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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.
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| Order ) | TITLE | First Last |
| 1 ) | Portait of Gary | Andrew Davis |
| 2 ) | State of the World | Benjamin Boone |
| 3 ) | Cracks in the Foundation | Kenneth Froelich |
| 4 ) | Raices | Gene Marlow |
| 5 ) | Licks | Michael Pounds |
| 6 ) | Communication Satellites (UnTwelve) | Les Scott |
| 7 ) | Downtown Atlantis | Greg Bartholomew |
| 8 ) | Where Am I This Time? | Stephen Lias |
| 9 ) | Six Wings North | Lynn Job |
| 10 ) | Bb | HyeKyung Lee |
| 11 ) | 4006-1 | Andy Hasenpflug |
| 12 ) | America Will Shoot Itself | Tom Lopez |
| 13 ) | Small World IV | David McIntire |
| 14 ) | Sky Castles | Michael Spicer |
| 15 ) | Cloud Seven | Scott McGregor Moore |
| 16 ) | espereptic #2 | Doug Van Nort |
| 17 ) | Molasses | Kevin Kissinger |
| 18 ) | Der Sturz | Madjid Tahriri |
| 19 ) | Observe60 | Bevin Kelley |
| 20 ) | Amorphous | Laurie Spiegel |
| 21 ) | West Winds | Maggi Payne |
| 22 ) | Tricycle part 1 | Paul Adriaenssens |
| 23 ) | The Closing Corridor | Tricia Minty |
| 24 ) | What The People Want | David Hahn |
| 25 ) | 09_Saturn_talks_hold | Enrico Francioni |
| 26 ) | within a split second | Iris Garrelfs |
| 27 ) | An Alien Ship arrives to abduct a poor baby | Alon Nechushtan |
| 28 ) | The Balcony by Cameron Bobro | Cameron Bobro |
| 29 ) | Green Picture | Jay Batzner |
| 30 ) | Verbum caro factum est | David Drexler |
| 31 ) | contraption #2 | Alan Shockley |
| 32 ) | Parthenope | Patrick Liddell |
| 33 ) | Visitors | Craig Marks |
| 34 ) | Fire in the Wire | Eldad Tsabary |
| 35 ) | World 1-1 | Luke Jennings |
| 36 ) | Sugar Rush | Steven Snowden |
| 37 ) | SnapShot | Stephen Stanfield |
| 38 ) | Turkey Branch | Monroe Golden |
| 39 ) | SpaceShuffle | Daniel Dominguez Teruel |
| 40 ) | 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) | Philippe-Aubert Gauthier | |
| | 41 ) | They Can't Understand Him | Giovanni Varrica |
| 42 ) | Holland | Jiri Kaderabek |
| 43 ) | Thingavore 3 | Daniel Griffing |
| 44 ) | Untitled | Reconsiderate |
| 45 ) | Midget Ninja Theme Song | Rebecca Ashe |
| 46 ) | Atomizer | Jon Weinel |
| 47 ) | Rape | Jack Harris |
| 48 ) | Arachnye | Margaret Schedel |
| 49 ) | Song For A Flaming Contortionist | Julia Norton |
| 50 ) | rrrrr | Juraj Kojs |
| 51 ) | Spandrel | John Link |
| 52 ) | Fuga Nervosa | Mary Simoni |
| 53 ) | Transferred | Jason Bolte |
| 54 ) | Driving my 1948 Limbo | Dennis Bathory-Kitsz |
| 55 ) | 180 | John Maycraft |
| 56 ) | Minute Distances | Mike McFerron | |
| | 57 ) | Will the real Dalton Trumbo please stand up? | Steve Moshier |
| 58 ) | Play Maceo, Play (Drum & Mess Mix) | Ian Corbett |
| 59 ) | Electric Trains | Rob Voisey |
| 60 ) | The Unbearable Being of Likeness | Doug Opel |
| | TITLE | First Last |
| 1 ) | Portait of Gary | Andrew Davis |
| Andrew Davis (Born 1987). Composer and electric bassist, currently studying at Brandeis University with Eric Chasalow, working towards an M.F.A. in composition. Teachers in the past have included Bob Nieske, Tom Hall, David Zoffer, David Rakowski, and Ken Ueno. His music is influenced primarily by 70's jazz fusion, Frank Zappa, modal jazz of the 50's-60's, electro-acoustic composers in the vein of Varese, and Igor Stravinsky. Andrew continues to write pieces for electric bass and tape, as well as pieces for orchestra, usually with a slight avant-rock or jazz flavor. Andrew earned a B.A. in music composition as well as a B.A. in History from Brandeis University in 2009. |
| This piece is the musical representation of one minute in the mind of actor Gary Busey. |
| 2 ) | State of the World | Benjamin Boone |
| Benjamin Boone’s life -- thus far: Born in Statesville, NC in 1963; related to Daniel Boone; youngest of five sons; moved all over since; recorded rhinoceros vocalizations in Zimbabwe; was a Music Manager in New York; plays sax all over the U.S.A. and Europe; compositions performed all over the world and on numerous CD’s; teaches theory/composition at California State University, Fresno; loves to play saxophone, compose, read, and play with his wife and kids; a fan of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” For complete info visit www.BenjaminBoone.com |
| Wouldn't it be nice if we (the world) could all play -- or even live -- together nicely? Why the endless bickering and fighting? |
