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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.
Scherzo
Joe Diebes
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“Scherzo” is an aural and visual montage that explores the limits of human virtuosity and the convergence of man and machine. Energetic textural and melodic fragments were recorded by cellist Rubin Kodheli, whose performance was filmed from ten different camera angles (camera:Andrew Federman). These fragments have been edited into an impossibly extended musical climax.
Joe Diebes: composer and filmmaker; Rubin Kodheli: cello performance; Andrew Federman: cinematographer. Originally commissioned by the Create @ iEAR Residency Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Additional funding from The Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds program which is supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.
Joe Diebes (US). His work converges around the categories of contemporary music, conceptual art and video. From 1996 to 2003, as a core member of the hybrid art collective "GAIe GAtes et al." (New York), Joe Diebes created the sonic element for over 20 collaborative performance projects. Since then he has composed a range of works including operas, unclassifiable hybrid pieces, music for theatre and dance, and sound installations for venues across the US, Europe and Asia.