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Ears Have Eyes
by CJSW 90.9 FM
How do our ears see? Perhaps in a brighter, more dynamic technicolour than our eyes can begin to imagine.Ears Have Eyes is an auditory exhibition space for sound art on the radio. Artists respond to a monthly theme, making new compositions and sharing existing sound artworks on CJSW’s radio waves.Ears Have Eyes invites local, national, and international artists to share auditory aesthetics, spatial soundscapes, spoken word, experimental music, and other recorded media.
Episodes
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode October 14, 2026
MOVEMENTS: sequence + motion 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...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode September 9, 2026
CELESTIAL ORCHESTRAL: sounds from other worlds This month, EARS HAVE EYES is following the path of the CELESTIAL ORCHESTRAL: sounds for other worlds. This month's artworks are a collection of alien compositions, otherworldly noises, and solar sounds – a voyage for your minds and ears. ARTISTS:...
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Ears Have Eyes - Podcast August 12, 2026
AGOROPHONIC: wide open sounds, wide open spaces AGOROPHONIC explores sonic spaces so wide, they threaten to swallow us up. The artists on today's program capture mountain sides and "mute streets," the calm before the storm and the erosion afterwards, the space inside a piano and the collapse...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode July 8, 2026
RITUALS OF LISTENING: Grief Part 3 This is Part 3 of our exploration of Grief, inviting a more elongated ritual of listening. Slow your breath and take your time as you listen to this episode. Allow your ears to guide you, gently. ARTISTS: Bill Vine Justinas Stirblys Michele Callà Seah Unlucky...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode June 10, 2026
ALGORYTHMIC: computational acoustics & virtual soundscapes This month, we’re exploring the theme ALGORYTHMIC: computational acoustics & virtual soundscapes. Algorithms are increasingly shaping our world, sculpting it to our individual tastes and interests in a self-perpetuating cycle of selective...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode May 13, 2026
THE SOUND OF HOPE: return of the light (2nd annual edition) This month, we’re exploring THE SOUND OF HOPE. Our second annual hope episode started with three brief expressions of hopeful sounds from Cristian Argento, Susan Clarahan, Sean Meggeson, and Roddie Cat. Many of the sound artists on…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode April 8, 2026
GRIEF: part 2 This is Part 2 of our GRIEF episode. Many of the works on today’s program commemorate those who have transitioned beyond life, but our GRIEF episode explores something broader and deeper than death. There is a sublingual thread tying the rawest expressions of grief with the creation...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode March 11, 2026
GRIEF: in it March is one of the worst months in Calgary. Winter darkness still falls across the land, but gone is the glittering white twinkle of those early snow-falls. We are in the long, interminable, muddy stretch towards Spring. This is a particularly dangerous time for human creatures:...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode February 11, 2026
THE VOICE WITHIN: solo, sonic, singular This month features a collection of experimental music, spoken word, field recordings, and soundscapes responding to our human capacity to create alone. Whether literally creating a new solo projects, travelling alone across vast geographies, or losing and...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode January 14, 2026
NUM: a feature For the first episode of 2026, we’re shifting our focus to highlight one local duo, NUM. Comprised of sound artists, electroacoustic musicians, and multimedia artists, Maryam Sirvan and Milad Bagheri, NUM originated in Northern Iran. After studying in Georgia, Maryam & Milad moved…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode December 10, 2025
RADIO WHISPERS: haunting radio & radio hauntings // Part 2 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...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode November 12, 2025
RADIO WHISPERS: haunting radio & radio hauntings // Part 1 We took a brief break in October to make space on CJSW for coverage of Calgary’s municipal election. This month we’re back with a belated Halloween episode featuring experimental music, spoken word, and sound art leaning in to the…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode September 10, 2025
WANDERING SOUNDS: ruminations for the end of a season This is our last episode of the Summer, and we’ve programmed a languid listening excursion through the sound-based work of 3 artists, each with an extended sound piece. This episode is intended as a sprawling meditation, allowing the listener…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode August 13, 2025
EMERGENCE: journeys through water, matter, and form For our languid August episode, we’re listening to two projects by artists reflecting on ancient Greek mythology and philosophy: The Odyssey by Homer, as seen through the eyes of Calypso, and Hyle & Eidos, understandings of matter and form first...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode July 9, 2025
A SHAPE IN THE CLOUDS: soft and sonorous, soaring skyward // Part 2 For our June & July episodes, we’re turning our eyes (and ears) skyward for an exploration of atmospheric sounds, ambient music, and cloudy noises. Part 2 deconstructs abstract and literal relationships with the theme, ranging…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode June 11, 2025
A SHAPE IN THE CLOUDS: soft and sonorous, soaring skyward For our June & July episodes, we’re turning our eyes (and ears) skyward for an exploration of atmospheric sounds, ambient music, and cloudy noises. Whether capturing the sound of Earth's magnetosphere, field recording our feathered…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode May 14, 2025
DEVICES FOR LISTENING: sound sculptures & sculptural sounds // Part 2 For our April & May episodes, we've been diving into listening devices, sound sculptures, and the objects that mediate the sounds that surround us. DEVICES FOR LISTENING highlights artists who build sonic installations, deep...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode April 9, 2025
DEVICES FOR LISTENING: sound sculptures & sculptural sounds // Part 1 For our April & May episodes, we’re diving into listening devices, sound sculptures, and the objects that mediate the sounds that surround us. DEVICES FOR LISTENING highlights artists who build sonic installations, deep…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode March 12, 2025
THE SOUND OF HOPE: edge of darkness, brink of light For many, the last few months have felt hopeless. The cold & dark of winter, groundswell of totalitarianism, and regular seasonal malaise has left us straining to find anything good to hold onto. As Winter creeps towards the Spring, we’ve been...
