60x60 Dance pairs 60 composers with 60 choreographers
for an electrifying one-hour performance
"An express without any delay....
It's this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round."
The New York Times
60x60 Dance -- a one-hour multimedia extravaganza featuring an exciting mix of contemporary dance and electronic music. Embracing a grass-roots ideology, 60x60 Dance takes 60 one-minute audio works culled from an international pool of emerging and established composers and assigns them to an equal mix of 60 local choreographers assembled by macro-choreographer/director. The resulting collaborations are presented, without interruption, as a continuous one-hour performance synchronized to an on-stage analog clock.
"A minute can be plenty of time to express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds and movements, or it can be a challenge, forcing the artist to isolate what is most important in his/her work," Vox Novus's founder/director Robert Voisey explains. "60x60's goal is to disseminate a cross-section of aesthetics in an exciting format to a broad spectrum of people."
Eclectic by nature, 60x60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-speed, electrifying one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise. Dance influences will range from ballet to postmodern movements, while music includes neo-romantic, folk, tech-house, noise, rock and everything but the kitchen sink.
60x60 was originally conceived of as an electronic music project, collecting 60-second works by composers and sound artists from around the world. Since 2003, 60x60 has featured the work of more than 2000 composers in concerts spanning the globe. From the beginning 60x60 was a natural vehicle for collaborating with other art forms. Initially this included video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, 60x60 teamed up with choreographers and 60x60 Dance was born. 60x60 Dance has featured more than 500 choreographers and 1000 dancers. Since then this unique collaboration has produced twenty exciting shows in New York City, London, St Louis, Montreal, Toronto, Columbus and Kansas City.
Each performance run featured a different group of composers and choreographers.
60x60 Dance - The Sheldon - St Louis
ST. LOUS, MO - September 3, 2010 - HEARding Cats Collective, St. Louis' newest presenter and producer of adventurous arts events, has received substantial financial support from the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation for the 2010 production of 60x60 Dance, in co-presentation with The Sheldon. 60x60 Dance will take place Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm at the Sheldon Concert Hall (3648 Washington Blvd.) as part of the larger American Arts Experience festival. The event will also be broadcast live on HEC-TV's State of the Arts Live. Tickets range from $15 to $7, and can be purchased via Metrotix.com, by calling 534-1111, or at the door.
Created by New York-based composer and new music impresario Robert Voisey, 60x60 Dance, is a masterfully coordinated multimedia collaboration that features a surprising diversity of aesthetics. The work pairs 60 unique 60-second music compositions-each by a different composer-with 60 St. Louis choreographersfor a continuous one-hour concert of music and live dance. 60x60 Dance is constantly evolving: for the 2010 mix, aTrek Dance Collective - photo by Lindsay Kelly Stewart
Voisey received more than 600 one-minute musical submissions from national and international composers, which he narrowed to 60, 60-second pieces to form the one-hour recording. Because local choreographers and dancers are given artistic power to create their own expression for their 60-second piece, the production is different every time it's produced.
60x60 Dance will showcase the finest dancers and choreographers in St. Louis for an opportunity to create an evening of magical abstract expression. Both experienced and budding choreographers and dancers will be exposed to the sophisticated patrons of the American Arts Experience in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Native St. Louisan Hettie Barnhill, currently a cast member of Tony-awarding winning musical "Fela" will perform on October 3. Hettie Barnhill
In the past, the 60-second "musical haikus" have ranged from avant-garde sampled/re-mixed found sounds, to smooth jazz. In performance, this wide musical variety results in a mixture of dance pieces that involve individuals as well as groups in very traditional, but also futuristic, creative dance techniques.
To date, in addition to many individuals, participating organizations include: Midwest Dance Theater, First Dance Saint Louis, Kari James Dance Network, Stardance, Inc., aTrek Dance Collective, Ashleyliane Dance photo by Ken Stilson
Company, Los Flamencos, You Are Here Dance, ANNONYArts, The Slaughter Project, Alexandra Ballet, Ballet Initiative, Final Veil, Dances of India, Consuming Kinetics Dance Company, and Serendipity Dance Project
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| 1) | Count to 60 | Tomer Harari | Hettie Barnhill and Dancers |
| 2) | Sublight | Les Scott | Rebecca Gotsch |
| 3) | Ethonikus | Ethan Schwartz | Mary Jean Cowell |
| 4) | Android's Waltz | Marie Incontrera | Stardance, Inc |
| 5) | Fuga Nervosa | Mary Simoni | Keli Hermes |
| 6) | Chipmunk Choir,
Hoping to Forestall
the Impending Apocalypse,
Sings Bravely | Peter Cavell | Nicki Tipton Tallent |
| 7) | Night Trip | Thomas Gerwin | Beth Steinbrenner/ Los Flamencos |
| 8) | Welcome 2010 | Douglas Cohen | Consuming Kinetics Dance Company/ Arica Brown |
| 9) | Dying City | David Hahn | Willy Zep |
| 10) | A MINUTE OF SONIKMUNDUS | Guillermo Pozzati | Nicole Thomas |
| 11) | One minute track | Svetlana Maras | Alicia Jonas |
| 12) | Der Sturz | Madjid Tahriri | Jeffrey Miller |
| 13) | Digitoc | Cyprian Li | Summer Beasley |
| 14) | Downtown Atlantis | Greg Bartholomew | Midwest Dance Theatre |
| 15) | The Shape of the Shell | Cindy Cox | Beckah Reed |
| 16) | After the Resolution | Yota Kobayashi | You Are Here Dance/Laura Lander |
| 17) | Sky Castles | Michael Spicer | Laura Murphy |
| 18) | If The Water Has Memory | Esin Gunduz | Final Veil/ Cora Camille |
| 19) | Song For A Flaming Contortionist | Julia Norton | Kirsten McKeown |
| 20) | You Wanna Go | Reconsiderate | Philip Edgecombe |
| 21) | Mixed Contemporary study #6
for analog electronic percussion
(Roland TR-808, Pearl DRX-1) | Philippe-Aubert Gauthier | First Dance Saint Louis/Dawn Gilbertson |
| 22) | Buddhist Defrosts Freezer | Alexander Baker | Alexandra Bell |
| 23) | Where Am I This Time? | Stephen Lias | Dances of India/Asha Prem |
| 24) | Six Wings North | Lynn Job | Jessica E. Stack |
| 25) | EnvironMentally Sound | Pierre Desmarais | Halley Willcox |
| 26) | outside for a minute | Aaron Acosta | aTrek Dance Collective/ Kristin Best |
| 27) | Kutiah Ice | Agnes Szelag | aTrek Dance Collective/ Diana Barrios |
| 28) | Omaggio a Velazquez | Marco Dibeltulu | Christine Goldmann |
| 29) | Tanja | Ioannis Kourtis | The Slaughter Project/Kristin Yancy |
| 30) | Arachnye | Margaret Schedel | Erin Warner |
| 31) | first snow | Monty Adkins | Midwest Dance Theatre |
| 32) | The Night in Taiwan | Yu-Ping Lin | You Are Here Dance/Melissa Anderson |
| 33) | Sugar Rush | Steven Snowden | Jessica E. Stack |
| 34) | something happened | Anne Van Schothorst | Beth Steinbrenner/ Los Flamencos |
| 35) | Struck by the Beauty | Tim Reed | Dawn Karlovsky & Dancers |
| 36) | Buddhist Spouting Sadness on the Train | Dean Rosenthal | Hilary Peterson |
| 37) | I WANT THE MOLE | duck juggler | Stardance, Inc. |
| 38) | Clickz | Petri Kuljuntausta | Heather Beal |
| 39) | Finnegans Wake Versus
The Worlds Longest Prime | Warren Burt | Kristen Banocy |
| 40) | Think-Tank | Susan Brewster | Janele S. Oros |
| 41) | Molasses | Kevin Kissinger | Consuming Kinetics Dance Company/Arica Brown |
| 42) | 37 | Mike Mc Ferron | Jeffrey Miller |
| 43) | The Unbearable Being of Likeness | Doug Opel | Kristina Bemis |
| 44) | New York | Rob Voisey | Audrey Simes |
| 45) | Visitors | Craig Marks | aTrek Dance Collective/ Kristin Best |
| 46) | Bb | HyeKyung Lee | Halley Willcox |
| 47) | CompuIntroMusic | Christopher Keyes | Common Thread Contemporary Dance/ Jennifer Medina |
| 48) | r0r | Terry Gambarotto | Hettie Barnhill |
| 49) | Crunching Snowby Project Serendipity | Paul Russell | Kari James Dance Network/Kari James |
| 50) | Raices | Gene Marlow and Bobby Sanabria | Final Veil/ Cora Camille |
| 51) | See Now | Sean Archibald | Tracy Dupre |
| 52) | don't wake me up | jacky schreiber | Rachel Brady |
| 53) | Gestalt-n-Pepa | Dry Heeves | Laura Burkhart |
| 54) | 60x60x60 | Howard Kenty | Mary Ann Rund |
| 55) | 180 | John Maycraft | Patricia Solorzano |
| 56) | Will the real Dalton Trumbo please stand up? | Steve Moshier | Alexandra Ballet/CiCi Houston |
| 57) | 2-2 | Emerson Aagaard | Serendipity Dance Project/Ariane Moore |
| 58) | Atomizer | Jon Weinel Limitless | aTrek Dance Collective/ Diana Barrios |
| 59) | Weaver Song | Daniel Griffing | Ashleyliane Dance Company/Ashley L. Tate |
| 60) | The Calliope Crashed to the Ground | Danny Wier | Ballet Initiative/ Jennifer Welch Cudnik |
| 60x60 2010 International Mix |
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Count to 60
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| Choreographed by: Hettie Barnhill |
Hettie Barnhill: Choreography: VH1, International Wow Theater, 60x60 Newyork, Solar One, The Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Ailey School and Dance Chicago. Selected Credits: FELA! Broadway, Hairspray, Surrender, LaCage Aux Folles, Guys&Dolls, Aida, Second City , BLM, The Kennedy Center and Amici-Italy.
