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1) Julia's Gonna Count – Richard Hall
2) A Brief Romance 3.0.2 – Robert Muskintow
3) Lying in Wait- Joshua Crowe
4) Man Unseen (Theme)-Jeff Morris
5) so Dynamic -Heeyoung Yang
6) Doubtful mix- Alejandro Guerrero
7) Rachel's Rebus-Dwight Ashley
8) Sorrow for solo flute-Elliott Bark
9) Electronic Poem 2-Peter Lawless
10) Fanfare for a smaller world-Elliott Cooper Cole
11) shift_option_60-Jason Ouimette
12) Down Storm-Paige Przybylski
13) Oh WO D’oh -Carolyn Major
14) Ligeti in Translation-Mark Eden
15) Marimbell –HyeKyung Lee
16) Train Passes-Ben James
17) Henry's Trai(p)(f)(m) –Mike McFerron
18) 60 years-Sean Richards
19) Improvisation for Quarter Tone Guitar-Joel Hickman
20) Creature Comforts-John Consiglio
21) There's a Trick with a Title I'm Learning to Do.-David More
22) Cantus Curatio-Da Jeong Choi
23) Stargazing-Elaine Lillios
24) Eastern Point-Justin Merritt
25) Blue Sand-Lynn Job
26) Au Revoir-Wei-Ling Chen
27) ZAZON60-James Brody
28) From Where?-David D. McIntire
29) Shadow Speak -John Conley
30) Water -Mary Beth Farmer
31) Coyote Faucet-Richard Bitting
32) Click Glut (cello)-Rick Nance
33) Heilige –Michael Khoury
34) Shelly (The Red-Eared Slider) Dan and Marji Sedgwick and Gere
35) Rain-Joomi Park
36) CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)-Richard Campanelli
37) CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)- Joe Hasiewicz
38) Overkill-Nicolas Buron
39) It all adds up-Victor Eijkhout
40) My Radiance Indwelling-Richard Arnest
41) Step by Step-David Sartor
42) The Z Relationship-Garry Wickliffe
43 Dorfan fountasia-Benjamin
44) Subtle Metamorphosis-D. Travis Clem
45) Th1rt33n-Brian Vlasak
46) Titled-Ted Hendry
47) You've Got… 60 Seconds-John Akins
48) Boredom of Familiarity-Rodrigo Sigal
49) Chalk Talk-Thomas Zalduendo
50) I’m Tired of Tradition-Brian McGeever
51) Robots From Hell-Christopher Gorman
52) Untitled-Grant-Pittman
53) Lift:Electronique-Chad Wallin
54) Glass Elevator-Nathan Edwards
55) Contemplacion-Lucio E Cuellar
56) A Stroll in the Dark-Anthony Arlotta/ Reconsiderate
57) Suspension-Balie Todd
58) Transferred-Jason Bolte
59) 60Sekund Kowntdown-Ron Coulter
60) Musical Mechanics-Russel Cannon
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1) Julia's Gonna Count – Richard Hall
Richard Hall is a Senior Lecturer of Music at Texas State University-San Marcos. His concentration is Composition, Electronic Composition, and he also assists with the Texas Mysterium for Modern Music Ensemble. Richard has received numerous commissions, scored two independent films, has pieces published by Dorn Publications and Go Fish Music and is featured on ERM Media recordings. Richard’s music has been performed at conferences for the Texas Society of Music Theorists, the College Music Society, NACUSA, the National Flute Association, the Vox Novus 60x60 Contemporary Music Project and the Electronic Music Midwest Festival. He recently received an ASCAP Plus Awards grant.
Julia’s Gonna Count is an electronic piece written for the 60x60 project. It is third in a series based on the growth and development of the composer’s three-year-old daughter Julia. (the first two: Gerburt von Julia and Julia Lernt das ABC). The work contains multiple samples of Julia counting and stating numbers, which are organized into left and right tracks. These tracks phase in and out of each other creating polyrhythms and beat displacements, a al Steve Reich’s works It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Piano Phase (1967). The piece is meant to show Julia’s fascination with numbers and counting.
2) A Brief Romance 3.0.2 – Robert Muskintow
Robert Muskintow is a 56-year-old clinical psychologist, living in Evanston, IL. He sees private patients with a specialty in hypnotherapy, and teaces at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. He has played guitar for over 40 years, and has wide ranging musical interests from folk to experimental forms of musical expression.
His piece, “A Brief Romance” got its start when his oldest son Joshua told him about the 60X60 project. Joshua is presently studying at the University of Minnesota working on a Ph.D. in music composition. He is studying electronic music with Doug Geers. He suggested that the composer create a piece for the project.
3) Lying in Wait- Joshua Crowe
Josh Crowe is a Composition major at Birmingham-Southern College, studying under Dr. Dorothy Hindman and Dr. Charles Norman Mason. Josh's primary instrument is percussion, and his compositional interests are heavily rooted in percussion, piano, and orchestral strings.
