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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.
Stereo Bugscope
Haco
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The name “Stereo Bugscope” refers to a performance system that detects oscillating sounds emitted by the circuitry of electronic devices. It also signifies the act of listening to the electromagnetic world that emerges from the inside of devices such as computers, cell phones, MD players, and wireless routers through the use of two inductive microphones (pickups). The oscillating-circuit sounds come from the IC board and clock, and the electromagnetic noise comes from the electrical current that turns the fan and drives the motor. These signals are ordinarily so faint as to be inaudible. The sound is then electronically amplified to magnify it, which makes it seem very extreme at first, but at the same time amazingly beautiful.
Haruko Mizoguchi a.k.a. Haco (JP), born 1963, is vocalist / lyricist-composer / multi-instrumentalist / sound-artist. In 2002, she began to curate and produce a four-year series of View Masters lectures, concerts and workshops at Aka Rengo Soko (Red Brick Warehouse) in the Osaka Port area. As a musician, Haco has given performances throughout Japan and the world. With her unique sensibility, Haco has developed her own genre of art based on principles of post-punk, electroacoustics, the avant-garde, improvisation, post-rock, environmental sound, and technology. She also frequently lectures and gives workshops on various sound-related topics. Haco was a core member of After Dinner (1981-1991), one of the first Japanese bands to gain a following abroad. She released her first solo album in 1995. In 2003, she gave her first performance using the “Pencil Organ”, an instrument created from a home electronics kit that uses test leads (+/-) to produce sound, at the Festival Beyond Innocence in Osaka.