Striking a Balance: Statement of the Digital Musics Jury

Electronic musicians, now more than ever, are disseminating their music across multiple platforms, from installation works to mixed media pieces, gallery presentations to video, sound art exhibitions to internet domains- a factor reflected in the entries to the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Musics category.

The 2002 batch of sonic wonders seems more heterogeneous than ever. As certain prominent musical trends reach periodic saturation points with high quantities of glitch, breakbeat, acousmatics and variations on noise, it becomes quite a task to transcend the common trends. But poking their heads through the crowd is a group of individuals who in certain cases have maintained an audio legacy dating back decades, whose work has proved to be highly consequential in shaping contemporary, digital music discourse. The younger generation chosen here may or may not be influenced by these visible masters and stand very firmly on their own ground at the center of today's radical experimentalism.

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