Ears Have Ears features weekly exclusive contributions by experimental artists in the form of either an imaginary soundtrack, mixtape, live recording, in-studio performance or interview. This is a collection of content contributed to Ears Have Ears during 2017.

Ears Have Ears 2017

'Scenes from A Duplex (remix for Ears Have Ears' was created for FBi Radio's experimental music program Ears Have Ears.

An exclusive mix by Philip Sulidae, an Australian sound artist who experiments with field recordings, electro-acoustic improvisations and accousmatic music. Read more about him here: philipsulidae.com

"The audio is a mix of various things I've been working on - some released, some upcoming. All are primarily composed and based around field recordings, although the track from appropriated filed recordings from temporary data sources uses found sounds from video games and the track from Rust Belt Dreams are recordings built from samples from a certain cult film exploring suburban horror and mystery!" - Philip Sulidae

Head back to FBi Radio's website to hear the entire show or skip to the interview with Philip by using the blue play buttons next to each track:http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-05-11/

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EHE 11.05.17 - Philip Sulidae - Scenes from A Duplex (remix for Ears Have Ears)

An exclusive mix by Leah Kardos for Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio Sydney. The mix features refigured elements from some of Leah Kardos' compositions from the last few years.

Leah Kardos' music explores her fascination with communicative power of timbre, psychoacoustic phenomena, memory and pattern recognition, and the magical inexpressible ways in which music connects to life. Her creative output mixes live instrumental performance with technology, location recordings and found sounds.

Currently Kardos splits her time between performing, commercial projects, education and research. She is currently employed by Kingston University London as senior lecturer in music and course leader for BA Hons in Music Technology, as well as the acting director and Project Leader of the Visconti Studio.

Listen to the radio program in full here: http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-05-18/

You can also skip ahead to the soundtrack on FBi's website using the arrows next to each track title.

EHE 18.05.17 - Leah Kardos - The Object Of This Lesson Is To Internalise The Notes And The Keys

Psychic sisterhood and wistful wanderlust are the twin energies feeding lush ceremonial dream-pop duo Purple Pilgrims. Their debut album ‘Eternal Delight’ was released by LA based Not Not Fun records in early 2016. 

Their piece 'Lamentations in Reverse' was recorded in Autumn at their family home in an isolated corner of Hauraki, NZ using synthesizer, field-recordings and vocals. Since they began spending time in the bush, a recurring theme in their work has been the awkward meeting point between the ever-present world of modern technology, and perpetual, vital nature.

Listen back to the full Ears Have Ears program at the FBi Radio website http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-05-25/

EHE 25.05.17 Purple Pilgrims (NZ) - Lamentations in Reverse

Brooke Olsen, presenter of Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio Sydney interviews Alessandro Cortini.

Alessandro Cortini is a force to be reckoned with in the electronic scene. Originating from Italy, Cortini eventually found his home in the USA where he began experimenting with analogue gear, modular synths, electronica, ambience and heavy looping. Perhaps best known for being a member of Nine Inch Nails since the late 2000s, Cortini has worked on various projects including SONOIO, Blindoldfreak, Modwheelmood and The Mayfield Four. His last solo LP Risveglio (Hospital Productions, 2015) received critical acclaim and now he is heading to Australia to present a new audio-visual work called Avanti at Open Frame Festival (June 29-30).

EHE 15.06.17 - Interview - Alessandro Cortini (Part 1)

EHE 15.06.17 - Interview - Alessandro Cortini (Part 2)

Photo credit: Camilla Blake

An exclusive mix by Native Instrument, made for Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio Sydney, Australia.

Native Instrument (BER) is the sound collaboration bringing together the field-recordings of Felicity Mangan and the abstract and outerworld production of Stine Janvin Motland. Constructed using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife audio recordings originating mainly from Australian and North European flora and fauna, NI mix natural rhythms with animal calls, digital effects and vocal imitation to create their unique and persistent left of centre techno. With their debut release 'CAMO', out now via French label Shelter Press, NI present their true artifical nature featuring their most unique and evolving collection of sound collages and tropical ambiance.

