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Neoga is an Iroquois goddess of wind. This piece explores the contemporary use of wind power to generate clean electricity with the true spirit of the wind itself. Windmills today are sleek and beautiful machines that rise out of the natural landscape. Seeing these machines sprouting from the rural farmland of northwest Ohio connects the viewer to the power consumed by our contemporary society, to the power produced by the natural force of wind, and to all those who stood on this land and considered the nature of this mysterious element.

This work was realized with photographies of windows of the city of Paris and neighbours. The music is based on recorded sounds or crystals and other materials of the city ambiance.

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Concept

My interest for the interrelations between image and sound is oriented to the possibilities of articulation of the different parameters that constitute the elements of structure. Belong my research in both fields I always tried to establish links between audition and visual parameters leading form. I think that both artistic expressions, even if they function in different parametric fields, can be related by perceptive ways. So, we must observe and analyse the paradoxes and illusions of perception, in order to establish parallels and comparisons between both languages.

Other element that contributes to associate the languages is the material. I work principally with recorded sounds and I find that it is a good element to get a symbiosis with the visual material.

• Elsa Justel (Born in Mar del Plata, Argentine) studied composition and electroacoustic music in Buenos Aires. At the same time she studied Journalism and Fine Arts. She is established in France since 1988, where she had her Doctor degree in Æsthetics, Sciences and Technology of Arts at the University of Paris VIII. She has been teaching Avant-garde techniques of music at the Conservatory of Mar del Plata since 1980.

She has received international composition awards such as: Prix Ton Bruynèl, Netherlands (2005), Prix Phonurgia, France (2001), 5th. Competition of RadioMusic, France-Germany (2003), Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (1992), Stipendienpreis of Darmstadt, Germany (1990), International electroacoustic competition of Bourges, France (1989), Tribuna de Música electroacústica de Argentina (1987 y 96).

Because of her double formation in the fields of image and music, Justel is always interested in the relations between both languages, particularly by its perceptive aspects. Nowadays she is professor of electronics arts in the University of Marne la Vallée in France.

As video artist she got prizes for her audiovisual "Destellos" in Italy (Video Evento d'Arte) and France (Electronic art competition of Bourges) both in 2002.

"Haricots et petits bâtons" in CD-ICMC ‘96, Hong Kong, "Chi-pa-boo" in "Miniatures Concrètes", Diffusion i MéDIA, Canada, IMED 9837, "Fy mor " in "Desde el otro lado" 00Discs-USA-0045, “Mâts" in Acousmatica, France, "Au loin... bleu" in Organised Sound, Vol.3, Cambridge University Press, England, "Alba Sud" Computer Music Journal-Vol.25-N°4-2001 – "L" in "L'élément – 5° Concours d'art radiophonique" – La muse en Circuit/Radio France/WDR3.

Underground was composed in New York City, New York (2004) for a video by Nate Pagel. This is the second project in a series of works based on subway systems from around the world. The first project was based on the system in Paris and was titled Métropolitain. This second project features the visual and aural environment of the London underground.

Tom Lopez teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts. He is also the Director of the Computer Music Program at The Walden School. Tom has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Knight Foundation, the Disney Foundation, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and a Fulbright Fellowship as composer-in-residence at the Centre International de Recherche Musical in Nice, France. His music has been performed around the world and throughout the United States including The Kennedy Center.

Clementine Variations is the fourth interlude from the opera, Saint Ambrose. The opera is based on the life and writings of Ambrose Bierce. The work has been recorded on Capstone Records with Steve Duke as Ambrose Bierce. In this piece the voices of Andre Kurepa Waschka and Lana Kurepa Waschka are manipulated to provide a very brief interlude.

Rodney Waschka II is known for his theatrical and computer music works. He teaches at North Carolina State University.

This composition is about the musical memories of a contemporary Turkish electronic music. Right after the record has ended, we are left with the crackles of the record. While these crackles go on, various short excerpts are being heard in the listener’s head until he finally pulls the needle from the record player.

• Erem Helvacioglu has received several prizes including two consecutive 3rd prizes in the 2002 and 2003 Luigi Russolo Electroacoustic Competition and an honorable mention in the 2004 Insulae Electronicae Electroacoustic Competition with his electroacoustic tape works. His album “A Walk Through The Bazaar” was released by Locustmusic, USA in June 2003. It was judged “outstanding” by Wire Magazine. He contributed to the soundart compilation cd “ctrl-alt-del” with his piece “Personal Crisis”, together with other composers such as Scanner, Kim Cascone and Merzbow. His compositions have been performed in various countries such as Portugal, Norway, Romania, Canada, France, Italy, USA, Austria, Singapore, Turkey and at electronic music festivals and exhibitions such as the 1st and 3rd Istanbul International Electronic Music Festival, CEAIT 2003, Pulsefield International Soundart Exhibition 2003, San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2004, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2004, Nuit Bleue Electronic Music Festival 2004, Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2004, Computer Art Festival 2004, CEAIT 2005, 14th Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival 2005, Acousmania Festival 2005, Musica Viva Festival 2005 and the 10^th International Electroacoustic Music Festival ”Primavera en La Habana”. Currently, he is continuing work toward a PhD in electroacoustic composition at MIAM, Istanbul. Future projects include cd collaborations with composers John Wilson and Kazuya Ishigami.

Cross Contours (2005) explores a variety of nearly identifiable icons and images and develops numerous associations among them. Though never crossing the line into the purely representational, it attempts to stimulate references and mappings in the viewer. The work is (loosely) in three sections, with each retaining the same color space despite the appearance of new or transformed objects and forms. The music adds an affective layer and helps control the work’s dramatic development.

All images in Cross Contours were created using the Cinema 4D animation software, while the musical elements were created with the Kyma System from Symbolic Sound and the Tassman physical modeling synthesizer.

Dennis Miller received his Doctorate in Music Composition from Columbia University and is currently on the Music faculty of Northeastern University in Boston where he heads the Music Technology program and serves on the Multimedia Studies Steering Committee. His mixed media works have been presented at numerous venues throughout the world, most recently the DeCordova Museum, the New York Digital Salon Traveling Exhibit, the 2005 Art in Motion screenings, Images du Nouveau Monde, CynetArts, Sonic Circuits, the Cuban International Festival of Music, and the 2004 New England Film and Video Festival. His work was also presented at the gala opening of the new Disney Hall in Los Angeles (2003) and at SIGGRAPH 2001 in the Emerging Technologies gallery. Recent exhibits of his 3D still images include the Boston Computer Museum and the Biannual Conference on Art and Technology, as well as publication in Sonic Graphics: Seeing Sound (Rizzoli Books) and Art in the Digital Age (Thames and Hudson). Miller’s music and artworks are available at www.dennismiller.neu.edu.