60x60 360 degrees of 60x60 Home Mixes Events Composers Collaborations Audio/Video Press FAQs Call_for_Works Burgundy Mix This version of 60x60, called 360 degrees of 60x60, is sponsored in part by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) – www.computermusic.org The works included in the mix were created specifically for the 2010 ICMC RED Edition (International Computer Music Conference) presented by Stony Brook University in New York City and Stony Brook. Six 60x60 mixes featuring 360 pieces from different composers throughout the world will presented during the conference and at remote concerts around the globe. The 6 different mixes are all named a different shade of red to honor the RED edition of ICMC: 60x60 Burgundy mix, Crimson mix, Magenta mix, Sanguine mix, Scarlet mix, and Vermilion mix. Each mix is one hour long and contains different composers totaling to 360 different works each by different composers from many different countries around the world. TITLE Composer 1 ) Are you there? Paul Burnell 2 ) Mesh Gretchen Jude 3 ) Vertical Akiko Hatakeyama 4 ) This Winter Judy Franklin 5 ) Forra Amanda Feery 6 ) 2-2 Emerson Aagaard 7 ) Jay's Drumset Josh Zaslow 8 ) My roof Zina von Bozzay 9 ) Travel Clock Holland Hopson 10 ) crawlerbaby Joseph Pehrson 11 ) Twist of Fate Part I Ken Field 12 ) Recuerdos Nora Ponte 13 ) 60 Second Bicycle Fernando Lopez-Lezcano 14 ) Götz Naleppa Colin Black 15 ) Seawater Aki Pasoulas 16 ) Glitches Hayley McCamey 17 ) Electron Dan Tramte 18 ) Le voci di qualcuno Giuseppe Rapisarda 19 ) Migraine Impromptu Martin Herraiz 20 ) Dwelling On Autumn Joel Hickman 21 ) A Love Song (for Erin) Eric Schwartz 22 ) Road from Supai Randall West 23 ) Slow Dance #3 Prent Rodgers 24 ) Mercury Drip Brendan Faegre 25 ) Old Man Dreams of Old Harp Zachary Young 26 ) Yes No, 2007. Sound composition for 60x60, New York Timo Kahlen 27 ) NatureMusic Shu-Fang Ko 28 ) Struck by the Beauty Tim Reed 29 ) Heaven Help Us bob siebert 30 ) Four Short Pieces for Clarinet, Mov't 2 Paul Lombardi 31 ) CowBellEtude 4 Tatjana Boehme-Mehner 32 ) The Serenity of Sexual Dysfunction John Bilotta 33 ) Elasticity Ken Paoli 34 ) seismo_2010_1_5_mix60 Phil Edelstein 35 ) On a Wire Kari Besharse 36 ) wire Thomas Ciufo 37 ) I'm Tired of Tradition Brian McGeever 38 ) Alli's Back Porch Nick Hwang 39 ) ICMC2010Pizzicato Hsi Yang 40 ) 60x60 from Maskering Vilseledning Marcus Wrango 41 ) Phoenix 5 Robert Ratcliffe 42 ) refuse Alexander Mouton 43 ) Meditation in Glass Diana Simpson Salazar 44 ) SkitterTwonk Andrew Dolphin 45 ) The Sparkling Ripples Kazuaki Shiota 46 ) nth John Thompson 47 ) Yesterday's Sunset Katie McMurran 48 ) GoldenM Julian Villegas 49 ) CompuIntroMusic Christopher Keyes 50 ) DNA David Berlin 51 ) Resistance Redux: 10 Jun 1940 / 8 Aug 1942 Brian Fending 52 ) aa lava Michiko Kawagoe 53 ) r0r Terry Gambarotto 54 ) Wakeup Call John Gibson 55 ) Red Eye to Bettendorf Greg Bryant 56 ) Silk Fun Robert Lepre 57 ) SIP Gene Pritsker 58 ) Speckled Variants Thomas Donahue 59 ) Pop Rich Bitting 60 ) Plasticity of Time Robert Allaire 60x60 Burgundy Mix 1 ) Are you there? Paul Burnell Paul Burnell (born 1960, Ystrad, South Wales) is a composer and musician based in London, UK. He studied music at Dartington College of Arts, Exeter University and Royal Holloway College. After a ten-year break from music he turned to composition in the 1990s and has received commissions from CoMA, the Bath International Music Festival, Inchcholm New Music Ensemble in Scotland, and the Yorkshire Late Starters Strings. He is a long-standing member of the London CoMA ensemble and is assistant conductor for the group. Pieces to be performed in 2010 include a suite for frame drums - 'Mathematician Suite' for percussionist Chris Brannick, and ‘Glass Blowing' for BellaTromba brass quartet. Albums include ‘Leaving the Party on Pluto', ‘Good to Go' and ‘Sticking with Childish Things'. Is someone trying to find you? 2 ) Mesh Gretchen Jude Gretchen Jude is a composer, performer, writer and multi-media artist from Idaho. During an eight-year tenure in Tokyo as an English professor, Gretchen studied traditional Japanese music and became interested in the cross-cultural and sociopolitical aspects of sound. Upon returning to the US to further her music studies, she discovered computer music. Gretchen is currently finishing her MFA in Electronic Music/Recording Media at Mills College. Recent interests include improvisation in the context of composition, collaboration with dancers, and building analog electronics. Gretchen's work is concerned with crossing borders between human and machine, acoustic and electronic, analog and digital, self and other. In "Mesh," a random, computer-generated melodic line is joined by the opening theme of Tadao Sawai's composition for koto, "Tori no Yo Ni [Like a Bird]" (played by Curtis Patterson). The two melodies have only a driving pulse in commom. However, this commonality is tenuous, as the koto player's (human) sense of rhythm pulls against the absolute (mechanical) regularity of the synthesized sound. 3 ) Vertical Akiko Hatakeyama Akiko Hatakeyama is a singer, song writer, a flutist, a composer, and a video artist who is a native of Yokohama, Japan. She is interested in crossing boundaries between traditionally written music, electronics, and improvisation. Also, she incorporates sensibilities and styles of Japanese culture and sounds of everyday objects to her music making. She most often finds beauty in simplicity. One of important things for Akiko in writing music is to not lose her own sense of beauty in complexity and aggressive experimentation. She has been involved in festivals such as the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in California, Chicago Calling Arts Festival, the Musica Viva Festival 2009 - Sound Walk in Lisbon Portugal, and Death Jewel Film and Video at Anthology Film Archives in NY. She is pursuing her MA in composition at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. This piece pictures the pillars of lights coming from cracks of clouds in the sky. 4 ) This Winter Judy Franklin "Judy Franklin has a background in mathematics, computer science, control engineering and jazz flute. Her research is in machine learning and music and she teaches a seminar in sound and music processing at Smith College, where she is an associate professor of computer science. http://www.cs.smith.edu/~jfrankli" Algorithms and interactive sound generation in pure data, with the onset of gray skies and whistling wind in the outside world. 5 ) Forra Amanda Feery Amanda Feery is a musicmaker based in Dublin, working with acoustic and electronic music. She gained a B.A in Music from Trinity College Dublin in 2006 and recently completed an M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies, from Trinity College Dublin. Her work has been performed both nationally and internationally in the U.K, U.S, and the Netherlands by groups such as Ensemble ICC, Crash Ensemble, RIAM Percussion Ensemble, Dublin Guitar Quartet, and Orkest de Ereprijs. She was the 2009 winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Composer Award and the same year participated at the International Young Composers Meeting, studying with Louis Andriessen.She was recently selected for a composer residency at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. "Forra" is for piano, percussion, and electronics. The piece began with a short melodic phrase which was expanded, contracted, and then completely distorted in the electronic and acoustic part. 6 ) 2-2 Emerson Aagaard Emerson Aagaard is a musician living in Richland Center, Wisconsin, who will be attending UW-Eau Claire to major in music-composition in the fall. 2-2 was written and notated on paper and then realized using Csound and the tracking software Renoise. Various samples are used including drum recordings by Bill Ray released under a creative commons licence. 