Lying in Wait is meant to portray the tension of a hunt as the predator waits for its prey.
4) Man Unseen (Theme)-Jeff Morris
Man Unseen (Theme) is a tribute to Henry Mancini and other TV and film composers of the era. Jeff Morris is an Assistant Lecturer in computer music and coordinator of technology facilities for the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. He gives improvised performances with interactive electronics in addition to composing for traditional instruments and electronic media
5) so Dynamic -Heeyoung Yang
Heeyong Yang holds an M.M in composition from Yonsei University where she studies with Chan Hae Lee and from College Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati where she studied with Joel Hoffman
so Dynamic is the fourth movement from , ten movements piece, written for four cellos.
6) Doubtful mix- Alejandro Guerrero
Alejandro Guerrero was born in Mexico City and now goes to school in Michigan. Doubtful mix was inspired by a composition written by his brother, Arturo Guerrero.
7) Rachel's Rebus-Dwight Ashley
For nearly two decades, Dwight Ashley recorded a growing volume of private solo work that was largely unheard by others. In 2004 Ashley took his private work public with Discrete Carbon, his official solo debut. He soon followed with two more solo recordings, Four, in 2005, and Ataxia, in 2006. A retrospective entitled Watermelon Sugar is his most recent solo release.
Ashley’s compositions have been critically acclaimed for breaking new ground in the “dark ambient” genre. His recordings are characterized by immense aural landscapes that interweave lush, string-laden tonalities and gritty industrial textures to produce a psychologically compelling audio experience.
8) Sorrow for solo flute-Elliott Bark
Elliott Bark's (b. 1980) music has been performed by many groups, including Indiana University Orchestra, Luna Nova Chamber Ensemble, Bloomington and Zzyxx Saxophone Quartets and Beautiful Mind Charity in many places in the United States as well as in Korea. He has received numerous prizes including the 2003 Korean Anglican Church Music Composition Competition and the 2007 Beethoven Club Composition Contest, and his music has been published by the Yesol Publishing Co., in South Korea. At Indiana University, Bark achieved his BM in Composition and currently pursuing MM in composition. He has studied composition with P.Q. Phan, Don Freund and Claude Baker, and instrumental conducting with David Effron.
In Korea, although it has changed nowadays, younger or lower hierarchy people were not allowed to express their own feelings in public or in front of older or higher people. Therefore, many sorrowful people usually expressed themselves in the nature with a restricted manner. The flute cries Sorrow for solo flute with not in an extremely high register and not too loud volume, but with unveiled sorrow…
9) Electronic Poem 2-Peter Lawless
Peter Lawless is currently finishing up his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City. He has studied composition with Paul Rudy, James Mobberley, and Zhou Long. In addition, he has studied saxophone with Tim Timmons and Bobby Watson. He hopes to one day change the world with music.
Each of the works in Lawless’ Electronic Poems series explores a new technique in electronic music. Each one is an attempt to bring a new method, program, sound, etc., into his musical language in the hope of one day becoming the ultimate musical polyglot.
10) Fanfare for a smaller world-Elliott Cooper Cole
“I'm Elliot Cole. I've been looking for software in music; now I'm listening for music in software.”
11) shift_option_60-Jason Ouimette
Jason Ouimette is a student at Lewis University majoring in Music Merchandising with a minor in Music Technology.
shift_option_60 was birthed from just a single sound source. It soon developed into a study where the computer took the reigns and essentially created the piece on its own.
12) Down Storm-Paige Przybylski
Paige Przybylski is a third year student at Lewis University majoring in Music Merchandising with a minor in Music Technology.
Down Storm is a one-minute piece created from one sample, being the human voice singing the solfege “do.” It begins with the initial “do” and this is manipulated in several different ways to create the feeling of a storm.
13) Oh WO D’oh -Carolyn Major
Carolyn Major has been studying the concepts, methods, and theories of music since 2003. She is a music major at Lewis University with a concentration in voice. She has been singing since she was a young girl and has developed a love for opera.
Oh WO D’oh, an electronic piece, is a new direction in her studies. It was created from a single solfege sample recorded bythe composer. The sample is free of rhythm but is very conscious of timbre, which provides variation and structure through the effects and frequency ranges chosen.
14) Ligeti in Translation-Mark Eden
Mark Eden is a sound artist/composer living in Sauk Rapids, MN. His pieces have been broadcast/performed from Berkley to London. His main interest is the exploration of the effects of technology on meaning.
