saab[at]richardbowers.co.uk
www.richardbowers.co.uk
1964, Aldershot, England.
Arts Foundation: Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology, Cheltenham, 1984.
Fine Art Degree: South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff, 1984-7.
Training: Web Design and Technologies, Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning; Plone CMS training, London; First Steps in Max/MSP, IRCAM, Paris; Advanced Max/MSP, Goldsmiths, London; Pure Data Bootcamp, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
'Thaw' with Ian Watson.
'The Velvet Lantern', with Gwilly Edmondez, Caroline Pugh and Ludo Bunel.
'Oil IIb' - Improvisations for violin and electronics. Soloist - Val Pearson.
'The Fall of the House of Usher' (live electronics and percussion) with Ian Watson and Matt Lovett , Chapter, 2009.
'Oil IIb' (violin + live electronics) - St. Fagans Museum and Chapter, Cardiff, 2009.
'Episode from the Inferno' (stereo audio) - Sonic Art Oxford Jukebox, 2009.
'Revolution by Night' (stereo audio) - included on 'Art, for a Change' CD, 2009.
'Dialogue' (2-channel audio) - Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, 2009.
'Pandaemonium' (performance with video and live electronics) - Experimentica08, Cardiff, 2008.
'Atlas' - ANNEXE, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, 2008.
'Thaw' with Ian Watson and Nic Finch, Atrium, Cardiff, 2008.
'Intermezzos 2, 3 and 6' included on 'Brave New Wales/Pedair awr yng Nghymru Fydd' CD, 2008.
'Marginalia Parts 1 & 2' - installations.
Part 1: How the words came into being, Washington Gallery, April/May 2008.
Part 2: Atlas - the passage through Hell is a spiral, Cardiff School of
Psychology, Summer 2008.
'A Song for Europe' invited artist with Gwilly Edmondez for AV08:Broadcast, Newcastle, March 2008.
Works included in Soundnetwork@Futuresonic 08, Manchester, 2008.
'Darkness Visible', (with Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick) 12-hour performance, Experimentica07, Cardiff, 2007.
'Seasonally Affected' (with Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick), Expo 2007, Sonic Arts Network, Plymouth, 2007.
Works included in the Erstakonsthall 'Art is not Mute' sound archive. Various venues.
‘Departure’
(video with sound), National Eisteddfod, Swansea, 2006.‘7 intermezzos’
(audio) - broadcast on 209Radio, Cambridge, Feb 2006 and released in part on their CD "you are listening". Diffused at a concert at University of Newcastle, 2006. Included in 'Brave New Wales' CD released through Fourier Transform, 2008.‘Botanising on the Asphalt’
(live video and sound performance), Experimentica 2006, Chapter (with Ian Watson and Nic Finch).Various videos shown at 'Comfy Chairs' event at University of Newcastle, 2006.
‘In Memoriam R.B.’
Sculptural relief with sound, Washington Gallery, Penarth, 2006.‘Oil’
broadcast on Mixing It, BBC Radio 3, 3/2/2006.‘Grave Chords’
(audio) - included on ‘Bend it like Beckett’ CD – tribute to Samuel Beckett, 2006‘Book’
(video) – shown at Outvideo, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2005‘Hymn’
(tape) – broadcast on Resonance FM as part of a programme celebrating European Radio Day, 2005‘Reichmann Berlin 1’
(tape) – Sounds Electric ’05, Maynooth, Ireland, 2005.‘Writing...receiving’
(video) – shown at The One Night event, Cardiff, 2004.‘Oboe 1996’
(tape) – Electroacoustic Wales, Bangor University – (Thomas Davey played oboe on the recordings), 2003‘Invocation’
(tape) – ‘Works for Peace’ concert, University of Sheffield, 2003.‘Incident 2’
(tape) – for ‘Sounds recorded for an empty nightclub’. (Event + CD), Sheffield 2003.‘Manchester-Cardiff’
, improvised accompaniment to video at ‘Long Night’ event, Cardiff – Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2002Performance
at Coed Hills Rural Artspace (tapes + video) – Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2002‘Mouth’
(live audio signal processing with videos), Impressions Gallery, York - Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2001.‘Adenonun’
(piano + tape), Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, Cardiff and British Music Information Centre, London – Geraint Davies, piano, 1994(?)‘Justine and Tristan’
(voice, violin, bassoon, cello), Chapter Arts, Cardiff – Students of University of Wales Music Dept, 1994.Excerpt from
‘Assemblage’ broadcast with interview on ‘Scope’, BBC Radio Wales 199?Group exhibition
, Arts Workshop Gallery, (with William Brown, Jon Whitaker and Andrew Harrison), Swansea, 1991.Paintings and prints
: Exhibited throughout Wales with Cardiff Print Workshop, AADW, AVAW, and others, 1987-1991.“S.A.A.B.’s ‘Mouth’ at the Sightsonic Digital Arts Festival 2001 – Notes from the
artists Richard Bowers and Gwilly Edmondez” published in SAN Diffusion, Sonic Arts Network, 2002.Various articles and reviews for Association of Visual Artists in Wales
newsletters, 1989-91.“A Real Time Csound Orchestra”, Csound Magazine, www.csounds.com, 2000.
“Controlling FOG Parameters in Real Time using DirectCsound”, Csound
Magazine, www.csounds.com, 2001."Marginalia: designing a sound installation with CSound", Csound Journal, Issue 9, 2008.
“Musings” Russ Cochrane’s review of some sound collages: http://www.geocities.com/soho/square/6100/rbn.htm
Cardiff Print Workshop.
Sonic Arts Network.
Association of Artists and Designers in Wales / AVAW, 1988-94.
The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain (collaborative group of artists including
Gwilly Edmondez, Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick).Grant to visit Venice Biennale. Wales in Venice. 2009.
Training grant to attend Max/MSP courses at IRCAM and Goldsmiths. Arts Council for Wales. 2009.
Project grant to develop and realise 'Marginalia' sound installation. Arts Council for Wales, 2007/8.