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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.
[SjQ++]
[SjQ++]
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The audiovisual project _[SjQ++]_ compose their music using a multi-agent system in real-time. A multi-agent system is a bottom-up method used in the field of computer simulation. The agents (players) create the patterns through their interactions based on a simple rule. In _[SjQ++]_, its visual image acts as a catalyst to make the ensemble interact. It visualizes the behavior of each player based on its sound data.
The system can manage the meaning of sound. For example, it connects each player’s relations through motions of the sounds visualized. In addition, it uses animation to make each player cooperate/compete. Control of the interaction flow produces a dynamic performance. The audience experiences the performance of further indivisibility between the sound and the visual. Their sounds and visuals are synchronized perfectly by programming, and both are also affected by one another and change their performance accordingly.
Links: sjq.jp/sjqpp
The system can manage the meaning of sound. For example, it connects each player’s relations through motions of the sounds visualized. In addition, it uses animation to make each player cooperate/compete. Control of the interaction flow produces a dynamic performance. The audience experiences the performance of further indivisibility between the sound and the visual. Their sounds and visuals are synchronized perfectly by programming, and both are also affected by one another and change their performance accordingly.
Links: sjq.jp/sjqpp
Piano / computer: Yuta Uozumi
Trombone / computer: Tadashi Yonago
Guitar: Isao Nakagaito
Bass: Shuhei Otani
Visual / computer: Ryo Kanda
Film : Shintaro Watanabe (at SuperDeluxe)
Coordinator: cubicmusic / HEADZ
Trombone / computer: Tadashi Yonago
Guitar: Isao Nakagaito
Bass: Shuhei Otani
Visual / computer: Ryo Kanda
Film : Shintaro Watanabe (at SuperDeluxe)
Coordinator: cubicmusic / HEADZ
*[SjQ++]* (JP) is an audiovisual project established in Kyoto in 2012 by Yuta Uozumi (piano / computer), Tadashi Yonago (trombone / computer), Isao Nakagaito (guitar), Shuhei Otani (bass), Wataru Asada (drums) and Ryo Kanda (visual/computer). Originally they started an improvisational music project called _SjQ_ in 2001. The following year their first piece *meme?* was released by Cubicmusic Japan. From 2012, the _[SjQ++]_ audiovisual project was started with the participation of a visual artist (Ryo Kanda aka. Kezzardrix).