The text for Ligeti in Translation comes from an interview with composer Gyorgy Ligeti on a German website. The verbatim nature of the computerized translation created syntactic oddities that produced a new, idiosyncratic, and psychologically resonant poetry. (vocalist: Catherine Verrilli, clarinetist: Pat O'Keefe)
15) Marimbell –HyeKyung Lee
An active composer and pianist, HyeKyung (born in Seoul, Korea) holds a D.M.A in Composition and Performance Certificate in Piano from the University of Texas at Austin. An accomplished pianist, HyeKyung has performed her own compositions and others in numerous contemporary music festivals and conferences in the United States, Europe, and Korea. Her music can be found on New Ariel Recordings, Equilibrium, Capstone Records, Mark Custom Recordings, and SEAMUS CD Series. Currently she is living in Columbus, Ohio, with her son and teaching at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.
Marimbell was written for the 2008 60x60 project. It uses the logic software instrument sounds marimba and bell.
16) Train Passes-Ben James
Born in 1940, Ben James has played in Polka, Big Band, Jazz Symptoms and more.
Train Passes is written based on memories of many train rides taken in the 1940s.
17) Henry's Trai(p)(f)(m) –Mike McFerron
Mike McFerron is an associate professor of music and composer-in- residence at Lewis University and he is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest. A past fellow the MacDowell Colony, June in Buffalo, and the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers’ Forum, honors include, among others, first prize in the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition (2002), first prize in the CANTUS commissioning/residency program (2002), recipient of the 2005 CCF Abelson Vocal Music Commission, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “First Hearing” Program (2001).
For me, this one-minute composition Henry's Trai(p)(f)(m), written for Vox Novus’ 60x60 project, is an attempt to capture just a small fraction of the
excitement and fascination that my two-year old has with trains.
Where is the train coming from? Imagine where it’s going! Or maybe, we just like the sounds it makes. Dedicated to my son, Henry, the title of this work is inspired by just some his favorite pronunciations of the word “train." –MRM
18) 60 years-Sean Richards
Under the pseudonym "Anongrey", Sean Richards has been producing and recording various genres of electronic music for more than ten years.
Using an arsenal of found sound, analog synthesizers, computers, recorded voice, guitars, children’s toys, and just about anything else that emits sound, he has produced tracks that are simultaneously beautiful and thought provoking. His first ambient album entitled “The Ivory Tower” as well as the newest IDM release “Night Shift” have been met with acclaim from fans and peers across the country.
60 years is a study of the 60 years spanning from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 to the attack of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It places the two leaders during each of those landmark times side by side and asks the listener to contemplate these two events, the people who lost their lives, and how these events changed the World. The song is comprised of only the sampled and processed voices of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush during their speeches to the American people shortly after the events.
19) Improvisation for Quarter Tone Guitar-Joel Hickman
Joel David Hickman was born in Valparaiso, Indiana and currently lives in Hebron, Indiana. Joel has many years of composing, performing, and recording in various classical and rock ensembles. He has written many compositions for solo guitar and piano as well as compositions for various acoustic and electric ensembles and other solo instruments. Joel has a Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Performance (Classical Guitar) from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and a certificate in recording engineering from The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Improvisation for Quarter Tone Guitar is a short piece using 24 tones in equal temperament.
20) Creature Comforts-John Consiglio
John Consiglio began playing guitar at age thirteen and went on to form legendary St. Louis bands, The Oozkicks and A Perfect Fit. He graduated from Webster University with a B.A. in audio engineering and enjoyed courses there with composer Tom Hamilton, composer Ken Stallings and video artist Van McElwee. John began studying music more systematically in the nineties. He began composing modern classical pieces in 1998 and recording experimental electronic pieces in 1999. His latest work is very exciting indeed encompassing many of his main musical interests - chance, indeterminacy, improvisation, noise, microtonality and simultaneity.
Creature Comforts is taken from John's Living Room Sessions which finds him improvising in real time with table-top guitars, feedback, radio and found sound.
21) There's a Trick with a Title I'm Learning to Do.-David More
David More was born and raised outside Chicago at the tail end of 1976. After twelve odd years away from the area, he returned in 2007, and has regretted the decision in degrees ever since. His work is concerned with the ways in which technology mediates experience, and other such nonsense. Current projects include fish busking and low-powered AM radio transmissions.
There's a Trick with a Title I'm Learning to Do. is based on the title of a poem by Michael Ondaatje, a poem that the composer has actually read. The piece is composed of edited, but otherwise unprocessed, recordings of knives.
22) Cantus Curatio-Da Jeong Choi
Da Jeong Choi’s works have been widely performed in the US and Asia. She was selected to honor mention by Dallas Symphony Orchestra/ Voices of Change North Texas Young Composers Project (2008) with Pontis (2007) for Marimba Solo, and also to the second place winner of Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest (2005) with Mons Montis (A Great Rock, 2005) for Multiple Percussion Solo with the accompaniment CD. Her works appear Festivals such the NASA Biennial Saxophone Conference (2008), 4th Festival of the Society of Music Research (1997), 24th Pan Music Festival –ISCM in Korea (1996), Seoul Music Festival (1995), Pusan Music Festival (1995), and the 14th MBC Art Song Festival (1994).
