Theatre for the Ears explores intersections of sound and image with a festival of visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, lumia, cymatics and interactive live audiovisual performance. The festival will feature international, national and local artists, including: Aerostatic & vade (US), Robin Fox (Australia), Pierre Hébert & Stefan Smulovitz (Quebec/Vancouver), Carrie Gates & Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon), jamie griffiths & Viviane Houle (Vancouver), Herman Kolgen – Inject (Montreal), Joost Rekveld (Netherlands), Kristen Roos & Josh Hite (Vancouver).

Experimental video artist vade (aka Anton Marini) joins Terry Golob, one half of electronic duo Aerostatic, for a live a/v performance. Using custom software of his own design, vade performs realtime manipulation of video and moving images to play, bend, rip, tear, shred, morph, mold, blend and synthesize pixels to form new visual experiences, while Aerostatic uses artifacts of sound generated by digital and analog processing along with a variety of interactive technologies, to compose a hybrid style of electronic music.