Cover image: Listening Devices by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photo by Caitlind Brown
EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 55
Airing Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11 am & 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
MOVEMENTS:
sequence + motion
FEATURING:
Brandon Hopkins
Jen Reimer
Kristian Sensini
sound.colLAB, featuring Nathan Neutel, Thomas Sinclair, Maddux Ma, Jamie Petit, Laura LaPeare, Rory Berk, and Anthony Hodgetts
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 work that unfolds as “movements” alongside works that are literally about movement. Whether artists are capturing field recordings from commuter traffic on public transit, transforming found-architecture into musical instruments, or collaborating between disability and professional orchestration, the sound artists on this program allow their work to unfold in movements, deconstructed into sequences and motion.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
Brandon Hopkins
Brandon Hopkins (b. 1997) is a British composer based in London, England. Self-taught from the age of twelve, his work has been featured in film, video games and advertising, with recent performances at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
Three Commutes is a three-movement work for piano quintet and fixed media built from field recordings captured across London’s transport network. Using recordings from the London Underground, London buses and cycling journeys through the city, the pieces transform Oyster card taps, train doors, stop bells, engines, urban noise and quieter moments into rhythmic and harmonic material.
Written for piano, two violins, viola, cello and fixed media, the EP explores the repetitive structures, textures and routines of daily travel through additive processes, repetition and acoustic instrumentation.
The project was composed between 10 March and 26 April 2026 to mark the 26th anniversary of Transport for London, and was recorded at Sutton House (National Trust), London.
Jen Reimer
Jen Reimer is an artist & musician based in Montréal. Her work explores resonance and the physical experience of sound and space through site-specific performances, sound installations and spatial recordings.
Song of Air documents a live, site-specific performance in the Humboldt Water Tower in Humboldt, Saskatchewan.
Over three years, Jen Reimer recorded the tower’s sounds and developed a custom digital instrument shaped by its architecture, highlighting its resonant interactions with the wind. Repeated encounters with the tower and its physical and acoustic responses guided the composition of Song of Air, which unfolded through cycles of recording; layering; and playing the instrument back into the space.
During the performance, seven loudspeakers and ten tactile transducers pushed vibrations through the tower’s steel and wood surfaces, activating it as a large-scale musical instrument.
Structured in four movements, the work explores the Humboldt Water Tower as both instrument and composition, revealing the resonances of its material structure and the air within.
Movement 1: the tower;
Movement 2: ascending the spiral staircase;
Movement 3: the physicality of the wind;
Movement 4: the train.
Composition, Performance, Recording, Mix: Jen Reimer
Additional Mixing: Phil Rochefort
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Maggie Tiesenhausen
Video & Photos: Ralitsa Doncheva
Deepest gratitude to the Humboldt & District Museum & Gallery, The Friends of the Museum & Gallery, Nancy Wright, Jennifer Fitzpatrick, and all volunteers for their generous collaboration and support.
Kristian Sensini
Kristian Sensini is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter with over 20 years of experience in film and television scoring, blending his background in jazz, classical music, and rock. His approach to music has earned him recognition as a voting member of the European Film Academy, the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards), and the Hollywood Music in Media Academy. Sensini’s deep passion for musical storytelling has led to collaborations with visionary directors on a variety of projects, including animated films, TV series, independent films, and documentaries. His work with acclaimed filmmaker and Academy member Signe Baumane resulted in two critically acclaimed animated films, Rocks in My Pockets and My Love Affair With Marriage. Both films received international recognition, earning awards at the Annecy Film Festival and nominations for prestigious honors such as the European Film Awards, along with notable attention during the Oscar race. Sensini’s works has been recognized with two nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and an impressive ten nominations at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards. His work on animated films has also garnered several accolades, including nominations and wins at the ColonneSonore Award and the Musicomics Award. Over the course of his career, he has studied under iconic composers such as Ennio Morricone, Ludovic Bource, Nicola Piovani, Michael Giacchino, Bruno Coulais, Hans Zimmer, Dave Grusin, and orchestrator Conrad Pope.
Sensini serves as a board member of the Italian Association of Film Music Composers (ACMF), once led by Ennio Morricone. He is also an active member of ASCAP, SIAE, and the American Society of Composers and Lyricists.
Silent Depths is a musical testimony to the human devastation in Gaza, a work shaped by grief, remembrance and the determination not to allow the lives behind the images to disappear into silence.
The compositions began as free streams of thought at the piano: spontaneous associations of notes and emotions that were later given structure through strings, flutes, saxophone, piano, synthesizers, electronic voices and field recordings captured inside Gaza. The result exists somewhere between contemporary classical music, jazz, electronic experimentation and the freedom of the traditional fantasia—not an improvised performance, but music whose original improvisational impulse remains alive within every piece.
Created between Palestine and Italy with musicians from the RAM Ensemble of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music and international guest artists, *Silent Depths* is a soundtrack without a film: a soundtrack for the images already imprinted in our collective memory. It does not attempt to speak on behalf of those enduring this tragedy, but to listen, to bear witness and to preserve a trace of what must never be forgotten.
Silent Depths was created as a musical response to the human cost of the war in Gaza and as a way of keeping Palestinian voices, musicians and sounds present beyond the news cycle.
All proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music to support its music education and outreach projects, particularly those dedicated to children and young people.
sound.colLAB 1.0
Rory Berk – Location: Toronto
Thomas Sinclair – Location: Toronto
Maddux Ma – Location: Toronto
Nathan Neutel – Location: Toronto
Anthony Hodgetts – Location: Calgary
Laura LaPeare – Location: Calgary
Jamie Petit – Location: Calgary
Seven Miniatures for the Rolston String Quartet is the result of sound.colLAB, a groundbreaking two-year partnership between Xenia Concerts and the National accessArts Centre. Across this program, seven artists identifying as neurodivergent or as having a disability co-created an original piece of music with support from JUNO-award nominated composer Bekah Simms, the award-winning Rolston String Quartet, and NaAC and Xenia team members.
This performance occurred on August 12, 2022 at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Calgary, AB.
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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