Viral symphOny

• January 2009 viral symphOny was selected by artist/musician James Hoff for inclusion into UbuWeb's Top Ten
• viral symphOny was chosen as prize winner at the 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia, After The Net, 5–29 June 2008, Valencia, Spain[5]
• viral symphOny was voted #2 in the top ten at free103.9 radio in 2007
• SoundLAB VI selected artist: Joseph Nechvatal

• Movement 1 : the enthrOning (28.10 min)
• Joseph Nechvatal : original concept viral structures
• Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
• Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro structures
• Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
• Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project technician
• Movement 2 : murmuring tOngue Of Ovid (20.53 min)
• Joseph Nechvatal : original concept, viral structures, & synthesizer
• Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
• Stephane Sikora : C++ viral programming
• Ovid's Metamorphosis : text
• Jane Lawrence Smith : voice
• Movement 3 : pastOral pleasures (12.08 min)
• Joseph Nechvatal : original concept, viral structures, and text
• Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
• Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
• Movement 4 : viractual terminate (10.10)
• Joseph Nechvatal : original mix concept
• Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
• Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro structures
• Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
• Kevin Harkins: orchestration for percussion, didgeridoo, piano, violin and strings
• pOstmOrtem (28:10)
• Joseph Nechvatal : original mix concept
• Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
• Andrew Deutsch meso and macro structures
• Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
• Kevin Harkins: orchestration for String Section (Violins, Cello and Bass), Dijeridoo, E-pad (sort of harmonium-ish) Air Pizz (hammered calliope, sometimes including the hammered operator), Grand Piano, Orchestral Percussion Section, English Horn, Bassoon, Harp and Horn Section (French Horns, Trumpets, Trombone)

• On June 23, 2020 Harvestworks broadcast the 28.10 min Movement 1 : the enthrOning from the viral symphOny CD on Twitch.tv, with an excerpt introduction from a 2009 video interview of Joseph Nechvatal with Anthony Masterson.[6]
• On June 6, 2020, Wave Farm Radio WGXC 90.7-FM broadcast the complete viral symphOny from 10pm-11:59pm, and subsequently archived the broadcast.[7]
• In May 2020, White Page Gallery at Fuori Visioni art center in Piacenza Italy exhibited the first movement of viral symphOny online with a digital animation.[8] Piacenza is one of the Northern Italian cities that had the world’s largest coronavirus outbreaks.
• On October 3, 2013, Gen Ken Montgomery performed and recorded 3 pOstmOrtems (for Robert Rauschenberg) - an adaptation of the last movement from viral symphOny - as part of his Generator Sound Art exhibition held at Audio Visual Arts gallery (AVA) in New York City.
• viral symphOny was re-mastered into 5.1 surround sound and presented by Joseph Nechvatal as an immersive concert on April 12, 2012 at Harvestworks in New York City.[9]
• The complete viral symphOny was performed as the soundtrack to a digital art projection by Joseph Nechvatal on April 28, 2012 at Galerie Richard in New York.
• The complete viral symphOny was performed at Diapason at 882 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, New York on Friday February 13, 2009.
• In 2010, the first three movements of viral symphOny were net broadcast by WebSYNradio four times a day from September 30 to October 7.
• In 2010, viral symphOny was web cast in its entirety as part of the W2F Festival.
• Viral Concerto by Rhys Chatham (based on the viral symphOny) was performed at Galerie Richard Paris on September 26, 2010.
• The complete viral symphOny was performed as the soundtrack to a digital art projection by Joseph Nechvatal on September 26, 2010 at Galerie Richard in Paris.[10]
• In 2008 viral symphOny was uploaded to archive.org and made downloadable for free by Joseph Nechvatal. Included here is an extensive music review of viral symphOny by Laurent Fairon from the Continuo music blog.

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.[11]

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[12] on January 16, 2021 at 4pm on WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears.[13]

Tracklist:

• 1. wOOlf wOrdings Of OrlandO
• 2. OrlandO et la tempête viral symphOny redux
• 3. rampage at the capitOl OrlandO viral tempest
• 4. OrlandO shOegazer strides tOwards fiascO
• 5. slOw OrlandO Of cOntestatiOn and decOmpOsitiOn
• 6. OrlandO undOne by scOrnful dOg star

• Artística de Valencia, After The Net, 5 – 29 June 2008, Valencia, Spain: catalogue: Observatori 2008: After The Future, p. 80
• Joseph Nechvatal Interview
• Review of full viral symphOny by Continuo
• Review / Joseph Nechvatal :: viral symphOny at SONHORS

• viral symphOny (first movement only) CD Produced in 2006 at The Institute for Electronic Arts* viral symphOny (28'09") and murmuring tOngue Of Ovid (20:53) web published at UbuWeb
• A three-minute excerpt from viral symphOny was included on Master Cactus, a special edition issue cassette release curated by Gen Ken Montgomery Cassette