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Composed by: Tomer Harari
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Born in Israel, 1979. Tomer Harari currently lives and works in The Nederlands. Composer and performer of live electronic music, plays guitar, harmonium and a singing saw. MA in Sonology from the Royal conservatory, Den Haag, The Nederlands. BA in music and fine art from Haifa university, Israel. Studied composition with Arik Shapira. graduated from 'Thelma-Yalin' high school of the arts, Jazz department.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/TomerHatanin
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"Many of my family & friends are from different places in the world and can speak in different languages. While talking to them on skype, I asked them to count from 1 to 60 in their mother tongue and in other languages if possible. During the piece 40 tracks are played back as a new voices joins the choir every second. I want to thank all those who contributed their voice to this piece (in order of appearance): Adeola, Erez, David.G, Elisenda, Sergio, Inbal, Blandine, David.B, Hilla.S, Visnja, Ophir, Eyal, Mike, Tal, Itai, Iara, Hilla.L, Ilya, Adam. p.s You are welcome to count along in your own language... "
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Sublight
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| Choreographed by: Rebecca Gotsch |
| Rebecca Gotsch’s involvement with dance began as energetic child thru graduation from Western Kentucky University which opened the door to many opportunities. Dance is a journey of constant discovery. There’s an enduring love for dance & its power inspire. It brings great joy to share passion for dance with those she teaches. |
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Composed by: Les Scott
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Les Scott’s debut album “Altered Carbon” was released in 2008 under the name Neu Gestalt. In 2009 he arranged “Fated Stars” on “To Infinity” by Alex Tronic and remixed various artists. He is presently working on his second album “Weightless Hours” while carrying out further remix and collaborative work.
http://www.myspace.com/neugestalt
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“Sublight” aims for a mood is which is introspective, autumnal, and yearning. It tries to capture light and shade; the pull of yin and yang; and a sense of nostalgia - hoping to make one minute of music feel like a fragment of a life and its sense of “being”.
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Ethonikus
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| Choreographed by: Laura Burkhart |
| Laura Burkhart is programming and marketing director for New Orleans Ballet
Association. She served on Dance/USA's Board of Trustees and has been as a panelist for
the NEA, MAC and RAC. She worked for Dance St. Louis from 1987- 2006 and was a
member of Burning Feet Contemporary Dance Company. |
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Composed by: Ethan Schwartz
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Ethan Schwartz is a student at the University of California Santa Barbara, pursuing a degree in Environmental Studies. He is currently studying javanese/balinese gamelan and arabic music, in addition to exploring 31ET and other tuning systems on his own. Drummer Brandon Woodward is graduating from high school this year and has been accepted into USC.
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Performed on a guitar retrofitted for 31-tone equal temperament, in addition to drums. The intent was to present an unfamiliar tuning in a familiar format and instrumentation. It takes advantage of 1/5th tone shifts; modulation in the A section, and chordal resolution in the B section.
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Android's Waltz
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| Choreographed by: Stardance, Inc |
| Darcie Star began dancing at the age of three. Later she enhanced her study with gymnastics and cheerleading then began Ballroom at 19 with Arthur Murrays School of Dance. Darcie has danced, taught and performed in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney Australia and Sendai, Japan as well as all over the midwest. Darcie received her BFA in dance and choreography from Webster University and is enjoying ownership of her second Ballroom Dance Studio. She teaches dance and pilates at Washington University and Meramec community college and is a featured artist with The Club at Chesterfield and Florissant Community center. She has professionally choreographed musical theatre, and ran her own professional dance theatre for four years. She has taught over 2,000 people to dance. |
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Composed by:Marie Incontrera
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Marie Incontrera, composer and pianist, is a native of Brooklyn, New York. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally at respected venues including Symphony Space, Christ and St. Stephen's Church, Galapagos Art Space, Roulette, the Kaufman Cente, and at the Meridian Festival in Bucharest, Romania. She has been a featured composer on the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Hartford Women Composers' Festival, as part of Max Lifchitz's North-South Consonance Series, and won Remarkable Theater Brigade's Art Song Competition. Her Music has also been performed and read by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony's Symphony Singers, Remarkable Theater Brigade, American Composers' Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony Players and Basso Moderno. Marie serves as Opera Liaison for the New York Chamber Virtuosi, and is the General Director and Composer in Residence of Alphabet soup Productions. She has been a recipient of the Miriam Gideon Composition Award for women composers.
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Android's Waltz is a tiny waltz whose time contraint corresponds to the attention span of the internet generation.
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Fuga Nervosa
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| Choreographed by: Keli Hermes |
| Keli Hermes is from Texas and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a
BFA in modern dance performance. After graduation, Keli danced four seasons with
MADCO, performing in concerts, tours and teaching educational programs. Keli is
currently dancing with Common Thread. This is Keli’s second year participating in
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Composed by: Mary Simoni
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Mary Simoni is a composer, author, teacher, pianist, consultant, arts administrator, and amateur photographer. Her music and multimedia works have been performed in Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States and have been recorded by Centaur Records, the Leonardo Music Journal published by the MIT Press, and the International Computer Music Association. She is the recipient of the Prize in Composition by the ArtNET Virtual Museum. She has authored books, "A Gentle Introduction to Algorithmic Composition" published by the University of Michigan, and "Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music" published by Routledge. She is currently working on a book with Roger Dannenberg of Carnegie Mellon University on algorithmic composition. She is a Medal Laureate of the Computer World Honors Award for her research in digital music information retrieval.
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"Fuga Nervosa" is a fugue con la libertà with tempo rubato so that its duration is precisely one minute. Enjoy!
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Chipmunk Choir, Hoping to Forestall the Impending Apocalypse, Sings Bravely
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| Choreographed by: Nicki Tipton Tallent |
| Nicki Tipton Tallent is a consortium artist with ANNONYArts. Nicki’s choreography has been presented in ANNONYArts’ productions of Dine on Dance and Panorama. She collaborated with other artists to produce, choreograph and perform Gramo Danse 2006 and Four in 2009. Nicki has a BA in dance from Webster University and is currently on faculty teaching dance at St. Joseph’s Academy and is the director/founder of Foster Dance, an educational program that brings dance classes to teenage girls in the foster care system. |
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Composed by: Peter Cavell
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A music-lifer since the age of 8, Peter studied Composition at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Victoria. He lives in Toronto, where he is active as a composer, thereminist, and writer, as well as being a Musical Director at The Second City.
www.petercavell.com
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"Chipmunk Choir..." depicts a group of courageous, anthropomorphic rodents raising their voices in a futile hymn for deliverance.
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Night Trip
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| Choreographed by: Beth Steinbrenner/ Los Flamencos |
| Beth Steinbrenner is Dance Director for St. Louis based company Los Flamencos. Beth started her Flamenco training 20 years ago and has studied with numerous renowned Flamenco dancers; including Daniel de Cordorba, Manolete, Timo Lozano, and at the Academia de Manolo Marin in Seville, Spain. Besides Flamenco, Beth studied dance with Teresa Daniels and at Webster University. Beth has apeared on Charter HEC TV “State of the Arts”, “Best of STL”, “Show Me St. Louis”, NPR and KDHX. She teaches at Just Dancing and All that Dance ArtSpace in St. Louis. |
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Composed by: Thomas Gerwin
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Thomas Gerwin, classically educated composer, came into the field of electronic music/soundscape composition early. He composes for radio and concert performances and creates inter media works. He is director of yearly „International Sound Art Festival _tiefKLANG“ in Berlin, Germany. His works are performed and exhibited worldwide and has won several international prizes.
http://www.thomasgerwin.de
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Night Trip (2008/9)
This piece is mixed down, referring to the 60 sec. format, from the live performance and radio broadcast of “Night Journey” at Stately Radio SWR in December 2008. I played diverse percussion and noise instruments and triggered at the same time different electroacoustic sources through keyboard and MIDI drum pad.
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Welcome 2010
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| Choreographed by: Consuming Kinetics Dance Company/ Arica Brown |
| Arica Brown has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance from The University of Missouri - St. Louis with an emphasis in Dance Composition. She is currently involved in the Somatic Studies Program at Washington University and teaches at two St. Louis Dance Studios; Miss Kim’s Dance Class and DD’s Dance Class. |
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Composed by: Douglas Cohen
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Douglas Cohen is a composer based in New York City. He aligns himself with the American experimental music tradition and was one of Morton Feldman's last students. Cohen has collaborated with notable film artists, performance artists and visual artists. He is currently on the music composition faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music of the City University of New York where he is also active in the Brooklyn College - Center for Computer Music.
www.douglascohen.info
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| This is the ninth composition in a series of welcome messages that began in 1995. The inspiration was the following sentence from President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: "And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict - filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other."