| 3 ) | Cracks in the Foundation | Kenneth Froelich |
| "KENNETH D. FROELICH's music has been performed internationally in Europe, England, South America and Asia, as well as many cities across the United States. Kenneth has been honored with awards from ASCAP, the National Association of Composers/USA, Meet the Composer, the Percussive Arts Society, and the Society of Composers Inc, among others. Kenneth's works have been presented by the American Composers Orchestra, Duo46, Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, the California E.A.R Unit, the Indianapolis Symphonic Orchestra, and the University of Southern California Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Kenneth received both his Doctorate of Music and Masters of Music degrees from Indiana University, and his Bachelors of Music degree from the University of Southern California. Kenneth currently serves as Assistant Professor in Music Composition at CSU, Fresno and the director of the Fresno New Music Festival.
" | | "Cracks in the Foundation" is Kenneth's first work created using Ableton Live and Max for Live. The piece is made almost exclusively from sounds performed on the Tenor Saxophone. This brief serves as the basis for a much larger electro-acoustic "symphony," featuring both live and processed saxophone. |
| 4 ) | Raices | Gene Marlow |
| 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.
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.
| | “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. |
| 5 ) | Licks | Michael Pounds | | After a relatively short career as a mechanical engineer, Michael Pounds turned his energies toward composition, studying at Bowling Green State University, Ball State University, the University of Birmingham in England, and the University of Illinois, where he completed his doctorate. His awards include the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award, a Residence Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship for studies in England, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and I-Park. His music has been performed throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Spain, Austria, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. He was a co-host of the 2005 national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS). Michael is currently the Assistant Director of the Music Technology program at Ball State University, where he teaches courses in composition, acoustics, music perception, recording and computer music. | | "Licks" was created using only recordings of a 1960s Les Paul guitar playing through a ca. 1954 Supro tube guitar amp, using only a Shure SM58 microphone. The piece was composed for the 60x60 project. |
| 6 ) | Communication Satellites (UnTwelve) | Les Scott | | "Les Scott's debut album 'Altered Carbon' was released in November 2008 under the name Neu Gestalt and was followed by an appearance on the album 'To Infinity' by Alex Tronic, released in February 2009. He is presently working on his second album 'Weightless Hours' whilst carrying out remix and collaborative work for a number of artists.
" | | 'Communication Satellites' employs 24-tone equal temperament. Quarter-tone harmonies are heard on almost every non-percussive sound and some percussive sounds. In the background washes, this quarter-tone difference is separated widely across the stereo field and a marginal delay produces subtle interference patterns in the sounds. The spaciousness of the piece is intended to provide an opportunity to better hear the tuning effect. 'Communication satellites' employs shortwave radio signal modulations (detuned) and an iPhone as sound sources ' and looks for common ground between the two different generations of communication devices in response to the natural microtonality of modulating shortwave signals. |
| 7 ) | Downtown Atlantis | Greg Bartholomew | | "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, the Kiev Philharmonic, Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA), the Ars Brunensis Chorus and the Langroise Trio. He was awarded First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Competition for Beneath the Apple Tree for recorder and viola da gamba.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1957, Bartholomew earned degrees from the College of
William & Mary and the University of Washington. His music is published by ART OF
SOUND MUSIC, ARS NOVA PRESS, ORPHEUS MUSIC and BURKE & BAGLEY.
