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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.
Sun Pandämonium
Florian Hecker
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Sun Pandämonium is the third full-length release from Florian Hecker. Moving away from the harsh digital buzz and wash of his previous two full-length computer music albums, Sun Pandämonium strikes the listener from many angles with a diverse range of fiercely dynamic electronic scenarios. This CD is quite simply some of the finest computer audio excursions unleashed in recent years. As one reviewer stated, “This record is electronic music as psilocybin science.” Or, as the American online journal Pitchforkmedia states: “Loud and overwhelming at any volume setting,” Sun Pandämonium contains "the sounds and frequencies not only of diamonds being sharpened, but then being used to etch directly on the lenses of your optical readers. Call him a sick fuck, a genius, or even Mister Antichrist, but this will cleanse the audio palate as it blows your teeth out.”
Florian Hecker (A) first started making music with computers in 1996. Ever since then he has spent a great deal of time doing research on mobile performance tools and the use of laptop computers, particularly since the first wave of Mego-related concerts in 1996. Involved in various sonic projects, and recording for labels like Mego and Or, Hecker’s current activities also include audio publishing in formats such as .ogg and .mp3 via the FALS.CH Internet project. Hecker is also a frequent live and studio collaborator with the likes of Farmersmanual, Russell Haswell, Yasunao Tone, Zbigniew Karkowski, Shunichiro Okada, Marcus Schmickler, Voice Crack and Merzbow.