7 ) Jay's Drumset Josh Zaslow "Josh Zaslow lives in Carrboro, North Carolina. By day he is a dishwasher and by night he plays music with Star.Fm and The Element Of Peas. " This piece was meant to capture the sound of jazz. 8 ) My roof Zina von Bozzay "Zina von Bozzay is a composer, performer, and music researcher particularly interested in small ensembles, vocal music, and the integration of diverse musical influences. She has studied, performed, and enjoyed listening to a variety of old and new, folkloric and composed, acoustic and recorded, performed and participatory musical styles from around the world. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the graduate composition program at Mills College, and is now making music in Budapest, Hungary. " All recordings were made on my roof and at my kitchen sink, with a small handheld recorder. 9 ) Travel Clock Holland Hopson "Holland Hopson is a composer, improviser, and electronic artist. As an instrumentalist he performs on soprano saxophone, clawhammer banjo and electronics. He has held residencies at STEIM, Amsterdam; Experimental Music Studios, Krakow and Katowice, Poland; Sonic Arts Research Studio, Vancouver, Canada; LEMURPlex, Brooklyn; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, New York where he developed a sound installation based on Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture With Hidden Noise. In 1993-1994 Holland recorded environmental sounds on four continents and in over a dozen countries as a fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Holland’s latest recording is With Hidden Noises released on Grab Rare Arts (www.grabrarearts.com). Travel Clock is a lightly treated field recording of a travel alarm clock ticking steadily amidst a thunderstorm in Thailand. 10 ) crawlerbaby Joseph Pehrson JOSEPH PEHRSON, composer-pianist, (b. Detroit) has written works for a wide variety of media and they have been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the U.S., Eastern Europe and Russia. Since 1983, Pehrson has been a founding director of the Composers Concordance in New York. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan (Doctor of Musical Arts 1981). Pehrson visited St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in March 2008 for a series of concerts. "crawlerbaby" is an ensemble piece with John Clark, horn, Dave Taylor, bass trombone, Gene Pritsker, electric guitar, Lynn Bechtold, violin, Jonne Lin, cello, Dan Cooper, electric bass, Dan Barrett, conductor: the International Street Cannibals Ensemble. 11 ) Twist of Fate Part I Ken Field "Ken Field is a composer and saxophonist. Since 1988 he has been a member of the internationally acclaimed modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Field also leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, an improvisational brass band whose second release, "Forked Tongue", was included on best-of-year lists in the Village Voice, the Postiimes (Estonia), and ten others. The Ensemble's debut CD, "Year of the Snake", was named by influential WNYC music director John Schaefer as one of his top 20 "new sounds" releases of all time. Field has been awarded composer-in-residence fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Fundacion Valparaiso, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Commissions include work for Guggenheim Fellows Bridgman/Packer Dance, as well as numerous soundtracks for animator Karen Aqua, a longtime collaborator. Field is a Vandoren Performing Artist. His music is heard regularly on Sesame Street. http://kenfield.org " This composition incorporates acoustic elements from biomedical and environmental sources, as well as electronic elements created using the Korg Kaossilator device, with digital manipulation. The piece is intended to denote normal body rhythms interrupted at the end by a significant physiological indication. It constitutes the initial portion of the soundtrack for the short animated film "Twist of Fate" by Karen Aqua. 12 ) Recuerdos Nora Ponte NORA PONTE (Argentina) - Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic Music Laboratory at University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, San Juan - Ph. D. in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Buffalo - Master and BA degrees from the Argentine Catholic University at Buenos Aires - Recipient of the Municipal Prize of Composition of Buenos Aires (2008) - Winner of the first "Christoph Delz International Composition Competition" (Basel, Switzerland, 1999) - Guest composer at the Borealis Festival 2006 (Norway), the UNCG New Music Festival 2008 and the 2010 Caribbean Composers Forum Recuerdos (Memories) is the third of a series of six pieces generated from classic guitar sounds, specifically chords and tambura strokes, inspired in the tango Niebla del Riachuelo (Fog of the Riachuelo). These tango lyrics are about my home neighborhood, La Boca, in Buenos Aires. La Boca (The Mouth) was part of the city harbor in the past and cradle of the tango. The guitar used to be the instrument that accompanied tangos at that time. Recuerdos is, therefore, a succinct homage to my own ancestry. 13 ) 60 Second Bicycle Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Fernando Lopez-Lezcano is a composer, performer, lecturer and computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University. He has been teaching and taking care of computing resources there since 1993, and created and maintains since 2001 the Planet CCRMA collection of open source sound and music packages for Linux. He has been involved in the field of electronic music since 1976 as a composer and performer, blurring the lines of his dual background in music (piano and composition) and electronic engineering. His music has been released on CD and played in the Americas, Europe and East Asia. He also taught at Keio University in Japan in 1992 and was the "Edgar Varese Guest Professor" at TU Berlin during the Summer 2008 semester. The original piece was named "65 Second Bicycle", was 65 seconds long and was created for Prof. Folkmar Hein's surprise birthday and retirement concert in Germany. Many bikes in Berlin, sleek, purposeful, fast, everywhere. Cut to Pasadena (long story), a big garage in a museum and a forgotten bike. A key on a keychain and some fun hitting the spokes of the wheels and other metal parts with it. Recorder in hand. Materials for this analysis / resynthesis ATS / SuperCollider piece that does not really end at 60 seconds. Reminds me of good times in Berlin... 14 ) Götz Naleppa Colin Black Colin Black is a composer and sound artist whose works have received international recognition. He composes for films, radio arts programs, dance and theater works, installations and multimedia projects. In 2003 Black won the prestigious International Prix Italia Award in the category Best Music Radio-Composed Work for his major work, “The Ears Outside My Listening Room” which he composed and produced. Colin Black’s works have been selected for performance at events including “Zeppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro” and “En Red 0 2000” music festival Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese Bourges France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel (France), The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University’s Live Wires Concerts ’97, ’98, Melbourne’s Extatic Concert for the Next Wave Festival ’98 and Wellington’s Extatic Concert ’99. 