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Dying City
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| Choreographed by: Willy Zep |
| Willy Zep works the freshness of improvisation and the tension of relationship issues brought into dance on a foundation of fused traditional movement. This collaboration with Wolfpuppy exalts the American reach and the need to gather and synthesize gesture from many places in the world. |
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Composed by: David Hahn
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David Hahn, composer, creates diverse pieces of music ranging from the experimental sounds of processed electric guitars to music concrète sound collages to more traditional settings featuring instruments and voices. Educated at Brown University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Mr. Hahn received the doctorate in historical musicology at Stanford University in 1993.
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A MINUTE OF SONIKMUNDUS
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| Choreographed by: Nicole Thomas |
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Nicole Thomas is a graduate of Central Visual & Performing Arts High School & received her
B.F.A. in dance from The University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Nicole is
the principal instructor at Pinx Academy of Dance where she continues to
uplift and share her knowledge and passion of dance with aspiring dancers
around the world.
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Composed by: Guillermo Pozzati
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Guillermo Pozzati (Buenos Aires, 1958) is an Argentine composer, teacher and researcher. In 1992 he completed a residency as guest composer at the “Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics” at Stanford University. Finalist of the '4th International Music Software Competition' (Bourges, 1999) for the creation of “GEN: a Lisp Music Environment"", he was invited by the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) to provide an article about the software. As a theorist, Pozzati developed the concept of ‘Infinite Suite’, this idea was presented at the 'International Computer Music Conference' in Montreal (2009). In the same year, he became a Finalist in the International Electroacoustic Music Competition ‘MUSICA NOVA’, Czech Republic. Pozzati obtained the prestigious ""Ciudad de Buenos Aires"" first prize (2000), that carries with it a life grant for the winner and he was honored, among other distinctions, with the Medal of the ""Concejo Argentino de la Música"" (CAMU-UNESCO).
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“A Minute of SoniKMundus” is a kind of musical synthesis of a larger piece that the author composed in 2010, entitled SoniKMundus. In SoniKMundus the composer attempts to combine construction logic with high expressiveness. The alternation of two predominant pitches provides a frame for thousands of timbre variations, highly contrasted dynamics and different reverberation levels. “A Minute of SoniKMundus” tries to capture some of the sound landscapes and musical processes of its ‘mother’ work.
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One minute track
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| Choreographed by: Alicia Jonas |
| Alicia Jonas graduated from Webster University with degrees in Dance and Management. She has performed with MADCO, aTrek Dance Collective, and in AnnonyArts "Dine on Dance" series. She is also Director of Arts in Motion, a dance school dedicated to providing modern and ballet instruction in the surroundings of a positive, supportive environment. |
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Composed by: Svetlana Maras
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Svetlana Maraš is Serbian composer and sound artist based in Helsinki. She studied composition since the age of 17 with Zoran Eric, at Belgrade University of Art. She is co-founder and a member of “Organization of Young Composers from Serbia – Serbian Sound Youth”. Svetlana is also active as a sound artist and performer of improvised, experimental music (piano, electronics). So far she has made many recordings and public performances in collaboration with various ensembles and solo.
More information about the artist:
www.svetlanamaras.com
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“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol
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Der Sturz
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| Choreographed by: Jeffrey Miller |
| Jeffrey Miller Jeffrey Miller is a relatively nice guy. almost 5'10 and about 143 pounds. Not very big by American standards - but he's a "European large" Mr. Miller is mostly honest, except when he's not. Miller, though bald, has nice brown eyes, so he's got that going for him. Sometimes, He prefers peanut butter on toast, other times, just toast. |
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Composed by: Madjid Tahriri
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Madjid Tahriri (*1981 Tehran) is an iranian composer. He obtained a Bachelor's degree of Arts (Piano, Musicology) from the Azad University,Tehran in 2004 and was pianist in the iranian „Melal- Orchestra". Since 2006 he is studying instrumental and electronic composition at the „Folkwang-Hochschule Essen", Germany with Prof. Dirk Reith, Prof. Günter Steinke and Prof. Thomas Neuhaus. Madjid Tahriris music is performed at international Festivals, such as Fadjr Musik Festival -Tehran 2002, Festival Musica Acoustica Peking 2008 und 2009, Festival Champs Libres' Straßbourg (France) 2008, JSEM/MSJ Electroacoustic Festival- Nagoya (Japan) 2009, next_generation 3.0 "Licht'Raum'Klang" - ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany) 2009, Festival Musica Viva 09- Lisbon (Portugal) 2009, Soundcrawl: Nashville (USA) 2009. In 2009 he was selected for the interdisciplinary competition and workshop „operare 09" in Berlin. In the same year Madjid Tahriri obtained the Folkwang Price in the category composition.
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"Der Sturz" is composed with only 12 sine waves and uses all of their possible combinations, i.e. spectral combinations and glissandi between these frequencies. The main aspect is the rhythm, which is established right at the beginning of the piece. Each impuls of the rhythm is created of a combination of different frequencies. There are 3 layers of rhythm (one with higher frequencies, one with middle frequencies and one with lower frequencies), which together built a polyrhythm. "
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Digitoc
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| Choreographed by: Summer Beasley |
| Summer Beasley has choreographed and performed in Washington D.C., Seattle, Kansas City, MO and extensively in St. Louis is currently the vice president of the Missouri Dance Organization, teaches dance and creative movement at MICDS and performs with both Dawn Karlovsky and Dancers and aTrek Dance Collective. |
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Composed by: Cyprian Li
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Cyprian Li, Chinese and a Chemistry teacher from Hong Kong, has
received no formal music training. He started his pursuit of music in
the eighties, experimenting and composing with the sounds of synthesizers
and algorithmic and signal-processing software. His music has been
presented in various parts of the world.
www.cdemusic.org/search=cyprianli
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Digitoc contains rather rigid rhythmic notes interspersed with unusual
irregular sounds and contrasted with a short stretch of legato ending.
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Downtown Atlantis
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| Choreographed by: Midwest Dance Theatre |
| Donna Patzius-Hill One of the original members of Midwest Dance Theatre 30 yrs ago which was under the direction of her mother Andrea Patzius. Donna went on from there and danced principal roles with company's such as Ballet West, BalletMet, and Atlanta Ballet. After retiring in 2002, Donna joined Patzius performing Arts and became the Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer of Midwest Dance Theatre. |
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Composed by:Greg Bartholomew
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Greg Bartholomew’s music is frequently performed throughout the United States and in Europe, Canada and Australia, and is available on CDs recorded by the Czech Philharmonic, Kiev Philharmonic, Connecticut Choral Artists (Concora), Ars Brunensis Chorus and Langroise Trio, as well as the 60x60 Project. For further information visit www.gregbartholomew.com.
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Downtown Atlantis Wandering the streets of El Dorado.
www.gregbartholomew.com
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The Shape of the Shell
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| Choreographed by: Beckah Reed |
| Beckah Reed is Chair of the Department of Dance at Webster University and Artistic Director of ANNONYArts, a consortium of independent movement and performing artists. Her choreography, best described as theatre dance, draws on the use of props, voice and the motivation of human interactions to create her pieces. |
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Composed by: Cindy Cox
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Radical, traditional, original, archetypal—neither modernist nor neo-tonal, Cindy Cox derives her “post-tonal” musical language from acoustics, innovations in technology, harmonic resonance, and poetic allusion. She frequently collaborates with her husband, poet John Campion. Her music may be accessed at www.cacox.com.
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu
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| "The Shape of the Shell" uses text by poet John Campion, and bass clarinet/voice by Laura Carmichael. This is an excerpt of a larger interactive work for bass clarinet and electronics, and was created with assistance from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley.
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After the Resolution
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| Choreographed by: You Are Here Dance/Laura Lander |
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Laura Lander received her BFA in Dance from the University of Colorado/Boulder
and her MFA in Dance from New York University. She founded YouAreHere Dance
in 2004 with her sister, Melissa Anderson. Laura has taught throughout the St. Louis
area, including at St Louis University, St Louis Community College, COCA, St. Louis
Academy of Dance and at the Dance Co-Op. |
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Composed by Yota Kobayashi
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Yota Kobayashi (b. 1980, Nagoya, Japan) writes music that explores imaginary soundscape. Besides acousmatic pieces, his current compositional work focuses on an endeavour to create electroacoustic “tone poems” in his mixed works - the combination of live instruments and electronics creates abstract narratives, which sympathize with/object to/compliment/clash with one another.
