Ars Electronica Festival · 1996
Dry Rivers
by Gordon Monro
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1996
Gordon Monro's “Dry Rivers” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1996, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
"Dry Rivers" was inspired by a trip the composer took through the Western part of New South Wales, Australia. The country is semi-arid rather than desert, being covered by low scrub. It is very flat, and changes imperceptibly over hundreds of kilometres. Every river we came to, except one, was dry.
About Gordon Monro
Gordon Monro (AUS) started composing in 1989; member of the faculty of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney; his research interests include mathematical aspects of computer sound generation.
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