Viral symphOny

viral symphOny is a collaborative electronic noise music symphony created by the postconceptual artist Joseph Nechvatal. It was created between the years 2006 and 2008 using custom artificial life C++ software based on the viral phenomenon model. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes in length. The first movement of "viral symphOny" - and raw viral field material - was released in 2006 as a CD by The Institute for Electronic Arts in Alfred, New York. A low resolution extract from the "pOstmOrtem" section of "viral symphOny" was published in NME (The New Musical Express) magazine.
CD Donation.
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New York City, Joseph Nechvatal and Galerie Richard donated one hundred "viral symphOny" CD's to not-for-profit Harvestworks Digital Medias Art Center in New York City.
"Orlando et la tempête viral symphOny redux suite".
In 2020, Joseph Nechvatal and Andrew Deutsch went back to virus-modelled audio material unused in the creation of "viral symphOny" and reworked it into the "Orlando et la tempête viral symphOny redux suite" by also integrating an anonymous reading of the novel "Orlando", written by Virginia Woolf in 1928. "Orlando et la tempête viral symphOny redux suite" was created in connection with Joseph Nechvatal’s art exhibition "Orlando et la tempête", held in the Fall of 2020 at Galerie Richard Paris and was broadcast and archived on January 16, 2021 at 4pm on WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears.
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