60x60 360 degrees of 60x60 Home Mixes Events Composers Collaborations Audio/Video Press FAQs Call_for_Works < tr> Magenta Mix This version of 60x60, called 360 degrees of 60x60, is sponsored in part by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) – www.computermusic.org The works included in the mix were created specifically for the 2010 ICMC RED Edition (International Computer Music Conference) presented by Stony Brook University in New York City and Stony Brook. Six 60x60 mixes featuring 360 pieces from different composers throughout the world will presented during the conference and at remote concerts around the globe. The 6 different mixes are all named a different shade of red to honor the RED edition of ICMC: 60x60 Burgundy mix, Crimson mix, Magenta mix, Sanguine mix, Scarlet mix, and Vermilion mix. Each mix is one hour long and contains different composers totaling to 360 different works each by different composers from many different countries around the world. Order ) Piece Name First Name Last Name 1 ) Hard Count David Mooney 2 ) Banjo Engine 1 Brent Wilcox 3 ) Android's Waltz Marie Incontrera 4 ) Snowmass Jeremy Baguyos 5 ) viole(n)t burn Ron Coulter 6 ) Cantus Curatio Da Jeong Choi 7 ) Vox Angellis James Bohn 8 ) Sesenta cuatro campanas for Harmonically Tuned Sampled Schoenhut Toy Piano Andrián Pertout 9 ) don't wake me up Jacky Schreiber 10 ) Ma Minute Mark Eden 11 ) East Dreams West Ozan Yarman, Ph.D. 12 ) Music Box Music Ulf Grahn 13 ) Monsters' Souvenir Serban Nichifor 14 ) Ghost Whispers Adam Sovkoplas 15 ) Love-Death Melissa Grey 16 ) Small Boy sylvi MacCormac 17 ) closed vessel: Ausstrahlung [zygote] (Antti Saario and Martin Iddon) 18 ) Simulacres David Claman 19 ) Sax--Oh Yeah! Gregory Yasinitsky 20 ) Celebration Tuan Hung Le 21 ) Rubidoux John Villec 22 ) Kutiah Ice Agnes Szelag 23 ) Burger for Joe Bob Rocco 24 ) Black Friday Jane Wang 25 ) Welcome 2010 Douglas Cohen 26 ) Rick Peperkamp is Playing the Trombone at a Harbour in the Netherlands near Maastricht Christiane Strothmann 27 ) Glisten Amanda Cole 28 ) Walter's Glissandi Robert Fanelli 29 ) In The Sky Patricia Walsh 30 ) Niemand von uns Jonas Foerster 31 ) Shoe Thoughts Stavros Choplaros 32 ) Untitled Taylor Ashley 33 ) Mutants on Hollywood Robert Payne 34 ) Children's Garden Charles Nichols 35 ) E baba? Eli McCartney 36 ) blue third Elke Swoboda 37 ) Humidity60 Anthony Hood 38 ) The Wanderer Ann Cantelow 39 ) Oozyte_A Aart Uunivers 40 ) Minutiae Adam Stansbie 41 ) Wizoling Daniel Sedgwick 42 ) The Julia in My Life Richard Hall 43 ) "...walk now and then into the breath that blows coldly past..." Per Bloland 44 ) Loving Laughter Jeremy Van Buskirk 45 ) Think-Tank Susan Brewster 46 ) Digitoc Cyprian Li 47 ) Big Nurse Victor Villarreal 48 ) Illogical Idealism of a Life in the Pictures Travis Johns 49 ) A Minute of SonikMundus Guillermo Pozzati 50 ) EVOLUCION Lucio E. Cuellar 51 ) Almost Achieved David Ben Shannon 52 ) Cradle Song Bernard Hughes 53 ) RhYTHMS Liana Alexandra 54 ) Linedance David Jaggard 55 ) Two Robots Enjoy a Gourmet Dinner J.C. Combs 56 ) Sonic Cloud Ivan Zavada 57 ) …true beyond any doubt Brian Lindgren 58 ) drain & vent Ken Steen 59 ) A Breath for Rob Dan Weymouth 60 ) Crunching Snow Paul Russell Order ) Piece Name First Name Last Name Bio(s) Program Note 1 ) Hard Count David Mooney Mooney (b. 1949) is a self-taught composer of fixed music on disc. Mooney can be found riding his bicycle up and down the hills of Pittsburgh, listening to the sounds of the city. Sometimes these sounds make their way into his compositions. Works have been played at concerts, festivals and conferences including ICMC, SEAMUS, Electronic Music Midwest, Logos Foundation Summer Concerts, the Shy Anne Film and Video Festival, EuCue Concerts, Bourges Festival Synthese, Zeppelin2004, Vox Novus's 60x60, and at Engine 27. Mooney's music is available on a number of commercial and private releases. Details: http://www.city-net.com/~moko/ Counting to 60 in 60 voice polyphony in 60 seconds, each voice counts its number that number of times. 2 ) Banjo Engine 1 Brent Wilcox "Since 1978, I've been manipulating and deconstructing sounds - first with tape loops and abused instruments, now something similar in digital form. Released ""Leisure w/Dignity"" EP in 1981, ""The Pops Science Story"" cassette in 1987, ""Executive Lullabies"" LP in 1989. Recent work and more info can be found at myspace.com/cryptomusicology and soundcloud.com/brent-wilcox." Life in Alaska for the past several years has filled my ears with bluegrass. I'm not really fond of bluegrass. 3 ) Android's Waltz Marie Incontrera 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. Android's Waltz is a tiny waltz whose time contraint corresponds to the attention span of the internet generation. 4 ) Snowmass Jeremy Baguyos Jeremy Baguyos explores artistic expression and creativity at the intersection of technology and the performing arts. Most of his activities can be classified as composition, realization, and production/performance of academic computer music, especially interactive computer music, algorithmic music, improvisation environments, and sound installations. His current projects include directing the computer music group, Ensemble A.M.I. and organizing the University of Nebraska's "Virtual Music" Week. He is Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Artist Faculty of Double Bass at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned a graduate degree in Computer Music as a student of McGregor Boyle at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. "Snowmass" was conceived while climbing up Snowmass Mountain near Aspen, Colorado in August of 2008 and realized in a makeshift studio near Castle Creek. It is a bittersweet work because I knew that climb would be one of the last activities I would be able to do during the last of my visits to Aspen, Colorado. "Snowmass" is an optimistic work in that I hope to return again, but under more ideal circumstances. The work exhausts all relevant compositional possibilities of one customized timbre and one motive. 5 ) viole(n)t burn Ron Coulter Ron Coulter is Lecturer of Percussion at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an Educational Endorser with the ProMark Corporation. He has performed internationally with such artists as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Four Aces, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Tatsuya Nakatani, Sean Jones, Al Martino, Sandy Duncan, Bolokada Conde, and Rapture7 among others. He is a co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble and RED VIXA and artistic director of the Perkusiv Arts Elektronik and Southern Illinois Improvisation Series. Recent interests include noise, interdisciplinary collaboration, and organizing Fluxusconcerts. Ron has composed more than 100 works and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. viole(n)t burn was created from an audio recording of Coulter's work for solo vibraphone entitled Vibolet. The recording has been significantly increased in tempo, reversed, and processed. 