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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.
psychic stress soundtracks
Joe Colley
Original: 01 Future Screaming | 0:07:05 | 71.5 MB
Original: 02 Rehersal For Highspeed Paralysis | 0:11:23 | 115.0 MB
Original: Joe Colley | 2126 * 1535px | 1.4 MB
Original: FE_2006_digitMus1669_002_o.jpg | 3504 * 2336px | 593.5 KB
psychic stress soundtracks is a commemoration of unstable moments. an edited report from disorder of mind. residue of thought distortions. artificial environments were made organic and then distorted again until “reality” is blurred as a consequence, and becomes irrelevant (i hope?). broken sounds are broken again. Paranoia rendered into coded messages. pain into stimulus into sound triggering the ear hairs and into pain again. metaphors for states that cannot sustain themselves. assembled intuitively according to illogical impulse. it is intended as a tool made for one purpose: the simple goal of making something happen in a room. a simple reminder of the place where you are. the good parts are short and other parts are too long. time goes by and nothing happens. like life. i never want to hear it again.
Joe Colley (US), born in1972, is a self-taught artist concerned primarily with the phenomena of sound and its unique ability to activate a consciousness set apart from rational understanding in a way very different from visual or verbal means. This consuming interest has led to extensive experimentation that have encompassed abstract electronic composition, amplification of natural phenomena, investigations into phase, and creation of complex mass from layers of simplistic sound material. His performances have been seen as part of festivals, and for over ten years his recordings have been released internationally on various record labels.