He studied music composition at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and Owen Underhil. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he works actively with film, dance, and theater productions. Among his award include Musica Nova (1st prizes in 2008 and 2009, Czech Republic), Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo (1st prize in 2010, Italy/France), Prix Jue de Temp/Times Play Awards (2nd prize 2009 and 3rd prize 2006, Canada).
www.programsounds.com
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Sky Castles
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| Choreographed by: Laura Murphy |
| Laura Murphy, a St. Louis native, began dancing at the age of four. She has continued her studies at Webster University in St. Louis. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance, with an emphasis in modern, and a Bachelors of Arts in International Human Rights. |
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Composed by: Michael Spicer
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| Michael Spicer has a B.A. (Hons) majoring in music, and a M.Sc in Computer Science, and is constantly looking for ways to combine these two areas. He has been performing professionally as a keyboard/synthesizer/flute player since the late 1970's. He was a member of the popular Australian folk/rock group "Redgum" which produced several hit singles in the 1980's. In 1995 he co-developed two music edutainment games "Agates, the rock group" and "Agates Virtual Music Machine". He is currently teaching at Singapore Polytechnic, working on a PhD in composition at Monash University Conservatorium, and performing in Singapore with the improvisation group "Sonic Escapade".
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| “Sky Castles” is an electro acoustic work, featuring electronically processed flute. It consists of a series of long notes performed on the flute. Whilst play these notes, the performer also hums, improvising a vocal part around the flute part. The resulting sound is transformed by a system of delays and pitch shifters to produce a fairly dense series of evolving chords.
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If The Water Has Memory
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| Choreographed by: Final Veil/ Cora Camille |
| Cora Camille's talents are diverse and her performances are each unique, she is a classically trained Egyptian cabaret style bellydancer who has studied with masters of Egyptian dance and music for the past 20 years. Camille is also a musician and often composes her own music that mixes middle eastern music with modern electronic music, and many of her performances include her singing as well as bellydancing. |
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Composed by: ESIN GUNDUZ
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Esin Gündüz is a composer of contemporary music. She writes for several mediums: chamber ensemble, solo instrument, electronic medium, orchestra or jazz band. Her explorations of gesture, silence, and meaning are of significance. Her pieces were performed in SoundSCAPE in Pavia (Italy) 2009, SCI MU Student Chapter concerts at Marshall University (US) and in French Cultural Center in Istanbul (TR). Her compositions appeared in two CD's by SCI. She's selected to attend David Felder's residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts, in 2010. She performs jazz and improvisational music: recently performed at Montreux jazz Festival (Switzerland) and Jazz a Juan Jazz Festival (France). _BA in jazz performance and composition/ Istanbul Bilgi University; High-Honor Degree, 2005. _MA in composition/ Marshall University, 2009 (graduate teaching assistant of music-theory / ear-training) /with Dr. Mark Zanter.
www.societyofcomposers.org/user/esingunduz.html
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| " If The Water Has Memory” takes its support from exact quotations from four folk songs about rivers, from different parts of the world: Macedonia, Turkey, America and China. The piece consists of the melodies of these selected folk songs. For ages, songs for/about/with rivers have been sung; I imagined that “the water” that runs through all rivers and circulates over the planet had memory and remembered all these songs sung for them by the people. Those songs heard in the vocal track, that are “remembered” in parts, all together create a “river of remembered songs”. Composer, voice: ESIN GÜNDÜZ © 2009 daytime inspiration.
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Song For A Flaming Contortionist
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| Choreographed by: Kirsten McKeown |
| Kirsten McKeown teaches a variety of dance forms at several local studios and schools. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from Webster University. Kirsten has also performed in Dine on Dance and Dancing in the Streets. |
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Composed by: Julia Norton
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Originally from the U.K., Julia currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, where she teaches voice and composes vocal music for live theatre and solo voices. She draws her inspiration from the emotional heart of a subject and uses extended vocal technique to seek out the edges of discomfort, irreverence and harmony. In using her voice as a compositional instrument she has finally found the vocal freedom she always craved. Previous 60X60 pieces are ‘WBQ’ (2004), ‘Space-time’ (2006) and 'Missing My Mother's Garden' (2008). In addition to making unusual electronic music she also performs in a jazz duo and has an award winning Celtic style CD ‘Lullaby Island’.
www.julianorton.com
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| "I love circus, but am very troubled by contortionists."
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You Wanna Go
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| Choreographed by: Philip Edgecombe |
| Philip Edgecombe received his MFA degree in Performance and Choreography from
the University of Arizona. He has presented his choreography at several national
festivals. Mr. Edgecombe has been a company member with Hedwig Dances and a
member of Desert Dance Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2009, Mr. Edgecombe co-
founded pH eXchange Dance Theatre. |
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Composed by: Reconsiderate
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Reconsiderate has been in love with music since time immemorable. He started off in his grade school band as a young'n, and has since moved on to create his own music via his computer, vocals and even the occasional live instruments. At the moment, Reconsiderate’s work exists exclusively in the medium of recorded audio, and likely will continue that way for the forseeable future. He supports (and is honored to participate in) Vox Novus’s annual 60 x 60 series as it is an avenue for true art, the likes of which are to be found nowhere else.
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| Seemingly uncertain and perhaps a bit clumsy, "You Wanna Go" stumbles about like a drunken oaf in constant need of regaining his balance. But beware! Beneath the façade lie a firm form and strong structure, supporting the ready mind you may have underestimated.
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Mixed Contemporary study #6 for analog electronic percussion (Roland TR-808, Pearl DRX-1) and Compression study #1 for fretless bass guitar (Fender Jazz Bass)
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| Choreographed by: First Dance Saint Louis/Dawn Gilbertson |
| Dawn Gilbertson started her dancing career in Wisconsin where she danced and studied with the Wisconsin Dance Ensemble. She graduated from the University of Iowa where she finished degrees in Finance, Dance and French. Dawn teaches and choreographs at COCA, where she has enjoyed working for the past four years. She also choreographs for Famiywise at Grace Church and for First Dance Saint Louis, a business she shares with her sister, Dana Borchert, teaching engaged couples dance for their wedding. |
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Composed by: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier
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P.-A. Gauthier is a junior mechanical engineer, master in sciences, doctor in acoustics and self-taught artist. He pursues research in sound field reproduction and spatial sound. Beside his profesionnal research activities, P.-A. Gauthier is an artist working with sound art, experimental music, sound installation, performance and writing.
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This is a piece from a serie of studies for analog percussion and bass guitar. A TR-808 creates overlapping patterns. The drone is created with a TR-808 and a DRX-1. Drone changes are triggered by the drums. These are combined to a study with compressed bass guitar with three improvised tracks.
http://pag-sound.blogspot.com
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Buddhist Defrosts Freezer
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| Choreographed by: Alexandra Bell |
| Alexandra Bell is a new member of the St. Louis dance community after moving from
New York City where she danced and taught elementary school. As a graduate of
Columbia College Chicago with her BFA in Choreography, Alexandra is interested in
improvisation as a means to explore movement and navigate life. |
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Composed by: Alexander Baker
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I create sound pieces from field recordings as 'idle quietist', and from anything else that comes to hand and ear as 'soluble fisherman'.
Some of this work can be found at:
http://idlequietist.wordpress.com
http://solublefisherman.wordpress.com
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Where Am I This Time?
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| Dances of India/Asha Prem |
Asha Prem is the Artistic Director of Dances of India, Missouri’s premier classical
Indian dance company. Now in its 33rd year, the company has a reputation for
producing strikingly innovative work in its annual Premier Performances. In
addition, it has performed extensively around the St. Louis area.
Please visit
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Composed by: Stephen Lias
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Stephen Lias is an adventurer-composer. Primarily active in concert and chamber music, his passion for travel and the outdoors has led to such works as "White Water," "Prince William Sound," and, most recently, "Sequoia." He lives in Texas where he is Professor of composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.
www.stephenlias.com
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One of the strangest, most interesting, and most useful things that computers do for us as composers is that they allow us to blend sounds from completely disparate worlds. Indigenous instruments, sometimes sampled from performers in remote and undeveloped cultures, can be mixed with western instruments, sounds from popular culture, industrial noise, and synthetic sounds. This inevitably creates sonic spaces that are culturally and geographically ambiguous or even contradictory. While this ambiguity has been exploited extensively within the context of film and game scoring, the cultural contrasts are often more exposed in purely sonic works ' leading the listener to wonder "Where Am I This Time?".
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Six Wings North
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| Choreographed by: Jessica E. Stack |
| Jessica E. Stack earned her BFA-Dance & BA-Psychology at Stephens College. She received her MBA & graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management from University of Missouri-Columbia. Her titles include president of the Missouri Dance Org., business appraiser, choreographer, photographer, soul-surfer, musician, sister, daughter, friend & her favorite: Aunt Jessica. |
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Composed by: Lynn Job
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Lynn Job (pronounced with a long "o"), Doctor of Musical Arts (born South Dakota, U.S.A.) owns Buckthorn Music Press (ASCAP/MPA). She is an active professional composer (all serious "non-pop" genres, sonic e-art, and broadcast), and published poet/author, actress, professor, archaeology hobbyist and more. North Texas, www.BuckthornStudios.com
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(Isaiah 6:6-7) "Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal from the altar; he touched my mouth with it." Six Wings North, an impressionistic sound-scape hinting of wings, atmospheric marvels, beautiful cool fire, ritual cleansing and inter-dimensional transformation. Cleansing is frightful as birth, foreign as death, unscripted and unsteady. Isaiah finds that all is well on the other side of it. (The composer performing live with samples.)