Cantus Curatio describes the “healing process” in our bodies by using granular synthesis, max msp, original sound, voice (choir) and percussion instruments.
23) Stargazing-Elaine Lillios
Stargazing explores the space between the literal and the metaphorical...
24) Eastern Point-Justin Merritt
Composer Justin Merritt (bn. 1975) is Assistant Professor and Composer in Residence at St. Olaf College. He was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim award in 2001 for Janus Mask for Orchestra. In addition, he is the winner of many other awards including the 2006 Polyphonos Prize, the 2000 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition Award for The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro and the 2001 Kuttner String Quartet Competition for Ravening. Other works include music for orchestra, ballet, and opera.
Eastern Point is named for one of the beautiful 19th century lighthouses that dot the Eastern seaboard. It was built in 1831, and has been used by Gloucester fisherman for generations. Eastern Point was composed using Logic and Reason with recorded sounds of the ocean, other water sounds, bells, buoys, flute, and strings.
25) Blue Sand-Lynn Job
Lynn Job (pronounced with a long “o”) was born in South Dakota, U.S.A. and publishes exclusively with Buckthorn Music Press (ASCAP/MPA) and Buckthorn Records. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and is an active professional composer (for all new classical genres) as well as a published poet/author, actress, studio director, professor, Gulf War veteran, and more. Her main production studio is in North Texas.
Blue Sand paints a swirling palette of spiritual chaos and strife - destiny surging and wrestling as waves between boulders. A strike on the bell tree calls the vision into focus as parting a veil: the prophetess reads impressions of future warfare between Israel and a Far-east alliance. Water (judgment and revelation), serves both the mystical Leviathan antagonist and the invisible armies of the Shield of David. "Blue Sand"
quotes from Job’s allegorical "Arcangelo Red" (Stepháne Tran Ngoc, violin), and "Shadow’s Pipe" (Jennifer Chen, flute).
26) Au Revoir-Wei-Ling Chen
Wei-Ling Chen (b.1981), a Taiwanese composer, is currently pursuing her doctoral study in music composition under Prof. Mark Sullivan at Michigan State University. She obtained her masters and bachelor degrees from University of Houston and Taipei Municipal University of Education. Active as a composer and a pianist, Wei-Ling’s music has been performed in United States, Europe, and Taiwan. Her recent completed electroacoustic compositions include Black Hole Drift (for soprano and pure data), Symbiosis (for alto saxophone and tape), Both Exist (for French horn, two dancers, and tape), and Au Revoir (for eletro only).
Au Revoir was composed in the memory of one of my friends who passed away in December 2006. All the samples that were used are the memories between us. I want this piece short as a momentary recovery of consciousness just before death.
27) ZAZON60-James Brody
James Brody, born 1941, studied composition with Franz Kamin and Iannis Xenakis at Indiana University. Some of his electro-acoustic music appears on a CD, Background Count, from Furious Artisans recordings. Five of his works have been performed at International Computer Music Conferences. Traces for orchestra was presented by the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony in 1994. Numerous chamber works were premiered in Baltimore and at different venues in Texas. Recently, Brody taught a course at York College of Pennsylvania introducing non-musicians to music of the 20th Century. He currently resides near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ZAZON60 (2008) is a substantially reworked portion of a longer composition. Sounds from natural, household and mechanical sources are processed and altered from their original state to produce an imaginary landscape of sonic events. A large toolkit of both Mac and PC software is used in the creative process, including Adobe Audition, Kyma/Capybara, Metasynth, Cecilia, Composer’s Desktop Project and numerous plug-ins.
28) From Where?-David D. McIntire
David D. McIntire was born in upstate New York and has had some training on the clarinet. Weekly exposure to Protestant hymnody and playing in a small town band were experiences that provided his entry into music. He has maintained his livelihood through playing, teaching, composing, and writing about music. Also played clarinet and saxophone in a number of eccentric and overly idealistic musical groups, most notably the Colorblind James Experience, the Whitman/McIntire Duo, and the Hotheads. He holds music degrees from Nazareth College of Rochester, Ithaca College and is a DMA candidate in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he is a Preparing Future Faculty Fellow.
From Where?is a study in gesture and concentrated activity. The piece is a kind of reminiscence of some of Stockhausen’s electroacoustic music, especially Telemusik and Hymnen. My recollection of these works (which I had not heard in many years, until quite recently) is quite imperfect and so this piece is more about the vagaries of memory than any real comment on the works that brought it about. The “60s sound” that I remember from those pieces does come through, though.
From Where? Is published by Irritable Hedgehog Music (ASCAP).
29) Shadow Speak -John Conley
John Conley is currently studying music at Lewis University. He has been studying piano for over twenty years and teaching piano for over four.
A single chalk line on a chalkboard lasting less than a second made up the sound sample for Shadow Speak.
30) Water -Mary Beth Farmer
Mary Beth Farmer is a music student at Texas A&M University.
