date
2007format
mp3 file, 28:09 minsgenre
soundproject description
Post-conceptual digital artist and theoretician Joseph Nechvatal pushes his experimental investigations into the blending of computational virtual spaces and the corporeal world into the sonic register. Realtime 'field recordings' of the audio manifestations of his custom created computer viruses have been reworked and reprocessed by Andrew Deutsch and Matthew Underwood, resulting in the sonic landscape of the 'viral symph0ny'. With resonances of Yasunao Tone, Fluxus, Oval, and Merzbow, this 28-minute composition is supplemented by a further 50 minutes of audio, comprising the original raw data field recordings. Project credits: Joseph Nechvatal: original concept viral structures; Mathew Underwood: nano, micro, meso and macro structures; Andrew Deutsch: meso and macro structures; Stephane Sikora: C++ programming; Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project technician; Produced at The Institute for Electronic Arts. http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html
artist bio
Since 1986 Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer animations are shown regularly throughout the world. He was an artist-in-residence at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's lab in Arbois, France (1991-1993) working on the Computer Virus Project. In 2002 he extended this research into the field of viral artificial life. http://www.nechvatal.net