15 ) Seawater Aki Pasoulas Aki Pasoulas teaches at the Universities of City London, Middlesex, and the Arts London, and finalises his doctoral research under the supervision of Denis Smalley. His research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and investigates the listener's experience and interpretation of time passing, and the interrelationships among timescales in electroacoustic music. Further research interests include psychoacoustics, microsound and spatialisation. Aki has composed for various combinations of instruments, found objects, voice, recorded and electronic sound. He is a Sound and Music shortlisted composer, composed music for the theatre and for short films, and organised and performed with various ensembles. His compositions received honorable mentions and shortlisted at international composition competitions, and his music has been selected for performances at key events worldwide. A concert dedicated to Aki's music took place in Vienna, Austria, in April 2010. [Personal website: www.aki-pasoulas.co.uk] Seawater. Noun; water in or taken from the sea. 16 ) Glitches Hayley McCamey Hayley McCamey is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. The title of this piece is a tribute to the many glitches I encountered in the process of making it. 17 ) Electron Dan Tramte Dan Tramte (b. 1985) received his Bachelor's degree in percussion performance from Bowling Green State University in 2008. Currently he is working on a Master's degree in composition at BGSU where is primary composition instructors include Dr. Burton Beerman, Dr. Elainie Lillios, and Dr. Mikel Kuehn. He has also studied with Pulitzer prize winner, Steven Stucky. Recently, his music has been programmed on Nashville's Soundcrawl Music Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and SEAMUS 2010. In preparation for a doctoral recital, percussionist Olman Piedra commissioned several fixed electroacoustic works to be sounded in between his pieces and fill the void during percussion setups. Eventually, these 1-3 minute electroacoustic pieces became a compositional framework for Dan Tramte called Gluons. Each Gluon is named after an elementary particle and based on a simple sonic theme. One of these pieces, Electron, features the sounds that result from tesla coils, power chords tearing, and other forms of violent electrical breakdowns. 18 ) Le voci di qualcuno Giuseppe Rapisarda "Giuseppe Rapisarda was born in Catania in 1972. He graduated in Piano, Electroacoustic Music and Music Composition at Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini (Catania - Italy). His compositions have received honors and/or have been performed at La Terra Fertile (Italy), INTERFACE 97 (New Zealand), Corpi del Suono Festival (Italy), Live Wires (Australia), 1st Symposium on Music and Computers (Greece), III Simposio Nacional de Computacion Musica e Imagen (Argentina), Suonimmagine (Italy), Electro Acoustic Summer II - Logos Foundation (Belgium), SICMF (Korea), Sonic Residues 02 Festival (Australia), Festival Garage (Germany), D>ART 01 (Australia), Festival Medi@terra 01 (Greece), Nuit de la musique acousmatique (France), Ibla Grand Prize 2001 (Italy), art@ontheriverHull (UK), Maxis Festival 2002 (UK), SFIFEM 2002, Sound Spaces (Australia), CIM (Italy), La Salle University (USA). His reviews have been published in Computer Music Journal and SAN Diffusion. He teaches Electroacoustic Music at Conservatory of Music "V. Bellini" in Palermo (Italy). I believe that this piece can create many suggestions but I am not able to describe and to suggest anything to the listener. Your mind can imagine everything. 19 ) Migraine Impromptu Martin Herraiz Martin Herraiz was born in 1980. Mostly self-taught as a musician and composer, he was a finalist at Brazil's first National Contest of Concert Band Arrangements (2000), at the Stockhausen/AcidPlanet Electronic Composition Contest (2003) and at the NE/BAM Brazilian Composers Competition (2009). He graduated in Design in 2003 with a research which discussed music composition as a form of design. He co-organized the 5th ENCUn (National Composers Meeting) in 2007, with performances and recordings of over a hundred works of composers from all over the country. His work zonder titel was premiered by the Nieuw Ensemble in The Hague (Holland) in 2009. He is currently writing his Masters dissertation on Frank Zappa's orchestral music and is busy with several commissions. Migraine Impromptu was written in 2005 and revised in 2007. It sums up how I feel about headaches, in a nutshell. 20 ) Dwelling On Autumn Joel Hickman Joel David Hickman was born in Valparaiso, Indiana and currently lives in Hebron, Indiana. Graduated from Lowell High School and has a Bachelor's Degree in music from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Joel also has a recording engineering certificate from the Recording Workshop. Joel studied classical guitar with Paul Henry and composition with Bob Lombardo. He has recorded and performed with many ensembles in different styles in the Chicago land area including Dalet-Yod, Nylonsteel, The Wandering Jews, and Hickman/Pancini. Also recorded with Harry Unsworth, James Cooper, Graham Smith and many others. Joel has recorded, performed and composed many solo works for guitar, piano, string ensembles, chamber ensembles and full orchestra. Joel teaches guitar and piano at Chantal's Music Institute For Children and has many music students in Northwest Indiana. "Dwelling On Autumn is scored and recorded for 4 autoharps in J.I. tuning , 2 violas in J.I. tuning, a recorder in 12tet, a wood block and a spoken voice reading an original poem for this work. 21 ) A Love Song (for Erin) Eric Schwartz Eric Schwartz has studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, New York University, and both the Interlochen and Aspen Summer Music Festivals. Past teachers have included Margaret Brouwer, Donald Erb, George Tsontakis, and Randy Woolf. He has received awards and grants from Meet the Composer, ASCAP, The Society for New Music, The Puffin Foundation, The Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and others. Schwartz has served on the faculties of New York University, Hunter College, and the Lucy Moses Music School, and is the artistic director of the Brooklyn, NY based experimental music group Forecast Music. His debut CD "24 Ways of Looking at a Piano", named one of the top classical CDs of 2005 by All Music Guide, is available from Centaur Records. Following a wonderful, rewarding decade in NYC, Schwartz has taken a position at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts, and has recently settled in NC. "A Love Song (for Erin)" is a track from my meta-piano album project, "24 ways of looking at a piano". The album was released by Centaur Records in 2005, and named one of the top classical CDs of that year by the All Music Guide. All sounds on the album were created by digitally modulating acoustic piano sounds. The piece was written for my wonderul wife, Erin. 22 ) Road from Supai Randall West Randall West's