About CKUT
CKUT's music programmes run the gamut of genres and non-genres with a penchant for innovation and experimentation, niches of pleasure to titillate a variety of discerning listener's tastes. Our broadcast studio is used as a zone for live experimentation, performance, and community involvement on a weekly basis. We don't take ourselves too seriously and enjoy pushing the boundaries of what's expected from a radio frequency.
CKUT
is one of the largest volunteer owned and operated Campus/Community
radio stations in Montreal, broadcasting 5000 watts of power at
90.3FM from the radio tower that crowns the peak of Mount Royal. The
terrestrial range of the broadcast signal reaches about 150
kilometres around the city, with live streaming and six months of
program archives available at ckut.ca. CKUT is supported by the
students of McGill University, community members, and listener's from
Montreal and beyond.
CKUT is one of the the largest, if not
the largest and most active Campus/Community Radio Stations in
Canada. The station's direction and programming is a result of the
ideas and efforts of over four hundred volunteers who create live
radio 24/7, 365 days a year. A volunteer owned and operated station,
CKUT operates with a non-hierarchical collective management
structure. CKUT's programming is split into three categories with
music occupying the largest portion of air time, and news and culture
programmes providing the much needed space for marginalized voices
and opinions.
No traffic reports, story assignments, play lists,
listener surveys, or demographics to cater to, CKUT 's programming content is entirely in the hands of our volunteer hosts and producers who
have free reign over the content that they send out over the airwaves, ensuring that
the station's programming is not dictated by some self appointed
taste maker. 95% of the programming produced in house.
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ckutmusic on 03/28/2013 at 09:30AM
Nick Kuepfer Live on the Montreal Sessions
In the decade that he has called Montreal home, Nick Kuepfer has ventured through a wide range of sonic territory: from playing with infamous noise rockers AIDS Wolf to layering minimal guitar compositions with ambient drones, his contributions to the city's musical community are stunning in both their quality and diversity of sound. Keeping with his tradition of collaging unlikely sonic textures, Nick's live performance during the Constellation Records-curated Montreal Sessions found him alternately plucking and bowing an acoustic guitar over unearthly tape loops. At once rich and subtle, this piece will reward those who listen closely.
ckutmusic on 03/18/2013 at 01:30AM
Jerusalem In My Heart
Just days before the release of their long-awaited debut album, two members of the global drifter trio Jerusalem In My Heart met in the CKUT studios for a rare live performance and interview sent out onto the airwaves. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh is known around these parts for his work at the famed Hotel2Tango as well as for his long history as a performer in the Montreal and Beirut musical communities, and Jérémie Regnier is a composer and producer who'd flown in from his home in France less than 24 hours before this CKUT session. The sheer geographical distance between the members of JIMH mean that any live performances are a rarity, and we were thrilled when the folks at Constellation Records were able to get them in as part of their Montreal Sessions residency.
Combining traditional and contemporary Arabic sounds with electronics, drones, and some improvised live tape echo, Radwan and Jérémie brought forth some truly captivating sounds during their performance. Dual vocals, buzuk, synths, and an array of gadgets ebbed and flowed in the reinterpretations of two tracks from their forthcoming record Mo7it Al-Mo7it.