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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.
Venice
Christian Fennesz
Original: Venice Audio CD - Folder | 200 * 178px | 7.5 KB
Original: Venice Audio CD - 03 City of Light | 0:06:34 | 66.4 MB
Original: Venice Audio CD - 04 onsra | 0:00:20 | 3.4 MB
Original: Venice Audio CD - 10 Laguna | 0:02:56 | 29.6 MB
Original: Venice Audio CD - 12 The Stone of Impermanence | 0:06:37 | 66.9 MB
Original: Venice Audio Excerpts Track 1 | 0:02:30 | 25.3 MB
Christian Fennesz, at the very frontier of contemporary music, is a meticulous laptop conceptualist who weaves tangible melodies and glowing guitars through dense, symphonic electronica. His fourth studio album, Venice, finds “laptop” music at a crossroads between its early status as a digital subculture and the question of its sustainability — the feeling that there has to be something more, an emotional quality that rises above the roar of Powerbooks and musical deconstruction and moves towards melody and rapture. Venice was recorded on location in the summer of 2003 and assembled and mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna in January and February 2004. On the record, Fennesz’s guitar playing comes to the fore. His vision of pop idioms interacting with more abstract compositional structures is more distinctive than ever.
Christian Fennesz (A) burst into the scene with Instrument (Mego, 1995), which was followed by a succession of ground-breaking and highly original solo albums including the classic Endless Summer (Mego, 2001). Fennesz has been active in film soundtrack work for Gustav Deutsch and his forensic view of cinema, film ist … The author of numerous live performances and improvised music within a modus operandi that adheres more to jazz than computer software, Fennesz has performed everywhere from Tokyo to Bratislava. He lives and works in Paris and Vienna.