Effective period / Period of releases: 1994 - 2014

Members: Kevin Shields, Andy Mellwig, Eddie Prévost, Kevin Martin, Tom Prentice, Pete Bain, Pete Kember, Scott Riley

Experimental Audio Research (E.A.R.) was formed in 1990 by Sonic Boom (real name Pete Kember) as a solo and collaborative ensemble in order to pursue the more experimental work he had contributed to Spacemen 3 since the 1980s. The project revolves around two separate yet overlapping areas - studio recording and live performance, both environments being treated as complimentary but different sides of the same coin.