6 ) Cantus Curatio Da Jeong Choi Da Jeong Choi is currently a teaching fellow (ABD) in the Division of Composition Studies and in the Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas. Also Choi is the president of the Composers Forum at UNT. Her works have been broadly performed at ICMC, SEAMUS, NMFW, BCM, SCI, KNM, EMM, CFAMC, NASA, the International Review of Composers, Rarescale, ISCM, Seoul Contemporary Music Festival, Pusan Contemporary Music Festival, Society of Music Research, Sung Nam Choir Festival, Pan Music Festival, etc. Furthermore, Choi received various awards including the second prize at Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest, the first prize at Joong Ang Competition, and Gold Prize at MunHwa Broadcasting Corporation Composition Contest for Young Composers. Choi received BA from Dankook Univ. and MA from Rutgers Univ. Previous teachers include Jung Sun Park and Gerald Chenoweth. Choi has studied composition with Joseph Klein, Cindy Mc Tee, and Jon Nelson at UNT. Cantus Curatio describes the “healing process” in our bodies by using granular synthesis, max msp, original sound, voice (choir) and percussion instruments. 7 ) Vox Angellis James Bohn James Bohn is a composer and video artist, who has served as a guest artist at the 7-11 festival in Urbana, Illinois, and at "Most Significant Bytes 2002" in Akron, Ohio. He has had his video works presented at "Most Significant Bytes 2000", at the "MAXIS festival of Sound and Experimental Music", at "MEDiA CIRCU[it]S", at the "Florida Electro-Acoustic Music" Festival, and on the Los Angeles area television program "The New Composers 27 Minute Companion". His music appears on several recording labels: Capstone, The Experimental Music Studios, Frog Peak, and The Media CafĂ©. James has received commissions from the Bonk Festival, the University of Illinois School of Music, The College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Boston and Chicago Chapter of the American Composer's Forum. His book on Lejaren Hiller is published by Edwin Mellen Press. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 8 ) Sesenta cuatro campanas for Harmonically Tuned Sampled Schoenhut Toy Piano Andrián Pertout Andrian Pertout was born in Santiago, Chile, and in 2007 completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in composition at the University of Melbourne. Composition awards include the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition (Greece), Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Prize, Betty Amsden Award, Louisville Orchestra Prize (USA), Oare String Orchestra Judges and Audience Prize (UK), Michelle Morrow Memorial Award, and the Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award. His music has been performed in over twenty-five countries by orchestras that include the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, The Louisville Orchestra (USA), The Foundation Orchestra (USA), Orquestra Petrobras Sinfonica (Brazil), La Chapelle Musicale de Tournai (Belgium), and the Oare String Orchestra (UK). "Sesenta cuatro campanas" or "Sixty-four Bells" represents an attempt to explore the harmonic series as a structural framework for composition with a direct relationship to the rhythmic and harmonic implications of the numerical aspects of the series. All the necessary pitch material for the work has been produced via the detuning of one single Schoenhut model 6625, 25-key toy piano C4 (middle C) sample. The sample tuned firstly to standard A=440Hz twelve-tone equal temperament, to be then readjusted, enabling the capture of the frequency ratios of the first thirty-two partials of the harmonic and subharmonic series. 9 ) don't wake me up Jacky Schreiber studied electroacoustic music composition with eduardo kusnir at conservatorio nacional de musica juan josĂ© 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. "no comments " 10 ) Ma Minute Mark Eden After spending nearly 50 years as a visual artist, Eden has dedicated the last seven to text-based and musical sound composition. His work has been played/broadcast from Istanbul to San Francisco... His Cremation Science was included on the Innova CD, The Art of the Virtual Rythmicon. Eden teaches Advertising at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. Ma Minute is, actually, a 47 second composition compiled from material found in nine separate tracks on Yo Yo Ma's "Solo" album. 11 ) East Dreams West Ozan Yarman, Ph.D. Born in Istanbul in 1978. Begun his piano education in Kadiköy Municipality Conservatory. In 1992, gained entrance to Moscow Gnessin Conservatory. In 1993, became the student of Ergican Saydam after succeeding Mimar Sinan Conservatory’s entrance exams. In 1994, was accepted to Brussels Royal Conservatory and continued his piano education as Yevgeny Moguilevski and Olga Roumshevich’s student. In 1997, graduated therefrom with the degree of “First Prize”. In 1998, attended the Postgraduate Composition Principal Art Department of Istanbul University Conservatory. In 2001, graduated with his master’s thesis titled “Turkish Music and Polyphony”. In 2002, was accepted to the doctorate programme of the Musicology Principal Science Division of Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music Conservatory. In 2008, successfully defended his thesis titled “79-tone Tuning & Theory For Turkish Maqam Music As A Solution To The Non-Conformance Between Current Model And Practice” and achieved his doctorate degree with the unanimous decision of the jury. "EAST DREAMS WEST Dr. Ozan Yarman ""East Dreams West"" is a short, yet noble quasi-Waltz for Chamber String Orchestra reminscent of the Romantic Age and realized in a 12 tone subset out of 17 Equal Divisions of the Octave - Not so “adventurous” a tuning to work with perhaps, seeing as this is my first attempt at serious Classical-Maqam style polyphony, but nevertheless effective. Aside from the bursting melancholy of the 7-limitish Bb minor entrance in this tuning, the piece reflects a strong contrast through Arabicized Huzzam & Rast maqam flavours in 5/8 and 9/8 rhythms toward the centre. Alas, the haughty fury of the somniferous Orient turns once again to the envious reverie of the Occident at the end – tinted, however, with a tell-tale Hijaz murmur. East Dreams West was composed using Sibelius+Scordatura by H-Pi instruments and processed with Logic Pro. Special thanks to Aaron Krister Johnson for his kind invitation and encouragement. Do visit www.ozanyarman.com for the score of East Dreams West and even more treats!" 12 ) Music Box Music Ulf Grahn Ulf Grahn studied music at the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm and at the Stockholm City College where his principal composition studies were with Hans Eklund. He holds degrees from Stockholm’s Musikpedagogiska Institute and the Catholic University of America. He has also studied Business Administration, Economics and Development Studies at The University of Uppsala, Sweden. In 1973 he founded the Contemporary Music Forum, Washington, D.C. and served as its Program Director until 1984. During 1988-90 he was Artistic and Managing Director of the Music at Lake Siljan Festival, Sweden. Prior to this he was on the faculty of George Washington University and Director of its Electronic Music Studio. Presently he teaches Swedish language and culture at the Foreign Service Institute. Recent performances include: Kadenz for Flute at COMPOSER’S VOICE CONCERT – FEATURING FLUTIST REBECCA ASHE,The Instrumental Opera The Enchanted Forest; Milky Way on my Mind for tape, Celebration for Marimba, Nocturne for piano trio and Tape, Trombone Unaccompanied?!, Three Dances with Interludes for six percussionist , Conversation for four Percussionists, Nocturne and Scherzo for piano six hands, When Daises Pied and Violets blue, Cicadas for four Marimbas, Serenade for winds. Music Box Music is a piece for any three instrument and or voices. 13 ) Monsters' Souvenir Serban Nichifor " Serban Nichifor, Composer,- BORN in Bucharest (Romania), 25.08.1954. - STUDIES: National University of Music - Bucharest, Doctor in Musicology; University of Bucharest (Theology Faculty);Internationals courses of composition at Darmstadt, Weimar, Breukelen and Munchen; USIA Stipendium (USA). - PRIZES: Amsterdam (First Prize Gaudeamus), Tours, Evian, Atena, Toledo, Urbana-Illinois, Trento, Roma, Bydgoszcz, Hong Kong, Jihlava, Karlsruhe,Koln, Newtown-Wales, Birmingham-Alabama .