For further information visit www.gregbartholomew.com." | | Wandering the streets of El Dorado. |
| 8 ) | Where Am I This Time? | Stephen Lias | | Stephen Lias is becoming more and more focused on being an adventurer-composer. Primarily active in concert and chamber music, his passion for travel and the outdoors has recently led him to compose such works as "On the High Chisos," "Prince William Sound," "Songs of a Sourdough," and, most recently, "River Runner." Stephen has numerous awards, commissions, and publications to his credit, and his pieces are performed frequently in the US and abroad. He is the founder of composerssite.com and lives in Nacogdoches, TX, where he teaches composition at Stephen F. Austin State University. | | 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?". |
| 9 ) | Six Wings North | Lynn Job | | Lynn Job (pronounced with a long "o") was born in South Dakota, U.S.A. and owns Buckthorn Music Press (ASCAP/MPA). She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and is an active professional composer (all serious "non-pop" genres, sonic e-art, and broadcast). She is also a published poet/author, actress, professor, archaeology hobbyist and more. Her main production studio is in North Texas. | | (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 is a brief 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 mixes both live keyboard and clips for subtle, ethereal effects aligned with the imagery. |
| 10 ) | Bb | HyeKyung Lee | | 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. | | 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. |
| 11 ) | 4006-1 | Andy Hasenpflug | | Andrew Hasenpflug is currently the music director for the dance department of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He has been composing and performing professionally for 24 years. | | "4006" is a 1-minute microtonal piece derived from synthesizers, finger cymbals, and garbage cans. The harmonic material is organized in 7 equal pitches per octave with larger structures being transposed either up or down 3.5 semitones. |
| 12 ) | America Will Shoot Itself | Tom Lopez | | Tom Lopez teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he is Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts. | | { click | |
| 13 ) | Small World IV | David McIntire |
| David D. McIntire began composing electronic music in the 1980s using an old English synthesizer, some sine wave generators and bits of tape sliced up with razor blades, which he purchased in bulk quantities. He composes electronic music with a computer now, but his music sounds pretty much the same. So you can’t really blame the computer. |
| Small World IV is one of a series of pieces that explore highly restricted realms of material. Here, the sonic palette is confined to a couple of timbres and the melodic compass is extremely narrow.
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| 14 ) | Sky Castles | Michael Spicer | | 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". | | This 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. |
| 15 ) | Cloud Seven | Scott McGregor Moore |
| "Scott M2 (Scott McGregor Moore) is a multi-media artist, the founder of ambient soundscape project dreamSTATE and a curator of THE AMBiENT PiNG live music series in Toronto, Canada. Other current projects include Muse Concrète ambient photography/films and Oblique Poetries wordsoundart with poet/artist Lynn Harrigan.
www.ScottM2.com www.dreamSTATE.to
" | | Ambient music is often very lengthy to help create a sense of timelessness and endlessness. The introductory fade-in alone can be 60 seconds in duration. Cloud Seven attempts to compact an ambient experience into a single minute – perhaps like the passing of a solitary cloud shadow in a sunny day |
| 16 ) | espereptic #2 | Doug Van Nort | | Doug Van Nort is a sound artist, composer and researcher. His work, presented internationally, takes an experimental approach to sound and music technologies, resulting in a unique mixture of research and creation. Recent projects have included an installation piece for interactive fabric instrument, electroacoustic works incorporating acoustic instruments, analysis/synthesis systems for texture and noise, pieces for large ensembles of "laptop performers" over the internet, and intelligent agents for musical improvisation. Van Nort improvises regularly with electronic and acoustic musicians using his custom GREIS software and amplified objects, currently performing in the trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch. His work is documented on Deep Listening as well as other experimental music labels, and in publications such as Organised Sound and Leonardo Music Journal. In addition to Oliveros and Braasch, current collaborators include Chris Chafe, Francisco Lopez, Ben Miller, Michael Century and Al Margolis. | | This piece arises from a project wherein I utilize a pair of inexpensive Realistic mixers in order to create a performable feedback system, with which I improvise. My interest has been in the line between rhythmic pulses and squelching tones, as well as the noise of the squelch itself and that of over-saturation. Dancing within this transitional region is the goal of this particular performance practice. For this piece, I interact with my GREIS performance software, which in this instantiation modulates, filters and loops within a network of delay lines in order to build the piece presented here. This work arose out of preparation for a concert at Cafe Esperanza in Montreal, and the result you will hear sounded to me, espereptic. |
| 17 ) | Molasses | Kevin Kissinger |
| "17 ) Molasses Kevin Kissinger
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.
" | | "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. |
| 18 ) | Der Sturz | Madjid Tahriri | | 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. | | "This piece 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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| 19 ) | Observe60 | Bevin Kelley |
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Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) is an electronic musician/multimedia composer. Her performances are loosely narrative, incorporating live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume. She holds degrees in English, Violin Performance, Electronic Music and Recording Media, and Veterinary Nursing. She has released four solo albums. Bevin performs in the duo Blectum From Blechdom, and was in the audio/visual band Sagan. Her MFA thesis was a series of pieces based on Philip K. Dick's short story 'The Preserving Machine', in which sheet music is transformed into creatures and back again. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Brown University's MEME department (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments) in 2009.
