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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.
A State of Silence
Michela Mollia
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A State of Silence (1983-84)
One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of attention, a state of silence in which this whole background is in
abeyance, is quiet, then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate. J. Krishnamurti
The sound material of "A State of Silence" derives from a systematic andpeculiar use of Frequency Modulation digital sound synthesis. With this technic it is possible to specify a radio between the career and modulating frequencies such that the components of the resulting sound are spaced apart at a particular interval. Following this principle, different timbral mixtures have been created whose career frequencies are related by the same interval as the spectral components.
The result is a coherence between vertical and internal intervallic structure. The piece has been realized using the facilities of the Computer Music Centre at Simon Fräser University (Burnaby, British Columbia).
One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of attention, a state of silence in which this whole background is in
abeyance, is quiet, then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate. J. Krishnamurti
The sound material of "A State of Silence" derives from a systematic andpeculiar use of Frequency Modulation digital sound synthesis. With this technic it is possible to specify a radio between the career and modulating frequencies such that the components of the resulting sound are spaced apart at a particular interval. Following this principle, different timbral mixtures have been created whose career frequencies are related by the same interval as the spectral components.
The result is a coherence between vertical and internal intervallic structure. The piece has been realized using the facilities of the Computer Music Centre at Simon Fräser University (Burnaby, British Columbia).
Born in Italy, lives and works in Borne. As a pianist devoted above all to the Contemporary repertoire. Together with musicians, composers and other artists she founded ElectraVox, an ensemble specializing in the presentation of electro-acoustic music. Michela Mollia was the first Italian pianist to present piano ragtime in concert.
In 1978 she went to Stanford University on a Fulbright grant for Computer music and subsequentiy spent so me time in the USA and Canada. 1983-84 she was granted a scholarship for Computer music by the Canadian Government in the course of which Michela Mollia realized "A State of Silence" at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Back in Italy, she teaches musical theory at the Gioacchino Rossini Conservatory of Music in Rome.
For the Prix Ars Electronica '87 Michela Mollia entered "A State of Silence", duration 10'11", realized in British Columbia 1983/84.
In 1978 she went to Stanford University on a Fulbright grant for Computer music and subsequentiy spent so me time in the USA and Canada. 1983-84 she was granted a scholarship for Computer music by the Canadian Government in the course of which Michela Mollia realized "A State of Silence" at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Back in Italy, she teaches musical theory at the Gioacchino Rossini Conservatory of Music in Rome.
For the Prix Ars Electronica '87 Michela Mollia entered "A State of Silence", duration 10'11", realized in British Columbia 1983/84.