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EnvironMentally Sound
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| Choreographed by: Halley Willcox |
| Halley Willcox graduated from Texas Christian University in 2008 earning her BFA in Modern Dance. Her works have been presented at the AAHPERD Kaleidoscope gala, Muscle Memory Dance Theater’s Pilot concert and in Spain. She is currently living in Kansas City and dancing for Kacico Dance Company. |
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Composed by: Pierre Desmarais
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Pierre Desmarais has a Masters in Music from l’Université de Montréal, where his composition Le Cri was performed by I Musici. He freelances as a bassist and keyboardist as well as compose music for short films. His latest collaboration, “The Letter”, was presented at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival.
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“EnvironMentally Sound” is a composition that attempts to reflect on our fuel driven society. It begins with the sound of a rumbling car that quickly dissipates. Sounds of nature soon creep in, but are quickly silenced when the deadly vehicle returns.
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outside for a minute
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| Choreographed by: aTrek Dance Collective/ Kristin Best |
| Kristin Best Kinscherff is faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Kristin is a member of Turn of Change Dance Collective and aTrek Dance Collective. Her choreography has been presented in the Gala concert at the American College Dance Festival, the Gala/Extravaganza for Body Worlds 3, the Victoria Ballet Theater as well as numerous universities. Best received her MFA from the University of Iowa and a BA from SIUE. |
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Composed by: Aaron Acosta |
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Aaron Acosta is a graduate from the College of Santa Fe with a BA in Sound Design in Media in 2002. This is a Self Designed major that consists of studies in Theatre, Film, and Music. Sound helps us interpret the world in a unique way with frequency, amplitude and time: he chooses to explore these realms. He is involved with electro acoustic composition as well as more traditional composition and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Subscriber: Electronic Music Foundation. Member USITT & CITT. For more info, visit: www.aaronacosta.com or http://www.myspace.com/aaronacostamusic "
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“outside for a minute” starts with a recording of traffic and birds. These sounds were recorded outside my apartment at mid-day. I then use heavy noise filtering, time expansion, editing and granular synthesis to reveal the layers of sound that create the background noise I often ignore.
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Kutiah Ice
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| Choreographed by: aTrek Dance Collective/ Diana Barrios |
| Diana Barrios is the Director of the aTrek Dance Collective. She has a BA in Dramatic Arts, Dance from the Univ of California, Berkeley. She has danced with the Bay Area Repertory Dance Company, touring California and Mexico, is guest faculty at Southern Illinois University and has taught through Saint Louis Community College since 2003. |
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Composed by: Agnes Szelag
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Agnes Szelag is a composer, performer, and video/audio installation artist. Her solo EP No Summer or Winter on Aphonia was hailed as "a distinctive voice in the electro-acoustic field" by Textura, and "gorgeous" by XLR8R. Her most recent release as myrmyr with Marielle Jakobsons The Amber Sea on Digitalis (2009) as was named by Boomkat as "one of the most unique and absorbing albums we've heard this year," and made their top 100 for 2009. Her duo with The Norman Conquest, Dokuro, is described by The Wire as "discreetly sculptured." Her work has been featured in the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The Streaming Festival, Cologne Online Film Festival, Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the Illuminated Corridor Festival, 60 x 60, Soundwave Festival, Voices on the Edge, and at the Stone in NY. Agnes received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and her B.S. in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University.
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Kutiah Ice is a piece about pressure and it's beautiful effects. Kutiah is a glacier in Pakistan that grew faster than any other in the world. This piece is rich in overtones and layers of electronics screaming as if they have barely enough space to coexist together. In the end the pressure of the ice is so great the glacier must expand and push out all possible air bubbles. A brilliant hue of blue is created.
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Omaggio a Velazquez
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| Choreographed by: Christine Goldmann |
| Christine Goldmann St. Louis native, Christine Goldmann, graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in Dance. She is most proud of establishing Wisconsin’s premiere jazz dance company, Elation Dance Theatre, and later her privately owned school, Elation Dance Center. Christine is thrilled to be back in her hometown working as the Associate Director of Education at STAGES St. Louis. |
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Composed by: Marco Dibeltulu
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Marco Dibeltulu studied at the Conservatory of Cagliari Composition, Choral Music and Electronic Music (with Francesco Giomi and Elio Martusciello). His compositions have been selected in many competitions as 6th International Computer Music Competition “Pierre Schaeffer” 2007 – Pescara (1st Prize). He performed at Festivals: Synthèse – Bourges; Biennale di Venezia on-line; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Rifiuti preziosi – Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Contemporary Art Fair – Shanghai; Primavera en La Habana 2008; Zeppelin 2008 – Barcelona; Concerts de Bruits Pierre Schaeffer 1948-2008 – Tempo Reale, Florence; ICEM Concert for IDKA – Gävle (Sweden); Audio Art Circus 2008 – Osaka; Raum-Musik – University of Cologne.
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“Omaggio a Velazquez” is inspired by the genius of Velazquez who represents things as they appear, reducing them to “spots of colour” which, in the electroacoustic composition, are represented by instrumental quotations whose function is to describe in music his art free from the most dramatic and flamboyant aspects of Baroque.
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Tanja
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| Choreographed by: The Slaughter Project/Kristin Yancy |
| Kristin Yancy is a Junior at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in Comparative Arts and minoring in Writing/Communication Design. Kristin is going into her third year as a member of The Slaughter Project, under the direction of Cecil Slaughter. This summer she participated in Broadway Dance Center's Summer Intern Program as a Pre-Professional Intern. This is Kristin's second year participating in 60x60. She is honored to be participating in such a wonderful event, and she would like to thank God for the blessing and her friends and family for all the love and support. |
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Composed by: Ioannis Kourtis
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Ioannis Kourtis was born in Greece. He is mostly a film music composer as he has composed the music of a lot of films. He has written also many works for orchestra and room ensembles and some of them were recorded by Greek and French radios. He is actually living in France where he continues his Ph.D in film music at the University of Montpellier.
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| “Tanja” is a moment inspiration of some beautiful images from horror tales...
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Araxty
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| Choreographed by: Erin Warner |
| Erin Warner holds a B.A. in Dance from Colorado State University, and is currently obtaining her M.F.A in Arts Management from Webster University. Erin choreographs and dances for Cecil Slaughter's company, the Slaughter Project, and serves as the Education Program Coordinator for aTrek Dance Collective, under direction of Diana Barrios. |
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Composed by: Margaret Anne Schedel
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| "Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. She sits on the boards of 60x60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the EMF Institute, the ICMA, NWEAMO, and Organised Sound. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Musica y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. In 2009 she won the first Ruth Anderson Prize for her interactive installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology. In 2010 she co-chaired the International Computer Music Conference. "
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Araxty uses samples from a piece commissioned by the dance collective
Animal Mechanical. It uses the sound of weaving to create a polyrhythmic
thrum over a more straightforward techno beat.
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first snow
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| Choreographed by: Midwest Dance Theatre |
| Donna Patzius-Hill One of the original members of Midwest Dance Theatre 30 yrs ago which was under the direction of her mother Andrea Patzius. Donna went on from there and danced principal roles with company's such as Ballet West, BalletMet, and Atlanta Ballet. After retiring in 2002, Donna joined Patzius performing Arts and became the Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer of Midwest Dance Theatre. |
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composed by: Monty Adkins
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| Monty Adkins is a sound artist based in England. His work has been commissioned by IRCAM, INA-GRM, BBC Radio 3 and is released on empreintes DIGITALes and Signature/Radio France.
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| “First snow (for Lisa)”was written following a concert conducted by a close friend Lisa Colton. As I went back to the studio to collect my bags on the way home the first snow of winter 2009 started to fall. Looking out of the studio I was inspired to make this short piece for Lisa.
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The Night in Taiwan
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| Choreographed by: You Are Here Dance/Melissa Anderson |
| Melissa Anderson studied dance at Arizona State University and completed her BFA
in Dance at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. While at MMC she
studied intensively with Milton Meyers, Cassandra Pfieffer, and Anthony Ferro. Melissa
founded YouAreHere Dance with her sister, Laura Lander in 2004. She has taught at
COCA, St. Louis Academy of Dance and at the Dance Co-Op. |
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composed by: Yu-Ping Lin
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| Yu-Ping Lin, had a great interest in modern music. Now studying composition in Institute of Music, NCTU and working with Prof. Chao-Ming Tung.
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| “The Night in Taiwan” - With a boisterous atmosphere, "The Night in Taiwan" describes crowd night markets in Taiwan on holidays. Night market is a place with peddlers which sell various foods or host different games. People in night markets create an interesting unique soundscape. I devised a melody with feeble noise suggesting orient culture as my prime motive. And the sound field design imitates the soundscape when I was passing through those enthusiastic peddlers.
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Sugar Rush
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| Choreographed by: Jessica E. Stack |
| Jessica E. Stack earned her BFA-Dance & BA-Psychology at Stephens College. She received her MBA & graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management from University of Missouri-Columbia. Her titles include president of the Missouri Dance Org., business appraiser, choreographer, photographer, soul-surfer, musician, sister, daughter, friend & her favorite: Aunt Jessica. |
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Composed by: Steven Snowden
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Eclectic was formed in 2008. Since then performances have included past 3 Glastonbury's, Brighton fringe festival and big dance. Eclectic are about fusing different dance and music styles, which also shows each member of the group personal strength within the piece.
http://www.myspace.com/eclectic_dance
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Steven Snowden has been listening to things since just before he was born. At some point between that time and now, he decided to make things for other people to listen to. He currently does so in Austin, TX.
