Electric Sense

Electric Sense CIUT 89.5FM from our transmitter, or www.ciut.fm from anywhere in the world. Wednesday nights, 23:00 until midnight. Host: James Bailey

A radio programme dedicated to unusual and creative music of all sorts. Electronic, experimental, improvised, modern orchestral/chamber composition, etc. Most forms of "popular" music are eschewed unless they somehow have some relevance to other material being played and even those cases are likely to be rare. Emphasis on Canadian artists, though international friends are not ignored.

09/17/2026

Some new and upcoming releases, as well as older things to promote upcoming performances (like the Picastro/Bernice/Granny Smith event that I forgot to give the date for: Sept 26th). New things from People Places Records (Yang Chen), Imaginary North (Craig Alders), Daoud, and Cabaret Voltaire, and an older piece from The Glass Orchestra.

Hear it on the ES page at the CIUT website if you missed it, or want to listen again, or go to https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Yang Chen - Madness Belongs to the People Mvmnt 1 (excpt) https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/madness-belongs-to-the-people
The Glass Orchestra - Dusk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Q33Uc8I4c
Daoud - Rainy Day, Drone Away https://daoud1.bandcamp.com/track/rainy-day-drone-away
Cabaret Voltaire - Thank You America (John Robie Dub Mix) https://cabaretvoltaire.bandcamp.com/album/code-2026-remastered-digital-deluxe-edition
Picastro - Believer End https://picastro.bandcamp.com/album/double-on-time
Bernice - Begin Again https://bernice.bandcamp.com/album/cruisin
Granny Smith - Orchid Raga https://grannysmith1.bandcamp.com/album/granthology
Craig Alders - Soft Focus '82 (excpt) https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-012

09/10/2026

Mostly new things this week, some of them still pending. It started with the dual celli of India Gailey and Leah Plave playing a piece by the late Chris Derksen, that was followed by organ wonders from Kali Malone. Next was a constantly evolving improvisation by Allison Cameron and Scott Thomson released earlier this year by Ambiances Magnetiques. The final two pieces were from the Peterborough, ON, duo of Leak & Seaborn with additional sounds added by Spanish drummer Juan Dahmen, and it finished with Belgrade sound artist Manja Ristic.

If you missed it, or want to listen again, go to the ES page on the CIUT website, or directly to the archive site: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

India Gailey & Leah Plave - The Bee and Her Wildflower https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-appears-2
Kali Malone - Heavy With Fruit https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/burning-song
Allison Cameron, Scott Thomson - Limbing https://scottthomson.bandcamp.com/album/platanus
Steven Leak, James Seaborn - dis.solve.d https://stevenleak1.bandcamp.com/album/solve-d
Manja Ristic - paper cuts https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/paper-cuts

09/03/2026

Mostly pre-release tracks this week, with those ones dropping in two or three weeks. The only one fully available is the Michael Brueckner.

If you missed it, or want to listen again, check the ES page on the CIUT website, or go to: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Adam Hill - Pingala's Threads of Knowledge https://misteradamhill.bandcamp.com/album/dance-card
Michael Brueckner - Cracked Egg Mystification (Revisited) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/the-egg-in-the-cosmic-crack-cyd-0165
Super scintillant - Deux https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/tarot
FROTAE - Chorale (no link yet, but check out the composer's website: https://liberteanne.com/ )
Erick d'Orion - Spectres https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/album/mes-fant-mes

08/27/2026

All forthcoming or recent things this week, starting with some nice ambiance from Aidan Baker. Pianist Leung then puts her able hands to the music of Atlanta composer Alvin Singleton, followed by some jazz courtesy of Brittany Pitt, and then Daniel Field's project Beymer brought us more ambiance to round off the set. Finishing off were three (okay, and a bit of a fourth) by Eldritch Priest, A solo composition for piano then two things from his trio named after a French poet and author from the turn of the 20th century.

To listen again, or if you missed it, go to the ES page on the CIUT website, or check the archive site: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Aidan Baker - Petrol Jasmin https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/album/adverse-camber
Jackie Leung - Mutations https://jackieleungpiano.bandcamp.com/album/inside-out-piano-music-by-alvin-singleton
Brittany Pitt - Shapeshifter https://brittanypitt.bandcamp.com/album/shapeshifter
Beymer - Shpritsn https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-trees
Roger Admiral - nape...wrinkle...linger https://eldritchpriest.bandcamp.com/album/too-so-like-nothing
Raymond Roussel - five
Raymond Roussel - derelict lounge https://eldritchpriest.bandcamp.com/album/raymond-roussel-no-one-asked-us-yet

08/23/2026

This was a prerecorded edition of the show, owing to the fact that I was in Montreal at the time. It features a couple of long-form pieces by William Davison, a sonic- and visual artist, and founder of Recordism, based in Toronto. The first is an edition of a podcast that ran monthly in 2017 and is made up of random one-minute segments from various Recordism audio pieces over several years. The second is from a similar monthly series in 2018, in which a single track from a found LP that has been slowed down to give a total time of approximately 30 minutes.

If you want to listen again, or if you missed it, this edition can be found at the ES page on CIUT's website, or at the Podbean archive site: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

William Davison - Stactorm Radiooo ed. 11
William Davison - The Long Play – Beatnick Fly

These two porks, plus several others, can be found at William's Bandcamp page: https://w-a-davison.bandcamp.com/

08/13/2026

I was feeling so awful earlier in the evening that doing the show seemed very unlikely for a while, but I persevered through that and then a transit hold-up due to fire further west down the line (just the direction I needed to go). Went back home to the only reliable option available, got on me bike and peddled my arse around town.
This was a special show, the tri-annual Musicworks Magazine release ( https://www.musicworks.ca/ )
Not much I can add here that isn't in the mag, so get yerself a copy or better yet subscribe so you get the CD (the few who still play them). Interesting articles, reviews, it's a cornerstone of Canadian music journalism.

