A student flavoured event concentrating on works produced by students from the Christ Church University Sonic Arts programme along with support from the electronic group Contact. There will also be a piece performed by Paul Adams and a new compostion from Andrew Gower.

Videos and photographs from the Open Ear in Cardiff event on the 13th of June are now online and can be seen below in running order (videos are also on our YouTube site).

Many thanks to all the performers who gave fantastic performances on the night and many of whom travelled great distances to make this event a success as well as the artists who submitted some inspirational video works from all over the world. Also thanks to those who worked on the event including some students from CCI at the University of Glamorgan.

Videos: Chris Gardner & Dale James
Photography: Sally Smart
Lighting: Adam Williams
Vision mixing and graphic design (posters and flyers): Frédérique Santune

Above Brian DeLevie & Isshaela Ingham : Emanations

Above Matt Wright : Vent Glacier

Above Ampersand : Ampersand Live

Above Thorsten Fleisch & Jens Thiele : Energie! (online here)

Above Elektronengehirn (Malte Steiner) : Elektronengehirn

Above Garrett Lynch : Trav—erse

Above Valentina Besegher & Alessandro Massobrio : Try Hard Johnny! (extract online here)

Above Richard Bowers, Ian Watson, Nic Finch & Jon Ruddick : Thaw

Above Paul Adams : PrifArc56 vs. The Artifact

Above John Kannenberg : Archisonics: Vertigo (online here)

Above Jen-Kuang Chang : Drishti II

Above Rob Smith, Ben Challis & Ian Wiblin : Untitled

Above Georg Boenn : Genova VII 2001

Above Scott Kildall : Future Memories (extracts online here)

:: Open Ear – Cardiff 13/06/08, 8pm till late ::

On June 13th 2008, 8pm till late, Open Ear will host a free one night only event of experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales (http://cci.glam.ac.uk/). Curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) the event will present a series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art, music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected contexts.

The line-up for the evening will be as follows:

Performances:

• Ampersand & Mitsuka (http://www.ampersand.tv/)
• Malte Steiner (http://www.block4.com/)
• Richard Bowers, Ian Watson, Nic Finch & Jon Ruddick (http://www.richardbowers.co.uk/, http://www.myspace.com/phantomheadrecordings, http://www.chameleonic-design.com/, http://www.jacuzzi-junta.org/)
• Paul Adams (http://www.mrpauladams.com/)
• Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/)
• Georg Boenn
• Matt Wright (http://www.matt-wright.co.uk/)
• Rob Smith & Ben Challis

Projections:

• Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch & Jens Thiele (http://www.fleischfilm.com/)
• Future Memories by Scott Kildall (http://www.kildall.com/)
• Emanations by Brian DeLevie & Isshaela Ingham (http://www.briandelevie.com/)
• Try Hard Johnny! by Valentina Besegher & Alessandro Massobrio (http://www.besegher.com/, http://www.flushingdevice.it/)
• Archisonics: Vertigo by John Kannenberg (http://www.johnkannenberg.com/)
• Drishti II by Jen-Kuang Chang

:: The Venue ::

The University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM in Cardiff, Wales opened in 2007 and houses the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries which comprises of Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. Situated in central Cardiff, Wales, this specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and facilities including industry-standard studios, a theatre and cinema.

Address: ATRiuM Theatre, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN

Detailed information on how to get here can be found on the university website. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Open Ear, audio-visual events and performances are supported by The University of Glamorgan, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales.

The call for works is now

Please do not submit works as they will now not be considered. If you have already submitted work, thank you very much for your submission, selected performances / projections will be announced shortly and performers will be contacted.

:: Open Ear – Cardiff 13/06/08, open call for works ::

On June 13th 2008, Open Ear will host a free one night only event of experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales (http://cci.glam.ac.uk/). Curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) the event will present a series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various artists.

Sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art, music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected contexts are invited to contribute to this event under an open theme.

What does this mean?

There is no imposed theme instead we want to present a selection of time-based work by artists based on their themes, their continuing research, as an event which will explore the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of audio-visual arts. Proposed performances / projected works can be new or pre-existing works, improvised, dynamically generated (such as software art) or pre-composed, abstract or figurative, individual or collaborative, experimental, site specific and much, much more. All proposals are required to be:

1. time-based (remember this is a audience based event in a theatre)
2. and ether audio-visual, audio only or visual only work (selection preference will be given to works which are audio-visual).

Works should aim to be a maximum of 30 minutes each however this is flexible.

As the event is free we are unable to offer individual payment to artists however we will provide access to reasonable requests for equipment (please include a list of requirements in your proposal and we will attempt to cater for this) at the venue and of course the opportunity to present work in one of Cardiff’s newest cutting edge venues.

Proposals should take the form of a word / pdf / rtf / txt document (two pages maximum) with:

1. A description of the work (500 words maximum).
2. Images to give us an idea of the proposed work.
3. A full list of required equipment (please note that the event will host several performers so complex configurations involving lengthy set-up times will not be catered for).
4. Urls to previous examples of work online (videos or sound files online are particularly useful).
5. A short bio (200 words maximum).
6. Artist(s) / group / performer(s) name and full contact details.

Please email proposals as compressed attachments (.zip / .dmg / .sit / .sitx / tar.gz / .tgz) to Garrett Lynch (garrett [at] asquare dot org) no later than 12pm (GMT), Friday 16/05/08.

To get an idea of the type of events we organise please see the rest of this site for full details of all past events and our YouTube account for videos of pasts events.

:: The Venue ::

The University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM in Cardiff, Wales opened in 2007 and houses the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries which comprises of Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music. Situated in central Cardiff, Wales, this specially-designed building contains cutting edge technology and facilities including industry-standard studios, a theatre and cinema.

Address: ATRiuM Theatre, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN

Detailed information on how to get here can be found on the university website.

Open Ear, audio-visual events and performances are supported by The University of Glamorgan, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales.