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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.
L'isla des Neumas
Ramón González-Arroyo
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“L’isla des Neumas” is a sound installation generated by a composition/synthesis software application written in SuperCollider. The application produces an infinite flow of sound following a set of rules. It is, therefore, generative music.
It uses seven speakers placed on two levels to create a space that can be thought as a tri-dimensional canvas. The main idea of the piece is to approach musical sound as a plastic element in the space.
It is only through the combination of spatial and temporal compositional aspects that such a perception can be achieved. Surfaces, lines or volumes; transparencies and mixtures.
At some moments a magical transubstantiation happens, and sound is then perceived as a physical object embodied in a space. José Iges, curator of the soundworks exhibition “Sound Dimension” at the Koldo Mitxelena of San Sebastian (Spain), kindly supported the commission and creation of this piece for the exhibition. The Koldo Mitxelena kindly offered me the opportunity to realize it.
It uses seven speakers placed on two levels to create a space that can be thought as a tri-dimensional canvas. The main idea of the piece is to approach musical sound as a plastic element in the space.
It is only through the combination of spatial and temporal compositional aspects that such a perception can be achieved. Surfaces, lines or volumes; transparencies and mixtures.
At some moments a magical transubstantiation happens, and sound is then perceived as a physical object embodied in a space. José Iges, curator of the soundworks exhibition “Sound Dimension” at the Koldo Mitxelena of San Sebastian (Spain), kindly supported the commission and creation of this piece for the exhibition. The Koldo Mitxelena kindly offered me the opportunity to realize it.
Ramón González-Arroyo (ES) studied music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. He studied composition with L. de Pablo and C. Bernaola and electronic composition and Computer music with H. Vaggione, G. M. Koenig and W. Kaegi, J. Boerman. He has realized projects at various European institutions, such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, IRC AM. in Paris and the Sonology Department of the Conservatory of The Hague. He has also participated in the development of a tool for the creation of “immersive audio-augmented environments”, within the European research project Listen.