EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 50
Airing Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 11 am & 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
THE SOUND OF HOPE:
return of the light (second edition)
FEATURING:
53cm
Brigitte Haas
Cristian Argento
Gero von Randow
Leonie Roessler
Massy Emond
Sam Rowe
Sean Meggeson
Shih Lin Hung
Tyler Delaney Reed
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.
This month, we’re exploring THE SOUND OF HOPE. Our second annual hope episode starts with three brief expressions of hopeful sounds from Cristian Argento, Susan Clarahan, and Sean Meggeson. Many of the sound artists on today’s program consider hope as a relational feeling, a compulsion of resistance against waves of darkness and oppression – hope as an antithesis, as a vaccine against misery, as an oasis where the future remains not just possible, but bright.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
53cm
53cm is an electronic music artist based in Le Havre. His world navigates between ambient, experimental, and noise. Armed with hardware— drum machines, samplers—he composes raw and immersive soundscapes.
About Choisya ternata:
“Choisya ternata is a sound piece paying tribute to the shrub of the same name. I’m lucky enough to have one just outside my studio window. It blooms in early spring, bursting into abundance as bees and other insects revel in it. Nature, here is your awakening!“
Brigitte Haas
Brigitte Haas is a Composer, Sound artist and Percussionist. She lives in Luxor/Egypt and in Germany in Berlin or at the beautiful Lake of Constance, where she was born. In her Soundpieces she explores, where music begins and storytelling ends.
About Hope:
“If hope is lost, stop and sit still. After a while, it will return- silently, like a spark. Suddenly, everything is back in harmony, your body fills with peace and energy. Now you can go on.”
Cristian Argento
Cristian Argento was born in Catania in 1998 and he started to make music as a self-taught at the age of 14. His interest in new technologies applied to music was born in high school, studying subjects such as electronic and computer science; during this period he did some extra school courses about new technologies and electronic music. After his high school studies he decided to make of electronic music his future so he decided to enroll at the conservatory of Palermo. Currently he attends the second year of the Master course of electronic music at the conservatory of Palermo in the class of Giuseppe Rapisarda.
About Diviso in due:
“The piece leads the listener through the trembling world of a soul caught in a panic attack — body confined, overwhelmed by a tide of emotions and sensations where the concrete merges with the imaginary and the present blends with the past. Field recordings sourced from the Botanical Garden become the bridge between two realities, transforming the theater into a garden of serenity and guiding the listener on a sensory journey through the darkest nests of the human psyche. In an increasingly frenetic and chaotic world, the Botanical Garden becomes a sanctuary of being, an oasis of peace and balance — a reminder that even in the most breathless and distressing moments, there is always a way out towards rebirth and healing.“
Gero von Randow
Gero von Randow explores experimental electronic music. In 2023 he moved from his hometown Hamburg (Germany) to Vienna (Austria), where he plays in bands and as a soloist. He recently presented some of his works at the Oooh-Festival (17.-20.7.2025, Sicily, Italy), the Sound + Environment 2025 Symposion (Univ. of Newcastle, Great Britain), the Ubiquituous Music Symposion 2025 (15.-17.9.2025, Tech. Univ. of Brandenburg, Germany) and others. In June 2026 he will work as artist in residence to prepare the Festival of Contemporary Music in Bled (Slovenia).
About waiting for the springtime:
“Whispering promises”
Leonie Roessler
Leonie Roessler is a Composer, Performer and teacher based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She is part of LOOS in The Hague, and co-curates On Air – On Site Festival and BUG Radio. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (IR/DE), Biodiversitàs (IT), Syrphe (DE), and Antilounge (NL) and have been physically archived in the British Library.
About Emma’s Hof:
“Emma’s Hof is a small oasis in the very dense city of The Hague. The space was secured through community engagement. The inhabitants of the neighborhood literally created an oasis out of rubble. A space which now hosts native plants, insects, birds, and even frogs. Emma’s Hof is a place where nature can grow, people can find refuge from their daily lives, and where kids from all sorts of cultural backgrounds can interact respectfully with plants, animals, water, and each other.
It really is the sound of nature after a long dark winter. Hoping we will reach this state very soon, and wishing you a wonderful spring in these troubled times.”
Massy Emond
Marie-Hélène Massy Emond is an artist whose modes of expression engage in dialogue with the land and its inhabitants. Coming from the tradition of Quebec songwriters, the performer-author-musician develops her sound and performance works through extended playing techniques and field recording. She creates albums, walking concerts, performances, and designs musical and soundscapes for theater.
