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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.
Flex Machine
Gordon Monahan
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Machine Matrix is a hybrid sound installation and musical performance environment. A collection of electronic surplus, trash materials, and modified percussion instruments are retrofitted with electro magnetic actuators so that they are electro-mechan-ically played as musical-machine-instruments.The collective ensemble of instruments is installed in a given performance/exhibition space so that it forms a room environment of sound sculptures. Midi signals, which normally provide control of an elec tronic music studio, control the movement and kinetic activation of these mechanical/robotic devices.The installation as a whole constitutes a programmable machine orchestra, for which musi cal compositions are written in midi sequencing software.
There are presently 4 distinct types of instruments, and each instrument type exists in a variety of multiples.
There are presently 4 distinct types of instruments, and each instrument type exists in a variety of multiples.
Gordon Monahan (CDN), born 1956, began performing in public as a member of various rock bands in Ottawa, Canada (1968-73). Since 1978 he has performed and exhibited at numerous performance spaces, galleries, and festivals. Early in his career, he specialzied as a pianist, performing John Cage's Etudes Australes, premiering pieces by James Tenncy and Udo Kasomets, and composing extended works for acoustic piano (Piano Mechanics, 1981) and amplified prepared piano (This Piano Thing, 1989). Monahan has presented his work at several festivals including the Holland Festival, the New York Days in Rotterdem, Inventionen Festival (Berlin) and the Donaueschingen Musiktage.