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| Words are from H. P. Lovecraft's correspondence regarding a dream he had about objects from space descending on his hometown, Providence, RI. More curious than afraid. Written originally as part of a larger work / series of soundwalks set in Providence's Ladd Observatory, where Lovecraft stargazed as a child and throughout his lifetime.
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| 20 ) | Amorphous | Laurie Spiegel |
| Laurie Spiegel, composer, software creator, and banjo player and visual artist is known widely for her pioneering work with many early electronic music systems, including the GROOVE system at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Music Mouse, a software-based musical instrument for Mac, Atari and Amiga. Often praised for her integration of intellect and intuition, she has taught at Cooper Union and NYU. Spiegel currently lives in a large semi-raw loft in lower Manhattan and in cyberspace. | | This small piece embodies the kind of expression that led us to develop electronic sounds. We needed a way to express, externalize, communicate, document and share the inexpressible, the boundless and invisible perceptions we each could only experience alone inside of ourselves. |
| 21 ) | West Winds | Maggi Payne | | Maggi Payne frequently incorporates visuals in her work, including videos she creates using abstract and nature sources, dancers with electroluminescent wire, and dancers with special lighting.
She has had performances of her works throughout the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia, has received two Composer's Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and video grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program, and has received four honorary mentions from Bourges and one from Prix Ars Electronica.
Her works are available on Starkland, Lovely Music, Music and Arts, Centaur, Ubuibi, MMC, CRI, Digital Narcis, Frog Peak, Asphodel, and/OAR, Ubuibi, Capstone, and Mills College labels.
She is Co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area (USA) where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music.
www.maggipayne.com
" | | "My music is based on location recordings where each sound is carefully selected because of its potential-its slow unfolding revealing great intricacies, and because of its inherent spatialization. All of my work is sound-driven: each grows and evolves as do crystals forming under the microscope.
Here the west winds are tiny ball chains sliding across a wooden surface. The rhythms are from the sounds of many different small gears and motors, bubbles, and the shaking of several burned out tungsten light bulbs.
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| 22 ) | Tricycle part 1 | Paul Adriaenssens | | Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1952.
Autodidact.
Started experimenting with tape recorders, sound manipulation and editing at 15. Taught himself to play the flute at 17.
Got in touch with the Studio for Experimental Music (SEM) in '75 becoming involved as a composer and performer. Evolved from acoustic through electroacoustic and live electronic to digitally generated and software controlled electronic compositions.
Experimented with video, based on parametric treatment of complementary aural and visual elements. Sometimes the audiovisual material was integrated in an installation, linking to plastic arts.
Performed at numerous concerts, festivals and artistic events in Europe, the US, South America and Japan. Was programmed on Belgian/Flemish radio and commissioned a number of compositions.
Co-authored ""Documenta Belgicae-Music 2"" and ""Troopboek"". Organized concerts of electronic music until new local legislation made non-commercial programming impossible.
Is about to move to Gourgas, France.
(more at: www.arts.kuleuven.be/matrix/documentatieE/composers/Adriaenssens/index.html)" | | "TRICYCLE
(part 1)
'Tricycle' is a study in phase shift, modified repetitition/pseudorepetition, cyclic structure and parameter translation.
Like I've been doing in the last couple of pieces this one again explores the integration of a strictly defined overall parameter set with a number of degrees of freedom in the actual small scale 'microcompositorial' events placed within this scheme. It happens to be a three cycle piece, each part based on the same set of interrelated sound events, treated now as being part of the -phase one- strict scheme set, then as belonging to the -phase two- intuitively chosen events set. This biphase composition system can be seen thus: the basic scheme defines an instrument which like any acoustic instrument is limited to a number of parameters but which another set of parameters can be freely applied to, like playing a score. These first phase parameters may let themselves be played like an instrument, but I don't play phase two live. That couldn't be done accurately enough in a live electronics situation. It's just that the second stage 'intuitive' phase is a way of implementing the first stage scheme and so could have sounded otherwise within certain limits (viz. those of the phase one scheme).
As only part 1 is heard here two thirds of the experiment are actually lacking." |
| 23 ) | The Closing Corridor | Tricia Minty | | Tricia Minty grew up in the small beach town of San Clemente in southern Orange County, California. She began playing the piano at age six, and her love for music grew from there. She is currently 22 years old, and is studying Music Composition and Speech Language Pathology at Fresno State University. | | The Closing Corridor is an electronic piece that experiments with a variety of unique atmospheric sounds.These sounds create an eerie and mysterious imagery which sets an anxious mood for the listener. |
| 24 ) | What The People Want | David Hahn |
| 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. He began his career in music as a performer on lute, guitar, and mandolin. His performances include those with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestras, Boston Musica Viva, the Seattle Symphony, Musica Nel Chiostro in Florence, and the City of London Festival. He was on the faculty of the New England Conservatory where he co-founded the Boston Renaissance Ensemble which toured widely in the US and Europe.