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Ears Have Eyes - Podcast February 12, 2025
STATIC/SHIFT: sonic shapes emerging from the snow For our February program, we are leaning into the double-meanings of “snow,” both as a natural weather phenomenon of Canadian winters, and a type of static or visual noise. The static on a television set is ever-shifting, like a blizzard. On…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode January 8, 2025
SUBLIMINAL/SUBLINGUAL: under the ears & inside the tongue For the first episode of the new year, we’re exploring the strange and hazy sounds floating just out of focus – somewhere on the fringe between science fiction, tongue twisters, and the fantastic phonic frequency that can only be heard and...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode December 11, 2024
FEASTING: delicious sounds for hungry ears For many, December is a month of feasting. For our last episode of 2024, we invited local, national, and international sound artists to submit delicious sounds, ranging from literal recordings of food being prepared and consumed, to the strange,...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode November 13, 2024
MORE THAN HUMAN: voices beyond our understanding This month, we’re listening to the voices of animals, plants, and ecosystems outside our normal human understanding. From the barking of street dogs, to the whispering mycelial networks of forests, to the soundscapes of marine life in the world’s...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode October 9, 2024
THE STRANGE SOUNDS OF MINOR PLANETS In today's broadcast, silence, noise, rotation and pulsation are the main themes of a forthcoming and unreleased sound art album by Dr. Tibor Donath, called Minor PLANETS – heard for the first time on today’s show! THE STRANGE SOUND OF MINOR PLANETS is curated…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode September 11, 2024
BELLWETHER: sounds at the edge of foreseeable futures A bellwether is an omen, soothsayer, or predictor of the future. For our September episode of EARS HAVE EYES, we’re responding to the changing seasons through an exploration of anticipation, anxiety, and sound as an agent of foreshadowing for...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode August 14, 2024
METEORITE: summer nights, dazzle + burn Our August episode uses the Perseids meteor shower – an annual event where comets streak across night skies – to explore the sonic space of Summer nighttime as an abstract (and literal) location. As of this month, we are pleased to announce that EARS HAVE...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode July 10, 2024
PRESSURE: water systems, storms, and the rising wash of sound Our July episode responds to a 5-week water crisis still resolving in Calgary, where a massive pipe rupture led to the fear of taps running dry to over a million citizens. We expanded this anxiety into an abstract exploration of...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode June 12, 2024
ARCHITEXTURE: the sounds of places, inside/out This month, we're exploring spatial sounds, as they relate to the built environment, domesticity, and anthropocentric spaces. This month’s theme is NEW GREEN: shifting, sprouting, shy & splendorous. Tied to EARS HAVE EYES’ ongoing relationship with...
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Ears Have Eyes - Podcast April 10, 2024
MARGINALIA: sounds from the archives This month's program is a collage of sonic experiments, old sound sculptures, sketches for songs, archival materials, recordings from prolific audio engineers, and a few works from our own archives, including some sound art we couldn’t play on previous…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode March 13, 2024
NEW GREEN: shifting, sprouting, shy & splendorous In celebration of the 2 year anniversary of our show, we recorded a special live-to-tape episode of EARS HAVE EYES with a live studio audience! Listeners brought pillows and a blanket, and sprawled on the floor for a dreamy Listening Party at the...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode February 14, 2024
EARS HAVE EYES - live! - RED HOT In celebration of the 2 year anniversary of our show, we recorded a special live-to-tape episode of EARS HAVE EYES with a live studio audience! Listeners brought pillows and a blanket, and sprawled on the floor for a dreamy Listening Party at the historic Eau…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode January 10, 2024
DEEP DREAM, DARK WEB: auditory AI, computer compositions, and digital digressions DEEP DREAM, DARK WEB converges at the intersection of artistry and artificial intelligence, exploring the multifaceted landscape where machine-generated sounds echo the complex contours of our technological…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode December 13, 2023
RAPID EAR MOVEMENT: songs for sleeping, sounds for dreaming Late Autumn in Calgary is like a dream, floating in between the hard glittering whiteness of wintertime and grey, nebulous days of Fall. Nights grow longer towards the Hibernal Solstice, and mammals feel a natural pull towards sleep....