inspiration spans from 20th century modernism to the baroque, Indian classical, Japanese folk, electronic, avant-garde, and popular music. Randall received his Masters in composition at the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, where his instructors included Daron Hagen, Stacy Garrop, and Kyong Mee Choi. He has been awarded fellowships by the Seasons Music Festival and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was the recipient of the 2008/2009 CCPA Wind Ensemble Competition for Wayna Picchu. His works have been read or performed by Palomar, the Yakima Symphony, the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, and Chicago Opera Vanguard, among others. Recent projects include collaborations with award-winning poets Jill McDonough and Matthew Hittinger and vocal ensembles VOX 3 and SONG. Randall also works as a website programmer, and is a pianist and Taiko performer. Website: www.randallwest.com. Supai is a community within the Grand Canyon, and is the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation. This piece is based on my experience visiting the Canyon, where one finds that the road from Supai is a grueling but beautiful uphill hike out. The material for the piece is generated algorithmically. It uses phrases of just-intuned intervals; and each phase ends on a pitch a ratio of 81/80 higher than it started. A phrase plays, and then 1 or 2 follow, starting on the pitch where the last left off. The "center" pitch creeps upward, while the phrases multiply and fall farther out of tune. 23 ) Slow Dance #3 Prent Rodgers Prent Rodgers is a composer working with microtonal materials. He studied at Bennington College with Gunnar Schonbeck, Joel Chadebe, and Henry Brant, and a U.C.S.D with Pauline Oliveros and Bertram Turetzky. His current work explores the 72 equal divisions of the octave. Slow Dance #3 moves from a just minor chord (6:5) to just major (5:4) and back again, over a period of just under 60 seconds. The slide from minor to major is gradual, in single 72 EDO steps. The piece is scored for vibraphone, and wind instruments. The vibraphone envelope is structured to eliminate the attack, and only make the sustain audible. It was realized using Csound and the McGill University Master Samples. 24 ) Mercury Drip Brendan Faegre Brendan's life journey thus far has taken him through the roles of tabla disciple of Pandit Ramdas Palsule; private instructor of percussion, music theory, and composition; jazz ensemble coach; radio host; professional jazz drummer and symphonic percussionist; Alaskan carpenter; and now composition student and Associate Instructor in Music Theory at Indiana University. This versatile background has equipped him with many compositional tools to use while crafting his works. Fascinated by analogies between music and other artistic disciplines (carpentry included), Brendan is always pursuing a more diverse tool-belt, currently so through studying the Norwegian language. For more information, please visit www.brendanfaegre.com. Mercury Drip is a minute-long exploration of sounds produced late at night by a lone traveler in a distant, post-apocalyptic world. He was attempting to recreate his childhood memories of music, with nothing to sound but a metal bowl and a jar of water. I hope to have aided him with my digital transformations. 25 ) Old Man Dreams of Old Harp Zachary Young "Zachary Young is a senior at the University of North Texas completing his Bachelors of Music in Music Composition. As a composer, he has had the good fortune of working with many world-renowned composers including David Bithell, Harvey Sollberger, Cindy McTee, Andrew May, Micheal Colgrass, Libby Larson, and Joseph Klein. Lately, he has been focusing on composing pieces which subtly integrate a dialogue between the textures of the electronic and the acoustic using a variety of approaches. In addition, he enjoys composing music for more traditional chamber ensembles and soundtracks for film and video games. Contact: zacharyyoung@my.unt.edu" "This brief sound world is primarily generated from contrapuntally overlapped improvisations on an old, out-of-tune harp. I was compelled to fuse these expressive gestures with some short, time-stretched recordings of the human voice for an added layer of depth and motion." 26 ) Yes No, 2007. Sound composition for 60x60, New York Timo Kahlen Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen (*1966), nominated for the German national "Sound Art Prize" ("Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis") in 2006, has presented his experimental media work in more than 90 solo and group exhibitions since the mid-1980s, including invitations to the "60x60" project (New York 2009), to "MANIFESTA 7" (Italy 2008), to "Sound Art 2006" (Marl, Cologne, Duisburg), to "Wireless Experience" (Helsinki 2004), to "Zeitskulptur" (Linz 1997) and to "Works with Wind" (Kunst-Werke, Berlin 1991). Timo Kahlen lives and works in Berlin, Germany Is communication possible in a fully technological, globalized world ? On what base do we form far-reaching decisions across distances, languages, contexts and with the 'help' of technologies that we can never fully understand ? How, in fact, do we even decide on the simple things : in how far do the simple binary "Yes" or "No" ("Do" and "Undo", "Save" and "Delete") options of your computer represent how decisions are made in your head - without supplying you with the "Maybes" and "But also..." options ? This is a (seemingly) 'analogue', simple and raw piece about what exists inbetween a "Yes" and a "No". 27 ) NatureMusic Shu-Fang Ko Now study in National Chiao-Tung University, Sound and Music Innovative Technologies first-year master's degree. Use nature sound but do some effect on them, like bird, river, and rain, with piano music for background, mixing a new feeling NatureMusic! 28 ) Struck by the Beauty Tim Reed Tim Reed was born in May of 1976 weighing 11 pounds and 9 ounces. During the following fifteen years, his weight steadily increased, reaching approximately 170 pounds in 1991. Tim's height also increased during this time, reaching 6 feet and 4 inches in 1991. Between 1991 and 2007 his height remained steady at 6 feet and 4 inches while his weight fluctuated between 165 and 210 pounds. Tim is currently 6 feet and 4 inches in height and weighs 178 pounds (March 2010). Struck by the Beauty is an electroacoustic composition for fixed media. 