Ars Electronica Festival · 2005
Plunderphonics
by John Oswald
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2005
John Oswald's “Plunderphonics” was honoured with an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2005, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
John Oswald’s plunderphonic works (his term has become a category in the Ars Electronica mandate) span the transition from the analog to the digital era in sound; and many of his pieces transcend the distinctions, or blur the necessity of specifying one realm or the other.
About John Oswald
In the past year John Oswald (CA) saw his solo dance opera/lecture Spinvolver (starring Susanna Hood) performed in various European capitals; the publication (by OHM/Avatar in Quebec) of L’Arc d’Apparition, his first DVD of chronophotics; a major…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.