Mr. Hahn has composed over one hundred diverse pieces of music, many of which have been commissioned and performed by established professional ensembles and soloists. He has also collaborated with artists in film, theatre, spoken word, and other media.
Mr. Hahn’s music has been performed throughout the United States, and internationally in Canada, Chile, Turkey, Croatia, Cuba, France, Germany, Cyprus and Bolivia. It has been released on Centaur Records and is regularly broadcast on the radio. His compositions have been published by Doberman-Yppan, Clear Note, C. Alan, and Yelton Rhodes. |
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What The People Want is culled from “Virus Cosmos,” a seven-movement oratorio for voices, instruments, and electronic sounds. The concept is from my colleague, the late Andrea von Ramm, taken from an exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Switzerland called “Virus Express: Rendez-vous im Überall” (“Virus Express: Meetings in Everywhere”). The central theme of the Oratorio Virus Cosmos is envisioning the concept of God as a Virus which “affects and inflicts” people in several different aspects. These aspects are explored in each of the 7 movements.
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| 25 ) | 09_Saturn_talks_hold | Enrico Francioni |
| Enrico Francioni has achieved degree in double-bass and in electro-acoustic music at the Conservatorio "Rossini" of Pesaro. He interpreted in World Premiere the Suite I for solo double-bass by F.Grillo. The its you works of electro-acustic music they were performed and spread by: Oeuvre-Ouverte (Bourges), Cinque giornate per la Nuova Musica (Milano), Il Suono aperto (Pesaro), Festival Villa e Castella (Pesaro), FrammentAzioni (Udine), XVII C.I.M. (Venezia), EMUfest 2009 (Roma), VoxNovus 60x60 InternationalMix 2009. He is author of instrumental chamber music, musical theater, electro-acoustic music, educational music and essays. As composer and soloist he was rewarded in national and international competitions. He has recorded for Dynamic, Agorà , Orfeo, RSI, RAI, ROF and other. He was double-bass teacher at Conservatorio "Rossini" of Pesaro and he's involved in several educational music activities. | | The short work does part of a most spacious collection of pieces finisheds and autonomous of the duration of 60 seconds each, titled "Malström". In each piece is put in obviousness a salient feature than almost has codified in the course of the last sixty years of elettroacoustic life. Every composition will go seen like a sum of micro-gestures (gestures), that goes to give life to a most spacious weaving (texture) with obvious features of space-temporal continuum. For the technical accomplishment I employed a commercial software, beyond to other programs for audio editing, on Apple-PowerBookG4 – OSX 10.4.11. |
| 26 ) | within a split second | Iris Garrelfs | | Iris Garrelfs is a soundartist and composer "generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing" as the Wire Magazine put it. Others have compared her music to Philip Glass, Joan La Barbara and Henri Chopin. Iris looks at the interplay of space, technology and human expression through performances, mixed media projects, and recordings. A new album is out early next year.
Now in its 13th year, Iris is one of the founding directors/curators of Sprawl, advocating electronic and digital sound through live events and recordings, which has seen collaborations with the Tate Modern, the Goethe Institute featuring internationally renowned artists such David Toop, Thomas Koner, Pole and many more. | | Within A Split Second has been created from bedrooms recording made whilst on holiday in Split, Croatia. Sitting on the bed's edge, looking out the window through the mosquito netting and humming along to the crickets in the sizzling garden. |
| 27 ) | An Alien Ship arrives to abduct a poor baby | Alon Nechushtan | | Alon Nechushtan is a composer and pianist based in new york. www.talatmusic.com | | this is a tone poem, close your eyes and enjoy. |
| 28 ) | The Balcony by Cameron Bobro | Cameron Bobro | | Cameron Bobro is a singer and microtonal musician and has performed microtonal music live in 10 different countries from Portugal to China. Principally he works with the art center KIBLA in Maribor, Slovenia (where he lives). | | 17 unequal tones to the octave, a practical approach to diversity and practicality (easy to fret with the movable frets of my saz for example). 13-limit Just Intonation. |
| 29 ) | Green Picture | Jay Batzner |
| Jay C. Batzner is a composer, sci-fi geek, amateur banjoist, home brewer, and juggler on the faculty of Central Michigan University where he teaches music technology and electronic music courses. He has been many places and has done several things, some of which are rather impressive. | | This is a recording of my daughter talking in her sleep. Daria was 3 years old and having fever dreams. I can't even begin to imagine what was going through her mind at the time. |
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Verbum caro factum est | David Drexler | | "David Drexler's music has been performed on three continents by groups such as L'Ensemble Portique, The New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Con Vivo, Synchronia, The Dutch Tuba Quartet, and the EmergOrchestra. He has received grants and commissions from the Oakwood Chamber Players, Music St. Croix, the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and others. David lives and works in La Grande, Oregon.