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something happened
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| Choreographed by: Beth Steinbrenner/ Los Flamencos |
| Beth Steinbrenner is Dance Director for St. Louis based company Los Flamencos. Beth started her Flamenco training 20 years ago and has studied with numerous renowned Flamenco dancers; including Daniel de Cordorba, Manolete, Timo Lozano, and at the Academia de Manolo Marin in Seville, Spain. Besides Flamenco, Beth studied dance with Teresa Daniels and at Webster University. Beth has apeared on Charter HEC TV “State of the Arts”, “Best of STL”, “Show Me St. Louis”, NPR and KDHX. She teaches at Just Dancing and All that Dance ArtSpace in St. Louis. |
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composed by: Anne Van Schothorst
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Anne Van Schothorst (1974) As a classical trained harpist and autodidact composer, from the Netherlands - Den Haag - I am working for an young and creative company harpandsoul.com I started playing the harp in 1983 (concerts, background music, .. ) and I am still playing, but since 2007 (after some live changing moments and lots of soul searching) I decided to become a professional musician; a recording harpist, composer and music producer. I play and create original and instant music and I am involved in art fusion projects: for poetry projects/visuals /film /cartoons/ installations I compose and produce the music. My style can be characterized as classical, minimal, visual and lately even experimental.
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| this 60 sec piece contains harp, voice and soundscapes: stones, pebbles & a falling water drop The music can be discribed as atmosperic mystical music – I have tried to visualize almost a movie like setting .
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Struck by the Beauty
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| Choreographed by: Dawn Karlovsky & Dancers |
| Dawn Karlovsky (MFA, BA) is an artist with ANNONYArts and artistic director of Dawn Karlovsky & Dancers, a pick-up company highlighting collaboration. Her choreography is presented by universities and modern dance companies both regionally and nationally. Dawn teaches at Washington University and COCA. She is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. |
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Composed by: Tim Reed
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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).
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Buddhist Spouting Sadness on the Train
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Hilary Peterson is in her sixth year as a dance instructor in the Department of Theatre
and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University where she regularly choreographs
for dance concerts, musicals and operas. In 2009, Ms. Peterson began a contemporary
dance company, pH eXchange, with Southeast colleague Philip Edgecombe. The
company performs at Fringe Festivals and submits work for additional performances and
choreography competitions. Ms. Peterson received her BA in Dance from Hope College
and her MFA in Dance from the University of Arizona. |
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Composed by: Dean Rosenthal |
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I was born in 1974 and studied composition with Tom Johnson, Morton Subotnick, Wadada Leo Smith, and many other prominent musicians in the American tradition primarily while at CalArts. My works reflect concerns of integrity, pattern, structure, and simplicity, but I prefer to imbue my music ultimately with musical reason. In addition to composing and engraving, I currently edit The Open Space Web Magazine. I live in Northampton, Massachusetts with my wife, Karin.
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| The music of “Buddhist Spouting Sadness on the Train” profiles the American baritone Thomas Buckner. Recordings of his singing contrast with instrumental interludes and spoken word fragments creating a mosaic of musical images.
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I WANT THE MOLE
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| Choreographed by: Stardance, Inc. |
| Darcie Star began dancing at the age of three. Later she enhanced her study with gymnastics and cheerleading then began Ballroom at 19 with Arthur Murrays School of Dance. Darcie has danced, taught and performed in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney Australia and Sendai, Japan as well as all over the midwest. Darcie received her BFA in dance and choreography from Webster University and is enjoying ownership of her second Ballroom Dance Studio. She teaches dance and pilates at Washington University and Meramec community college and is a featured artist with The Club at Chesterfield and Florissant Community center. She has professionally choreographed musical theatre, and ran her own professional dance theatre for four years. She has taught over 2,000 people to dance. |
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Composed by: duck juggler
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An installation/sound artist and experimental musician living in Melbourne. He has released several sound works on analogue and digital formats ranging from recordings of short circuited games and crashing computers, to the use of multiple analogue synthesizers and traditional instruments.. His most recent recorded work ‘kunst e chaos', an interpretation of Stockhausen's Samstag aus Licht, utilized 30 analogue synthesizers and provided the sound for ‘The Killer Is You' installation VCA Gallery Melbourne which opened on October 18 2007, 47 days before the unexpected death of Stockhausen (a coincidence)."
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www.duckjuggler.com
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This project was realised using analogue guitar synthesizers and Reason software and was recorded in ProTools. ‘I Want the Mole' evokes a dream sequence of dancing animals tiptoeing through innocent gardens of unmet desire only to morph into the jungle drums of an elephant stampede before reaching the inevitable conclusion: WAKING.
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Clickz
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| Choreographed by: Heather Beal |
| Heather Beal is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago where she received her BA in Dance. She was a dancer with the Katherine Dunham Museum Children’s Workshop. She performed with the company around the United States and France. She has also performed in several shows at The Black Rep. |
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Composed by: Petri Kuljuntausta
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Petri Kuljuntausta is a composer, musician and sound artist. In close collaboration with natural scientists, he has composed underwater installations and made music out of whale calls, bird songs, and the sounds of the northern lights. He has made recordings for various labels in Australia, Europe, and the USA, and he is the author of three books about electronic music and sound art.
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| “Clickz” is composed for an old vinyl record, old record-player and KaossPad soloist. The vinyl record is modified and its opening groove, silence, is "locked-grooved". The music on the LP was composed by Bela Bartok, but the listener can't hear the actual music. Over the looped record plays the KaossPad soloist who control the feedback sounds generated in the mixer.
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FinnegansWakeVersusTheWorldsLongestPrime
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| Choreographed by: Kristen Banocy |
| Kristen Banocy is a member of St. Louis Dance Theatre. She has been studying dance since 1990 and graduated from the University of Kansas in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a minor in dance. While at KU, she was a member of its University Dance Company. |
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Composed by: Warren Burt
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Warren Burt is a composer, performer, writer, video maker, etc. who lives and works in Wollongong Australia. His work has been performed world wide, and he has recordings available on XI, Pogus, Sonic Gallery, Tall Poppies and Move. He has been collaborating with dancers since the early 1970s.
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| “Finnegans Wake vs The World's Longest Prime” has electronic bells in one channel, playing melodies based on the digits of the worlds longest prime number. In the other channel a demented microtonal folk band plays melodies based on the letters of Finnegans Wake. Potentially lasting months, this is the one minute version.
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Think-Tank
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| Choreographed by: Janele S. Oros |
| Janele S. Oros is a free lance professional dancer and choreographer in the St. Louis area. She currently appears with Annonyarts as a guest artist and will premier her first concert 'unBridled' this winter. Oros holds a BFA in dance from Webster University. She would like to thank her husband for always supporting her work in dance. |
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Composed by: Susan Brewster
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Susan Brewster is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born in America in the state of Indiana, raised in Wisconsin now living and working in London, England. Having studied piano from a young age she was introduced to a number of musical traditions including classical, folk, dixieland, barbershop and ragtime. She began composing as a teenager and at 19 performed professionally in a country western band. She continued with music while studying at University of Wisconsin and in her early 20s relocated to New York City where she performed her own songs in folk clubs around Greenwich Village. Some of her songs were recorded on compilation albums which are now part of the Smithsonian permanent collection. She became involved in theatre while working on a New York City street theatre tour with Theatre for the New City. She continued to pursue music and drama after moving to London where she has composed for fringe theatre and short films.
In 1996 she was included in the International Who's Who in Music 15th Edition. She has an interest in inventing instruments, scales and musical theory and in music as a story telling medium. She has a view to have works performed by experimental ensembles incorporating elements of installation art, dance and theatre.
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"Think-Tank" is an abstract concept but sound strikes an image in the minds eye
and tells a funny story although you don't know why.
The thoughts that come alive and go flying out the door, collecting and recycling and they are multiplying. Bold machinery cold, unstoppable and certain not to fail,
but they have no idea, and the mighty ticking clock could cause them to derail.
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Molasses
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| Choreographed by: Consuming Kinetics Dance Company/Arica Brown |
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Composed by: Kevin Kissinger
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Kevin Kissinger is an electronic musician and classically-trained organist from Kansas City, Mo. His interest in electronic music started in the 1960s when he worked with electronic project kits, a Hammond Organ, and whatever tape recorders he could get his hands on. In the 1970s, Kevin built a large modular synthesizer. Kevin built his first theremin in 2005 and acquired a Moog Theremin shortly thereafter. Since that time, Kevin has created many compositions for the theremin and performs throughout the USA. Kevin earned a BMus degree in Organ Performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
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"Molasses" is a multi-track theremin work that creates the sound of a theremin-ensemble. The inventor of the theremin, Leon Theremin, envisioned complete theremin orchestras. However, attempts at large theremin ensembles didn't work out too well -- the instruments'
radio-frequency oscillators interfered with each other and, lacking keyboards, fretboards, or any tactile references, the thereminists had difficulty to hear themselves and play in tune. "Mollasses" utilizes multiple tracks -- fifteen of them -- to create a theremin ensemble sound that Theremin himself could only imagine.
