Ars Electronica Festival · 1994
Hothouse
by Paul Koonce
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1994
“Hothouse” by Paul Koonce received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1994.
'Hothouse' (1992) was created on the NeXT workstation using a variety of instrumental and environmental sound libraries processed with the sound-synthesis language CMUSIC. In composing 'Hothouse', I was interested in evoking the unfolding experience of walking through the exotic confines of a hothouse with its rich…
About Paul Koonce
Paul Koonce (UK), born 1956, studied composition with Herbert Brün and Salvatore Martirano at the University of Illinois, and with Roger Reynolds at the University of California, San Diego where he received a Ph.D. in Music.
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