Native Instrument's exclusive mix for Ears Have Ears is titled 'Amphibian Trails'. Featuring material from their most recent release, plus a whole bunch of unreleased material, this mix goes deep into the sound and inspiration of this unique duo in techno. 

Listen back to the radio program here: http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-06-22/

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EHE 22.06.17 - Native Instrument - Amphibian Trails

'Ocean Sea' by Las Halles created exclusively for Ears Have Ears. 

France's Baptiste Martin has been crafting fragile pastures of pan flute, field recordings, and stargazing keys as Les Halles since 2012, inspired by a formatively nostalgic night alone "watching the summer sky, thinking of all the mystery." (- Not Not Fun records, June 2016)

Las Halles' piece is titled "Ocean Sea" after the Alessandro Baricco novel. Described as a soundtrack to this sentence: "This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.", it was recorded upon completion of Martin's return from tour in Eastern Europe earlier this month as it uses elements from Las Halles live sets.

Listen back to the full broadcast here - http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-06-29/

EHE 29.06.17 Les Halles (FRA) - Ocean Sea

Sam Filmer is a Melbourne based artist and performer of ambient music. Filmer's love for ambient sounds involved from a childhood passion for tapes and circuit bending, evolving into humble tinkering which developed into a series of effected guitar performances at ambient festival Dronestock. Alongside an interest for DIY instruments and effects, Filmer began his cinematic audio/visual project under the moniker Em Vécue Aquieu. 

Filmer's ‘Illuminated Celestial Caverns’ is an electro-acoustic journey from a carefully prepared network of electronic circuits. Set in dynamically reverberated environments and inspired by the immediate processes of early sound-effect pioneers, an ensemble of synthetic instruments is conducted through generative step-sequencing. Live-recorded, mistakes are embraced as a result of intentionally random manipulation, coexisting with ebbing structures and building melodies. 

Listen back to the full broadcast at the FBi Radio website - http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears

EHE 06.07.17 Sam Filmer - Illuminated Celestial Caverns

Exclusive soundtrack from artist, curator, facilitator, writer and researcher Clinton Green(Undecisive God)will be sharing a brand new piece plus chatting about his two decades experience in the experimental music scene.

Clinton Green makes something akin to music. Formerly recording under the moniker of Undecisive God, Clinton has been active in Australian experimental music since the 1990s as a recording and performing artist, curator and beyond. Working with unconventional approaches to guitars, turntables and found objects as tools for new forms of musical expression, he has also worked with dancers, theatre and performance artists in improvised collaborative situations. Clinton runs the Shame File Music label and writes on/researches historical and contemporary aspects of Australian experimental music. 

Clinton's piece is described as "A soundtrack for excerpts from Homer's epic poem of war, love and fate, created with turntables and radio. Sean Baxter's "Solo Drumkit Improvisations" LP and Todd Anderson-Kunert's "The Situation We're In" EP are used prominently in this piece." For more information on Clinton Green listen back to the full braodcast - http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/

EHE 20.07.17 Clinton Green - Setting for The Iliad

Roly Porter began his career as part of pioneering dubstep duo Vex'd, releasing records on Subtext Records and Planet Mu. As a solo artist he returned to Subtext to release the albums Aftertime and Life Cycle of a Massive Star, both listed in Fact Magazines Albums of the Year. This work ventures away from club-based electronic, veering instead into dense, harrowing walls of sound utilizing classical instruments as well as heavy, distorted bass tones.

Roly Porter was invited to Aldeburgh for a collaborative residency with Cynthia Millar that resulted in a third album, Fall Back. His latest album, Third Law, was released on 22nd January through TriAngle Records and was described by Pitchfork as "truly, awesomely, terrifying" and has recieved universal acclaim. His latest project is a collaboration with Paul Jebanasam entitled "Altar" which premiers at this years Atonal festival on the 18th August.

Listen back to the full Ears Have Ears broadcast via the FBi Radio website: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears

EHE 11.08.17 Roly Porter (U.K.) - Untilted Soundtrack

Lifewater Oasis is the collaborative project between Victorian-based musicians Faith Bolton and Simon Gardam.  They create shimmering hazes of electronics, exploring soundscapes that are experimental yet never stray too far from their musicality.  2017 saw the release of their debut LP “June” through Melbourne label Healthy Tapes.
 
