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• Name: Craig Vear
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• URL: http://www.ev2.co.uk/vear, http://www.myspace.com/craigvear
• Country: United Kingdom
• Bio: Craig Vear works with found sounds, making compositions using computers that allow the individual sounds to be free. His open works are inspired by John Cage, Gavin Bryars and Christophe Charles. He uses chance elements within performance to determine the final outcome of the composition. These compositions generally concentrate on a time and location, journeying along channels of memory and imagination, expressing the continuity and fluidity of thought. Here the confluence of the vivid see-hearing 'dimension' evoked by sound, the intrinsic creative listening act and the theatre of seeing through other peoples eyes creates an aural landscape; a sense of place that the mind projects back onto sound it hears. The result is each individual sees-hears something that only exists in their mind.

  In 1997 Craig co-founded the pop group Cousteau, which made 300,000 sales worldwide and gained a gold disc. As part of the duo ev2, he has been working with improvisation since 1992. During 2003-2004 he held the Arts Council England Fellowship with the British Antarctic Survey, which resulted in a large-scale composition created from field recordings. In 2006, Play: Antarctica was commissioned about these experiences. Singing Ringing Buoy, an installation at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, was shortlisted for the 2005 PRS New Music Award. During 2007-2008 Vear held a Leverhulme Fellowship as Artist in Residence with the University of Hull.

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