Cover image: Listening Devices by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photo by Caitlind Brown
EARS HAVE EYES // Episode 56
Airing Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 11 am & 8 pm MST
on CJSW 90.9 FM, NAISA, & Golden Co-Op Radio
INVISIBLE CINEMA:
filmic sounds + sound films
(Part 1)
FEATURING:
地藏 Dizang
Happomeri (Juha Penttinen)
Linnea Hildén
Valentin Sismann
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 evocative mental imagery created through sonic narrative. Sound artists and experimental musicians draw listeners into immersive worlds of sound, unfolding in waves like films without pictures.
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series in INVISIBLE FILM. If you’re interested in submitting your own work, please visit the submissions link here.
Thanks to the participating artists and our friends at CJSW, NAISA, and Golden Co-op Radio!
地藏 Dizang
地藏Dizang is the bodhisattva of the Great Vow – A vow not to achieve buddhahood until all hells are emptied. Borrowing the name, the band 地藏Dizang formed in 2019. The Shanghai based quintet explore progressive rock, experimental sounds, ethnic music, and whatever comes to mind/heart.
Nadir is from Dizang’s album Beyond the Mirage. On the album, the piece is paired with Zenith. In true ndramatic structure, the zenith is the “highest point” paired with the nadir or the “lowest point.” You can listen to the complete album on Dizang’s bandcamp.
Happomeri
Happomeri (Finnish for “Acid Sea”) is the experimental music and sound art project of Finnish multidisciplinary artist Juha Penttinen. Based in Oulu in northern Finland, Penttinen creates dark ambient, drone, noise, and improvisational soundscapes.
About Sotka:
“Sotka is a 60-minute long-form work that I recorded on Hailuoto, an island in the Baltic Sea just outside my hometown of Oulu in Northern Finland. The environment of the island is an essential part of the composition. Field recordings made there are combined with slowly evolving ambient textures, analog synthesizers and improvised sounds. Rather than using the environmental recordings simply as background atmosphere, I wanted the sounds of the place and the composed material to gradually become part of the same landscape.
The title Sotka refers to the bird associated with the creation of the world in Finnish mythology.“
We played a 15 minute excerpt from Sotka on EARS HAVE EYES. Listen to the piece in its entirety here.
Happomeri
Linnea Hildén is a Finnish composer and cellist-singer who thrives at the thresholds between genres, categories and expressions. With a diverse musical background and a master’s degree in electronic composition from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, their work spans experimental and electronic music, sound art, film scoring, modern jazz and interdisciplinary art projects. Inspired by the complexity of the human experience, nature and mythologies, they often explore the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound, with a passion for creating immersive musical worlds and telling stories through sound. They are active in the Nordic and Central European music and art scenes as a composer, producer and performer and lead a solo project called Forest Song.
About grief sits still:
“grief sits still is an investigation born from a fascination with how we experience sound as a narrative medium without the aid of image or text. It is an extension of my master’s thesis in electronic composition, The Invisible Film: Storytelling through Sound and Music. The piece centers on the theme of grief: the complexity of the feeling and the ways we move through our everyday lives with it. It traces the private, silent processes that accompany daily life, as the two realms negotiate with each other in search of a way to come into coexistence.”
Valentin Sismann
Valentin Sismann (born in 2002 in France) develops a practice that combines acousmatic composition and video. He explores the idea of expanded music, where sound and visuals are expressed in ways that are either poetic, narrative, or conceptual. His works focus on our relationship with technology, particularly recording media, which he questions and manipulates within critical or imaginary spaces.
About Abimie:
“Memories come to life when you believe in them. Magic, too. But in a lantern, why?
By pulling too hard on the pulleys, the magic lantern breaks and the images freeze.
So, a huge machine whines, groans. And, in this goddamn darkness, there’s no way to help it, or even to know what it is. Humans drain it of its sound; it’s wrecked on the spot, abimée.“
Thank you to the artists & listeners!
Special thanks to CJSW.
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