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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.
OUR UR
domenico sciajno,
Alvin Curran
Original: OUR UR Audio | 0:03:57 | 40.0 MB
Original: OUR UR - 1. someone to watch over what | 0:12:07 | 122.4 MB
Original: OUR UR - 2. outer cities | 0:19:27 | 196.4 MB
Original: PR_2004_ourur_001_o.jpg | 2855 * 1450px | 2.1 MB
The idea behind this recording session was to establish a parallel perspective able to reflect the time-structural displacement in the making of spontaneous music. Curran plays his wide range of samples and pre-processes them in real time. This results in the first two layers of sound. The unprocessed samples are captured in real time and processed by Sciajno through his Max/MSP patches. This generates two other layers of sound. Two more layers are then added by Sciajno, generating sound with other patches. Other Cities is not an improvised recording session, but a composition by Sciajno, done using Curran’s samples, playing piano.
Alvin Curran (I) began his musical journey with a fortuitous bang in 1965, in Rome. Co-founder of the radical music collective MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA, Curran is a solo performer and a composer for Rome’s avant-garde theater scene. Considered one of the leading figures in making music outside of concert halls, Curran developed a series of concerts for lakes, ports, parks, buildings, quarries and caves. In 1990, he began a visually striking series of sound installations in collaboration with Melissa Gould.
Domenico Sciajno (I), born 1965, double bass player and composer; studied instrumental and electronic composition with Gilius Van Bergeijk and double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag in Holland. Since 1994, Sciajno has been present at some of the most important festivals as a player, improviser and composer.
Domenico Sciajno (I), born 1965, double bass player and composer; studied instrumental and electronic composition with Gilius Van Bergeijk and double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag in Holland. Since 1994, Sciajno has been present at some of the most important festivals as a player, improviser and composer.