Events - Ear Cinema
Ear Cinema is a multi-faceted installation using ambisonic techniques and combining animation, film, sound and live performance within a four-screen cube. A narration accompanied by spooky interjections of music and sound effects tells the story of a little girl named Mary who makes a mysterious appearance in a hospital. The 3D sound environment - ambisonics - allows the projection of sound in every part of the cube, creating a complete aural picture and a truly immersive experience for the audience. Ear Cinema is directed by Wajid Yaseen and is joined by Alice Kemp on the story, Paul Barritt on animation/film, Dave Hunt on ambisonics, Dagmara Bilon and Alicia Tatge on live performance, and narrated by the inimitable Dave Cloud whose voice was recorded during a trip to Nashville, US...Ear Cinema was performed at the ICA Gallery, London in Nov 2007 and a UK tour is planned with performances at various galleries. All dates and venues will be confirmed soon. Here is a brief description/list of the people involved :
Wajid Yaseen
artistic director & sound design/music
Wajid is behind the experimental sound art project 'Uniform' and has had numerous albums released throughout his career.
He has written soundscores for numerous projects including 'Spaces Between' as part of the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall,
He has collaborated with various dance companies and choreographers such as Candoco, Athina Vahla, and Gail Sneddon
and also worked with various live-artists including Franko B and Reza Aramesh and is soon to be working on a new Uniform
album with a list of distinguished guest vocalists. Wajid is also the co-founder of Scrapclub, the destructivist night club and
also co-runs the experimental record label Needlesoup
Alice Kemp
story
Alice has subsisted quantum-heroically as a self-taught artist-musician, utilising prepared guitar, piano, trombone, vocals, electronics and turntable. She is one half of London performance duo Uniform, co-director of the international online gallery The Lazarus Corporation, Conductor of Poltergasmic Frequencies for the Baltimore-based Performance Thanatology Research Society and has collaborated in various forms with [amongst others] Dual, 2nd Gen, Bark Psychosis, Defeatist, Leechwoman, Hilary Jeffery and Ringo Christ. She is also known as Germseed and has performed throughout Europe and Japan
Dagmara Bilon
live-art & dance
extensive background in a wide range of dance forms and involved with performance groups such as Psychological Art Circus and Punchdrunk
Alicia Tatge
live-art & dance
background in dance, studied at Laban and has been involved with numerous dance pieces and performances including Open House, Chris Crickmay, and Patricia Brouilly
Paul Barritt
animation
filmmaker, animator and illustrator. Co founder of the theatre company 1927, for which he, amongst other things,
devises all the films and animations. 1927 were recently awarded the Total Theatre Award for best emerging company
at the Edinburgh Fringe
Dave Hunt
ambisonics and lighting
freelance sound designer/engineer having worked with a broad range of artists including Michael Nyman,
David Toop, Gavin Bryers, Max Eastley and Diamanda Galas
Dave Cloud
main narration
It is not surprising that the word "shamanistic" has been used often over the past 25 years to describe the incendiary performances of Nashville's Dave Cloud and his band The Gospel of Power. Weekly late-night shows for the unenlightened Nashville masses quickly established Cloud as Music City's enfant terrible while garnering diehard converts along the way. Holding a dusty mirror to pop music's tawdry conventions, Cloud and his colleagues deftly dismember the Frankenstein monster of modern musical excess.
Rosie Joyce - on support narration
Robin - on costume design
Gail Sneddon - on video documentation
Marc Broussely - on photography
Matt Swanson - studio recordings in Nashville
Irini Papadimitriou - on co-ordination and organising
Emma Quinn - Live Media director at the ICA
Sabinne Unamun - for funding support from the Arts Council
Julio Periera and Lee Curran - lighting/stage technical support at the ICA
Jenny Lindvall and Roger Carne - stage hands
Professor Paul - on transport
Funded by the Arts Council of England
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