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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.
Forma II
Valerio Tricoli,
Thomas Ankersmit
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Composed and recorded in Berlin in 2010 _Forma II_ consists of four electro-acoustic pieces based largely on analog-synthesizer material and one long-form, swarm-like composition for multiple overdubbed saxophones. Additional sounds range from metal foil floating on ultrasonic sound-beams to mechanical clickers recorded in the abandoned radar domes at Teufelsberg outside Berlin. The raw materials have been extensively processed and reconstructed using analog tape and digital methods. The five pieces shift between sharply detailed blizzards of electronic interference to passages of delicate balance, between calm and turbulence, between stasis and rapid shape-shifting, between multiple virtual spaces and non-spaces.
The CD was mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk in a limited edition of 1000. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket, itself inside a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs, with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
_Forma II_ is the first collaborative output by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli and is Ankersmit’s second full-length CD.
The CD was mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk in a limited edition of 1000. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket, itself inside a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs, with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
_Forma II_ is the first collaborative output by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli and is Ankersmit’s second full-length CD.
**Thomas Ankersmit** (NL), born in 1979, is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instruments are the Serge analog modular synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone. Ankersmit regularly performs together with composer Phill Niblock, in duos with electro-acoustic artists Valerio Tricoli and Kevin Drumm, as well as in a trio with drummer and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. He has also worked with Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O’Rourke, Thomas Lehn and Jérôme Noetinger among others.
**Valerio Tricoli** (IT) works as an acousmatic music composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer and curator. His compositions span concrete music and conceptual sound forms. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments—most of them analog. He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label/collective and of ¾HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electro-acoustic composition and avant-rock sensitivity.