JOSEPH NECHVATAL
viral symphOny
LABEL: IEA 2007
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 Ôviral symph0nyÕ. 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.
- Steven Mygind Pedersen
Institute for Electronic Arts,
viral symphOny
Joseph Nechvatal : original
concept viral structures
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro,
meso and macro structures
Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro
structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
Produced at The Institute for
Electronic Arts
Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project
technician
Joseph Nechvatal : visual artwork
(c) Joseph Nechvatal 2007
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You can download my 28 min. viral
symphOny mp3 at
this link::
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html
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Reviews of
viral symphony
Rewiew / Joseph Nechvatal :: viral
symphOny
in SONHORS Webzine
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Joseph Nechvatal :: viral
symphOny :: IEA :: 2007
Le bruit des virus artistiques. Artiste
Chicagoen post-conceptuel, Joseph Nechvatal est une rŽfŽrence en matire d'art numŽrique. Il conoit depuis
1986, des peintures assistŽes par robots et ordinateurs, mais c'est en 1991,
que sa pratique artistique Žvolue vŽritablement gr‰ce aux potentialitŽs artistiques qu'offrent les virus et
notamment la possibilitŽ de transformer et altŽrer ses propres crŽations. Aprs
avoir composŽ et manipulŽ ses images ˆ partir d'un programme d'algorithmes
viraux, Nechvatal envoie ses fichiers par Internet ˆ un robot afin qu'il
execute sa peinture digitale. Cet emploi des nouvelles technologies digitales
pour intervenir sur la toile est appelŽ par l'artiste lui-mme, le viractuel.
Pour mener ˆ bien ses nouvelles expŽriences, il se fait aider de Stephane
Sikora et ses programmations en C++.
Ce disque rŽcemment produit par
l'Institute for Electronic Arts de l'Alfred University ˆ New York, s'emploie ˆ
retranscrire en temps rŽel les manifestations sonores des programmes
d'algorithmes viraux. viral symphOny, le
premier titre de 28 minutes est une crŽation de Andrew Deutsch, artiste
multimedia et professeur ˆ
lÕInstitut dÕart Žlectronique de New York et Matthew Underwood, ˆ partir
des 50 minutes de field recording du deuxime titre "raw data file", version brute et tŽmoignage
sonore en temps rŽel du travail de Joseph Nechvatal & Stephane Sikora.
En digne hŽritier d'une lignŽe d'inventeurs perturbateurs,
Joseph Nechvatal joue avec l'agression sonore.
Un disque extrme, parfois trs
proche de la guŽrilla Žlectronique. A Žcouter absolument!
01. viral symphOny - 0'28''
02. raw data file - 0'50''
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http://sonhors.free.fr
SoNHoRS / MARSAC
RENNES FRANCE
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Review of
viral symphOny
JOSEPH NECHVATAL
LABEL: IEA
by Dean Crandell
804noise
I've played 'viral symphOny'
several times, and all I've got to say is "WOW, HUH?,Uh Oh, Geeze, YIPES,
Duh oh!" Of my 1,000 CDs, this one stands alone. I don't have any category
that could include it.
At first I thought it might blow
up my stereo, and turned it down, thereby missing some of the, shall I say
"subtle" moments. Then I checked out the system to see if it had been
infected with the "virus". It seems not too worse for wear.
Upon replays, I was able to
overlook the moments that reminded me of getting a root canal, and appreciate
the interludes of what a computer might feel is what we refer to as melody.
Other moments reminded me of being blind drunk. That made me feel kinda sorry
for the poor computer. I asked myself if the virus made it sick. Hum, what's
the cure? Anti-virus???
Some of the "musical
moments" reminded me of Jimi's "Axis Bold As Love" title
"EXP", and other parts reminded me of Pink Floyd's "Umma
Guma" title "Grooving in a caveÉÓ so all in all, I guess the computer
is on the right track.
-Dean Crandell
http://804noise.blogspot.com/2007/06/review-of-viral-symphony.html
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viral symphOny was voted #2 in the top ten of free103.9
radio
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Playlist
free103point9 Online Radio
May 2007 Top 10
2. Joseph Nechvatal, viral
symphOny (iea)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew
Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
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JOSEPH NECHVATAL
viral
symphOny
Label: IEA
Reviewed by Jos
Smolders
@ www.earlabs.org and http://vitalweekly.net
Somewhere somehow the name Joseph Nechvatal
rang a bell. Did I see his name on a cassette compilation in the eighties or
some such like? Ever since viral symphOny
dropped on my desk, I have been thinking about this. Through the wonders of
internet I learned that Nechvatal works with ubiquitous electronic visual
information, computers and computer-robotics'. His visual art has been on
display in museums all around the world and he is a professor in art and
technology. A smaller portion of his work is dedicated to music, and more in particular
computer technology. (É) He, together with Andrew Deutsch and Matthew
Underwood, perform this 'symphony', which, if understood correctly, is entirely
based on a computer generated composition by Nechvatal and Stephane Sikora,
based on C++ programming. This original file, spanning fifty minutes, is also
to be found on this CD along with the twenty-eight minute version played by
Deutsch and Underwood. I am not sure what the latter two exactly do here, but
it seems to me that they feed the original sound through their own pieces of
software, exploring the 'nano, micro, mezo & macro structures', but it
sounds however more like an interesting laptop jam than anything else.
Occasionally noise based, with hissy and crackly sounds, occasionally a little
bit more soft, but never microsound, ambient glitch or such like. They break
the sound down into the smallest particles or let them simply explode into the
biggest cloud of noise. (É)
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