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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.
The Turbulence Sound Matrix: Signe
Steve Heimbecker
The “TSM” uses digital recordings of the wind in the form of continuous cascading wave patterns to amplify and diffuse any sound source through the powerful 64 channels of the TSM’s unique speaker array. This adaptation creates a vivid, highly articulated and totally immersive sonic environment for the listener. Signe is created with three distinct layers of sound (wind-generated sine waves, a 1946 Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter and a grand piano), all augmented by the flowing wave patterns of the wind.
“Signe” fully engages the sound potential of the Turbulence Sound Matrix, creating an audio art composition that is in constant motion, morphing itself through time and space at very high resolution, riding the waves of the air and the wind. “Signe” completely immerses us, creating a mesmerizing and completely hypnotic and immersive fabric of sound
“Signe” fully engages the sound potential of the Turbulence Sound Matrix, creating an audio art composition that is in constant motion, morphing itself through time and space at very high resolution, riding the waves of the air and the wind. “Signe” completely immerses us, creating a mesmerizing and completely hypnotic and immersive fabric of sound
"The Turbulence Sound Matrix" (2008) and the composition "Signe" (2008) were conceived, designed, and created by Steve Heimbecker, Montreal, Canada. Max MSP Programming: Etienne Grenier & Simon Laroche, Montreal, Canada
Steve Heimbecker (CA) is an intermedia audio artist and composer. He studied fine arts at the Alberta College of Art (1980), Calgary, CA. He creates multi-channel sound installations, compositions, and sound systems / instruments of his own design and concept, since his first such work in 1987. He has developed many sound-space diffusion concepts such as acoustic mapping process and wind-space architecture. http://www3.sympatico.ca/qubeassm/