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37
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| Choreographed by: Jeffrey Miller |
| Jeffrey Miller Jeffrey Miller is a relatively nice guy. almost 5'10 and about 143 pounds. Not very big by American standards - but he's a "European large" Mr. Miller is mostly honest, except when he's not. Miller, though bald, has nice brown eyes, so he's got that going for him. Sometimes, He prefers peanut butter on toast, other times, just toast. |
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Composed by: Mike Mc Ferron
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Mike McFerron (aka DJ Mike McFerron) is a composer living in the Chicago area. Visit http://www.bigcomposer.com for more information.
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#37 is the greatest piece I've ever written. No child was traumatized in the creation of this work.
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The Unbearable Being of Likeness
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| Choreographed by: Kristina Bemis |
| Kristina Bemis received a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount University in Los
Angeles and had the great opportunity of dancing with various choreographers and
companies while residing there. She is currently a member of aTrek Dance Collective
and Common Thread Dance Company, and works with You Are Here Dance and
Summer Beasley. |
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Composed by: Doug Opel
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Doug Opel explores amalgamations of contemporary, rock, jazz, pop and electronica to develop a compositional language that is at once, dark and humorous, controlled and chaotic, classical and contemporary. A recipient of the 2003 Copland Award, his works have been performed by The Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble, Vision of Sound, Keys to the Future, the American Modern Ensemble and many others extensively at venues throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Chile, France, Spain, Slovenia and extensively in the United States. Commissions include works for the Definiens Project, bass-baritone Timothy Jones, pianists Nicola Melville and Robert Satterlee, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic & MATA. Broadcasts include the CBC, WMBC, WFMT and WCNY & WKCR and WRTI.
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| "The Unbearable Being of Likeness" is an exploration of a pet peeve of mine: the evolution and thriving art of text speak and the slaughter of conventional language in general. The use of an intentionally distorted and overly-repetitive orchestral lick creates a sort of shell-shocking backdrop for fragments of texting translations, coupled with reactions that are all too genuine.
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New York
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| Choreographed by: Audrey Simes |
| Audrey Simes At the age of ten, Audrey Simes began her artistic career as a percussionist, singer, and dancer. She has performed across the country and overseas in Hong Kong and China. Her love of concert dance, choreography, improvisation, and performance art began at
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Composed by: Rob Voisey
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“With few opportunities and much competition, young composers show creativity in just getting heard.” And in Chris Pasles’s article in the Los Angeles Times, Robert Voisey is highlighted as one of those composers. Besides his compositions, Voisey is also known for directing the 60x60 project and co-directing the Composer’s Voice concert series in New York City.
Rob Voisey at Vox Novus
wwv.robvoisey.com/
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| "New York" is part of a series created for Jon Nelson’s 50/50, another miniature project composed of 50 second sound collages. This sound collage juxtaposes classical instruments juxtaposed with ethnic samples and has a 10 second tail to fill the 60 seconds.
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Visitors
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| Choreographed by: aTrek Dance Collective/ Kristin Best |
| Kristin Best Kinscherff is faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Kristin is a member of Turn of Change Dance Collective and aTrek Dance Collective. Her choreography has been presented in the Gala concert at the American College Dance Festival, the Gala/Extravaganza for Body Worlds 3, the Victoria Ballet Theater as well as numerous universities. Best received her MFA from the University of Iowa and a BA from SIUE. |
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Feature films, network and cable television, animated series, commercials, promos and beyond: as the creator of sonic imprints for an expansive range of high profile projects, Craig Marks’ comprehensive musical expertise is reflected in his extraordinary eclecticism. Ethnic music, orchestral scores, rock, electronic and rhythmic textures -- Marks is a master of unlikely juxtaposition, from Steinways to Stratocasters; bassoons to buzz saws. Marks earned a degree in Music Composition at UCLA while moonlighting at Hans Zimmer’s studio, Media Ventures. Among his recent composing credits is creating music for Iron Chef America which the Detroit Press lauded as "saber-rattling gladiator music."
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Bb
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| Choreographed by: Halley Willcox |
| Halley Willcox graduated from Texas Christian University in 2008 earning her BFA in Modern Dance. Her works have been presented at the AAHPERD Kaleidoscope gala, Muscle Memory Dance Theater’s Pilot concert and in Spain. She is currently living in Kansas City and dancing for Kacico Dance Company. |
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Composed by: HyeKyung Lee
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HyeKyung Lee (born in Seoul, Korea) graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (DMA in Composition/Performance in Piano), where she studied with Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Russell Pinkston, and Stephen Montague. She also studied with Bernard Rands at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Ladislav Kubik at the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague. 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 Vienna Modern Masters, Innova Recordings, New Ariel Recordings, Capstone Recordings, Mark Custom Recordings, Aurec Recordings, Equilibrium Recordings, Vox Novus, and SEAMUS CD Series Vol. 8. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Music at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.
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“Bb” is one of my short studies that use the smallest material and stretch it beyond. In this piece, of course, the midi note Bb is the only source. It was written for 2010 60x60 project.
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CompuIntroMusic
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| Choreographed by: Common Thread Contemporary Dance/ Jennifer Medina |
| Jennifer Medina is the Artistic Director of Common Thread Contemporary Dance Company. Jennifer holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa and works throughout the U.S. as a choreographer and teacher, including institutions such as Virginia School of the Arts, UMKC, Kansas City Ballet, and Washington University. www.medinadance.com |
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Composed by: Christopher Keyes
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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. 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.
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| 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...
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r0r
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| Choreographed by: Hettie Barnhill |
Hettie Barnhill: Choreography: VH1, International Wow Theater, 60x60 Newyork, Solar One, The Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Ailey School and Dance Chicago. Selected Credits: FELA! Broadway, Hairspray, Surrender, LaCage Aux Folles, Guys&Dolls, Aida, Second City , BLM, The Kennedy Center and Amici-Italy.
HettieBarnhill.com |
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Composed by: Terry Gambarotto
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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.
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The impetus for “r0r” 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.
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Crunching Snow
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| Choreographed by: Kari James Dance Network/Kari James |
| Kari James is a lifetime dancer and performer, has a long established career in St. Louis which includes owner of Steps Unlimited Dance Studio, Instructor at Webster University, Instructor/Choreographer at COCA and Director of Kari James Dance Network. She also adjudicates for International Dance Challenge in many citites throughout the U.S. |
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Project Serendipity
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Composed by: Paul Russell
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"My starting point was naïvely experimenting with old guitar pedals. Pulling the power out and sampling the noise, plugging the output back into the input and listening to my pedals scream. A teenage love of all things Crackle, Zip and Bleep. Pretty quickly I found out about computers, and their boisterous potential. Studying Max/MSP and contemporary composition at Kingston University taught me new ways to experience and create new music. I became extremely interested in programming and orchestration, since then I've had works performed at New Music Festivals in Texas, New York and London and toured all over the UK and Europe. Contrast has been a running theme through my work; soft melodic guitars with harsh noisy synths and tones, loud vs. quite, cluttered vs. sparse. I like to make music that surprises me and keeps me on my toes.."
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| "Crunching Snow" is a piece was written when London was under a thick blanket of snow, the worst in 28 years they say. Being snowed in has its advantages, like having lots of time to work on music and perhaps this track would never have been finished without our spectacular snowfall. This piece experiments with a drum beat that sounds like it was falling asleep then waking up again, robotic in texture, but perhaps malfunctioning. It is juxtaposed with live instruments – Guitar, Xylophone, Melodica, Glockenspiel and Hand Bells.
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Raices
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| Choreographed by: Final Veil/ Cora Camille |
| Cora Camille's talents are diverse and her performances are each unique, she is a classically trained Egyptian cabaret style bellydancer who has studied with masters of Egyptian dance and music for the past 20 years. Camille is also a musician and often composes her own music that mixes middle eastern music with modern electronic music, and many of her performances include her singing as well as bellydancing. |
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Composed by: Gene Marlow and Bobby Sanabria
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Eugene Marlow, Ph.D.--an award-winning composer/arranger, performer (piano), producer, presenter, and educator--has composed and arranged over 200 jazz and classical pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and jazz big bands. He is a 2010 recipient of a Meet The Composer grant.
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Bobby Sanabria (performer) is a multi-Grammy nominee drummer, arranger, producer, and educator. In addition to his own big band, he leads the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestras at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School. His most recent album, “Kenya Revisited,” was nominated for a 2010 Latin Grammy. He and Gene Marlow have collaborated on numerous musical projects.
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| “Raices” (roots) is a multi-layered, multi-tracked composition consisting totally of percussion instruments that originated in West Africa and the Caribbean. The rhythmic patterns, likewise, originate from tribal cultures in West Africa, enhanced later by cultures in the Caribbean. Bobby Sanabria is the sole performer.
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See Now
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| Choreographed by: Tracy Dupre |
| Tracy Dupre is currently an adjunct professor in dance at Lindenwood University & the Tap Dance Coordinator at COCA. Her choreography has won national titles & awards. She’s choreographed for the Panera Bread Co. which opened at the Pageant & has choreographed for the Bob Costos charity event which opened at The Fox Theatre. |
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Sean Archibald
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Sean Archibald is a drum'n'bass and electronic-music composer from the UK. He uses microtones as they offer more intensity and possibility. He is a student and has released two EPs and two albums online, under the name Sevish. This piece uses glitches which interrupt the rhythm, plus vocal samples.
