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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.
Le Vertige Inconnu
Gilles Gobeil
With its clear, formal concept the Gilles Gobeil's "Le Vertige Inconnu" follows the tradition of "musique concrète".
"... here, on the roof of the world, I feel a shadow of uneasiness ... It's not at all the height, nor the kind of suction exerted by the abrupt dephts and its emptiness which troubles me. It's an altogether different emptiness which affects an altogether different senseŠ the essence of solitude ..." (Paul Valéry, Le solitaire).
"Le Vertige Inconnu" ("The Mysterious Vertigo") was produced in 1993 at the studios of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB, France). It premiered in June 1993 at the 23rd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival (France).
"Le Vertige Inconnu" received the 1994 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden) and was selected for the 1994 World Music Days (Stockholm, Sweden) and the 1994 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'94) in Denmark. "Le Vertige Inconnu" was commissioned by the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB), with the assistance of the Canada Council. The work was released on the compact disc of Gobeil's work "La mécanique des ruptures" ("The Mechanics of Cleavage") on the empreintes DIGITALes label (IMED-9421) in 1994.
"... here, on the roof of the world, I feel a shadow of uneasiness ... It's not at all the height, nor the kind of suction exerted by the abrupt dephts and its emptiness which troubles me. It's an altogether different emptiness which affects an altogether different senseŠ the essence of solitude ..." (Paul Valéry, Le solitaire).
"Le Vertige Inconnu" ("The Mysterious Vertigo") was produced in 1993 at the studios of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB, France). It premiered in June 1993 at the 23rd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival (France).
"Le Vertige Inconnu" received the 1994 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden) and was selected for the 1994 World Music Days (Stockholm, Sweden) and the 1994 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'94) in Denmark. "Le Vertige Inconnu" was commissioned by the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB), with the assistance of the Canada Council. The work was released on the compact disc of Gobeil's work "La mécanique des ruptures" ("The Mechanics of Cleavage") on the empreintes DIGITALes label (IMED-9421) in 1994.
Gilles Gobeil (CDN), musical studies at the Université de Montréal. Laureate in international competitions: Stockholm Electronics Arts Award in 1994; Luigi Russolo International Competition in 1989, 1988, 1987; Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition in 1989 and 1988; Brock University Tape Music Competition in 1985. Member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).