Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 11 am & 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
GRIEF:
Part 2
FEATURING:
An-Ting
Cameron Naylor
Henry McPherson
Hui Kim
Mattia Benedetti
Omar Reyna
Philip Mantione
sunfear
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 are wandering through Grief for the second month in a row. Artists on today’s program are sharing work around this powerful and involuntary response to a loved person or place being irrevocably changed (lost?) forever.
Part 2 coming soon
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
An-Ting
Individually, An-Ting‘s works explore the relationships between humanity, nature, and the spiritual realm. Notion describes her as “the one-to-watch in the world of composing…”. She has presented her works in Barbican, Southbank Centre, LSO St Luke’s, King’s Place, Bristol Old Vic, and over 100 arts venues in the UK and abroad. Between 2018 and 2023, she served as artistic director of the National Portfolio Organisation Kakilang, placing emphasis on generating new narratives by East and Southeast Asian artists and encouraging cross-artform collaborations.
About Black-collared Starling 烏領椋鳥 (Hong Kong):
“I recorded the sound I heard in Hong Kong to compose this piece, which is as a part of the album Lost Communications 失絡之聲. It was a mournful feeling to the lost nature in the island, but at the same time appreciating that the human and birds both are fighting to survival.”
Cameron Naylor
Cameron Naylor is a sound artist working between film, theatre, radio, and electroacoustic composition. He is interested on the art and technique of storytelling through sound, music, and spoken word and his works have been heard across the Globe.
About Here One Moment:
“In welsh, the word hiraeth can be interpreted as a homesickness for a time and place that exists only in one’s memory. A grief and nostalgia for what once was that rears its head at unexpected moments, shifting shapes as contexts change and memories form new meanings.“
Henry McPherson
Henry McPherson (b.1995) is a UK-based composer, improviser, artist, and researcher. His work is rooted in improvisation as a relational, ecological practice. His work has been presented in festivals, galleries, installations and broadcasts across the UK, France, Switzerland, Greece, the USA, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Ireland, and China. Moving fluidly between composed and improvised sound, text and graphic scores, live performance and installation, he investigates how musical attentiveness reframes relationships between human and more-than-human beings. His works frequently explore the lifeworlds of plants and animals, and the rhythms and cycles of natural phenomena. He is particularly inspired by plant ecologies, forested and oceanic biomes, night and nocturnal atmospheres, and deep geological time.
About noise at the death of one beloved:
“‘Noise at the death of one beloved’ is a sonic-collage album of layered free improvisations. I created it as a memoriam for the composer George Crumb, who died in 2022, and whose experimental music and beautiful scores opened my eyes and ears to otherworldly sounds and shapes. I had been struck by his death, and through contemplative improvisation, hoped to offer some kind of tribute to an extraordinary artistic voice. On the 8th February 2022 I recorded sixteen improvisations of between three and fifteen minutes, using the instruments in my home. I then fragmented and layered these improvisations into a collage in five parts. I layered without excessive manipulation. I tried to let them fall as they wanted, letting structure emerge, hearing textures rise and fall. There is no structure in grief, and there is no predicting how we respond to death. We move with what emerges, in its ‘ugliness’, its rawness, and its complexity. I was not particularly interested in showing completeness or wholeness, proposing clear forms or certainties in this work. The noise of grief is something else. A year after composing this work, I spent several hours sitting by my grandmother’s bedside in the week leading up to her death. I remember feeling there was nothing to force, nothing to do, but be with her each moment as it came and went. In so many ways, this is what improvisation trains us to do. I am grateful to this practice for its lessons. A sound emerges, a sound disappears – this helps me to understand.”
Hui Kim
Hui Kim began her musical journey with the piano and studied instrumental composition while attending Kookmin University in Korea.
About into auto:
“Grief eventually dulls. Through a motoric rhythm, it expressed emotions that became objective and dry.“
Mattia Benedetti
Mattia Benedetti creates acousmatic music, pieces for instrument and live electronics and A/V compositions. He’s interested in quietness, algorithmic and aleatoric techniques and the relationship between sound and words. His pieces have been presented in Europe, North and South America and Asia.
About nel buio:
“solitude (or: the necessary distance from others);
pseudo-gothic fascination (or: the obsessiveness of choice);
daily objects as clocks and paper (or: ¿how strange they sound out of context?)literature and the human voice (or: the possibility of communication) nel buio is a brief piece, after Juan Rodolfo Wilcock short story. It’s a portrait of a very specific way of living; a marginal, selective and mysterious point of view.“
Omar Reyna
Omar Reyna is a Mexican-Canadian artist who focuses on the intersection of research and the activity of making with an emphasis in lens base, sculpture and sonic art. Much of his artistic practice takes place in the boreal forest near the city of Whitehorse, where he lives and works.
About Thaw:
“Thaw is a set of five Musique Concrete pieces that gets its spark from the concept of Solastalgia—that bittersweet feeling of losing our natural world. Each track features field recordings of climate-related events, such as high winds and unusual thaw during winter, from Yukon, Canada.“
Philip Mantione
Philip Mantione has been active in the audio and music industry as a composer, guitarist, synthesist, technologist, music copyist, multimedia artist, writer, and educator for over 30 years. He is an experienced Max/MSP programmer and has produced numerous music projects and multimedia installations that have been presented in festivals, galleries, and museums around the world. A recent project, Triangular Bent, was a collaboration with virtuoso circuit bender, Jeff Boynton, and Don Preston – original founding member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. He currently teaches audio technology courses at Mt. Antonio College, LA College of Music, Woodland Community College, and LA Film School.
About Sea Level:
“It is predicted that sea levels will rise 1 to 4 feet by the end of the century, causing many coastal communities and islands around the world to become uninhabitable. Rising sea levels may not directly threaten mountain communities, but they are certainly impacted by climate change in other ways, such as unprecedented weather events, forest fires, and disappearing species. A technique known as the Shepard-Risset glissando is used to create the perception of an infinitely rising pitch that never reaches a destination or place of rest. This is applied to several tracks of sampled and synthesized sound sources to form an haunting soundscape. Layered above this are processed field recordings of whales, wolves, and a creaking door hinge, suggesting the cries of nature from the sea to the mountains, and the nefarious effects of human activity.”
sunfear
Sunfear is the solo slowgaze / drone project of Berlin-based sound artist Eylül Deniz. Her music drifts between presence and disappearance, guitars stretching like ghosts, voices dissolving into circuitry, machines breathing in soft, hypnotic loops. Blending dark shoegaze, drones, and ambient doom, she builds worlds out of distortion, field recordings, and grief
About Death:
“it is a sound piece i recorded last year in my old flat, when i was dealing with strong depression and grief, it is also following with two other longer experimental/drone/field recording sound pieces. this is a project i would call different than other projects i have, its just pure grief, combining with stories and field recordings from the reasons i had to feel strongly that feeling. it is the niche part of acceptance loss, becoming a new person with the taste of grieving, and stepping to a new chapter while knowing nothing will ever be the same again.”
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