The overall shape of Water is primarily characterized by the “hollowbang” sound which transitions into a “water” sound and then back again.
31) Coyote Faucet-Richard Bitting
Richard Bitting (b.1950) is an artist, composer and teacher residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. His visual work is in museum and private collections in the United States. His music has been heard internationally. He is an adjunct professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he teaches Music in the 20th Century and Introduction to Music Composition.
Coyote Faucet is an acousmatic work created using the unique soundmark of the water faucet in the third floor painting studio in the old Art Academy of Cincinnati building in Eden Park. The accompaniment uses gated samples of a student painting and cleaning brushes.
32) Click Glut (cello)-Rick Nance
Rick earned a BA in music and a BSc in psychology, gaining an interest in behavioural biology as a possible path to a coherent aesthetic theory. The music he composed at De Montfort University for his PhD was influenced by writings in ecological psychology.
First at BEAST in 1997, he pursued acousmatics with Jonty Harrison, then in Bangor, Wales, with Andrew Lewis. In Leicester, England at De Montfort University he completed a PhD under John Young. Presently he composes as a guest in the studios of Birmingham Southern College at the invitation of Charles Norman Mason.
Click Glut is a performance, by Craig Hultgren, of a studio-built electroacoustic model that serves as an alternative to a written score. The audio signal is routed to the headphones or in-ear monitors of the performer. The performer is asked simply to mimic the model, which is made of a mix of metals being stressed by quick freezing and various cello detritus. In his dissertation James Mooney refers to this as a 'special case' of electroacoustic music being that the performance is entirely acoustic, but could not exist without the EA model.
33) Heilige –Michael Khoury
Mike Khoury was born in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1969. As the son of visual artist Sari Khoury, he was exposed to the visual arts, and creative musical forms. Mike studies violin with composer/violinist David Litven. While continuing to work on compositions and improvisations, Khoury also operates Entropy Stereo Recordings, a free improvisation music label.
Mike has had the good fortune to record and/or perform with Christopher Riggs, Ben Hall, Hans Buetow, Leyya Tawil and Faruq Z Bey. Record labels that have released Khoury’s work include Uprising Records, Snowdonia, American Tapes, Friends and Relatives, Detroit Improvisation, White Rose, Editions Brokenresearch, Cohort, Bug Incision, Middle James Company and Polish Jazz. "Heilige" was written for solo violin utilizing extended techniques.
34) Shelly (The Red-Eared Slider) Dan and Marji Sedgwick and Gere
Shelly is a round dedicated to the Sedgwick family’s rambunctious seventeen-year-old turtle. It is one of a set of eight rounds to be recorded in winter 2008 by the composers and their ensemble An Exciting Event. Currently residing in Houston, Marji Gere and Dan Sedgwick frequently collaborate on composition, puppetry, chamber music, and cooking projects.
35) Rain-Joomi Park
Joomi Park is a fellow at the University of Minnesota pursuing her
Ph.D. in Composition under Alex Lubet and James Dillon. She received
her Masters degree at Boston University. Her music was awarded first
place in both the Beethoven Club Composition contest, offered in
conjunction with the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, and the J.
Dorfman Memorial Competition, held by ISAM in Germany. She has been
selected to participate in Alea III’s 30th anniversary season,
directed by Theodore Antoniou, as well as “2D2N,” organized by ISCM
in Ukraine. Her music was awarded the Wainwright Prize. She worked as
a research assistant for Spark, an electronic music festival.
Rain integrates material from one of her earlier solo
piano works with BBC sound samples of rain, poetry written and read
by Joshua Musikantow, and electronic sounds. The work was crafted
using Digital Performer, Max/MSP, and Peak.
36) CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)-Richard Campanelli
Richard Campanelli was born in Hartford CT where he received his M.M. in compositionand studied with Donald Harris. He studied at Tanglewood summer 1980 and studied there with George Perle. His DMA is from the University of MI where he studied with Leslie Bassett, Bill Bolcom and Eugene Kurz. Honors include a Charles Ives Scholarship and Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Meet the Composer Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts Grants and a Marimolin Prize. He has had two premiers by the Detroit Symphony, one a commission.
CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos) is one of a suite of pieces for solo piano that are sketches of various birds, all approximately one minute in length. They are not meant to be literally descriptive and some musical and artistic license has been taken. They also function in some ways as etudes for piano technique, and different dialects (if you will) of contemporary classical language have been used for each one, depending on which I felt more closely fit the bird in question.
37) CROWS (corvus brachyrynchos)- Joe Hasiewicz
Joe Hasiewicz is a Chicago area composer into modern classical music that is currently writing instrumental compositions that use traditional rock instruments, guitar, piano, keyboard, bass, drums and percussion in a non-traditional sort of way. "In my compositions, I typically try and tell a story that will make the listener feel as though they had just gone through or experienced something" says Hasiewicz, "Not unlike seeing a movie or reading a short story". Hasiewicz music has been performed at the Chicago Cultural Center and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and most recently played on Dutch National Public Radio.