- AT PRESENT: Professor at the National University of Music - Bucharest (Chamber Music Department);Member of UCMR (Romania), SABAM (Belgium), ECPMN (Holland); Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE Festival - with Liana ALEXANDRA. - WORKS PUBLISHED AT: Editura Muzicala (Bucharest), Edition Modern (Munchen), ""Pro musica Studium""(Roma), ""Quadrivium Music Press"" (New York), "Auralit" (Palermo), etc.- SELECTION OF WORKS:: 6 Symphonies, Symphonic Pieces, 3 Concertos, 3 Operas, 3 Cantatas, 1 Oratorio, Chamber, Vocal, Choral and Electronic Music, Musicology (the treatise "Musica Caelestis" and the compendium "Introduction to Computer Music").- ADDRESS: Str. Principatele Unite Nr.2, Vila I, Ap.7, Sector 4, RO-040165 Bucharest, Romania.- Email: serbannichifor@gmail.com - URL: http://www.romania-on-line.net/whoswho/NichiforSerban.htm " "Monsters' Souvenir" was composed with "Mozart Music Procesor" software. 14 ) Ghost Whispers Adam Sovkoplas Adam Sovkoplas was born in Brownsville, Texas, on January 16, 1982. He is currently working on his DMA at the University of Kentucky in Lexington under the instruction of Mr. Joe Baber. Sovkoplas's works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in the United Kingdom (2nd Annual Festival of New Organ Music, London) and Italy (Orvieto Musica Festival). In 2007, Sovkoplas founded the Central Kentucky Student Chapter of SCI and has since organized the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd annual Kentucky New Music Festivals. Ghost Whispers is one movement of my Three Electronic Poems. Each movement has a written poem that was constructed alongside the creation of the musical work. The Ghost Whispers poem is not in a form that fits the structural limitations of these program notes and therefore cannot be included. 15 ) Love-Death Melissa Grey In addition to concert works for ensembles and chamber orchestras and electroacoustic performances, Melissa Grey's body of work includes audiovisual compositions, media installations, field recordings, radio dramas and collaborative projects with artists and designers. Brass prayer bowls and a spinning cedar ball enter the intervallic world of Tristan und Isolde. 16 ) Small Boy Sylvi MacCormac Multidisciplinary artist and composer, sylvi macCormac received Honourable Mention at International Musique Electroacoustique Bourges for Waves of Kokoro (1999), and Co-Produced Uts'am / Witness CD (2004) for John Clarke Xwexwselkn including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Barry Truax and Squamish Eagle Song Dancers. Creating WHEELS Soundscapes: Voices of People with Dis Abilities, and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Soundscapes 1999-2002, sylvi macCormac's music is heard internationally in concert, exhibit, on web and radio, and on various CDs including Canadian Music Centre's Electricities/Electricites (2003); MusicWorks #74 (1999); CEC's Presence II (2000) & III (2002); Deep Wireless I (2004) & DW6 (2009). sylvi macCormac's music appears in the films Shameless: the Art of Disability (2006) and Child of the Wind: the story of John Clarke (2005). Videos on YouTube include Waves of Kokoro (2009); VAMS Music Saves (2009); Carving Canoes: For the Wild (1999) and Colour Compassion (1996) - www.SYLVI.ca / Soundscape & Siwash Rock " Small Boy (:60) Cree Nation, Rex Smallboy, speaks about Nepi / Water and tells us that Aski means Earth; Yoten means Wind. Paddle in Lake, recorded by David Murphy - www.sfu.ca - Small Boy Hip Hops wit War Party from Winnepeg, Canada - www.warparty.ca - Small Boy is printed on Deep Wireless 6 CD (2009). The contents of the CD were curated by Darren Copeland from the submissions received on the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound from September 2008 - www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Radio.html - Small Boy composed in 2008 for 60x60 Canada - www.60x60.yaeldad.com/ - www.voxnovus.com/60x60/ - cec.concordia.ca - was heard in Canada and Mexico, and 60x60 Dance, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dec 4, 2009 - Recorded with permission at Vancouver Folk Music Festival 2006, Small Boy will be part of Vancouver Folk Music Festival Soundscapes - thefestival.bc.ca/music/soundscapes.php - www.SYLVI.ca / Soundscape & Siwash Rock 17 ) closed vessel: Ausstrahlung Zygote [zygote] is a collaboration between Antti Sakari Saario (b. 1974, Lahti, Finland) and Martin Iddon (b. 1975, Manchester, UK). Antti Sakari Saario studied electroacoustic composition at the Universities of Keele and Birmingham with Jonty Harrison and Michael Vaughan. Martin Iddon studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge with Ian Cross (musicology) and Robin Holloway (composition). He has also studied composition privately with Chaya Czernowin and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. Currently, Saario and Iddon both lecture in UK, at Lancaster and Leeds Universities, respectively. As Deleuze and Guattari themselves determine the nature of collaboration, since each individual is always already many, the [zygote] project concerns itself with examining the network of possibilities that is created by a situation which negates traditional concepts of authorship and the creation of set patterns of belonging, and seeks to interrogate the deterritorialised lines of flight generated through such a collision. "closed vessel: Ausstrahlung contains found vocal and local artefacts, and texts derived from Rudi Dutschke, Antonio Negri, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, and Hans G. Helms. It is the first in a series of similar politically motivated 'closed vessels'. 222. The closed vessel [strictly delineated space] inscribes its meaning. Emission repetition production audiation. Nehmt teil. " 18 ) Simulacres David Claman David Claman holds degrees from Wesleyan University, from the University of Colorado, and from Princeton (2002). His principal composition teachers have been Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, and John McDonald. He is an assistant professor at Lehman College-CUNY in The Bronx. He received a fellowship from The American Institute of Indian Studies and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. He has received commissions from The American Composers Forum, the Cygnus Ensemble, Tara Helen O’Connor, Christopher Creviston, and Da Capo. Recordings can be found on the Innova, Capstone, Bridge, and Albany labels. "Simulacres" features a passage from “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.” The unknown author, writing in French around 1350, claimed to be a British knight who had traveled to the Holy Land and then continued east. It is clear today that much of the book is an artful compilation of accounts by others. Descriptions of fabulous creatures and people coexist with accurate observations of places and practices a traveler may still see today. Several applications were used to create this piece, including Ableton Live and Paul Lansky’s RT mixing program ported to Mac OSX by Douglas Scott as QRT. 19 ) Sax--Oh Yeah! Gregory Yasinitsky Gregory Yasinitsky, composer and saxophonist, has over 150 published musical works performed in more than thirty countries around the world. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer West, The Commission Project, Artist Trust, Washington State Music Teachers Association, Washington Music Educators Association and ASCAP. Yasinitsky is a Regents Professor of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Washington State University. Sax--Oh Yeah! was realized at the Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music during the summer of 1993. All of the sounds in the piece consist of digital recordings of the composer's voice and the composer playing alto saxophone. Many of these sounds were subsequently manipulated, rearranged and mixed with the use of computer software. 20 ) Celebration Tuan Hung Le Le Tuan Hung is a composer, performer and musicologist, specializing in Vietnamese music, cross-cultural music and experimental music. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. He has performed widely in Asia, Australia, Europe, America and Oceania. His compositions have been created for a wide range of instruments, ensembles and media. His compositions and performances have been released by Move Records, NMA, ABC Music and Australian Sound Heritage Association. He is also the author of various publications on Vietnamese performing arts and is regarded as an expert in Vietnamese musicology. Celebration is a musical collation of samples of sounds and melodies that I have composed, recorded or created in the last 10 years. Patterns on Chinese drum and gong, Balinese sulings (flutes), Australian power pole bells and whirlies are combined to form a web of sounds to signify the nature of a celebration: a harmonious togetherness of the differences. 21 ) Rubidoux John Villec John Villec is an instructor of music and recording technology at Sacramento City College and San Joaquin Delta College. He received his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from California State University, Sacramento and has completed post graduate study at the University of Oregon "Rubidoux" is a composition for sound. All sonic sources were derived from a small amount of sampled audio. Sonic elements are put into motion by using contemporary computer processes and the aesthetic tradition of Musique Concrete. 22 ) Kutiah Ice Agnes Szelag 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. 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. 23 ) Burger for Joe Bob Rocco "Bob Rocco earned his M.A. in musical composition from NYU, where he studied with John Gilbert, Paul Ramsier and Laurie Spiegel. Regarded as a pioneer of music technology, in 1984 he became the first person in the history of NYU to perform an entire recital using a PC. At Bell Laboratories, as a colleague of Max Mathews---the ""Father of Computer Music""---Bob became the first person in history to compose for and perform recitals on Max's Electronic Drum, the forerunner of todays Radio Baton. Bob is an established composer. In addition to his computer/electronically realized works, he has composed over 70 pieces with traditional instrumentation. In 2006, his Enchanted Duet was premiered in Carnegie Hall by guitarist Giovanni DeChiaro, and in 2008 Bob's String Quartet Preludes were performed at Lincoln Center. For more information about Bob please visit http://bobrocco.com " "Bob's submission, called Burger for Joe, was created specifically for the 2010 ICMC 60x60 project. It is fifty eight seconds long. The Max Mathews Radio Baton prototype midi controller was used to produce the generated sounds. There are only three of these prototypes in the world. In late 2006, Max Mathews and Tom Oberheim created a prototype wireless Radio Baton for Bob to compose with and do research into music for the deaf. This research is being done in association with the Kean University Concert Series for the Deaf. Since the Radio Baton can control much lower and higher sounds than many acoustic musical instruments are capable of making (and create more intense vibrations) deaf children have responded favorably to its music. Although Bob mostly uses the Radio Baton for research, he also composes with it, and Burger for Joe is his latest radio baton composition. " 24 ) Black Friday Jane Wang Jane Wang composes for experimental theater and movement works and is a member of the Mobius Artists Group (www.mobius.org) in Boston, MA, USA and the international composers' electronic consortium, CDZABU. Most recently, she performed her vocal/toy piano/double bass compositions for Hanne Tierney's “My Life In A Nutshell” at HERE Arts Center (NYC), and created a pre-recorded score and performed live for “Intervals”, an on-going collaboration with choreographer Nathan Andary at Boston University and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (DC). "Black Friday uses a mix of manipulated field recordings which were taken on the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally a day of condensed momentary crowd madness and text drawn from a particularly jingoistic political mailing (sent obviously in error). " 25 ) Welcome 2010 Douglas Cohen 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. 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." 26 ) Rick Peperkamp is Playing the Trombone at a Harbour in the Netherlands near Maastricht Christiane Strothmann "Christiane Strothmann is a composer student in the third year at ICEM (Institut for Computer music and Electronic Media) in Essen, Germany. Before turning to electroacoustic music she was into electronic pop-music composing, publishing, and interpreting her songs on CD and on stage (Rya ""Personal Cosmos"", ""Starship""). Other frequently performed elecotracoustic pieces by Strothmann: ""Cologne Cathedral"" (2008/09) and ""Logos"" (2009/10). " The base elements for this work are the trombone samples recorded by the tromboist Rick Peperkamp (Netherlands). All sounds in the piece are derivated from the trombone-sounds that consist of both accidanted and intended sounds during the recording-studio-session in July 2009. This includes snippets of speech, taken from the dialogs between Rick and the composer within the session. All sounds are proceeded by Csound, using a personal programmed-score-generator. Arrangement in Logic Pro 8. 27 ) Glisten Amanda Cole Amanda Cole is a Sydney based composer who writes contemporary art music. She has a BMus (Honours Class 1) and PhD in composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Amanda's compositions feature microtonal structures, interference beats and fusions of electronic and acoustic timbres. She has written four percussion trios for a purpose built Microtonal Glass Harmonica, a microtonal string quartet for string harmonics and sine tones and has made an audio-visual installation that maps pitch to hue. In 2008, Amanda collaborated with artists Jo Cuzzi and Patsy Black to create THE ELASTIC BAND, an interactive sound installation that was exhibited at Firstdraft Gallery (Sydney) in June. In 2009, she completed a commission to write a microtonal saxophone quartet for Sydney based Nexas, which was premiered in Sydney. Amanda also travelled to Sweden for the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) festival , where her piece 'Vibraphone Theories' was performed by Kroumata. Whilst in Sweden, she also participated as a composer in Choreosound 09, an artistic lab for composers, musicians, choreographers and dancers. "Glisten" is an electronic music composition exploring tuning and timbre. Sampled vibraphone notes are detuned to create beating chords and gamelan sounding timbres. A background drone is created from layered sine tones that are tuned to a microtonal structure. At one point in the piece, the sine tones layer to create a timbre similar to an organ. 