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April’s edition of the Empty Orchestra will be a change from their regular work, and will incorporate an exciting new element: visual processing. For the event, Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey will be re-mixed live with an improvised music accompaniment. The film will be re-mixed by video artist Sara Wentworth with music performed by Andrea Bonino (guitar), Ellen King (Electronics), Athos Tsiopani (piano) and special guest, UCC Department of Music lecturer Jeffrey Weeter (percussion). 2001: A Space Odyssey is Kubrick’s exploration of the science fiction genre. Since its release in 1968, it has garnered a cult following and is a favourite of both fans and critics world-wide. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual effects in 1969, the only Oscar that Kubrick received in his career spanning half a century. Sara Wentworth is a multimedia artist interested in the use of technology as artistic practice: as a way to generate ideas, and as a medium with which to create. Using the integration of audio, video, lighting, and performer and audience action through audio analysis and synthesis, video analysis and synthesis, and physical computing, she creates mediated narratives and immersive environments. Sara has worked collaboratively with theatre groups and individually as an installation artist in New York and Ireland. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Arts at University College Cork, researching correlations between computer memory and our own, human, methods of storage and recollection, and how these define and represent us individually and as a society. More information can be found at her website sarawentworth.com. Jeffrey Weeter composes music, designs real-time video instruments, plays the drums and performs musically with technology.