38) Overkill-Nicolas Buron
Nicolas Buron, is a composer and musician born and raised in St. Paul, MN. He is very interested in conceptual sound ideas, but tries to never stray too far from digestability. This is Nicolas’s third time being included in 60x60’s Midwest Minutes Mix.
Overkill For this piece I created a patch in Max/MSP that creates randomized piano melodies. There are many melodies playing at once within the patch, that are being turned on and off, based on their repetition. I ran the patch twice (panning each mix left and right). The left and right mixes sometimes synch to create a feeling of un-randomization.
39) It all adds up-Victor Eijkhout
In previous lives Victor was a country fiddler, a shawn player at the Burgundy court, bellows pumper fro JS Bach, Geoff Emerick’s factotum, and a beggar playing drums in the streets of Calcutta for alms.
Since 60=2x30=3x20=4x15=5x12=6x10=10x6=12x15=51x4=30x3=30x2, for each of the numbers 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 there is a player who thinks of a theme that many beats get repeated until the minute is up. The last beat of the theme is an audible breath, so on beat 60 everyone breathes together.
40) My Radiance Indwelling-Richard Arnest
Richard Arnest has been writing music forever (or at least as long as he can remember). He belongs to ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, the American Federation of Musicians and the American Music Center. His latest project is Music Under Construction, a fledgling service bureau for composers and new music in the Midwest. A native of Richmond, Virginia he lives and composes in Cincinnati, where he sings with the May Festival Chorus and other area choirs and choruses.
My Radiance Indwelling may sound a bit like a breakdown in an electronics factory, but isn't. I found myself trapped for an hour inside a mechanical womb, and kept myself calm by making an inventory of the ambient sounds and considering how they might be duplicated by acoustic instruments. I succeeded, and since I used samples and never anticipate a live performance with instruments it is definitely electronic in nature.
About that mechanical womb -suffice it to say that no issues were discovered, and you should be glad I compressed the experience into 60" rather than 60'
40) Step by Step-David Sartor
David P. Sartor has received the prestigious Ostwald Award from the American Bandmasters Association, as well as awards from New Music for Young Ensembles, Meet The Composer, Delta Omicron and ASCAP, among others. A popular Guest Composer, Conductor and Lecturer, he has completed residencies at venues including the Washington (D.C.) National Cathedral, Illinois State University, and California State University Bakersfield, sponsored by New York City’s Meet The Composer Foundation. His instrumental and vocal works are performed nationally and internationally, are recorded on the ERM label, and are published by E.C. Schirmer, Shawnee Press, TRN Music, and Metamorphic Music.
42) The Z Relationship-Garry Wickliffe
Garry Wickliffe is a native of east Texas, and is currently completing his master's degree in music composition under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen Lias at Stephen F. Austin State University. Although Garry is a published composer and arranger of concert works, he hopes one day to write music for either film or video games. He has worked extensively with the SFA film department and has helped to score two of their feature films, and he hopes one day to take the skills he learned from those experiences all the way to Hollywood.
On The Z Relationship: When I decided to enter the 60x60 competition I had no idea what I was going to compose. I'm not very familiar with how to manipulate sounds and synthesize new ones, so I decided to compose something I was very familiar with; I created an audio movie trailer. The movie itself does not exist, nor does any footage. I wrote the script myself and play the voice of the protagonist. The other voices were my friends Michelle Ferguson (soprano) and Christian Teague (bass). The end result is a "seriously funny" trailer about the hidden horrors of 20th c. music.
43 fountasia-Benjamin Dorfan
Ben Dorfan is currently studying music and biology at Oberlin College. His work has become increasingly focused on exploring the relationship between natural and developed spaces; he is working on a series of multimedia compositions drawing inspiration and source material from outdoor environments in northern Ohio.
In the past year, Ben’s music has been performed at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis, MN, the SEAMUS National Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, and in Wilmington, DE, Oberlin, OH, Boston, MA and New York, NY as part of Avian Music’s Spring 2008 east-coast tour.
44) Subtle Metamorphosis-D. Travis Clem
D. Travis Clem was born in Louisville, KY, in 1984, and was raised in Saudi Arabia. His composition studies at Middle Tennessee State University were with Dr. Paul Osterfield and Dr. Michael Linton. Clem has received recognition for and performances of several of his acoustic and electronic works. His eclectic aesthetic tends towards the marrying art and science, changing a fundamental detail in a piece and seeing what music can result from that change. He currently attends graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and studies under Dr. Mark Engebretson and Dr. Alejandro Rutty.
The audience is presented with a fundamental pitch in each speaker related by the golden mean. Immediately shooting up in the right are about two dozen tones. They land and are agreeable; they are harmonics of the right speaker's fundamental. Then they change. Ever so slightly, ever so subtly, they slip into disagreement. They never go so far as to be jarring, only giving an aural uncertainty to the sound. Then, just as deftly as they left, they slide back into agreement, only now over the other fundamental. Finally, they fall back down, bringing the piece to a tidy close.
