Tag Archives: CKUT 90.3 FM

Show 908: The House Of Kinshasa Part 1 by Po B. K. Lomami (CKUT)

Po B. K. Lomami – The House of Kinsaha

This is the outcome of a WhatsApp call between my parents in Belgium and me in Canada about the final chapter of their house in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They recalled how two Zairean Ph.D. students, who just met in Brussels, decided to buy a house in Kinshasa without seeing it. They bought a home to prepare for their return to Zaire/DR Congo together after their academic program. The return never happened. Now retired, they just sold the house 36 years later. The house my brothers and I never grew up in is gone.

Like any call with my parents, I learned about way more than what I asked for. It is a snippet of the experiences and trajectories of the Congolese diaspora of their generation in Belgium. It is also a glimpse of how I experienced it as their child who left that same Belgium as soon as they could. The House of Kinshasa is a five-part sound project about the diasporic realities of transmission, return, and housing for a family spread over DR Congo, Belgium, and Canada. In this first part, I intertwine my parents’ story with my perspective, field recordings, and bits of CKUT’s archive. With the participation of my mother and my father.

Audio sources from CKUT’s archive include (in order):

  • Café. CKUT, 24 Jun 2022
  • “Child presentation.” Homelessness Marathon 2005. CKUT, 11 Jan 2005
  • “Origins of the XX Files.” XX Files. CKUT, 25 May 2016
  • “Economic Empowerment.” Black Talk. CKUT, 31 Jan 1992
  • “Roundtable Discussion on Black Identity as Immigrants to Canada.” CKUT, n.d.
  • “Diana Sharpe Interviews Prof. Joel Harder and Analyzes the Lumber Situation in Congo.” Amandla. CKUT, 2007
  • “Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut, Discovery Space Shuttle.”, CKUT, n.d.
  • Black Talk. CKUT, 1991, cassette side B

Po B. K. Lomami (Pauline Batamu Kasiwa Lomami) is a self-taught undisciplinary artist, art administrator, and artistic and public programmer. They are a Congodescendant from Belgium currently based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal. Exploring Afrofuturist principles and methodologies, Lomami’s art practice revolves around the displacement of work, the becoming of their subjectivity, and the possible collective futures with black, crip, queer and Afrofeminist perspectives.
https://pobklomami.art

Show 776: Une Marche Deux Parcourts by Marilou Craft and Tamara Filyavich (CKUT)

As part of Une Marche Deux Parcourts, a soundart and words performance with Marilou Craft that took place at McGill University last November, below is the event description by the organizers.

“Le 6 décembre 1989, la tragédie de l’École Polytechnique de Montréal a plongé le Québec dans le désarroi, touchant les femmes et les communautés universitaires à travers le monde. 14 femmes ont été tuées parce qu’elles avaient choisi d’occuper un espace traditionnellement réservé aux hommes. L’événement commémoratif Une marche, deux parcours. À la mémoire des femmes de Polytechnique vise à souligner que leurs initiatives et leurs contributions, même interrompues, contribuent à l’histoire de Montréal”

Show 749: Magic Sound Box (CKUT)

sound boxers brought beautiful sonic creations to the ears of many listeners. Sound artists:  Alanna McNevin, Alejandro Saravia, Antonella l.c. Giordano, Britt Wray, Courtney Kirkby, Dominique Ferraton, Elena Stoodley, Eugenie Brin, Jasmine Wilson, Jason Levine, Karen Robins, Marc Messier-Peet, Moe Clark, Miss Lamb, Neil Griffith, Nicolas Vigneau, Rae Dooley

Show 606: Strippd-down 01 Fear (CKUT)

The first instalment of Strippd-down radio is an exploration into the experience of fear, as told through phone interviews. The segment attempts to demonstrate different experiences with fear through experimental audio and is entirely unscripted.

Strippd-down is a collective that aims to to deconstruct the way we consume and create media. Stay tuned for more.

For inquiries email strippd.down@gmail.com. Don’t get caught up; get stripped down

Show 517: The Haystack by Michael Dean for CKUT 90.3 fm

“The Haystack” addresses modern practices for data gathering and surveillance, approached through the development of evolving sonic landscapes. Four chapters are compiled, each drawing from different methods of data monitoring, including tapped telephone calls, recorded conversation, the sonification of network traffic, and the internal sounds of communication technology itself. Haystack is the sound of dystopia, as told from the eyes of a machine.

For more work by Micheal Dean please go to https://soundcloud.com/m-dean-1

Show 468: On Failure by James Goddard (Ckut Radio Montreal)

This episode of Radia focuses on concept of failure and its sources using radio art as its exploratory medium. Failure of technology, Failure of language, Failure of colonialism, Failure to induce laughter…ultimately, failure to fail and many more expressions of failure, inaction and irrelevancy of success.

James Goddard lives in Montréal, QC. He pays his bills by resisting oppressive working conditions and supporting better food options at Le Frigo Vert. He once interned at CKUT 90.3FM, before that he worked at CFRC 101.9FM and CHMA 106.9FM. His writing has appeared on Weird Canada and in Syphon magazine.

Show 444: CKUT Radio-Magic Smut Box

CKUT’s Audio Smut Radio Collective presented a sound art installation for Montreal’s Perverscité Festival this past August. They merged queer sex stories, both true and fictional, poems and spoken word pieces, recorded in audio form, or performed live. The results reflect surprising facets of being queer, being trans, memorable moments and empowerment.

Explicit sexual content and language warning! check your local broadcasting on-air guidelines.

Show 419: CKUT : Montreal Tape Run

The Montréal Tape Run was a project spearheaded by crustacés tapes in collaboration with Berlin’s Staaltape, whose Berlin Tape Run series inspired the Montréal version. A cassette tape circulated from hand to hand across the island of Montréal in September 2013. 10 individuals were involved. Each runner received the tape, recorded a few minutes of sound on it, and transferred it to the next runner. This edition of Radia features 8 of the 10

pieces of sound off the Montréal Tape Run:

1- Magali Babin : Archives 1989-99   – tape recorders : 1 realistic, 1 talkboy deluxe, 3 general electric, 1 répondeur radio shack. start 1 après l’autre. durée de la pièce. stop 1 après l’autre.

2- Alain Lefebvre : piece for crustacés tapes 2012    –  tape deck output, pedals, tapedeck input (window)

3-Hélène Prévost : Crayon Maçon    – un mic live dans mon studio à partir de 2 enregistrements (field recordings) et une action live. démolition d’un mur intérieur, 2 tailleurs de pierre à l”extérieur, moi aiguisant un crayon.

4- anne-f jacques : bialetti express  –  enregistreuses, ruban en boucle, besoin d’un café

5- martin tétrault : à rebours, voyager 1      – source: “message from earth”, “sounds from earth” 1 disque en or 12″ installé dans le sonde voyager 1.  méthode : montage audionumérique transfert sur machine à cassette califone 4530

5-donna silicon : rainbow banana

6-grkzgl : villeray, sauce western (prise 4)bo^tie à ressorts, fuzz, égalisateurs, etc

7-n tobin : tape worm

Copies of the Montréal Tape Run are available through crustacés tapes in exchange for a postcard or a present sent to: 4555 rue Pontiac Montrea, Québec H2J 2T2