Ears Have Eyes

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 Ninjas This program is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett, and curated and edited by Caitli...

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 reinforcement. At best, these algorithms guide us towards information that is relevant to us, at worst...

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 today’s program consider hope as a relational feeling, a compulsion of resistance against waves of darkness...

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 of sound. There are no words strong enough to support the weight of grief. Grief is something you feel...

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: statistically, the highest rates of death in Canada transpire between December and March each year. On a p...

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 finding one’s (internal) voice, our February episode invites you to listen – from your own perspective...

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 to Calgary to continue their academic explorations several years ago. At the end of 2025, they released...

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 ethereal hauntings of radio. Artists explore the strange space between frequencies, literally or metaph...

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 ethereal hauntings of radio. We’re featuring artists exploring the strange mysteries unearthed when wandering...

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 a slower, more expansive listening experience. As we move between seasons, we allow ourselves one last...

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 posited by Aristotle. These works are watery, abstract, mesmerizing, and elemental ~ a perfect end to...

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 from “mysterious powers,” sonic wanderlust, spatial compositions, and dreamlike worlds, to literal field...

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 friends, or exploring the shape of clouds through monthly "Cloud Sculptures," these artists are reinterpreting...

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 listeners who use devices for amplification, visual artists who work with sound recordings as a material,...

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 listeners who use devices for amplification, visual artists who work with sound recordings as a material, and...

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 seeking The Sound of Hope. Artists, musicians, and sound-based practitioners from around the world were...

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 today’s program, sonic forms vibrate in and out of being and familiar sounds hide in the static; artists sha...

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 not told. We’ve included Abstractions, stories, and experiments, including (but not limited to) experi...

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, hyper-specific noises that they just love. We’re setting the table for a veritable feast of strange, scrumptiou...

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 busiest sea, we’re sharing sound art that amplifies the “more than human” world – a phrase coined by eco...

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 by Dr. Donath and draws from The Little Prince by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and expands i...

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 things to come. From climate anxiety to rising waters, unidentified noises to literal bells, local, nat...

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 EYES is syndicated not just on Golden Co-op Radio, but also on New Adventures in Sound Art - NAISA Radio...

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 pressure, uncertainty, and water as a catalyst for sound. This episode features interviews with experimental...

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 synaesthesia and the colour of sound, NEW GREEN references the hopeful optimism for a Spring ahead, whil...