 Lifewater Oasis' for Ears Have Ears is titled 'To Cat Stevens, with love.'. Read their explanation below. 
 
'Recorded over two weekends in Victoria’s Goldfields region, “To Cat Stevens, with love” is a collaged arrangement of improvised moments, created using synthesizer and piano.  Hazy in aesthetic yet direct in its meaning, the piece is a display of devotion to our feline friend and guide, who appeared out of the cold thin air one evening when we needed him most.  Thank you, Cat Stevens.'

Listen back to the full broadcast via the FBi Radio website: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears

EHE 3.08.17 - Lifewater Oasis - To Cat Stevens, with love

Melbourne-based producer R hunter takes equal influence from club, ambient and classical styles to create combined and alternate representations of genres. Following a background in composition he has rapidly progressed towards a voracious need to create without discernible reference, regardless of chosen sound palette or platform. On his debut release ‘Estrus’, out on NICE Music in 2016, plumbing the world of software synthesis and sound manipulation with abandon to forge dystopian and at times hellish sound collages.

R hunter's exclusive piece ‘3 imprinted textures’ is a mix of unreleased music that explores how form can be subordinated by timbre. The work makes reference to many different musical experiences: synthesized and recorded sounds interact organically with one another, embedded within an architecture of ambient textures, field recordings and YouTube sampling. The result is a struggle between the measured and unmeasured, where music moves freely between ‘on’ the grid and ‘off’ the grid.

Listen back to the full EHE broadcast via the FBi website here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears

EHE 17.08.17 R hunter - 3 Imprinted Textures

Laura Hunt is a Sydney based musician and artist. Hunt has played with bands Ghastly Spats and Drown Under; releasing multiple cassettes and records with Australian labels R.I.P Society, Exxe Records, Paradise Daily, Heinous Anus, and Special Awards. Hunt collaborates with Jannah Quill in dance noise project WDK. She recently completed a 3 month residency at International Cite des Arts in Paris and is currently on tour with WDK in New Zealand. 

"‘He Told Me I'd Never Look Rich’ is a dance noise, beat heavy soundtrack. The track was formed using amplification of electromagnetic frequencies, drum machine and synthesizers over cracked ASMR, paper shuffling, brain hacking audio, heaving breath and half formed vocal samples. It was created with the intention to conjure a coagulated world, influenced by the spaces between desire, corporate culture and primal urges." - Laura Hunt 

https://soundcloud.com/lauzone
https://soundcloud.com/wdknoiz​

EHE 31.08.17 Laura Hunt - He Told Me I'd Never Look Rich

This week our feature contribution is an exclusive soundtrack by Sydney's experimental pop artist Lovely Head. Her piece 'At Night' weaves together strands of ritual, stillness and sacrifice.

Methodical and weary, At Night explores the not quite seen moments that live in the blackest of nights, before the blur of sunrise makes its way through again.

Take a listen to her last release on Provenance: https://lovely-head.bandcamp.com/

EHE 07.09.17 Lovely Head - At Night

A soundtrack by Philadelphia's industrial experimenter People Skills aka Jesse Dewlow (Blackest Ever Black, Slitbreeze).

People Skills' soundtrack is prepared for low power radio and laptop speakers, and was all recorded live with minimal post production beyond arrangement and leveling and no overdubs. Check out more People Skills at WFMU's Free Music Archive, Bandcamp, Soundcloud and You Tube.

Photograph from the Alfred Peter Sebastian Archives 1969 -1995. 

https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/gunshots-at-crestridge

EHE 21.09.17 People Skills (USA) - The Shearness Pool

This week our feature soundtrack contribution comes from Shoshana Rosenberg, a bass clarinetist, composer and experimental musician, currently based in Adelaide.

Her practice champions the uniqueness and complexity produced by untrained musicianship and unpredictable sound sources. This includes her own lack of formal training, as well as her use of electronics and improvisation. Through her sounds and records she attempts to navigate and explore her relationship with God, gender, sexuality and mental illness. 

