Ars Electronica Festival · 2007
Ain't there TV after death
by Günther Rabl
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2007
In 2007, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Ain't there TV after death” by Günther Rabl (Digital Musics & Sound Art) with a Honorary Mention.
We owe this short piece of music to the actor and writer Thomas Kamper, who gave me the opportunity to compose the overture to his play Jokebox. For the play, in which Beethoven’s Grand Fugue can be heard playing from a jukebox while various muted TV programs are running on screens, I selected a few basic elements for…
About Günther Rabl
Günther Rabl (AT), born in 1953, has been composing electro-acoustic music since 1975. He first worked with an analog tape recorder, but since the late 1980s has composed primarily on the computer using his own software, which he continues to develop (NMS4…
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