date
2008format
audio file, 20:53minsgenre
soundproject description
murmuring tOngue Of Ovid is the second movement of Joseph Nechvatal's viral symphOny. It is based on a recording Nechvatal made of Jane Smith reading from Ovid's poem Metamorphosis in 1985. Mathew Underwood has collaborated with Nechvatal on murmuring tOngue Of Ovid using sections from the viral symphOny as nano, micro, meso and macro material. Project credits: Joseph Nechvatal: original concept, viral structures, & synthesizer;
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures; Stephane Sikora : C++ viral programming; Ovid's Metamorphosis: text; Jane Smith: voice. 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