About Corbeau:
“A soundscape that quickly transports us from downtown Toronto in December to the end of winter in a silent countryside. To a place where wood is chopped to keep you warm again. At the heart of the piece is an a capella song recorded in March 2018 in a small canvas tent in the middle of the snow and forest. A song about a lost love, a loved one who has died, who sometimes returns to greet us in the form of a raven.
Compose-wrote-recorded-edit-mix by Massy Emond. Translation of lyrics in a so so deepltranslate version:
The supple skin of your leather, its smoky smell
A voice that makes you tremble like a lake, a breeze
I had a tough guy look, it was to impress you
We burst out laughing and didn’t let go
J.J. Cale playing softly in the background, I invited you to stay
You said to me: When walking on thin ice, you might as well dance
I meet a crow, he says to me: Do you have a lighther?
I size him up for a moment, we dance for a while
Death is for those who want a feast of flesh
A carcass of a happy man on a Saturday at the bar
We spent all our time doing everything at once
During the day you lit it, at night I burned it
The waltz on the ice, punctuated by our urgency
To act, leaving traces of generosity and patience
Of our mineral hands, browned by summers and fire
Hands that grip metal, caress gnarled wood
A crow caws above the fire.
I stare into its eyes, it strokes me as it passes.
Death is for those who want a feast of flesh.
A corpse of lovers on a Saturday when the bars are open.
On a spring Sunday, the lake froze over
It slipped away in the current when the ice broke
Shaken like a dog, I howled for my only song
It’s not true that all I have left in my hands is nothingness
I have my whole life left, and I’ll make it into a garden
Black and red like soot or a cunning crow
My man, my raven, even if you’ve been dead for a long time
I still light the fire when I’m cold when I get up
Death is for those who want a feast of flesh
The body of an unfortunate man on a Saturday night at the bar
With you, I understand that ravens are happy
By dancing, I learn to live without us two
By dancing, I learn to live without us two”
Sam Rowe
Sam Rowe is a sound artist based in the UK primarily working with installation and sound collage. He’s interested in process and generative music as well as field recording. His work often explores themes of time and its impact on us.
About Dawn Winds:
“Dawn Winds is a short sound collage of recordings of the morning blended with sounds from a wind harp as well as snippets of early morning radio shows. This collage explores the hope that morning brings and how the ever-present nature of both natural sounds (bird song, the wind) and sounds of people and their routines (recordings from around the city) renews this hope every day at dawn. The wind harp and birdsong wash away our worries and remind us that each day the sun will rise and the day will start anew.“
Sean Meggeson
Sean G. Meggeson is a poet living in Toronto. He won the League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award in 2024 and has published poetry, fiction and criticism in IceFloe, Version9Magazine, The Trinity Review and others. Work forthcoming in Acta Victoriana, Infocalypse Press as well as a full-length collection of experimental poems, j.
About recovery, Astral Prayer, and metta:
“Each piece struggles with the dialectics of hope, not assuming hope is something taken for granted but rather is a process that requires life-long engagement, dialogue and persistence. Hope is what we make it, and I believe it’s all about the making of it.“
These three spoken word and soundscape works are from Sean’s forthcoming album, Liminal Animal.
Shih Lin Hung
Shih-Lin Hung is a Taiwan-based independent composer working in the field of electroacoustic music. Initially trained in Western classical composition, his recent work explores the transformation of everyday sounds and the instability of sonic perception within the tradition of French musique concrète. His work has been selected for the International Computer Music Conference 2026 (ICMC 2026).
About …everything starts from the smallest…:
“…everything starts from the smallest…” begins with faint sonic materials that are gradually filtered, layered, and expanded into a dense and oppressive mass. What first appears fragile and almost imperceptible slowly develops into a wider and heavier presence. In the latter part of the piece, bright high-frequency sounds emerge against the earlier darkened texture, suggesting not a simple resolution, but a subtle shift in light, intensity, and possibility. The work reflects on how the smallest beginnings can accumulate into transformation, and how even within pressure and darkness, hope may remain.“
Tyler Delaney Reed
Tyler Delaney Reed is a songwriter, multi instrumentalist and Music instructor from Shelburne Ontario. Tyler records instrumental music as a solo artist, often incorporating loops, drones and improvisations into his pieces. Most of the work uses electric guitar, bass, and electronics to create emotional soundscapes, and beautiful melodies.
About Easter – Side A:
“Side A was recorded on an old tape machine during the first days of spring 2020. Initially inspired by the fear, loneliness and uncertainty of Covid 19, It blends the sound of a lonely guitar and a droning organ with a field recording of children playing. The addition of the field recording gives listeners hope, and feels like someone coming out of a long hibernation.”
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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