29 ) Heaven Help Us bob siebert "I received my Bachelor and Masters of Music Degrees from Manhattan School of Music. My private studies were with Armen Boyajian, pianist to Beverly Sills. I have been a performer/composer/teacher in the New York area for the past thirty five years. My music runs the gambit from pop influenced electronic realism through reinvented jazz standards to experimental electronic pieces. My newest works: "Rrrring Tones!" (for Circuit Bent SK1 keyboard) & "pieces of the trans- world suite" (assorted African Thumb Pianos) are minimalist and influenced by the prepared piano pieces of John Cage, the birds in my neighbor hood and the continuing philosophical science of Dada. All of my work can be found on iTunes, YouTube, MySpace and cdbaby.com/bobsiebert This piece is from a group of short pieces, all of which are Toy Piano improvisations over a canvas or wash of sound; i.e. soundscapes. As these pieces traveled through cyber space becoming mp3 files, they renamed them selves "Heaven Help Us". How this happened I don't know, but to me it defined the music, so I kept it! 30 ) Four Short Pieces for Clarinet, Mov't 2 Paul Lombardi Paul Lombardi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. His music has been performed in more than 20 states across the US, as well as in other areas in North America, South America and Europe. Recordings of his music are available from Capstone Records, Zerx Records, and ERMMedia. Many groups have played his music, notably the Kiev Philharmonic, the East Coast Composers Ensemble, Third Angle, and Hundredth Monkey. He is the winner of the 2010 Renee B. Fisher Piano Composition Competition, and has received numerous commissions including one by Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium in honor of George Crumb on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Dr. Lombardi's theoretical work focuses on mathematics and music, and is published in the Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Mathematics and Music (forthcoming), and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. He was the pianist for the Hundredth Monkey Ensemble from 2000 to 2003, and was a soloist for the Siskiyou Community Orchestra in 1994. He was a member of the theory and composition faculty at the University of New Mexico from 2003 to 2009. none 31 ) CowBellEtude 4 Tatjana Boehme-Mehner Tatjana BÖHME-MEHNER, born 1976 in Gera (East Germany), musicology and journalism studies at Leipzig University; Master and PhD degree. Specialization in electroacoustic music, music theory, music sociology, music and media. Since 2003 PostDoc research project on electroacoustic aesthetics in France and Germany. 2005/06 DAAD/MSH Research Fellowship in Paris. Cooperation with Ina-GRM, MINT-OMF (Sorbonne) and CIERA. Since 2006 associated member of MINT and CIERA. Member of DEGEM, GfM, EMS. Wide range of publications and projects, paper presentations. Giving lectures and courses at several German Universities. Recently intensifying activities as a composer (e.g. selected in FramentAzioni Competition, Udine (I), 2008 (Cowbell Etude I), selected for 8th Annual International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR09), New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton, 2009(Soundsounding) holophon Festival, Canada, 2009; Sounds from the WEAVE exhibition, Rutgers, Camden, USA, 2009, Zeppelin Festival, Barcelona, Spanien, Dezember 2009; Just one Sound, Zeppelin Festival, Barcelona, Spanien, Dezember 2009; Hunting Scene, World Electroacoustic Listening Room Project (WEALR10), New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton, USA, 2010)). The Etudes are electoracoustic miniatures playing with the sound of cowbells and contrasting a very possible series of associations and expectations of nature cowbells may evoke. What was especially interesting for the composer was the transition from sound to rhythm and from rhythm to sound.The sixminiatures are first of all made as inspiration for making up anecdotes. 32 ) The Serenity of Sexual Dysfunction John Bilotta "JOHN G. BILOTTA was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, but has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area where he studied composition with Frederick Saunders. His works have been performed by Rarescale, Earplay, Chamber Mix, the Oakland Civic Orchestra, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Talea Ensemble, Avenue Winds, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, VocalWorks, the Boston String Quartet, and the Blue Grass Opera Company. Quantum Mechanic won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month Competition. John is Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Wind Festival, and co-directs with Brian Bice the Festival of Contemporary Music. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Composers, Inc., and is editor of SCION, the organization's opportunities newsletter. " Serenity has no undercurrents, no depth, only occasional flashes of darkness. 33 ) Elasticity Ken Paoli Ken Paoli received his undergraduate training at DePaul University, studying composition with Phil Winsor. His graduate degrees are from Northwestern University, where he studied composition with Lyndon DeYoung and M. William Karlins. He is currently a professor of music at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. He was a faculty member at DePaul University and chairman of Music Theory and Composition at Western Illinois University. During his tenure at College of DuPage he has established a state of the art recording facility and a music technology classroom. Ken was a visiting professor at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan during the Winter '09 semester. His catalogue of works includes music for orchestra, acoustic ensembles, electro-acoustic combinations and algorithmic computer-assisted compositions. Ken resides in Wheaton, IL and maintains a busy schedule of teaching, performing, composing and arranging. "Elasticity" uses rhythm to organize the pitch and contrapuntal elements of the composition. The "ebb and flow" of rhythm is the determiner of consonance and dissonance, register placement and timbre. Algorithmically generated materials were manipulated in MIDI and "orchestrated" with wavetable and virtual analog synthesizers. The resultant MIDI data is converted to wave files in a multi-track framework and subsequently mixed and mastered using typical, commercial audio techniques. 34 ) seismo_2010_1_5_mix60 Phil Edelstein I was fortunate enough to have found a childhood delight in electricity as it could produce sound and light. This over time led to recurring episodes in the creation and rendering of sound objects. Much of that has been under cover of Composers-Inside-Electronics and the wonderful arc/k of installations and performance of David Tudor's Rainforest IV. Here's 1 minute with 3 slices of realtime seismographs amplitude to frequency swizzled through synthetic resonant objects constructed with pd. I found myself with bit of time over the holidays and figured time to send out bit of sonic best wishes with an ear to the ground. 35 ) On a Wire Kari Besharse Kari Besharse is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, a guitarist, an educator, a sci-fi nut, and an outdoors enthusiast. She has taught music theory, music history, and electronic music courses at Illinois Wesleyan University and music theory courses at Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her education includes undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (B.M. ‘98), and graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin (M.M. ‘02) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (D.MA. ‘09). Her music has been presented around the world by venues and organizations such as The California Ear Unit, Society of Composers, Inc., Texas Computer Musicians Network, The LaTex Festival, The Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, ICMC, SEAMUS, Bourges, Elektrophonie, Third Practice, 60X60, The Electroacoustic Juke Joint Festival, New Music Forum, Pulse Field, and the Art of Sounds Festival at Belgrade, Serbia. On a Wire was created from various scraps and pieces of material from several different pieces. Almost every sound in this miniature comes from noises and fragments improvised on classical or electric guitar. These sounds were then processed in many ways to create an intense sixty-second tapestry. 