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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.
Phantom Orchard
Ikue Mori,
Zeena Parkins
Original: Phantom Orchard Audio CD - 9 Blue Noon | 0:04:24 | 44.6 MB
Original: Phantom Orchard Audio CD - 2 Savage Flower | 0:03:45 | 37.9 MB
Original: Phantom Orchard Audio CD - 8 Contraband | 0:03:36 | 36.4 MB
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Featuring Ikue Mori’s signature pulse program texture maps and Parkins’ radically distinct, “postharp” playing, Phantom Orchard marks another creative moment in NYC’s downtown music community. Simultaneously improvisatory in its leanings and mathematical in its compositional cohesion, Phantom Orchard is a combination of sonic forces and similarly eclectic player/composer/ processors that clearly needed to happen. Mori and Parkins’ remarkable abilities in extending the harmonic range of their respective instruments, when paired together, results in an aggressive yet contemplative, culturally referential and yet idiomatically unique recording that made Phantom Orchard a standout document for this year’s jury.
Ikue Mori (J) is a MAX MSP computer percussionist. One of the most respected musicians in NYC’s downtown scene, Mori is renowned for her abilities as an accomplished composer and improviser and is one of electronic music’s foremost innovators. A contributor to numerous soundtracks and collaborative recordings including Death Praxis (1992), Garden (1996), and Painted Desert (1997), in 1999, Mori was the recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction.
Zeena Parkins (USA) is a harp player with electronics, keyboard and synths, who has successfully blurred the boundaries between improvised and composed, acoustic and electric, digital and analog, and processed and concrete sounds. A regular performer with Bjork’s live band, Parkins has recorded and collaborated with Kim Gordon, Lee Renaldo, Tom Cora, Chris Cutler and many others. Her most recent full-length effort is 2004’s Devotion, on the Table of the Elements label.
Zeena Parkins (USA) is a harp player with electronics, keyboard and synths, who has successfully blurred the boundaries between improvised and composed, acoustic and electric, digital and analog, and processed and concrete sounds. A regular performer with Bjork’s live band, Parkins has recorded and collaborated with Kim Gordon, Lee Renaldo, Tom Cora, Chris Cutler and many others. Her most recent full-length effort is 2004’s Devotion, on the Table of the Elements label.