ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE - PRIX

The Prix Ars Electronica Showcase is a collection where all the artist submissions for the Prix since 1987 can be searched and viewed. The winning projects are documented with extensive information and audio-visual media. ALL other submissions are displayed with a basic metadata in list form.

Digital Musics & Sound Art Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 2011

La chambre des machines

Martin Messier, Nicolas Bernier

Machines made of gears and cranks are manipulated to produce a sound construction at the crossroads of acoustics and electronics. Submerged in surround sound, the audience discovers the interaction between mechanical and synthetic sound. With specifically tailored programming, digital processing is enlarging the sound palette of the machines. La chambre des machines stems from a desire to return to the physical world from an
environment of digital creation. The project also refers back to the intonarumoris, sound machines built by Italian futurists at the beginning of the 20th century. These machines contained mysterious mechanisms, just as computers do today.

Links: http://www.lachambredesmachines.com/

Intonarumoris (Machines): Alexandre Landry;
video: foumalade.org; production: Perte de signal

Nicolas Bernier (CA) joyfully flows from musique concrète to live electronics, installations, ar t video, modern music, post-rock, ambient and glitch while also working with dance, theater and cinema. He is currently a PhD candidate in sonic arts at the University of Huddersfield (UK) under the direction of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Monty Adkins. Martin Messier (CA) is a composer, a performer and a video artist. His curiosity for graphic arts has brought him to explore the relationship between sound and image. It is this same interest that inspires him to create audio performance, live electronics, installation, video music, music for dance and theater. He is a member of Perte de
Signal and Ekumen.