On her soundtrack: 

"Kibbush Nitzkhi (Eternal Occupation), for bass clarinet, gated reverb and Trogotronics. This soundtrack is inspired by Shoshana's experiences of growing up in Occupied Palestine aka Israel. In particular, the track focuses on the process of making sense of having one's body and identity inextricably linked with a history of forced settlement, displacement and murder. The track pits the bass clarinet against jarring electronics, forcing each to imitate the other and integrate. Whether the outcome is a success or a failure is up to the listener to decide." - Shoshana Rosenberg 

Photo by Shelly Horan

Find her on Instagram - @kneidellover
Support her Go Fund Me to fix her broken clarinet: https://www.gofundme.com/shosh

EHE 28.09.17 Shoshana Rosenberg - Kibbush Nitzkhi (Eternal Occupation)

This week our feature piece is by Berlin's legendary composer and musician Rashad Becker. 
 
Rashad Becker's compositions commonly explore multilayered narratives populated by an ensemble of sonic entities. You may be familiar with his Traditional Music Of Notional Species works, which were released across two volumes on pan_hq. Rashad is a mastering guru at Berlin’s famous Dubplates & Mastering and has mastered many of the releases we have played on our show over the last six years. He has also collaborated with the likes of Eli Keszler, Moritz von Oswald, Okkyung Lee, Andre Vida, Ashley Paul and Valerio Tricoli, just to name a few. 
 
More recently Rashard developed a new cycle of works called Based on a True Story. These works seek to generate scores from historical occurrences and processes that have had a significant impact on recent social history. Rashad has contributed a new chapter of this series to Ears Have Ears. Based on a True Story - Chapter G (Part 5) is a musical documentary with an associative score. This multi-art piece specifically references Sendero Luminoso of Peru and the life of Abimael Guzmán between 1982 and 1992. 

In his own words, Rashad describes it as referencing"the brute implications of revolutionary dialectics and the challenges these carry to the modernist economy of emotions and individual entitlement…..the confrontation and transcendence of the individual pursuit of happiness."

EHE 05.10.17 Rashad Becker (GER) - Based On A True Story - Chapter G (Part 5)

This is the second collaborative soundtrack from Shane and James created for Ears Have Ears, the previous being 'Her Golden Threads Burned for The Birth of Daylight'. The work was put together over a stay at Shane’s place in northern NSW and combines studio, home and field recordings to create it’s varied sound worlds. Like their previous soundtrack it combines the two’s complementary skills across composition, sound treatment and synthesis.

Listen back to the full program here - https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-11-30/

EHE 30.11.17 Shane & James - Journey Towards Death

Richard Chartier's Pinkcourtesyphone is an emotionally grounded project that presents a more musical side of his artist work. Dark but not arch with a slight hint of humor, the project is amorphous, changing, and slipping in and out of consciousness. Operating like a syrup-y dream, this sounds strives to be both elegant and detached.

Beyond Pinkcourtesyphone, Richard Chartier is considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself.

EHE 14.12.17 Pinkcourtesyphone (Richard Chartier) - EHE Mix

Gas is the sometimes solo project of Sydney based artist and musician Del Lumanta. They coordinate 'Double Vision', a series of free-form gigs showcasing the practice of DIY, sound and other musicians and facilitate the program 'All Girl Electronic' at Information and Cultural Exchange, Parramatta. Their other music projects include Video Ezy (Paradise Daily), Skyline (Nice Music) and Basic Human. 

Diaspora Labyrinth is a collection of songs from musicians with alternate histories: Elysia Crampton (us), Various Asses (melb), Papaphilia (melb), Gas (syd) and poet Eunice Andrada (syd). Placing these songs in conversation hopes to generate narratives that bring identity into focus while simultaneously contemplating erasure and survival.

Tracklist: 
GAS - 'Ancient Vessels' 
Elysia Crampton - 'Wing'
Various Asses - 'Forever Baby' [GAS edit]
Papaphilia - 'Neoliberal ideology of Globalisation applied in a pacifistic manner;'
GAS & Eunice Andrada - 'Pacific Salt'

EHE 07.12.17 Gas (SYD) - DIASPORA LABYRINTH

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