45) Th1rt33n-Brian Vlasak
Brian Vlasak (b. 1979) was born in Binghamton, NY. He earned both his B. Mus. (2003) and M. Mus. (2004) from the Crane School of Music where he studied composition with David Heinick and Paul Siskind. Prior to the conclusion of his Ph.D. studies at the University of Iowa in 2007, Brian received composition instruction from David Gompper and Lawrence Fritts, and was the 2005-2006 recipient of the Henry and Parker Pelzer Composition Fellowship. During the 2007 – 2008 academic year, he was a Visiting Fellow at Augustana College in Illinois. For more information, please visit http://www.brianvlasak.com.
One of the most interesting properties of raw audio as it converts to a digital format is the fact that data is “lost in translation” wherein small slices of data are cut out of the recorded audio in the interest of making a smaller file size. How much data is actually lost? Furthermore, when the sample is taken out of context and melded with the software issue, is it even possible to recognize the original intent? Th1rt33n (2008) uses a recording of the thirteen-member chamber ensemble which performed my Chamber Concerto (2007) as its source to explore this very problem.
46) Titled-Ted Hendry
Ted Hendry was born sometime in winter during the earlyish portion of the 11980’s…scientists believe.
Titled is a pieces consisting of numerous manipulations of a single sound sample: Carolyn Major singing the solfege “Do.”
47) You've Got… 60 Seconds-John Akins
John R. Akins (b. 1939), a Michigan Native, received his BM and MM in theory/composition from Southern Methodist University and a DMA in composition from the University of Texas, Austin, studying with Hunter Johnson and Kent Kennan. He has taught at Texas Lutheran College, at the University of Maine at Machias and since 1977 at Evangel University.
With an alternative title of Computerondo, You've Got… 60 Seconds (2008) was a sequel of sorts to my first electronic composition of 1970-77, entitled Electrondo, which attempted to show, lightheartedly and yet seriously, that the "new" electronically synthesized sounds could be put into old classical formal structures, specifically, an extended rondo form. Now, in place of Moog and Arp with patch chords and MIDI improvisation, it has been fun to use .wav sounds familiar to personal computer users and process them in Sound Forge -- cutting and pasting virtually instead of the more tedious
real life cutting and splicing of tape -- to come up with the present work.
48) Boredom of Familiarity-Rodrigo Sigal
Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico City, 1971) holds a PhD in Electroacoustic compostion from City University in London. He has studied with Mario Lavista, Denis Smalley, Javier Alvarez, Franco Donatoni, Judith Weird and others. He has received awards from the Mexan Natrional Fund for Culture and the Arts, The CIEM, Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, ORS and The Sidney Perry Foundation in England and the LIEM Studios and The Ministry of Culture in Spain.
Boredom of Familiarity represents Luggi Russolo’s sounds and ideas in 60 seconds.
49) Chalk Talk-Thomas Zalduendo-
Thomas Zalduendo is a music student at Lewis University. Playing music is his passion and he plans to continue this long after graduation.
Chalk Talk was inspired by the sounds of chalk writing on a blackboard. As students, everyday we hear this noise and sometimes it can become extremely annoying; one of the many frustrations one can have at school.
50) I’m Tired of Tradition-Brian McGeever
Brian McGeever is a music student at Texas A&M University.
At the risk of sacrilege McGeever thinks the adherence to antiquated musical tradition demanded by society is ridiculous. He tried to convey these ideas with the sounds in I’m Tired of Tradition, where pitched sounds represent the “traditional.”
51) Robots From Hell-Christopher Gorman
Christopher Gorman hails from Hilo, Hawaii and started composing electronic songs in high school. As of 2008, he is achieving a minor in electro-acoustic computer music.
Robots From Hell depicts the world’s takeover by hostile machines, presenting the possibility that technology will be the reason for the apocalypse. It manipulates the sound of a chalkboard using ProTools.
52) Untitled-Grant-Pittman
Grant Pittman is a music student at Texas A&M University.
The object of his compositon was to have a very flowing and steadily moving piece.
53) Lift:Electronique-Chad Wallin
Chad Wallin is a musician and undergraduate at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is currently enrolled in Audio Recording Techniques II under Professor Jeremy Baguyos, an excellent teacher and mentor. This is Chad’s first attempt at electronic music.
Reluctant Lift: Electonique utilizes sounds of fellow students clapping, laughing, ripping tape and playing guitar. The sounds were recorded at UNO’s Studio 153 and altered with pitch shifts, delays, distortion, and reversing the audio. It has a darker tone with hints of melodic gestures; the piece was inspired by an event that took place at the stuio late one night when a homeless female hopped into Chad’s car at a stop light and asked for money, food, and a ride to the bus stop.