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Looking at equal divisions of various non-octaves, Sean found a scale which closely matches some useful intervals like minor third, major third, neutral third, fifth and octave... that scale is "18 divisions of the 11/7." What's left after the discovery? Just to compose! "See Now" is the result of using this new scale. However the middle piano section uses Wendy Carlos' "Alpha" scale.
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don't wake me up
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| Choreographed by: Rachel Brady |
| Rachel Brady holds a B.A. in dance and has worked with Madco, Atrek and Suzanne Grace. She spent 2 years in New York performing and teaching. Rachel recently choreographed productions of Little Shop Of Horrors and Aida. She has three children Gabriel, Anna Sophia and Julian. |
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Composed by: Jacky Schreiber
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Jacky Schreiber studied electroacoustic music composition with Eduardo Kusnir at Conservatorio Nacional de Musica Juan Jose Landaeta in Caracas, Venezuela. His electroacoustic works have been performed in concerts and festivals in usa, latin america and europe, some of his chamber and orchestral works have received the national composition prize, for the past 20 years he has written music for tv, theater plays and dance.
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Gestalt-n-Pepa
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Composed by: Dry Heeves
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Emanating from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Canada), The Dry Heeves are cultural analysts who use music (e.g. rock / world / electronic / experimental / avant-garde) as their dissemination medium of choice.
Welcome to a new Theatre of the Absurd at:
www.dryheeves.tk
www.vvvu.ca
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“Gestalt-n-Pepa” is gestalt philosophy as seen thru the eyes of a 'dance' outfit (à la Salt-n-Pepa) with doctorates up the yin-yang. The whole may be greater than the sum of its parts but so is the hole.
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60x60x60
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| Choreographed by: Mary Ann Rund |
| Mary Ann Rund is an independent choreographer/performer who teaches dance arts as well as somatic disciplines as an adjunct faculty member of Washington University and Webster University. Mary Ann has produced/directed several concerts; her choreography has been included in various local and national venues. She also serves on the Board of Missouri Dance Organization. |
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Composed by: Howard Kenty
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Howard Kenty, AKA Hwarg, is a composer and freelance musician in New York. He makes all kinds of electro-acoustic prog-rock artmusic, by his lonesome and in the bands The Benzene Ring and Grandpo.
For more fun stuff, check out http://www.hwarg.com
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60x60's guiding themes of concision and disparity inspired me to move one step further and create a work consisting of sixty one-second pieces. This required a quick succession of only the barest seeds of ideas, juxtaposing different styles, timbres, spaces, instrumentation, and dynamics; the result is frenetic, disorienting, and engaging.
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180
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| Choreographed by: Alexandra Ballet/CiCi Houston |
| CiCi Houston trained with Theresa Crawford and the Virginia School of the Arts, and performed locally and internationally in classical and modern works. She joined the Alexandra Ballet faculty in 2003, where she is Ballet Mistress and Company Administrator. Her responsibilities also include rehearsing Company repertoire and choreographing original works. |
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Composed by: John Maycraft
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John Maycraft (49) was born near Manchester in the North West UK. His early pre school musical memories consisted of the Beatles and Roy Orbison’s hits and all the early 60s English beat boom music. John’s main instrument is the Guitar, both electric and acoustic: starting at the age of 12.
Today he owns his own sound studio and music company “Artguitar.co.uk” He is a member of the MCPS and PRS societies in the UK and also a member of BASCA
(British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors). He also co-writes on occasion with Bernie Calvert (from “The Hollies” pop group). For more information go to: www.maycraft.info
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"180" was composed with the use of echo / delays. Working extensively with timed echoes, to see if it was possible to build different textures up; within a set tempo. Also used are Fibonacci and golden ratio principles within the composition. Various Delays are set to fractions based on the Tempo and Fibonacci sequence of numbers available to use; within the musical context. The result is what you hear. Various guitars were used – both acoustic and electric; and “treated” through the Eventide studio Delay / Echo units.
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Will the real Dalton Trumbo please stand up?
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| Choreographed by: Serendipity Dance Project/Ariane Moore |
| Serendipity Dance Project/Ariane Moore is a small corps of adult contemporary dancers who share a passion for dance, a desire to perform, and unwavering inspiration from Kari James. The group was formed in 2009 and has performed with aTrek Dance Collective, at National Dance Week, and at Dancing in the Street. |
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Composed by: Steve Moshier
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Steve Moshier is a composer and performer whose work encompasses theatre, dance, and the concert stage. His work includes music for acoustic, acoustic/electric, and electronic music genres. For the past
13 years he has been composing and performing for his acoustic/electric 7 member Liquid Skin Ensemble.
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"Will the real Dalton trumbo please stand up?" was originally composed for the marathon 39 day "one-a-day" rally of a minute or less submissions for the group 'Shorties' at the late NetNewMusic site (2009-10).
www.stevemoshier.com/
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2-2
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| Choreographed by: Patricia Solorzano |
| Patty Solórzano received her BFA in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University. She has trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Joffrey Ballet School, the American Dance Festival; and studied, choreographed and performed internationally in the U.K. and Spain. Currently, she dances with Psophonia Dance Company in Houston, TX. |
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Emerson Aagaard
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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.
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“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.
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Atomizer
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| Choreographed by: aTrek Dance Collective/ Diana Barrios |
| Diana Barrios is the Director of the aTrek Dance Collective. She has a BA in Dramatic Arts, Dance from the Univ of California, Berkeley. She has danced with the Bay Area Repertory Dance Company, touring California and Mexico, is guest faculty at Southern Illinois University and has taught through Saint Louis Community College since 2003. |
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Composed by: Jon Weinel
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Jon Weinel is currently completing his PhD in Music at Keele University, UK. His research concerns compositional techniques to elicit altered states of consciousness. He works within the visual and sonic arts, including projects which combine live instrumentation with electronics, digital manipulation of hand produced artwork and video game hacks.
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'Atomizer' is a short piece demonstrating a specially designed piece of software which facilitates the production of rapid streams of rhythmic and micro-rhythmic noise. These rhythmic sounds are used to describe 'entoptic phenomena': the pin point dot patterns, matrices and vortexes of light perceived during mescaline hallucinations.
http://www.jonweinel.com/
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Weaver Song
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| Choreographed by: Ashleyliane Dance Company/Ashley L. Tate |
| Ashley L. Tate is the founder, artistic director, and head choreographer of Ashleyliane Dance Company, a dance organization based in the Greater St. Louis area. Ms. Tate the recipient of Grand Center’s 2008 Emerging Artist Visionary Award and was chosen for the Protégé scholarship program with The Pulse on Tour Dance Convention. |
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Composed by: Daniel Griffing
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I taught myself music composition using MIDI software when I was 15. I majored in music at Texas A&M University. Now I work in the financial field and compose music in my spare time for projects and for pleasure.
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"Weaver Song" was composed for an animated short produced by Tim Weaver of Texas A&M's Department of Visualization.
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The Calliope Crashed to the Ground
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| Choreographed by: Ballet Initiative/ Jennifer Welch Cudnik |
| Jennifer Welch Cudnik is a St. Louis native. She studied on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet and spent summers at SAB, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and State Ballet of Missouri. She danced professionally with Pennsylvania Ballet and Saint Louis Ballet. In 2009, Jennifer formed the nonprofit, Ballet Initiative. |
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Composed by: Danny Wier
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Wier is a composer in multiple genres (new classical, experimental, progressive rock/metal, jazz fusion) who also sings and plays bass guitar, piano/keyboards and other instruments. He lives in Austin, Texas USA.
http://dannywier.ucoz.com
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Danny-Wier/140639362618109>
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“Calliope”, uses synthesized organ, brass and percussion, all tuned to subsets of 72 equal temperament. The organ and brass use a pelog-inspired scale with a stretched octave: {0 9 18 32 41 50 59 73}; the timpani uses a slendro-like {0 18 26 44 62 70}.
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Robert Voisey (Director)
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 photo by Steven Schreiber
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As a presenter and producer of new music, Robert Voisey is the Director and Producer of the 60x60 project, Co-Director of the Composer’s Voice Concert series, Vice President of Programs for the Living Music Foundation, and Founder of Vox Novus. Producing and presenting over 300 concerts in more than 10 countries around the world, he seeks innovative and creative approaches to promote the music of today's composers. "The idea of commissioning sixty pieces each a minute long has elements of both ingenuity combined with madness,” (Malcolm Miller, Music & Vision) Robert Voisey’s 60x60 concept has been hailed by the New York Times as the “kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round” (Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times)
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Erin Bomboy (Dance Coordinator)
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Erin Bomboy has performed as a professional ballet, contemporary, and competitive ballroom dancer. Classical ballet training includes scholarships at Houston Ballet Academy, Pacific Northwest Ballet Academy, and Virginia School of the Arts. She has danced with the Richmond Ballet, the Concert Ballet, and the Latin Ballet. Notable ballroom results include United States Rising Star American Smooth Finalist, Vice Theater Arts Champion, and North American Cabaret Finalist. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Dance at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Ms Bomboy has run her own innovative ballroom business in New York City called Start Dancing NYC which has been featured in Crain's, NYC Channel 7 news, and NYMother.com.
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