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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Unyoga
Johannes Malfatti,
Alex Kloster,
Chlorgeschlecht,
Olivier Alary
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The drive for the album Unyoga arose from the group’s living together in Tower Hamlets in London, the third poorest area of Europe, a fifteen minute walk from Liverpool Street, one of the richest financial districts of Western Europe. The sheer anger of the piece was the groups’s reaction to this system. In Chlorgeschlecht’s own words, “our way to laugh about its ridiculousness.”
Unyoga is a half-instinctive piece of work, not limited to any one formal, prescribed or systematic approach, made with little knowledge of Max/MSP or sequencers and relying entirely on: voice recordings; the shades between white noise and nothingness; text and program files rendered as audio files; samples of the group members’ former bands and largely obscure grindcore bands; radio and television samples; field recordings of crack houses, gang fights, street kids playing, struggling illegal immigrants, motorway joggers. Chlorgeschlecht mixed these environments and musical influences with the stereo editor application Peak.
Unyoga is a half-instinctive piece of work, not limited to any one formal, prescribed or systematic approach, made with little knowledge of Max/MSP or sequencers and relying entirely on: voice recordings; the shades between white noise and nothingness; text and program files rendered as audio files; samples of the group members’ former bands and largely obscure grindcore bands; radio and television samples; field recordings of crack houses, gang fights, street kids playing, struggling illegal immigrants, motorway joggers. Chlorgeschlecht mixed these environments and musical influences with the stereo editor application Peak.
Chlorgeschlecht is the trio Johannes Malfatti, Olivier Alary and Alex Kloster. It was formed in 2000 at the London Centre for Sonic Arts, where Olivier, Alex and Johannes discovered their respective talents for dismantling codes in electronic music, pushing limitations, mixing music genres, and using the more physical aspects of performance and sound aesthetics (i.e. bouncing off the walls). Chlorgeschlecht also produced various releases and projects under different names (Transformer, Danzen Jetzt, Ensemble) for several labels including Planet-mu, Rephlex, and Klangkrieg. Unyoga was released in 2003 on France’s Deco label.