" | | Verbum caro factum est is a tiny piece made at Christmas 2009 from a recording of Hans Leo Hassler's motet of the same name as performed by the Fayrfax Ensemble. |
| 31 ) | contraption #2 | Alan Shockley |
| Raised in Warm Springs, Georgia (population <475), Alan Shockley holds degrees in composition and theory from the University of Georgia, The Ohio State University, and Princeton University (M.F.A., Ph.D.). He’s held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Centro Studi Ligure, and the Virginia Center for the Arts, among others. Recent commissions include two piano works commissioned by Benjamin Binder in response to Schumann’s _Carnaval_, a virtuosic violin solo for the Montecito Summer Music Festival (_stn [adversary]_), and _Sechseläuten_, for the Rhode Island College Wind Ensemble. These days his works are often experiments in musical form—attempts at tailoring the form to the material, resulting in a unique shape for each piece, and hopefully one that “works” in a strange and individual way. He’s currently Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory in the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. |
| Exhalations form the basis of _contraption #2_, its long notes sounding through singing and through melodica. |
| 32 ) | Parthenope | Patrick Liddell |
| Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He
regularly collaborates with Function Ensemble (London), Maurice
(Chicago), Vox Novus (NYC), and many other ensembles. His solo work is a
postmodern blend of all styles, genres, and contexts. | | Parthenope is one of the sirens of Greek myth. This piece is a collaboration
with Chicago violinist Elisabeth Johnson. |
| 33 ) | Visitors | Craig Marks |
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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 the score for Iron Chef
America which the Detroit Press lauded as "saber-rattling gladiator music."
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A one minute exploration for Voice, Strings, Percussion, Washing Machine, and Studio
Processing/Manipulation
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| 34 ) | Fire in the Wire | Eldad Tsabary | | | | Inflammatory |
| 35 ) | World 1-1 | Luke Jennings |
| "Luke Jennings is a British composer. He is a musician. He is a guitarist. He is a graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He teaches. He plays. He does not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them.
" | | "World 1-1' was originally written for piano but eventually evolved into a piece including guitar, synthesized orchestras, live samples, and effects. The original piano part, although an integral part of the piece, was extended to make sense of the electronic sounds that I had in mind; this helped give those ideas a harmonic structure to work against. The rhythmic ideas also play an important part in this piece, all of which are comprised of samples of TV static. 'World 1-1' is a video game reference; the '1-1' being the first area of the first level, or 'world' that you step into. Beyond that it expresses another idea: stepping for the first time into an entirely new world. A first inhabitant, watching the sun come up...
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| 36 ) | Sugar Rush | Steven Snowden |
| 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. | | Short and Sweet. |
| 37 ) | SnapShot | Stephen Stanfield |
| Stephen Stanfield (b. 1966) is a Brisbane-based composer and music educator with a broad interest in art and popular music. In recent times he has been concentrating on electronic composition presented in surround sound performance and listening environments and is currently undertaking Doctoral studies in this area at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Stanfield has been engaged as composer and surround sound designer for interdisciplinary site-specific collaborations with Australian and international visual artists and choreographers and has lectured in composition, contextual music studies, and music technology at various Queensland tertiary institutions and secondary schools.
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| SnapShot was conceived as a distant view of a complex and ordered environment. Structurally the piece is designed on Fibonacci proportions and maintains a constant rhythmic pulse throughout. The pitch material is derived from a six-note pitch-set that is implemented at the surface level and as the underlying structural pitch progression. The timbral content comprises synthesized and sampled acoustic sound sources. |
| 38 ) | Turkey Branch | Monroe Golden | | Monroe Golden is a composer from rural Alabama whose works often explore microtonal systems. Critics have described his compositions as "delightfully disorienting," "lovely, sumptuous, yet arcane," and "irresistible music, full of wit and beauty." He graduated from the University of Montevallo and earned a doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Illinois. There are two complete CDs of his music, A Still Subtler Spirit (Living Artist Recordings, 2003) and Alabama Places (innova Recordings, 2007). | | "Turkey Branch is a one-minute composition for fixed media. The sound sources are turkey calls and cello open strings played snap pizzicato and jeté. Cello sounds are tuned to an overtone-based collection representing partials 6-27, whereas selected turkey calls -- putt, cutt, cackle, kee-kee, purr, rattle, gobble, and hush -- are modified temporally, if at all. Turkey calls were provided by Glenn Howard, and cello samples by Craig Hultgren.
