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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.
Risk
2003’s Risk is an electronic composition based on the digital reorganisation of music materials using Digidesign’s Protools multitrack editing application. Risk's source work is generated using customized transmitters that feed back on themselves.
An artist working in a mutation tradition of David Tudor’s manipulated circuit boxes, Prins’ homemade creations "spit, fizz, judder, let off steam, ripple and pulse with analogue and sometimes ear-splitting precision," according to Phil England, who profiled Prins in the January 2003 edition of The Wire. A drummer who has spent the last several years customizing consumer audio circuitry, Prins works with a sound-generating system based on four distinct transmitters and receivers whose output signals are routed into a mixing desk, and according to Prins, “four laboratory square-wave generators which can manipulate the chain of feedback giving the rhythmic sounds, which I can also make with the radio boxes themselves.”
An artist working in a mutation tradition of David Tudor’s manipulated circuit boxes, Prins’ homemade creations "spit, fizz, judder, let off steam, ripple and pulse with analogue and sometimes ear-splitting precision," according to Phil England, who profiled Prins in the January 2003 edition of The Wire. A drummer who has spent the last several years customizing consumer audio circuitry, Prins works with a sound-generating system based on four distinct transmitters and receivers whose output signals are routed into a mixing desk, and according to Prins, “four laboratory square-wave generators which can manipulate the chain of feedback giving the rhythmic sounds, which I can also make with the radio boxes themselves.”
During the last four years, Amsterdam-based Gert-Jan Prins (NL) has established himself as one of the exciting custom builders in improvised music. Prins’ innovative electronic performance system makes use of radio and transmitter technology, and creates provocatively compelling noises with tremendous physical energy. Besides his solo-work, Prins was commissioned to create a composition for the Quartetto New Amsterdam, and has colloborated with equally adventerous artists ranging from Mats Gustafsson, Misha Mengelberg, Christian Fennesz, Fred Van Hove, and Lee Renaldo to Thomas Lehn, Peter Von Bergen, E-RAX, The Flirts with Cor Fuhler, MIMEO, and the Vacuum Boys. Prins’ solo and collaborative recordings appear on the Creamgarden, Sub 8/9, Grob, Fire Inc. and Erstwhile labels.