Ars Electronica Festival · 2009
The Fragmented Orchestra
by Nick Ryan, John Matthias, Jane Grant
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2009
Nick Ryan, John Matthias and Jane Grant's “The Fragmented Orchestra” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2009, category Hybrid Art.
“The Fragmented Orchestra” is a huge distributed musical structure modeled on the firing of the human brain’s neurons. It connected 24 public sites across the UK to form a tiny networked cortex, which adapts, evolves and triggers sitespecific sounds via a central space.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.