The Edith Russ Site for Media Art awards work stipends has awarded a 2009 stipend to The Sine Wave Orchestra (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi)

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The fundamentals of our networked, global and technological culture and our resulting means of interaction are connected by the sine wave. We dance to them on our mp3 players, watch TV because of them and surf their peaks and troughs while making long distance phone calls. Sine waves form an ethereal and omnipresent framework, which become the tactile material the SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (SWO) sculpts and manipulates through unique participatory sound events. Based on a series of performances and experimental sound constructs that the group has been performing since 2002, the proposal for the Edith Russ Site for Media Art foresees the creation of a light sensitive tool to structure the visual component of a piece to take place in a large darkened space. The audience as a whole becomes participants who collaborate in the creation of a sea of sine waves acting as the unified sonic representation of the light that they are producing.

The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA induces both new forms of sound performance while creating shared systems and environments which explore means of participation, behaviour and interpretation by transforming the act of listening into the act of playing. In doing so, the SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA also transforms the minimal nature and simplicity of sine waves into a complex artistic construct that brings us into intimate contact with the physics of our acoustic environment.

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