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 philosophical level, March marks a pre-Spring mourning unfolding in each of us – grief as an expression of radical change.

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 involuntarily, almost like an automatic response – a sound that leaks out of you. It is beyond our control or conscious understanding. And yet we all share this human experience. Grief is the price we pay for love.

ARTISTS:

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Azurite Sun

Boyi Bai

Chantal Francoeur

Gero von Randow

Her Motives Are Silent

Nicola Fumo Frattegiani

Owen Duff

Sylvain Souklaye

Tyler Delaney Reed

EARS HAVE EYES is available on CJSW in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, Golden Co-Op Radio in Golden (BC) and NAISA Radio in South River (Ontario).

This program is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett, and curated and edited by Caitlind Brown. Thanks to CJSW, Golden Co-Op Radio, and NAISA for supporting this show!

Learn more about the artists and submit your own sound art at www.hibernationproject.ca/ears-have-eyes/