28 ) Walter's Glissandi Robert Fanelli Robert Fanelli began studying classical harp at the age of five. At the age of thirteen, switching to jazz and pop, he took up the vibraphone. From age fifteen through college he worked professionally with bands in the New York and New Jersey area. After college, he left music to study graduate physics and to teach it at Brooklyn College. Some years later, he returned to music, composing with the harmonic series (just intonation), computers, mathematical algorithms and various natural and artificial sounds. He has been affiliated with the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music since 1999. This piece was made from about 16 seconds of data on waves produced in interacting plasmas. The first 4 seconds were selected. The frequencies were inverted, making initially subsonic sounds audible and producing the glissando effect. The audio was expanded to 60 seconds, filtered with a scale inspired by La Monte Young, separated into tracks and resynthesized with processed instrumental samples. The original data came from experiments conducted at the Basic Plasma Science Facility of UCLA and were kindly supplied by its director, Prof. Walter Gekelman. 29 ) In The Sky Patricia Walsh Patricia Walsh is a UK artist working with sound and video. Her sound-work 'Undercover' recently aired at the World Financial Center, New York, as part of the 60 x 60 2009 International Mix. Two of her video works 'Private Walsh' 2009 and 'Epic Live! Live!' 2009, are currently being shown on BBC Big Screens in both Leeds and Bradford in the UK. She is a member of Vox Novus and Soundnetwork. In The Sky by Patricia Walsh draws largely on the theme of conflict. The contrasting nature of ethereal dialogue with a predominantly upbeat and optimistic rhythm invokes times past and present. 30 ) Niemand von uns Jonas Foerster "Jonas Foerster was studying music for future employment in education when he discovered his interest in electroacoustic music. He has been a student in Electronic Composition at ICEM based at the "Folkwang Universität" in Essen, Germany since 2005. His current work consists of multi-channel, tape-based pieces and most recently real-time sound and image processing. Complementary to this he is also a composer for popular music productions and freelance sound-designer for web-media, animation and advertising. Foerster's compositions have been performed at internationally renowned festivals and conferences such as ICMC, SMC, Musicacoustica Beijing, etc.. He is a winner of 2009's "Prix Jeux de temps / Times Play Award" competition and was nominated for the "Deutscher Musikautorenpreis 2009" (German Music-Author Price 2009). " "A man aggressively yearning for attention. The response he finally receives is just a reflection of his own. " 31 ) Shoe Thoughts Stavros Choplaros Stavros Choplaros was born in Cyprus in 1982. He began his music studies (violin and music theory lessons) in 1988. He has been a member in several orchestras and in traditional music ensembles. He received both his BA and MA from the Music Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece where he studied from 2002 until 2007. Stavros was awarded with the Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in Music Composition. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Music Composition at California State University, Long Beach. The piece Shoe Thoughts has been composed during 2009. The sound material comes exclusively from "shoe" recordings made during the development of another project of mine with the title The Music of Shoes. While working on The Music of Shoes, I appreciated the potential of "shoe-sounds" and decided to compose an electronic piece using entirely such sounds. 32 ) Untitled Taylor Ashley Taylor Ashley is a Music major at Texas A&M University. (no program note) 33 ) Mutants on Hollywood Robert Payne Robert Payne is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. Two sides exchange attacks, but mutants inch their way onto enemy soil and conquer humanity. All that remains is the listener. 34 ) Children's Garden Charles Nichols Composer, violinist, and computer music researcher, Charles Nichols (www.charlesnichols.com) is an Associate Professor of Composition and Music Technology at the University of Montana, and has earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and Stanford University. He has presented his acoustic and electroacoustic compositions and computer-music research, including telematic musical performance over Internet2, development of the vBow haptic virtual violin bow controller, and wavelet audio analysis and resynthesis, at national and international conferences and festivals, and has received awards from ASCAP and the Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges. Children's Garden uses recordings of a Kindergarten class during morning activities and interviews of the students, which are filtered to isolate the steady-state melodic portion of the spoken phrases and classroom noises, and granularized, looped, and gated to produce rhythmic grooves. 35 ) E baba? Eli McCartney Founder of the artistic space e mc˛, Eli McCarthy is a Barcelona-based, Irish singer, composer, writer, dancer, practice artist, and the creator of Anatomusic - the new genre of "humanized" experimental electronica. Music goes tantric: Anatomusic is both a vehicle for body-based artistic expression, and a tool for achieving whole person wellbeing via the portal of the body. On the one hand, the sole audio source for all e mc˛ compositions is the body's sound-movement expression, transmuted digitally into the unique electronic soundscape that is Anatomusic. Additionally, holistically listening to and engaging the body as part of the Anatomusical creation process results in increased vibration, consciousness and intimacy. www.myspace.com/espacemc2" "E baba?" is an organic, Anatomusical composition, created according to permaculture principles (adaptation to environment/ optimization of native resources). This lullaby consists of the sound microcosm that is the hour before toddler's bedtime. 60 minutes of raw audio recording blended down into 60 seconds of Anatomusic. Unfolding around the natural sequence of events that take place during this time-frame (playing games, eating supper, tidying up toys, warming milk, engaging in bedtime stories and lullabies, bidding nite-nite, sharing hugs and kisses), all instrumentation derives from both child and composer's sound-movement expression within this situation The title "'e baba?", which comes from baby's mantra-like question finds its resolution in the shape of the final Anatomusical passage: delivery of baby's night-time bottle. " 36 ) blue third Elke Swoboda Elke Swoboda was born in 1984. From 2003 to 2007 she studied music pedagogy and recorder at the Folkwang University Essen and obtained a diploma. Since 2008 she is studying electronic composition and video art with Prof. Th. Neuhaus and Prof. D. Hahne at the Folkwang University Essen. As performer she collaborated with several composers for instrumental, electronic and live-electronic works. "blue third was composed with additive synthesis of sine waves. The scale used in this piece was created by dividing a third from 400 Hz into seven parts. The resulting interval of 14.85 Hz was added to 30 Hz and then to the result again and again. A decrscending and crescending layer of long glissandi is confronted with punctual rhythms and results in short glissandi. " 37 ) Humidity60 Anthony Hood Anthony Hood is an electroacoustic composer and a lecturer in Music Technology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. His interests also include using technology to enhance music teaching and learning. He