Yannis Kyriakides's “Wordless” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
Wordless is a suite of 12 sound portraits based on interviews with and by residents of Brussels from the BNA-BBOT archives. Words from the interviews are edited to leave only the hesitations, breathing emotional reactions and environmental sounds.
About Yannis Kyriakides
Yannis Kyriakides (CY / NL), born in1969, studied musicology at York University, later being drawn to move to the Netherlands by the music of Louis Andriessen, under whom he studied at the Hague Conservatory.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.