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Atau Tanaka
Prométhée Numérique

Single 2005 on Aureobel label
Electronic (Abstract, Experimental)

Introduction Prométhée Numérique is a musical composition for network and radio infrastructures. At its structural basis are the metaphorical potential of literary references such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the legend of Prometheus. The piece explores the propos of the internet as a shared environment and participatory space. Fundamental network principles such as information exchange become the root of musical process. These promethean qualities can be tapped in an artistic project that creates a multimedia organism, to be fed and nurtured through the continuous contribution of remote participants and performers. Prométhée Numérique is a participatory acoustic media art work for broadcast. Sounds submitted by internet- and mobilephone-users form generative materials of anonymous origin. Media streamed into the performance from scheduled artists in different locations contribute to the codes and structures of the entity. This participatory internet activity creates an living data-organism that constitutes the continuing evolving component of the project. The piece addresses the eternal myth that there might be life and identity in the machine. By nurturing and shaping an entity of binary data, the project invites the participants to enter the creative process, while at the same time confronting them with the irony of struggle and release of absolute control. The work exists across three spaces: * on an internet website * as an performance space * in radio space http://www.aureobel.com/tanaka.html

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