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| 39 ) | SpaceShuffle | Daniel Dominguez Teruel |
| Daniel Dominguez Teruel (*1984)
Studied Music Technology and Musicology at the University of Music Karlsruhe. At the moment he is completing his studies at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona.
He is engaged in soundart, electroacoustic composition and the design of digital music instruments.
In 2009 he presented his work at the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference in Porto and ton:art, an exhibition for digital soundart, in Karlsruhe.
Amongst others his pieces were performed at the Next Generation Festival 3.0 at the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Musica Viva Festival 2009 in Lisbon. The piece 5 Klangaktionen was selected for the Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustique de Bourges 2009. |
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The soundmaterial of "SpaceShuffle" consists of sounds that were
recorded on the street, supermarket, parking deck etc.
The recorded ?les were choped and put together in a new way so that
the sequence of sounds seems shuf?ed, while it's moving through
spaces with different acoustical caracteristics.
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| 40 ) | 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) | Philippe-Aubert Gauthier | | "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." | | "This is a short piece mixed from a serie of one-minute studies for analog electronic percussion or bass guitar. A real TR-808 is used to create overlapping patterns. The drone is created with a TR-808 and a DRX-1. The drone changes are triggered by the
bass and snare drums. These drum parts are combined to a study with heavily compressed bass guitar with Hot British tube distortion. Three improvised takes, three bass tracks." |
| 41 ) | They Can't Understand Him | Giovanni Varrica | | "Born in sunny Sicily in 1982, Gianni Varrica is a piano player, arranger, composer and sound designer. Definitely inspired by 70's rock and progressive bands, in 2001 he started composing his own music, while studying classical and jazz piano (CPM Music Institute, Milan, with Massimo Colombo) and electronic composition (Conservatorio V. Bellini, Palermo, with Giuseppe Rapisarda
and Emanuele Casale).
Since 2003 Gianni has been working in Italy as session musician with bands and solo artists, arranger, MIDI programmer, synthesizer demonstrator and piano teacher.
One of Gianni's earliest electro-acoustic works, "Storm Of The Century", has been selected for performance in the Electro-Acoustic Jukebox, November 13 & 14, 2009 - FEASt Festival, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum - Florida International University." | | "What happens when voices coming from the TV and the city noise overrun night dreams? Your mind receives outer events, combining them into the dream environment, thus causing unexpected - and often disturbing - turn ups.
Words as well do lose their peculiar communication feature and reveal to be such a pliable and versatile material for the construction of complex dream clockworks." |
| 42 ) | Holland | Jiri Kaderabek |
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Jirí Kaderábek (born in 1978 in Zlín, Czech Republic) studied composition, piano and singing at the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague, Czech Republic and then exclusively composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, The Netherlands and Columbia University, New York City. During his studies he attended many composition workshops, residencies and private lessons in the Czech Republic, The Netherlands, France, Italy and USA. He has received several national as well as international composition awards and his music has been performed by soloists, ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe and USA. In his works various compositional approaches are confronted, often principles or fragments of historical music as well as pop, rock and jazz are integrated. He also works with recorded nonmusical sounds, integrated in the musical structure, and recently with theatrical elements. He often integrates himself in performances of his works, whether as a singer or pianist. www.jirikaderabek.com.
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| Visit of Amsterdam, walk from an opera house to a club, rush street, free and open-minded atmosphere... |
| 43 ) | Thingavore 3 | Daniel Griffing |
| Daniel Griffing is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. |
| This short musical scene was originally composed for Thingavore, a project of the Texas Aggie Game Developers club at Texas A&M University. Thingavore...eats things. |
| 44 ) | You Wanna Go | Reconsiderate |
| 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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| 45 ) | Midget Ninja Theme Song | Rebecca Ashe | | Flutist, Rebecca Ashe, is currently on faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City as adjunct professor of flute, and flute instructor for the Community Music an Dance Academy. A new music performer and collaborator, she has partnered with several composers and has performed at several festivals, including SPARK, SEAMUS, Electronic Music Midwest, and the Electroacoustic Juke Joint. She is the featured artist for the 2010 Electronic Music Midwest Conference, held in Joliet, Illinois. | " In every human lurks the Striga. Worshiped in the cults of the Mekhet ' its public face beautiful and refined ' this Belial's Brood hides in the shadows, waiting for the time to strike the innocent. The Striga have always existed, and always will ' regardless of religious practice, of philosophical rhetoric, or of simple hope.
Though bleak, also ever present is the Inner Warrior, the One who overcomes the demon. (S)he is nourished by love and does not fear the beast within.
This oeuvre is an Everyman tale of good versus evil, where the Inner Warrior simultaneously faces his worst enemy and greatest love, and epically suffers in order to seek the middle ground.
