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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.
“untitled sonic metaorganisms / untitled sonic microorganisms”
Francisco López
Untitled sonic metaorganisms / untitled sonic microorganisms is an audio-only work in six parts (presented as a double CD) created from raw sonic materials provided by a vast number of international sound artists. It has been conceived, directed, composed and recorded by Francisco López under his denomination of the “absolute noise ensemble” and created over a period of 13 years (1992-2005). Each of the parts is a different aural environment constructed digitally in the studio starting from a wide variety of sonic materials that are de-constructed, mutated and reassembled according to perceptive and spatial criteria. The work has been conceived to be staged in complete darkness in a surrounding immersive sonic field around the audience.
Francisco López (ES) is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the experimental music scene. Over the last twenty-five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening to the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. He has staged hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings and sound installations in 50 countries of the five continents. His extended catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 160 record labels worldwide. (Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios)