Wide World of Sports
Wide World of Sports is a sound piece for the World Cup of Soccer, 2006. It takes samples of television sports music themes as its basic materials to create a surround-sound space in the gallery. The gallery visitor, whether he is a soccer fan or not, will be immersed in a dynamic, moving collage of melodies and rhythms that are used by television media to get its audience pumped up like the athletes in the sports spectacle. I take short samples of theme music from different international soccer teams, as well as great theme music from 70’s sports programs such as the Wide World of Sports. These
musical elements move dynamically across the 5.1 DVD surround sound system, like athletes running from one end of the football field to the other. The permanent movement and action re-create in music the dynamic of a soccer match.
Atau Tanaka spans cultures of East and West, of art and science, of the underground and academy. He is a composer of works for new media, putting in question and seeking the continuing place of the artist in democratized digital forms. He creates musical instruments from sensor systems, searching for the idiomatic voice of an interface. He composes for distributed network systems, considering data transmission delay as the acoustic of the network. His works include solo and ensemble concert works and exhibition installations. He publishes theoretical writings and conducts fundamental research to develop and document his socio-artistic approach. Most recently, he takes his concepts to their logical limit by creating participative social music works for wireless mobile systems.
He is a Japanese/American composer and researcher based in Paris. He bridges the fields of media art and experimental music, artistic and scientific research. His work seeks the continuing place of the artist in democratized digital forms. He creates sensor based musical instruments, searching for the idiomatic voice in the interface. He composes for network systems, considering data transmission delay as the acoustic of the network. His works include solo and ensemble concert works and exhibition installations. His work in the 90's with the trio Sensorband continues today in gestural sound-image performance with Sensors_Sonics_Sights. He publishes theoretical writings and conducts fundamental research at Sony CSL Paris to develop and document his socio-artistic approach. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, La Villette, ICC, V2, and ZKM. He has received support from the Japan Foundation, the Fraunhofer Society, the Daniel Langlois Foundation and is mentor at NESTA.
Wide World of Sports is a sound piece for the World Cup of Soccer, 2006. It takes samples of television sports music themes as its basic materials to create a surround-sound space in the gallery. The gallery visitor, whether he is a soccer fan or not, will be immersed in a dynamic, moving collage of melodies and rhythms that are used by television media to get its audience pumped up like the athletes in the sports spectacle. I take short samples of theme music from different international soccer teams, as well as great theme music from 70’s sports programs such as the Wide World of Sports. These
musical elements move dynamically across the 5.1 DVD surround sound system, like athletes running from one end of the football field to the other. The permanent movement and action re-create in music the dynamic of a soccer match.
Atau Tanaka spans cultures of East and West, of art and science, of the underground and academy. He is a composer of works for new media, putting in question and seeking the continuing place of the artist in democratized digital forms. He creates musical instruments from sensor systems, searching for the idiomatic voice of an interface. He composes for distributed network systems, considering data transmission delay as the acoustic of the network. His works include solo and ensemble concert works and exhibition installations. He publishes theoretical writings and conducts fundamental research to develop and document his socio-artistic approach. Most recently, he takes his concepts to their logical limit by creating participative social music works for wireless mobile systems.
He is a Japanese/American composer and researcher based in Paris. He bridges the fields of media art and experimental music, artistic and scientific research. His work seeks the continuing place of the artist in democratized digital forms. He creates sensor based musical instruments, searching for the idiomatic voice in the interface. He composes for network systems, considering data transmission delay as the acoustic of the network. His works include solo and ensemble concert works and exhibition installations. His work in the 90's with the trio Sensorband continues today in gestural sound-image performance with Sensors_Sonics_Sights. He publishes theoretical writings and conducts fundamental research at Sony CSL Paris to develop and document his socio-artistic approach. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, La Villette, ICC, V2, and ZKM. He has received support from the Japan Foundation, the Fraunhofer Society, the Daniel Langlois Foundation and is mentor at NESTA.
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