has a doctorate from the University of York, U.K., and for many years he has played an active role in the electroacoustic community in Australia. "Composed during a hot and humid Australian summer, Humidity60 uses samples taken from bamboo wind chimes, and material sampled from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Balinese gamelan semara dana. This set of instruments was commissioned by the Conservatorium in 2006, and was made by I Wayan Pager of the Sidha Karya foundry in Blahbatuh (south Bali). Its tuning is saih pituh (seven tone pelog scale). A small motific idea is introduced at the start as pitch material, before being transferred to a rhythmic idea extended in the wind chimes. Beating effects are created between the gongs. Software tools used in making Humidity60 include SPEAR, Audiomulch and the GRM suite of plugins. " 38 ) The Wanderer Ann Cantelow Ann Cantelow is a thereminist and composer in Boulder, Colorado. She studied composition at the University of California at Davis, and was influenced there by John Cage, Larry Austin, and Richard Swift. A guest lecture by Martha Graham was also influential to her work. A wanderer with an open mind explores a vast new countryside with a sense of wonder. All parts were done by theremin, placed into a computer and chopped and mixed for effect. 39 ) Oozyte_A Aart Uunivers Global composer, stereo-detuner and anti-capitalistic phase-destroyer. linked on a loose but steady basis to the 90's-cologne experimental & electronica scene, emerging as an independant entity with output under many pseudonyms. Between 2004 and 2009 he managed to banish any public or personal noise floor, wiping out boundaries and formulas in his gestalt-apparat. he remigrated as aart uunivers - reinventing multi-layered, narrated sound-shapes - stylistically labeled scenic (in his own words: ""head noise iident"", which could be translated into: sound of clustered, deployed mind spheres). "the piece illustrates the very exceedingly short moment of ones personal urknall. the millisecond of beginning. a slow dive into separation. existence transforms into unit. a klang-structure re.modeling established passages through formalized mind-areas. neuverortung des inneren makrokosmos. instantanious ideospheres." 40 ) Minutiae Adam Stansbie Adam Stansbie was born in Leeds, UK where he is currently lecturing in Music, Sound and Performance Technologies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He received his undergraduate degree from Leeds University, was presented with an award for outstanding achievement in music production, and is currently working towards a PhD in Electroacoustic Composition under the supervision of Denis Smalley. His musical works have been performed and broadcast throughout the world and have won awards at the Bourges International Competition (2006) and the international acousmatic competition Metamorphosis (2006). He has completed residencies at the IMEB, France (2007/2008) and Musique et Recherches, Belgium (2009). Minutiae brings together 60 fragments of sound, all of which have been abstracted from previous works. In doing so, these otherwise minor, incidental details (minutiae?) have acquired a new status; they have become the focal point of an entire (albeit small) composition. 41 ) Wizoling Daniel Sedgwick "Composer/pianist/puppeteer Dan Sedgwick lives in Somerville, MA. His current/recent composition projects include an upcoming work for bass and harpsichord, commissioned by Max Zeugner; Theme and Variations for String Quartet, commissioned by the Apple Hill String Quartet; and Pet Rounds, a joint composition/performance/recording project with Marjorie Gere and Jacob Barton. Other recent/ongoing musical activities include co-producing, with Jacob Barton, The Seventeen-­Tone Piano Project in Houston, TX; singing and puppeteering with music/puppetry collective An Exciting Event in Charlestown, MA; touring internationally as keyboardist/vocoderist with space-disco artist Kelley Polar; and performing piano chamber music at the Apple Hill Summer Workshop in Nelson, NH. Dan graduated with his doctorate in composition from Rice University and A.B. degree with concentration in music from Harvard. He has studied with Kurt Stallmann, Anthony Brandt, Karim Al-Zand, Shih-Hui Chen, Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky, and Elliott Gyger. Dan currently works as a teaching assistant at the Harvard Music Department. " "It sounds like a game that don't work. It sounds like a bird. A bird was wizoling. There are fireworks. Like a baby crying. Someone is plaing a gitar. Someone is plaing a drum. A rock bird that is in a band. -Aida Donjuan, 3rd Grade, Oak Forest Public School, Houston, TX " 42 ) The Julia in My Life Richard Hall "Richard Hall is a Senior Lecturer of Music at Texas State University. His teaching duties include Composition, Electronic Composition, Music Technology, and Humanities. He also assists with the Texas Mysterium for Modern Music Ensemble. He specializes in live laptop "art" music and has performed at many conferences, festivals and art museums throughout the country. Richard has received numerous commissions, scored two independent films, has several pieces published by Dorn Publications and Go Fish Music and is featured on ERM Media recordings. He holds memberships in ASCAP, CMS and SCI. He is also a recent recipient several ASCAP Plus Awards Grants. " "The Julia in My Life" was written specifically for the 60x60 project. It is the fifth electronic piece in a series written about the composer's five year-old daughter, Julia, and her growth and development. The piece is based on Julia's fascination with learning to read and write. All of the sounds are samples of Julia reading a story (that she wrote specially for this piece) with delicate electronic manipulation and the use of "electronic" silence. The piece was inspired by the delicate music of Morton Feldman, hence the title. 43 ) "...walk now and then into the breath that blows coldly past..." Per Bloland "Per Bloland is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been described as having an "incandescent effect" with "dangerous and luscious textures." His compositions range from short intimate solo pieces to works for large orchestra, and incorporate video, dance, and custom built electronics. He has received awards and recognition from organizations such as SEAMUS/ASCAP, Digital Art Awards of Tokyo, ISCM, and SCI/ASCAP. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Music at the Oberlin College Conservatory, and serves as the founding director of OINC, the Oberlin Improv and Newmusic Collective. For more information, please see: www.perbloland.com. " "The title of the piece, taken from Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, appealed to me for a number of reasons. The sound quality of the flute, its ability to navigate between extremely diffuse breathy sounds and pure tones, has always fascinated me. Beyond that, in it's original context the title is an exhortation to allow oneself to surrender completely to the creative process. Through such surrender, one can begin to grasp the interconnectedness of all things, including life and death. Indeed, the Sonnets themselves were "written as a grave-monument" to a young dancer who had passed away just before Rilke began their writing. Rather than treat this death as a dark tragedy, he takes the opportunity to embark on an exuberant tribute to life, an exploration of the boundaries between life and death. This piece is dedicated in loving memory to my father. " 44 ) Loving Laughter Jeremy Van Buskirk Jeremy Van Buskirk’s music