54) Glass Elevator-Nathan Edwards
Nathan Edwards is a Graduate student in Computer Music and New Media Technology at Northern Illinois University and is a member of the Annex Group Computer Music Studio. He holds a degree in Recording Technology and Music Business from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. His works include exploration of the psychological and emotional reaction to directional sound placement and surround sound techniques.
Glass Elevator uses a sample taken on a hotel elevator in Chicago to create a simultaneous feeling of whimsy and dread. The tone of light flair represents our everyday interactions that surprise us and brighten our lives. The underlying dread signifies the part of our subconscious that is aware of the possibility of a sudden and unexpected danger that may exist at any moment. This piece explores this increasingly acute sense of danger, and the ways we attempt to subdue that fear.
55) Contemplacion-Lucio E Cuellar
Originally from Bogota, Colombia Lucio Edilberto Cuellar C., began musical studies at the conservatory of the National University of Colombia in his native city. In 1979 he moved to the United States, where he completed a Bachelor degree in piano performance at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, GA and a M.M. in music composition at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Cuellar holds a DMA in composition from the University of North Texas. Mr. Cuellar works with sound synthesis, multimedia video pieces and music for acoustic instruments.
Contemplacion (2008) is an electroacoustic composition expressing a meditative mood. Voices from the past resonate in the subconscious as an expression of one’s journey. Flute sounds portray the miniscule changes of the journey that in the end become very important. Other soundscapes, composed by synthesized, hybrid and samples of city sounds, express the different circumstances and emotions of that contemplation.
56) A Stroll in the Dark-Anthony Arlotta/ Reconsiderate
Reconsiderate is what you get when you mix industrial rock with hip hop, and toss in elements of spoken word, breat beat, avant garde experimentalism and whole a bunch of other stuff that nobody has yet invented names for. He's a future-based artist, riding the chaotic waves of inspiration, wherever they may lead. At the moment, he's using computer-based composition software to do his thing. Who knows whether it'll be the same 5 years from now, or even 5 minutes from now?
Dominantly sinister in mood, A Stroll in the Dark sets the stage in a rather fearful place, and then grants us a brief glimpse into what the psychoscape might look like if we were to dull the powerful evil. What we're left with is little more than caution...
137.117 bpm in 5/2 time and the B Hungarian Major scale
57) Suspension-Balie Todd
Balie Todd lives in Lenoir City, TN, which means "The Dark" in French. He will be releasing songs with another 60x60 participant, Dan Vose, under the name "the Last to Sleep" He has a sudden, intense interest in acoustic drumming (which he can not do) and a long standing, mild interest in galvanism, not to be confused with electrophysiology, which he writes off as superstition. He is pretentious, yet low-brow, two personality traits that take turns being more or less pronounced, but constantly reinforce each other. He has two personalities, an obnoxiously bombastic bad one, and an incredibly shy good one. The bad one wrote this bio.
58) Transferred-Jason Bolte
Jason Bolte (b.1976) is currently a D.M.A. Candidate (ABD) in Music Composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. Along with his responsibilities at UMKC, he is also an Adjunct Instructor of Music at the Kansas City Kansas Community College. Jason is a member of the organizational staff of the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and a founding member of the Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance. Jason holds a B.M. with an emphasis in Music Engineering Technology and a M.M. in Music Composition from Ball State University. His music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally in Chile, France, Hungary, Mexico, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the summer of 2007, Jason was an Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Master Artist Denis Smalley.
Transferred for fixed media (2008) was composed in honor of the one-year anniversary of Jay Batzner’s Unsafe Bull Podcast. It is based on material Jay sampled from a Mancala board game.
59) 60Sekund Kowntdown-Ron Coulter
Ron Coulter is Lecturer of Percussion at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an Educational Endorser with the ProMark Corporation. He has toured internationally and performed with such artists as The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Four Aces, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Sean Jones, Al Martino, Sandy Duncan, and
Rapture7 among others. He is a co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble and RED VIXA and artistic director of the Perkusiv Arts Elektronik and Southern Illinois Improvisation Series. Recent activities include interdisciplinary collaborations and organizing Fluxusconcerts. As a composer, Ron has created more than 90 compositions and he is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies.
60) Musical Mechanics-Russel Cannon
Russell Cannon is a native of Garland, Texas. He is an honor graduate of Sachse High School and was a member of the Marching and Honors Bands there. He is presently enrolled in the Music Theory and Composition Program at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he is also a member of the Wind Symphony. Russell plays both B-flat and Bass Clarinet and has been composing since seventh grade. Russell’s interests beyond composing extend to sound design, acoustics and statistics.
Musical Mechanics is designed to explore what exactly takes place while someone or a group of persons is playing a piece of music at 132 beats per-minute. Some of these “mechanics” are commonly overlooked when music is made. Without them, however, nothing would make any sense. Perhaps these very “mechanics” themselves are music enough…
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