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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.
filmachine / filmachine phonics
Takashi Ikegami,
Keiichiro Shibuya
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The sound installation filmachine is a collaboration between Keiichiro Shibuya, a sound artist and composer, and Takashi Ikegami, a scholar in the area of complex systems science. Filmachine is a virtual soundscape and a gigantic machine, which generates acoustic space / time / motion structures. Based on “The Third Term Music”, a new data-music construction / composition theory that advocates applying the process of complex systems science, this 3D sound installation is made through elaborately computerized sounds.
The 24-channel speakers are made up with three layers of eight speakers, each suspended evenly in the shape of column 7.5 m in diameter and about 5 m tall. The sound composition for this 24-channel installation is generated using “Huron”, a unique 3D acoustic system and LED lighting system that is totally controlled by computers through the real-time sound data at db level and 3D positions. Piles of floor boxes are unevenly arranged so that the visitor can experience the sounds at different levels and positions. On entering the installation, visitors lose their familiar feeling of stability owing to the undulating floor. Visitors can move freely in the installation, experiencing auditory feelings of space and movement caused by the sound in motion at a specific spot.
This work was produced by the artists while they were working at the YCAM. The installation filmachine was organized by the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM).
The 24-channel speakers are made up with three layers of eight speakers, each suspended evenly in the shape of column 7.5 m in diameter and about 5 m tall. The sound composition for this 24-channel installation is generated using “Huron”, a unique 3D acoustic system and LED lighting system that is totally controlled by computers through the real-time sound data at db level and 3D positions. Piles of floor boxes are unevenly arranged so that the visitor can experience the sounds at different levels and positions. On entering the installation, visitors lose their familiar feeling of stability owing to the undulating floor. Visitors can move freely in the installation, experiencing auditory feelings of space and movement caused by the sound in motion at a specific spot.
This work was produced by the artists while they were working at the YCAM. The installation filmachine was organized by the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM).
Concept, composition: Keiichiro Shibuya (ATAK) + Takashi Ikegami (The University of Tokyo). Multiphonic 3-dimensional programming: evala [ATAK, port]. Program development: Yuta Ogai (The University of Tokyo). Lighting control programming: Daito Manabe. Production assistant, maria [ATAK]. Technical support: YCAM InterLab. Project curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
Takashi Ikegami (JP) has been associate professor at the Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo since 1994. His research subject is “Complex Systems = Understanding life systems based on computer simulations”.
Keiichiro Shibuya (JP) founded ATAK in 2002. It involves experts from diverse fields such as space design, network technology, etc. Shibuya has presented many installations in close corporation with the members of ATAK. Since April 2006, he has been an adjunct instructor at the University of Tokyo. http://atak.jp
Keiichiro Shibuya (JP) founded ATAK in 2002. It involves experts from diverse fields such as space design, network technology, etc. Shibuya has presented many installations in close corporation with the members of ATAK. Since April 2006, he has been an adjunct instructor at the University of Tokyo. http://atak.jp