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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.
24 Variations
Horacio Vaggione
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After decades of groundbreaking instrumental and electro-acousmatic works, Horacio Vaggione’s latest composition, 24 Variations, is a computer music work for multi-track recording media that includes real time mixing and transformation of pre-composed sound files. It is often presented as laptop electronic concert music, and thus exists as an open-ended composition. Sound source materials are mostly acoustic sampled sounds of diverse kinds, processed by means of analysis-resynthesis procedures including granular, waveshaping, convolution, and other kinds of cross-synthesis and morphological processing. Live manipulation includes the mixing of precomposed sound files of varying sizes, as well as real time filtering, phase shifting, convolution and granulation. The word “variations” applies here to the transformations of the sound materials, as well as to the different contexts in which they appear. It also refers to the live performance aspect of the work, as each presentation can be considered as a different instance of the same class of materials. Source sampling and original sound processing of the sound file collection was done at the Centre de Recherche Informatique et Création Musicale (CICM) of the Université de Paris VIII where Vaggione is director and professor of Music. The present version was performed at the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) in Göteborg (Sweden), on September 20th, 2002.
Horacio Vaggione (RA), born 1943. His instrumental and electro-acousmatic music is played regularly worldwide. Co-founder in 1965 of the Experimental Music Center of the University of Cordoba, the EMC was one of the first groups to produce live electronic music and multimedia in Latin America. Vaggione studied at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and at the University of Paris. A member of the ALEA Live Electronics music group (1969-73), he also worked on the Computer Music Project at the University of Madrid and later at IRCAM, the lNA-GRM, the GMEB, and the Technical University of Berlin. Vaggione’s awards include the NEWCOMP Computer Music prize (USA, 1983), Bourges prizes (1982, 1986, 1988 and Euphonie d’Or 1992), ISCM-Trinac Prize (1985), DAAD Berlin Kunstlerprogram Award (1987), and the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) Commission Award (1992).