has been performed at festivals around the country including the Aurora Borealis Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, Brave New Works - Are You Brave? Festival v7.0, Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, and the SEAMUS National Conference. He currently directs the Longy Computer Music Studio at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. During the summer of 2008, I had the pleasure of accompanying my wife and several friends on a concert tour of Japan. We spent a lot of time sight seeing, eating wonderful food, and meeting new people. The rehearsals and concerts mirrored the enjoyment of the rest of the trip. There was a great deal of laughter, excitement, and wonder. The source material for Loving Laughter was taken from recordings of a rehearsal for a concert in Hiroshima, Japan. This piece is my attempt to recall the mood and atmosphere of the trip. 45 ) Think-Tank Susan Brewster "Susan Brewster Is a composer and multi instrumentalist born in 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 become involved in theatre while working on a NYC 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. " "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." 46 ) Digitoc Cyprian Li "Cyprian Li, Chinese, was born and educated in Hong Kong. He worked for many years as a school teacher of Physics and Chemistry. Without 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, including Sweden, Spain, France, USA and broadcast on radio and the internet. He is represented by The Williams Gallery, USA, which specializes in digital fine art. " Digitoc is a passage of rhythmic percussive sounds with a smooth legato ending. 47 ) Big Nurse Victor Villarreal Victor Hugo Villarreal is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. This work is a study in the use of volume and panning as primary modes of expression. 48 ) Illogical Idealism of a Life in the Pictures Travis Johns Travis Johns is a composer and sound artist currently nested in the Victorian bluffs of San Francisco, California - neatly isolated by a buffer of highways and thousands of miles of ocean, restricting escape to few but a handful of extremely daring seabirds. Each day he preens his feathers and plans trajectories, yet is continually grounded by the serene realities and siren songs that have drawn so many wayward travelers to the safety of this gilded peninsula over countless generations;yet still he plans and one day the winds will be right and his westward progression will soon be eastern once again. On the Illogical Idealism of a Life in the Pictures is a compositional mantra, newly composed in hopes of the realization of a dream. I reserve me rights to fully disclose what that particular dream may be, but if anyone reading this happens to be searching for sounds to license for use in some sort of upcoming art-house horror film, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. In the case of this particular track, all sounds were composed with custom synthesis software tuned to seven-limit just intonation and realized as a live performance. Outside of minor adjustments for levels and clarity, no other alterations were made. 49 ) A Minute of SonikMundus Guillermo Pozzati "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). " “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. 50 ) EVOLUCION Lucio E. Cuellar Lucio Edilberto Cuellar Camargo (1954), born in Bogota, Colombia, began musical studies at the conservatory of the National University of Colombia. In 1979, he moved to the United States, where he completed a B.A. in piano performance at Kennesaw State University, a M.M. in composition at Georgia State University and a DMA in composition from the University of North Texas. Mr. Cuellar works with sound synthesis, multimedia video, music for acoustic instruments, and mixed media (acoustic instruments and electronics/tape). His compositions have been performed in international festivals of contemporary music in South America, Central America, North America, and Europe. Evolucion (2010) is inspired by a documental, titled El valle del fuego, realized by Argentinean reporter and photographer Antonio Balaguer. The documental describes a volcanic region localized in the heart of in the Peruvian Andes in which a prehistoric past is present as one sees the smoky geysers and thermal waters in the middle of the volcanoes and snowy bare landscapes. Evolucion describes sonically the changes occurring in this valle del fuego where past and present are connected. Sound synthesis techniques utilized in the realization of the piece are convolution, phase vocoding, granular, AM, FM and additive synthesis. Samples utilize to realize the piece come from piano, guitar, glass, water, and voice. 51 ) Almost Achieved David Ben Shannon David Ben Shannon is an English composer who prostitutes himself on everything from award-winning plays to award-winning feature films, and award-winning shorts. He hasn't won any awards for anything. Almost Achieved is based on one of my cues for the award-winning documentary, My Big Break, and was intended to encapsulate the joy of trying. So often the trying enthuses us more than the doing. So here's one for hope. 52 ) Cradle Song Bernard Hughes Bernard Hughes' music has been widely performed in Britain and abroad, including a number of broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Forthcoming commissions include a major new piece for the BBC Singers and a children's concert work for narrator and orchestra. Bernard Hughes' music is published exclusively by Wild Woods Music (www.wildwoodsmusic.com) and there is more information at www.bernardhughes.co.uk. Cradle Song is a short lullaby for piano. A simple folk-like melody has a modal accompaniment; in a passage in the middle the pianist briefly sprouts an extra arm. 53 ) RhYTHMS Liana Alexandra Liana Alexandra, Composer, Born:May 27,1947,Bucharest,Romania Studies: - "Ciprian Porumbescu" University of Music, Bucharest,Composition Department. Awarded the special scholarship "George Enescu". " international courses of composizion at Darmstadt,West Germany 1983- an USIA stipendium in USA, PhD in Musicology; At present: Master in music; Professor at the National University of Music from Bucharest (teaching orchestration,musical analyses and composition).Member of the Union of Romanian Composers,Member of GEMA(Germany),Member of "Frau und Musik"(Germany),The First Vice-President of the Cultural Association Romania-Israel(ACPRI),Member of the Research Board of Advisors(American Biographical Institute,USA),Member of the Professional Women's Advisory Board(USA),Member of the International Council Research(IBC,England), Member of LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION Inc.(USA), Member of ECPNM(European Conference of Promoters of New Music). Compositions: she has composed several works (more than one hundred ),7 symphonies, 7 concertos for different instruments and orchestra, 3 operas, 4 cantatas, 1 oratorio, chamber music,choral music,music for children. Her compositions were published at :Editura Muzicala (Bucharest),Edition Modern (MĂĽnchen),Edition Furore (Kassel), Score-on-Line (SUA). Its were played in Romania,S.U.A.,Germany,Holland,France,Israel,Belgium,Poland,Austria,Sweden, Cehia,Australia,Spain England a.s.o. Liana Alexandra is also the author of the books:"Musical creation " an ineffable measure between the fantasy and the arithmetical and geometrical rigour" and "Technics of Orchestrations". Prizes and Awards: " Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers"Gaudeamus Prize (Holland); -First Prize "Carl Maria von Weber", Dresden;" Prize of Romanian Academy;"Diploma from "Who's Who in the World Dictionary", USA;"Prize of Beer-Sheva, Israel;" Second Prize,Mannheim-Gedock, Germany;" Third Prize "Fanny Mendelssohn",Dortmund-Unna,Germany;" ISCM Prize,Mexico;-"Woman of the Year",USA;" "Woman of the Year", Great Britain;-Prize ACMEOR, Bucharest;" Prize ACMEOR, Tel-Aviv,Israel;" "International Commendation of Success", USA ; ""International Personality of the Year 2001",Great Britain;"Researcher of the year 2001, USA; -Prize Bourges (France) Address: Str. Rosia Montana Nr.4, Bloc O5, Scara 4, Ap. 165, Sector 6, 060951-Bucharest, Romania. Email: lianaalexandra@gmail.com URL: http://www.romania-on-line.net/whoswho/AlexandraLiana.htm "Rhythms" was composed with "Mozart Music Processor" software. 