36 ) wire Thomas Ciufo Thomas Ciufo is a composer, sound artist, and researcher working primarily in the areas of electroacoustic improvisational performance and sonic art. He has been active for many years in the areas of composition, performance, installation, audio and video work, as well as music / technology education. What you hear is what you get. 37 ) I'm Tired of Tradition Brian McGeever BJ McGeever is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. I think that adherence to antiquated musical traditions is demanded by our society. My point of view, though possibly sacrilegious, is that just because musical artists of the 18th and 19th centuries had a way of doing things doesn't mean we have to do that now. Music is about creation and expression of emotions, not doing things the "right" way. 38 ) Alli's Back Porch Nick Hwang Nick Hwang, (b. 1982), is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition and Experimental Music in Digital Media at Louisiana State University, studying with Stephen David Beck. He earned his Masters Degree at LSU and his Bachelors at the University of Florida, with James Paul Sain. He writes music for chamber and large acoustic ensembles, theatre, and electronic media. Alli's Back Porch is an early electronic composition which is evocative of the wildlife sounds outside a friend's house in Gainesville, Florida. 39 ) ICMC2010Pizzicato Hsi Yang 40 ) 60x60 from Maskering Vilseledning Marcus Wrango Electro acoustic composer from Stockholm, Sweden. M.A. in electro acoustic music composition at Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Working with live electronics, studio based works, text sound, video art, musical expression systems, human to computer interaction and software engineering. More info: http://marcus.wrango.com A electro acoustic music and text-sound drama about Swedens largest secret yet. The piece "60x60 from Maskering Vilseledning" is a hyper condensed version of one of my largest pieces "Maskering; Vilseledning". This one minute version is 60 extracted parts from the 30 minute original, put in the 60 seconds form. The original piece is a musical drama where a man discovers strange sounds in a security system and tries to find out the truth.. 41 ) Phoenix 5 Robert Ratcliffe Robert Ratcliffe - composer and pianist - is currently completing a PhD in composition (new forms of hybrid musical discourse) at Keele University (UK). He is the first composer to develop a musical language formed primarily through the cross-fertilisation of electronic dance music (EDM) and contemporary art music. An important part of his research has comprised looking in detail at the tools of production used in the creation of EDM by various artists. The output of this research into the functionality of the equipment and deliberate ‘creative subversion' of its intended normative use has been used to develop a vocabulary of compositional techniques for use within his own work. ‘Phoenix 5’ is taken from a series of recombinant electronic miniatures (‘Phoenix’) which are designed to function as both individual compositions and ‘modular' components within a larger structure. The separate movements may be played in isolation or sequenced in various ways, with the added option to internally reconfigure (or ‘remix') each miniature, allowing for alternative realisations. ‘Phoenix’ explores the possibility of combining characteristic features of synthetic-driven EDM genres such as acid house and techno (the tools of production, distortion, rhythmic and melodic patterns) with a structure and metre derived from instrumental composition, and an approach to sound design that is characteristic of electroacoustic music. Metrical and structural information from Stravinsky's ‘Rite of Spring’ was used as a template for the organisation of musical material within ‘Phoenix’, whose default structure is an amalgamation of formal attributes (time signature changes, motivic relationships) taken from the last four movements of the source work. Original material contained within this outline was generated by sequencing various analogue synthesizers using a pattern-based hardware sequencer, with the converted audio subsequently processed using digital audio techniques to provide an aggressive and belligerent sound palette ranging from distorted analogue patterns to digital noise. 42 ) refuse Alexander Mouton As a digital artist, Alexander Mouton explores the potential that new technology has for bringing ?visual and sound arts together for interactive and immersive works both online? and in physical spaces. Alexander's time-based work is regularly featured in new media festivals internationally and his artists' books are in collections including the MoMA in NYC and the Kunst Bibliothek in Berlin, Germany. Much of his work can be experienced at http://www.unseenproductions.net. Currently Alexander is Assistant Professor of Digital Art & Design at Seattle University in Washington. With a long-standing interest in music, Alexander’s artistic practice has expanded to include field recordings and remixology through the possibilities that digital media affords. Refuse is an abstract political satire of US conservatism made from appropriated vocal tracks including a political speech by Sarah Palin. Mixing was done using SountrackPro. 43 ) Meditation in Glass Diana Simpson Salazar Diana Salazar was born in Glasgow, UK and studied composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before completing doctoral studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is currently a lecturer in music technology at Kingston University, London. Her works have been performed and broadcast throughout the UK and internationally. She has received recognition in the Bourges Competition of Electroacoustic Music, Prix SCRIME, Prix Destellos, Musica Viva, Laspace du Son and CIMESP (International Electroacoustic Contest of San Paulo). Meditation in Glass is one of a set of 3 miniatures made from specific sound sources, notably glass, water and steel. Although the works were limited to these very elemental source materials, the intention was to evoke subtle moods and environments which transport the listener to an altogether different place. The movement in glass is the most playful of the three works, with crisp gestures initiating sparkling rhythmic material. 44 ) SkitterTwonk Andrew Dolphin Andy Dolphin is a composer currently studying in Northern Ireland. His compositional output includes fixed media pieces, multi-channel works, and the development of interactive systems or sound toys incorporating game engine technologies for sonic/compositional purposes. His fixed media works frequently explore the creation of skewed and suggestive sound worlds from constrained themed materials. Moving rapidly along the surface. Skittering contacts and collisions, changes in direction and force, for a duration of 60 seconds. 45 ) The Sparkling Ripples Kazuaki Shiota Kazuaki Shiota (b. 1980) is a composer. He was born in Osaka, Japan and has studied in the United States of America since 1998. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas and a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati, where he is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts. His primary composition teachers have been Mara Helmuth and Phil Winsor. He has been collaborating with instrumentalists, singers, visual artists and dancers. He presented ""The Overtone Extraction Theory based on Two Fundamentals"" at the International Computer Music Conference since 2006. {TranSpell}, the application that runs based on the theory, is his primary tool to compose. He also composes music with using various sorts of equal temperament and micro-tones. He is an adjunct professor at Shobi University and Tamagawa University in Japan. " "The bell-like sound represents the sparkling ripples and the percussive sound in the low register enhances the space in the distance. The tuning was based on the tuning system used in Gagaku, which is the ancient Japanese court music. 