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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.
Minkoku Hyakunen: Project Integration / Intervention into Tenryu City
You-Sheng Zhang,
Minkoku Hyakinen,
Minkoku Hyakunen,
Dawang Huang
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This is the only official release of _Minkoku Hyakunen_ (民国百年)—on an edition of 300 CDs. Its subtitle, _Project Integration / Intervention into Tenryu City_, means that the members of _Minkoku Hyakunen_ take the sound of Taipei City as their “instruments.” Sometimes they just did the field recording in order to catch the city soundscape. Sometimes they “performed” there and made themselves parts of the field and recorded the soundscape, which includes the sounds they make themselves. There are 16 tracks collected from many events and places, some of which Minkoku Hyakunen have edited. Naughty, noisy, and really interesting.
Links: http://kandalarecords.blogspot.com/search/label/Minkoku_Hyakunen
Links: http://kandalarecords.blogspot.com/search/label/Minkoku_Hyakunen
photo by Etang CHEN
artwork by Leo WANG
released in 2011 by Kandala Records, Taiwan
artwork by Leo WANG
released in 2011 by Kandala Records, Taiwan
**Zhang You-Sheng** (TW) is a guitar / power-electronic noise artist. He reunited with multi-instrumentalist and singer **Huang Dawang** (a.k.a. Yingfan) in spring 2010, several years after some of Yingfan’s impressive gigs. Both of them have their recorded works released on the internet. Based on the common sense of revulsion for the “Centenary of Republic of China”, an official, long-running celebration as propaganda much liked by dictatorships, on the last day of 2010 they formed Minkoku Hyakunen, which is the Japanese pronunciation of the “Centenary of Republic”, played their final gig on December 9, 2011, and officially disbanded on the end of year. They use methods with political thoughts in live performance instead of talking about politics or relative keywords, and mostly play pieces without a stable tempo or happy melodies, making only stupid noise.