Special Event - Irish World Academy, University of Limerick

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CAVE (Cork Audio Visual Ensemble)

Jeffrey Weeter and CAVE (Cork Audio Visual Ensemble) CAVE – Cork Audio Visual Ensemble is a music technology based ensemble at University College Cork focused on performing and creating contemporary audio-visual compositions.

Through both performance and creative practice, CAVE seeks to explore the relationship between the physical (carbonbased) and the digital (silicon- based) worlds. Every day we are surrounded by noise and image. Part of CAVE’s mission is to seek out the challenging intersections of data, art, performance, and our environment. Out of these intersections emerges an aesthetic leaning toward a better understanding of how we shape our world. This is accomplished through both and sonifying the data and audio-visual media collected and musically manipulated by the ensemble. CAVE challenges what is known and relates its findings to the world through creative expression.

CAVE was co-founded by Jeffrey Weeter and Derek Foott in 2014 and is currently directed by Jeffrey Weeter. CAVE was founded in part with funds from UCC’s Strategic Research Fund and is based in the School of Music and Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland. Jeffrey Weeter composes music, designs real-time multimedia instruments, plays the drums and performs musically with technology. He is director of the Cork Audio Visual Ensemble (CAVE) which performed “The Box” at the International Computer Music/Sound and Music Computing Conference in Athens, Greece. His work was also recently performed at Kunsthaus in Zurich, the !f Istanbul AFM International Independent Film Festival, and the Cork Film Festival.

Admission is free and all are welcome.