46 ) nth John Thompson John Thompson teaches, composes and conducts research in the area of computer music and music technology. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied composition and media arts with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads, William Kraft, Stephen Travis Pope, and Marcos Novak. His works and research have been presented at ICMC, NIME, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, SIGGRAPH, ISEA Zero-One, ACM Multimedia, SEAMUS, and the Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Conference. He currently directs the Music Technology program at Georgia Southern University where he is Assistant Professor of Music. nth is a microtonal sketch written using 9 divisions of the 2:1 octave. 47 ) Yesterday's Sunset Katie McMurran Katie McMurran is a sound artist and composer in Los Angeles. Her sound art pieces have been exhibited with New Adventures in Sound Art, Sound Cafe, and New Town Arts. Her compositions have been performed as a part of 60x60 and the Microscore Project. "This electronic work consists of multiple processed and unprocessed segments that gradually unfold. The title is a reference to a belief held by my friend's 5-year old son: that the ocean swallows up the sun when it sets at the beach." 48 ) GoldenM Julian Villegas Julian Villegas was born in 1974 in Cali, Colombia. He took music classes at the University of Valle for 5 years, and graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from the same university. He has Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Aizu, Japan. His interests include keyboard performance, computer music, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, music visualization, audio paradoxes, audio recording, acoustical and electro-acoustical compositions. GoldenM is a computer-generated composition created in Pd. It's an arrangement for three voices and filtered white noise. In GoldenM, each voice has a spectrum based on the golden ratio (about 1.61803), and the pitch set was selected using minima of a dissonance function. Rhythm and the spatialization are generated using Markov chains. The purpose of the composition is to use the golden ratio, in unconventional ways preserving, in some extent, its aesthetic nuance. The result, at moderate volume, resembles (at least to the author) the sound of chimes and bells used in Asian musical traditions. 49 ) CompuIntroMusic Christopher Keyes Acclaimed by Fanfare Magazine as "Masterful…a modernized Rachmaninoff" Christopher J. Keyes (b. 1963) began his career as a pianist, winning many competitions and later making his "double-debut" in Carnegie Hall as both soloist and guest composer with the New York Youth Symphony. He continued his musical training at the Eastman School of Music, completing his doctorate in 1992. Since the late 1990s his work has focused on electro-acoustic music, multi-channel audio, and more recently computer graphics as mediums to expand the possibilities of acoustic instruments in concert. His compositions have been performed and broadcast in over 30 countries worldwide. He is currently an Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University where he directs the Laboratory for Music Exploration and Research (LaMER). Solo CD's and a mutli-channel DVD of his music can be heard on the Centaur (CRC 2377) Capstone (CPS-8739) and Ravello (RR7803) labels. CompuIntroMusic (A Short Ride on the NeXT Machine) is a gamelan-type signature piece, that does all the things I really like...in 60 seconds. It has repeated, syncopated cross-rhythms (similar to a Steve Reich piece), processed sampled sounds (similar to a Paul Lansky piece), and algorithms, using permutations of a diatonic hexachord. In all, nearly four dozen sampled sounds are processed, ranging from saw blades to actual Sundanese gamelan instruments, and mixed together in over 10000 "notes". It was realised, as the name implies, on an old NeXT computer, way back when... 50 ) DNA David Berlin David Berlin is a composer and music educator who has received numerous grants, awards and honors in both composition and education, among them the Salop-Slates Award for "significant contribution to wind and string chamber music literature" for his composition entitled "Synergism." His music has been commissioned and broadcast nationally and internationally and performed by the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Sterbrooke Ensemble at Carnegie Hall (NYC), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Con Spirito Woodwind Quintet, and the Cuarteto de Saxófones de Barcelona, among many other national and international groups. In the field of education, he has developed interactive multi-media projects for Partners in Distance Learning and Project 60x60, and was the first music educator in District 1 to receive the PA Music Educators Association Citation of Excellence. A resident artist for the Partners in Distance Learning; a cyberspace-based enterprise dedicated to the infusion of arts activities into classrooms This piece was inspired by visual images of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) the main role of which is the long term storage of information. Yet it connects people's lives. It is through this DNA "score" that the "human orchestra" responds, sometimes in harmony, often in counterpoint, occasionally consonant, often dissonant. 51 ) Resistance Redux: 10 Jun 1940 / 8 Aug 1942 Brian Fending Brian Fending (BM, SUNY College at Fredonia, 1996; Miami University, MM, 1999) is a programmer, multimedia artist, and percussionist. Fending has performed with the electroacoustic improvisation group Gray Code, with guitarist Jonathan Morris in the post-everything duo Fending/Matis and is currently working on the interactive sound installation Beelezebub Slept Here and various collaborative projects. On 10 Jun 1940, Benito Mussolini delivered his Declaration of War on France and England, an impassioned call to arms for the Fascist state. Just two years later, on 8 Aug 1942, Mahatma Ghandi delivered his famous Quit India speech rallying against British Imperialism, and ending with the pledge, “At a time when I may have to launch the biggest struggle of my life, I may not harbour hatred against anybody.” Resistance Redux is a treatment of the most substantive text of both speeches, and is a study in both the obvious contrasts and subtle similarities. 52 ) aa lava Michiko Kawagoe A Japanese composer residing in Tsukuba, Japan, Michiko Kawagoe has studied composition at Louisiana State University and The Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Israel with full scholarships. She has studied SYNTAL program with Wayne Slawson at the Computer and Electronic Music Studio of the University of California, Davis. Her works have been broadcast on FM radio in USA, WDR in Germany and waves in Russia. She has won numerous awards, including the honorable mention for her piano solo piece "Passage" on International Music Prizes 2009 by the National Academy of Music, USA. Her computer music "Propagation" was included in a CD compilation of the "Women Take Back the Noise" project by Ubuibi, USA. "aa lava" was made by the computer program called SYNTAL06 designed by Wayne Slawson that generates music consisting of speech-like computer-synthesized sounds. In "aa lava" various event types are presented at the opening and transform the sounds in phoneme and in voice parameters such as open quotient, flutter and vibrato frequency as proceeding toward the end. The repetition of transformation of each motif shows flowing lavas seen in Hawaii. 