ars electronica digital musics awards + honorable mentions

[Derek Holzer <derek@xxxxxx>]

In case anyone's curious...

Curtis Roads took one. Francisco Lopez got an honorable mention, as did 
Phonecia, Anticon and Goodiepal (!?!)

Best,
Derek
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From:
http://www.aec.at/festival2002/


Digital Musics

Golden Nica Digital Musics
Yasunao Tone (USA): "Man*Yo Wounded 2001"
Yasunao Tone was one of the first Japanese artists active in composing "events" 
and improvisational music. A founding member of the Fluxus Movement with 
Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, Yasunao Tone has been doing 
experimental sound pieces since the early 1960*s. For the past ten years much 
of his work has centered on extending the possibilities of CDs as a performance 
medium. Primarily a composer, Tone has worked in many media, creating pieces 
for electronics, computer systems, film, radio and television, as well as 
environmental art. Tone has been designing musical compositions as a compound 
of cultural studies which have been ideas based on post-structuralist theories 
and audio visual materials compiled with ancient Oriental texts and musical 
sounds generated by electronic means. The Golden Nica winning 
composition "Man*Yo Wounded 2001" features an outstanding example of Tone*s 
groundbreaking use of manipulated CDs that he has been working with since the 
early eighties, as well as his ongoing software research in transforming the 
ancient Chinese Man*Yo text/pictograms in sonical corresponding particles. An 
artist whose incredible audible contributions are more current then ever, for 
all generations in digital musics !

Award of Distinction Digital Musics
Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman; Lucky Kitchen 
(Spain/USA): "Revisionland"/"The Tale of Pip"
"Lucky Kitchen" is the project name of the Spanish-American duo Alejandra 
Salinas and Aeron Bergman. The duo*s work combines grass-roots digital 
synthesis with lo-fi tapeworks and field recordings that mine Europe*s rich 
vein of folklore, mythology and cultural and social tradition. Emerging as both 
an archiving project and a process of renewal for customs and lifestyles that 
are in decline, Lucky Kitchen*s work, whether issued on CD or presented via 
installation pieces, is a unique and evocative endeavor in digital music.

Award of Distinction Digital Musics
Curtis Roads (USA): "Point, Line, Cloud"
Curtis Roads teaches in CREATE, Department of Music, University of California, 
Santa Barbara. He studied music composition at California Institute of the 
Arts, the University of California, San Diego (B. A. Summa Cum Laude), and the 
University of Paris VIII (Ph.D.). His award-winning project "Point, Line, 
Cloud" features granular and pulsar synthesis, methods he developed for 
generating sound from acoustical particles. He has recently developed the 
Creatophone, a system for spatial projection of sound in concert, as well as 
the Pulsar Generator software (together with Alberto de Campo). "Point, Line, 
Cloud" is an outstanding example of the most current computer music, a great 
listening experience, based on academic research & technologies, with a huge 
impulse on various scenes and environments beyond all boundaries.



Digital Musics (12 Honorary Mentions)
Francisco López, V2 Archief/E: Buildings [New York]
Mika Taanila/FIN: Fysikaalinen rengas (A Physical Ring)
Stephan Wittwer, Grob/D/CH: Streams
Marina Rosenfeld/USA: Delusional Situation
Raz Mesinai/USA: Soldier of Midian
C.M. von Hausswolff/S: A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture
Goodiepal/DK: Goodiepal: track #4, #9
Anticon/USA: we aint fessin
Phoenecia/USA: Brownout
Russell Haswell/USA: Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000 (1/8)
Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram/RU: ED MD 1016, ED MD 1017
PXP/D: PXP - print if