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode November 8, 2023
MOUTH SOUNDS: verbal, vocal, voiced, voracious As human beings, MOUTH SOUNDS are our main phonic interface for communicating through language. The works on this month's program navigate foreign tongues, deconstruct syntax, amplify verboten radio vocalizations, analyze the multiple meanings of...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode October 11, 2023
PHONOSTALGIA: other times and places PHONOSTALGIA conjures memories of other times and places using sound as a sensory trigger. What happens when the sounds of another’s nostalgia summon new images in your own head? As Autumn sweeps across the landscape, pulling leaves from the trees and tucking...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode September 13, 2023
FOREST PERSPECTIVE: whispers, wildfires, and rewilding words (Part 2) This is FOREST PERSPECTIVE: Part 2. In North America, it’s been a Summer of smoke, evacuations, and loss – not just for people, but for entire ecosystems. Wildfires are a natural forest cleansing process, but the type of...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode August 9, 2023
FOREST PERSPECTIVE: whispers, wildfires, and rewilding words (Part 1) In Western Canada, like so many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, smoke from nearby wildfires intermittently fills the sky, painting the sun electric pink. In acknowledgement of the hottest July on record, this month’s radio...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode July 12, 2023
SOUND DEATH: endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare (Part 2) SOUND DEATH // Part 2 draws from endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare sounds, soundscapes, and ideas. Some works on today’s program are related to human death and decomposition; others focus on overbreeding, extinction,...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode June 14, 2023
SOUND DEATH: endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare (Part 1) This month, we're featuring work from Fragments of Sonic Extinction (FOSE) a group exhibition in Munich, Germany and an interactive website. FOSE explores the extinction of natural sounds, focusing on the sonic character of the...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode May 10, 2023
RADIANT WAVES: resonating and shiny; too bright to see EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly program featuring sound art, spoken word, and experimental music submitted by local, national, and international artists. Today’s theme, RADIANT WAVES, comes from the invisible transmissions moving through our…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode April 12, 2023
SLOW REVEAL: hidden beneath the Winter sheath, released by thaw of Spring The work on this month’s program arrive as an emergence - shaking off the cold and rust and loneliness of Wintertime, and flowering outwards into the sun. As we here in Calgary/Mohkinstsis emerge from a cold winter into the...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode March 8, 2023
ECHOLOGY: environments of sound Our theme today is a fusion of ECHO and ECOLOGY, drawing from the lush interspace between sound & environment. Today’s artworks span field recordings, political commentary, sounds from ecosystems in crisis, the voice of rivers, and experimental instrumentation...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode February 8, 2023
SYNAESTHETICS: do ears have eyes? This month, we're celebrating the One Year Anniversary of EARS HAVE EYES! We started imagining this radio show during The Hibernation Project (our annual collaborative wintertime art series) as a response to the global pandemic and subsequent social distancing.…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode January 11, 2023
FUTURE CASTING: science fiction sounds and speculative stories For our first episode of 2023, we’re turning our ears towards science fiction sounds & speculative stories. The new year elicits speculation about the future. Where are we going? In a time marked by uncertainty and shadowed by…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode December 14, 2022
END TO BEGIN: feedback, looping, and prolonged transitions In our last program of 2022, we’re exploring the cyclical relationship between endings and beginnings. As one year draws to a close, another begins, in a rhythm that moves not in a line or a circle, but a slow spiral through time and…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode November 9, 2022
DECAY: degradation, release, and melting away (Extended Version) This month, we're highlighting sound-based artworks exploring DECAY as an abstract or literal phenomenon. In the organic world, decay is tied to end-of-life cycles and decomposition through bacteria and fungi. In music, decay...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode November 9, 2022
DECAY: degradation, release, and melting away (Radio Edit) This month, we're highlighting sound-based artworks exploring DECAY as an abstract or literal phenomenon. In the organic world, decay is tied to end-of-life cycles and decomposition through bacteria and fungi. In music, decay references…
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode October 12, 2022
HAUNTING ME, HAUNTING YOU: ghostly, resonant, creepy, and echoing On All Hallows Eve, the threshold between one side of the veil and the other is purportedly thinnest - a time for ghostly visitations, resonant sounds, creepy feelings, and echoing experiments. The compositions on this month’s...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode September 14, 2022
STORMING: busy, noisy, dense, and maximal A storm can be literal or conceptual. In this Summer of profound environmental catastrophe, both interpretations held true at different moments. A storm is a breaking point, an eruptive moment of chaos, but it is usually long-brewing, perhaps even...
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Ears Have Eyes - Episode August 10, 2022
IN THE CALM: open, spatial, gentle, and fleeting Our program this month features work from local, national, and international sound artists and musicians with a focus on tranquility and the expanse of each moment. This collection of sound artworks, poetry, and experimental music is intended to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
How do our ears see? Perhaps in a brighter, more dynamic technicolour than our eyes can begin to imagine.Ears Have Eyes is an auditory exhibition space for sound art on the radio. Artists respond to a monthly theme, making new compositions and sharing existing sound artworks on CJSW’s radio waves.Ears Have Eyes invites local, national, and international artists to share auditory aesthetics, spatial soundscapes, spoken word, experimental music, and other recorded media.
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How do our ears see? Perhaps in a brighter, more dynamic technicolour than our eyes can begin to imagine.Ears Have Eyes is an auditory exhibition space for sound art on the radio. Artists respond to a monthly theme, making new compositions and sharing existing sound artworks on CJSW’s radio...
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