Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
Before the Red
by Yixuan Zhao
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
“Before the Red” by Yixuan Zhao received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2025.
Before the Red is an interactive audiovisual work that aims to capture the flow of time and the intangibility of emotions, using AI algorithms to construct intricate sensory scenes. In the unpredictable changes, in the tense soundscape, on the border of the red limit, from faint whispers to fierce confrontations…
About Yixuan Zhao
Yixuan Zhao (CN ) is a composer, a lecturer at the Electronic Music Center, Department of Music AI and Music Information Technology, Central Conservatory of Music, China, and a visiting researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.
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