53 ) r0r Terry Gambarotto I'm a composer and programmer from Toronto. My current focus is creating and performing with Max/MSP/Jitter. Under the name Rocky G I have released several albums of techno and dance oriented material. Visit my website at foolskool.com. The impetus for this piece was a Max/MSP patch floating around the internet supposedly written by glitch pioneers Autechre. At the suggestion of my composer friend Matt LeBlanc, I reverse engineered the patch and rewrote it as multichannel program that could potentially be used for live performance. It turned out to be too complex for live use, but was good for generating material in the studio. Here are some of the results. 54 ) Wakeup Call John Gibson "John Gibson's acoustic and electroacoustic music has been presented in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, and Asia. His instrumental compositions have been performed by many groups, including the London Sinfonietta, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Seattle Symphony, the Music Today Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, and at the Tanglewood, Marlboro, and June in Buffalo festivals. Presentations of his electroacoustic music include concerts at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Bourges Synthèse Festival, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Keio University in Japan, the Third Practice Festival, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and many ICMC and SEAMUS conferences. Gibson holds a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, and Steven Mackey. He has taught composition and computer music at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Louisville. He is now Assistant Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. For more information, visit john-gibson.com. " This is a postcard from Japan. 55 ) Red Eye to Bettendorf Greg Bryant Greg Bryant is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UCLA. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in Cognitive Psychology. He has been playing and recording music and noise for over 20 years in a variety of styles, and is planning a CD release of experimental work later this year. He has a broad interest in the relationships between music and language, and has published research on the evolution of music, vocal emotion recognition across cultures, and acoustic properties of voices. This piece composed for 60x60 uses a manipulated trumpet (played by Adam Poirier), two manipulated analog modeling synthesizer tracks, and a loop of duetting Gibbons. 56 ) Silk Fun Robert Lepre Bob Lepre, native of Totowa Boro, NJ, graduated from the U.S. Naval School of Music. He received Bachelor and Masters degrees from Manhattan School of Music and attended Mannes School of Music for early music. He has performed as percussionist with American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Ballet and others. He was also played drums for the original production of Grease and performs annually at the New York Renaissance Fair. Bob has composed works for Yass Hakoshima Mime Theatre, Bill T. Jones, and more than a dozen Shakespeare productions including Henry V, Midsummer Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew. He has also designed sound for off-Broadway and way off-broadway. Silk Fun consists of layered textures of world percussion. Inspired by Polly, Cat, and Rin airial silk dancers. 57 ) SIP Gene pritsker "Composer/guitarist/rapper Gene Pritsker has written over three hundred seventy compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music, songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles, etc. All his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hiphop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated Hollywood movies. The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." The New Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Organizations he is associated with include: Composers' Concordance, Absolute Ensemble, The International Street Cannibals. " The material in "SIP" entirely consist of sounds made by my son Sebastian Izzy Pritsker when he was one year old. I recorded sounds of contrasting moods and manipulated them to give a one minuet over view of various timbres that emanate from a toddler. 58 ) Speckled Variants Thomas Donahue Thomas Donahue is a practicing dentist whose avocation is music. He has performed in many concerts on piano, organ, and harpsichord, and was a participant in the Second International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2000. He is the author/editor of six books on various musicological subjects, including A Guide to Musical Temperament and Music and Its Questions: Essays in Honor of Peter Williams. He is also interesting in instrument making, having designed and built pipe organs, harpsichords, and clavichords. Speckled Variants was composed with notation software and is meant to explore the possibilities of using traditional musical notes in a way that would be the aural equivalent of abstract-expressionist painting. The "speckled" part of the title refers to the three-voice texture that begins the piece and is heard throughout. The "variants" are the several contrasting ideas superimposed on the underlying texture that create several mini-sections. 59 ) Pop Rich Bitting Richard Bitting's motivation for composing music stems from an insatiable love of sound and the nature of sound itself. "The natural soundscape is rich with color and nuance beyond imagination. It is from this sonic metaworld that he draws inspiration for his projects. As a species, we have evolved to rely primarily on our sense of sight. Our brains have developed to filter out "perceived" background "noise" and to process only that sound we deem necessary as information. I invite you to close your eyes, open your mind, and listen to the world through fresh ears." Rich is an artist, composer and teacher living in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Diane and Interior Designer Cat Ginger. " Pop is an acousmatic piece composed of field recordings pop cans and a few pizzicato string samples to add to the ambience. 60 ) Plasticity of Time Robert Allaire Robert Allaire is a composer for film, video games, dance, and the concert hall whose work spans a wide variety of genres and styles. In his concert work he has explored ideas about interactive musical forms, performance art, interdisciplinary works, the inclusion of theatre elements into musical works, and immersive musical experiences. A graduate of the MFA program in music composition at the California Institute of the Arts, Allaire has had the pleasure of studying with composers David Rosenboom, Michael Jon Fink, Ulrich Krieger, Anne Le Baron, and others. At night Allaire becomes half of the chiptune dance band Beta to the Max and can be found rocking out with his keytar. When is a minute not 60 seconds?