Hear it again or if you missed it, via the ES page on the CIUT website or directly at the Podbean site: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Here are the tracks we played:
Ensemble Holophony Project - Viper Snake (by Panayiotis Kokoras)
Mili Hong - Morning (by Eli Davidovici)
John Hollenbeck - Sighs
[MONRHEA] - Blooming Bells
Arthur Bull - Guitar Improvisation No. 3
Anju Singh - Ascension
Ministry of Phonic Services - Stadium (excpt)

08/06/2026

Not in the mood for a lot of typing tonight, so will just present the list as is. If you need more info, email [email protected] and I'll try to help.

If you missed it, or want to listen again, head to the ES page on the CIUT website, or https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Knights of the Mystic Eye - Theme From A Summer Place / The Morbidly Curious https://knightsofthemysticeye.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgic-for-the-future
SHHH! Ensemble - Portals I: In the Offing https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/new-forevers
Nicola Miller's Living Things - Split! https://nicolamiller.bandcamp.com/album/spit
Digital Poodle - Earthquakes! (version one) https://digitalpoodle2.bandcamp.com/album/poodle-crematorium
Stephane Roy - Bestiaire a hauteur d'oreille (excpt) https://empreintesdigitales.bandcamp.com/album/coups-de-foudre
The Tiny Orchestra - Another Night in Hooverville https://thetinyorchestra2.bandcamp.com/album/down-and-further-out

07/30/2026

All over the place this week, geographically, stylistically, and temporally. A soon-to-be-released single (though by whom is a mystery at the moment) honouring the 150th anniversary of the Treaty 6 signing in western Canada, then a solo saxophone piece employing some unusual extended techniques, both sides of an early '80s single by Martha and the Muffins, and a recent release by Mr. Barwin. Two rather contrary pieces follow, though I suppose one could find a connection with enough digging, and we finished with a very short excerpt from RikM.

If you missed it or want to listen again, go to the ES page on the CIUT website or directly to Podbean: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Michelle Joly & Peter Cameron - 1876 (interestingly, the publicity message for this mentions the release date (July 31st), but not who is releasing it, nor a link to where it may be obtained)
Brian Sacawa - Voice Within Voice https://innova.mu/album/american-voices/
Martha and the Muffins - About Insomnia
Martha and the Muffins - 1 4 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZoqkjfytQ
Gary Barwin - Benethic https://garybarwin.bandcamp.com/track/benthic
Xylitol - Bowed Clusters (with The Leaf Library) https://xylitol.bandcamp.com/track/bowed-clusters-with-the-leaf-library
Shahriyar Jamshidi - Xemin Menise (Don't Be Cheerless) https://shahriyarjamshidi.bandcamp.com/track/xem-n-men-e-dont-be-cheerless
RikM - August 8, 2025 (excpt) https://rikm.bandcamp.com/album/august-2025

07/23/2026

Ex-Torontonian Andy Haas kicked things off tonight with a couple of friends playing a totally improvised piece, one of two bonus tracks from the session that resulted in May's release Messianic Time. We then went over to Lagos, Nigeria (via Berlin, Germany) for a recently released album of imaginative remixes giving new interpretations of works originally released in 2022 by Emeka Ogboh, which led us into a forthcoming release of flute music by the greatly missed Jocelyn Morlock curated by Mark McGregor. Gayle and James created and modified respectively, sounds of stones collected by Gayle in Newfoundland. Winnipeg then gave us the Tonky Honk (there should be umlauts over the o, but apparently that isn't allowed in PC-land) keyboard duo from their imminent offering "The EP" (also an umlaut on the E), and we finished in the north with Piqsiq and a track from last year's Legends release, which I didn't get to announce on-air due to time constraints.

To hear this episode again or in case you missed it, check the embedded player on the ES page at CIUT's website, or go to: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Andy Haas - When I Was https://andyhaas.bandcamp.com/album/messianic-time-2026-bonus-tracks
Emeka Ogboh - No Counterfeit_Mark Remix https://emekaogboh.bandcamp.com/album/los-ber-6-30-33372-n-3-22-066-e-rmx
Mark Takeshi McGregor - Salamander https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/jocelyn-morlock-artemis-sleeps
Gayle Young, James Harley - Stones 1 https://gayleyoung.bandcamp.com/album/lithophonica-by-gayle-young-and-james-harley
Tonky Honk - Hush https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/t-nky-h-nk-the-p
Piqsiq - Tutaliit: Mermaids https://piqsiq.bandcamp.com/album/legends

07/16/2026

Some yet-to-come releases from Nicole and Cheryl, a recent one from Yvan, and things from a little further back by Drekka, and Dave & Michael.

You can hear it via the ES page on CIUT's website if you missed the broadcast, or if you want to hear it again, or you can go here for many more episodes: https://electricsense.podbean.com/

Dave Fuglewicz & Michael Thomas Jackson - Disintegrating Mirrors https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-is-glowing-split
Nicole Miller's Living Things - Drummers Are Bad https://nicolamiller.bandcamp.com/album/spit
Cheryl Duvall - The Surroundings (no link for this one yet, but here's the previous volume of L. C. Smith solo piano works: https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/linda-catlin-smith-the-complete-piano-solos-1989-2023-vol-1-the-plains
Drekka - Odd Rivers Abeam https://somnimage.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-territory-1-drekka-odd-rivers-abeam
Yvan Sheremetieff - MSE
Yvan Sheremetieff - Drum Theme Cont'd
Yvan Sheremetieff - Foote's Practice Room https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-interpretation-of-voices-episode-2

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