54 ) Linedance David Jaggard David Jaggard is an American composer and humorist who lives in France. His compositions have been recorded on the Sonic Circuits, New Albion and Music and Arts labels, and he is a contributor to the satire websites McSweeney's, The Big Jewel and Yankee Pot Roast. His own website Quorum of One features both his humor articles and MP3 downloads of what one might call his lighter compositions. Using the form of a boogie-woogie bass line gone mad, Linedance is an attempt to get a minute of interest out of a single unbroken stream of eighth notes. It is in fact playable by a single pianist (with big hands). 55 ) Two Robots Enjoy a Gourmet Dinner J.C. Combs Born - 1970 - Seattle native, J.C. Combs, is a new music composer whose works include "Charmed Elixirs" - 2008, "Bats in the Belfry," - 2009, "Safe Passage" 2010, "Minstrel Nomadic" - 2010. Combs works with piano, electroacoustic, found sounds, synthesis and sound art. For more info visit jccombs.com. "Two Robots Enjoy a Gourmet Dinner" is a work inspired in part by Conlon Nancarrow. The intention was for the piano to sound as electronic as possible through notational styling. The work was shaped using sequencing methods with the final product recorded through a piano roll. This work is from the album comprised of similar works for piano titled "Bats In the Belfry - 18 Bagatelles." 56 ) Sonic Cloud Ivan Zavada Zavada’s creative research focus is on the interactive relationship between image and sound within the realm of electroacoustic music. As a composer and lecturer he is currently based in Sydney, Australia. The sonic cloud motifs are based on rotations and translations of melodic structures in three dimensional space. Varying pitch modulations create textures accumulating into sound clouds representing the nature of communication networks conglomerating into a mass of white noise. What do we make of this noise? 57 ) …true beyond any doubt Brian Lindgren Brian Lindgren is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he studied viola performance under John Graham. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to composing and performing electronic music, Brian Lindgren also freelances as a violist. His work “Crimson” was featured in the 2009 60x60 International Mix and has been performed across the country and overseas. Please visit www.brianlindgren.com for more information. The title “…true beyond any doubt” is taken from an address by Daisaku Ikeda in the United States on June 6, 1996. ""Ikeda is the president of the Soka Gakkai International (Nichiren Buddhist lay organization), a prolific writer, poet, educator and founder of a number of cultural, educational and peace research institutions around the world..."" (daisakuikeda.org), and someone I consider my mentor in life. From Daisaku Ikeda’s extraordinary endeavors to promote global unity and peace to my own experience practicing Nichiren’s Buddhism to overcome the variety of challenges we as people face in this life – I can genuinely conclude that to witness the truth of Ikeda & Nichiren’s message is an unparalleled joy. From Ikeda’s 1996 address: If we persevere in the practice of ""faith equals daily life"" in accord with reason, then our prayers will definitely be answered. This is Nichiren Daishonin's promise to us. And his words are true beyond any doubt. (For Today & Tomorrow, Daisaku Ikeda, p.9) 58 ) drain & vent Ken Steen Ken Steen's music sits squarely on the frontier between the acoustic and electronic domains of musical expression. Recent premiere performances and sound installations in Xi'an, China, Fortaleza-Ceara, Brazil, Spring in Havana Festival, Cuba, New Delhi, Goa and Jaipur, India, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden, at The Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, Casino Hall in Maribor, Slovenia, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia, Boston CyberArts Festival, Teatro Romano di Leptis Magna, Tripoli, Libya, AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media, Boston, and the North River Music Series at the Greenwich Music House, NYC, confirm that his work is fast attaining international recognition. Steen is an Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. (www.kensteen.com) "To operate safely, each drain in a building - whether sink or other - must be served by a vent line that carries sewer gases out through the roof. All waste lines need to have cleanouts. They should be easily accessible is case one needs to snake out the line. Since sewer gases are typically undesirable in enclosed spaces, drains are protected by traps - a curved section of pipe filled with water that provides a seal unless the gas pressure from below is of sufficient strength to bubble up through the water in the trap. Source material for this piece comes from sonic documentation of just such an occurrence, along with snaking, that was subsequently processed in a wide variety of ways." 59 ) A Breath for Rob Dan Weymouth Daniel Weymouth's work has been described as “power-color” music. As far as “color” goes, he is a confessed lover of sounds; this has led a fascination with electroacoustic music, as well as the creation of non-electronic music that tends to sound, well, electronic. The “power” half, along with other aspects — the music's compact scale, density and pace, although probably not its harmonic language — most likely comes from years spent as an itinerant musician, playing jazz, rock, disco, R&B and funk in clubs, concerts and studios. He has been commissioned by a wide range of wonderful musicians, and has had performances throughout the world. Recordings appear on SEAMUS, Bridge, New World Record and MIT Press labels. Dan is on the composition faculty at Stony Brook University, where he has been Chair, and is currently the Interim Director of cDACT (Center for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology). The sounds used in "A Breath for Rob" were originally recorded for a theatrical production of Macbeth, some two-plus hours of sound. It was amusing to attempt a balance between simple (form) and complex (“vertical” timbre), and to project a sense of temporal space in such a short time-span. One breath, only, but with all that implies given the complexity of life. The "Rob" of the title is of course Rob Voisey, the prime mover behind 60 X 60. 60 ) Crunching Snow Paul Russell "My starting point was naďvely 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.." This was 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. With this piece I wanted to experiment with a drum beat that sounds like it was falling asleep then waking up again, robotic in texture, but perhaps malfunctioning. I juxtaposed this with live instruments – Guitar, Xylophone, Melodica, Glockenspiel and Hand Bells. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it!