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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.
0° C
Ryoji Ikeda
“My music is a mirror for the listener”
As the title may suggest, 0°C is a sonic exploration at the very depths of human perception—the fragile line between life and death, dark and light, noise and silence. The authentic being is never to be achieved with complete and definitive perception of the uni- verse—the limited human is just a negligible drop somewhere between infinity and nonentity. There is no fulcrum for pretentious awareness and peace for one’s arrogant mind—obscurity, uncertainty and hesitation are the only true man’s satellites all along his lifeway. The limit of minimal 0°C is never to be overstepped, no matter what labels might be attached to it—noise, ambient or techno.
0°C is an exploration at the edge of one’s perception—an extension of +/- and the next step.
(Calmant, Lithuania)
As the title may suggest, 0°C is a sonic exploration at the very depths of human perception—the fragile line between life and death, dark and light, noise and silence. The authentic being is never to be achieved with complete and definitive perception of the uni- verse—the limited human is just a negligible drop somewhere between infinity and nonentity. There is no fulcrum for pretentious awareness and peace for one’s arrogant mind—obscurity, uncertainty and hesitation are the only true man’s satellites all along his lifeway. The limit of minimal 0°C is never to be overstepped, no matter what labels might be attached to it—noise, ambient or techno.
0°C is an exploration at the edge of one’s perception—an extension of +/- and the next step.
(Calmant, Lithuania)
Rioji Ikeda (J) started in 1985 with the production of "Channel X", a ten minute collage-style sequence and fast-spliced TV and radio sounds segments. It wasn't until ten years later, that he published a CD (1000 Fragments) on his own CCI label. Meanwhile Ikeda has become a member of the Japanese performance group Dumb Type that meets at the art school in Tokyo.