The gestative form of this heroic personality came from a lengthy and stimulating dinner conversation one night at the Electronic Music Midwest Conference in 2008.
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For more more about Midget Ninja visit http://midgetninja.weebly.com/ |
| 46 ) | Atomizer | Jon Weinel | | Jon Weinel is currently a postgraduate student at Keele University (UK), Music Department, Research Institute of the Humanities. He is studying for his PhD regarding compositional techniques which elicit altered states of consciousness. Within this theme he produces work in the visual and sonic arts. He is currently working on projects which combine live instrumentation with electronics, and ways to manipulate hand produced artwork digitally. In addition he also performs experimental dj sets and produces electronic music which is released through netlabels such as TestTube and his own website. | | 'Atomizer' is a short excerpt piece demonstrating the 'The Atomizer': a specially designed live electronics patch for laptop which facilitates the production of 'Sonic Atoms'. Sonic Atoms are a concept created by the artist La Peste for his 'Flashcore' music, which I have developed in my own work to describe 'entoptic phenomena' through streams of rhythmic noise. Entoptic phenomena refers to the pin-point dot patterns, matrices and vortexes of light observed in an hallucinogenic experience such as those produced by mescaline. The Atomizer a tool and real-time performance patch which is used among several other methods to elicit altered states of consciousness in my compositional work. 'Atomizer' is a short blast of hallucinogenic audio which demonstrates that tool. |
| 47 ) | Rape | Jack Harris | | "Jack Harris is a UK based contemporary artist mainly working with sound and technology. Jack's focus is with electroacoustic composition and sonic arts, however, he approaches his practice with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach. His work is mostly led by a higher conceptual content or proposed research outcome, but is underlined by a voice that favours darkness; hedonism; noise; and extremes. His compositional approach is one of sound, gesture, and space; rather than melody, harmony, and form. Jack is currently reading Composition and Digital Art Practices at Dartington College of Arts.
For more information, and to view all of Jack's work, visit www.jackharris.info" | | "Every young composer has to go through their 'offensive' stage...
Jack, in no way whatsoever, condones the horrific act of rape or sexual abuse. " |
| 48 ) | Arachnye | Margaret Schedel | | "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. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review. 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.
" | | "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 traditional techno beat.
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| 49 ) | Song For A Flaming Contortionist | Julia Norton |
| 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’. | | "I love circus, but am very troubled by contortionists." |
| 50 ) | rrrrr | Juraj Kojs |
Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian performer, composer, producer, and educator residing in the US. He is a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale’s Department of Music. Kojs also manages music and multimedia programs at Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, FL, which include the monthly 12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art concert series.
Kojs' compositions were recently featured at festivals and conferences in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Kojs’ works received awards at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. His articles appeared in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity, Leonardo Music Journal, and Journal of New Music Research. www.kojs.net
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| 51 ) | Spandrel | John Link | | John Link has composed for diverse media including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensembles, rock bands, and electroacoustic instruments. He has received commissions from guitarist Daniel Lippel, cellist Caroline Stinson, the Athabasca String Trio, the New Jersey Arts Collectivce (for pianist Anthony de Mare), Flexible Music, the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (for the Ames Piano Quartet), The High Mountain Symphony, and the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and awards from the Centre Acanthes, ASCAP, and Meet the Composer. His music is recorded on the New Focus Recordings, Bridge Records, and 60x60 labels. Link is a founding member of the New York City composers group Friends & Enemies of New Music and a member of the music faculty at William Paterson University. www.wpunj.edu/coac/music/link/ | | Spandrel was composed for the seventh annual 60x60 project, organized by Rob Voisey in collaboration with the ICMC. This sixty second composition consists of a brief chord progression made using samples recorded by Ted Clancy of the playing of guitarist Daniel Lippel. |
| 52 ) | Fuga Nervosa | Mary Simoni |
| 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. |
| "Fuga Nervosa" is a fugue con la libertà with tempo rubato so that its duration is precisely one minute. Enjoy! |
| 53 ) | Transferred | Jason Bolte | | Jason Bolte (b.1976) is currently serving as an Adjunct Instructor of Music at the University of Central Missouri while completing his D.M.A. in Music Composition at the University of Missouri ' Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. Jason is a member of the organizational board of the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and a founding board member of the Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance. Jason's music has received awards and recognition from the VII Concurso Internacional de Miniaturas Electroacusticas (Finalist: 2009), 2nd. International Electroacoustic Music Contest ' CEMVA (Third Prize: 2008), 9th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Musica Viva (Prize Winner: 2008), Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art (Selection: 2006, 2008), ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Competition (Second Prize: 2008), ETH Zurich Digital Arts Week Competition (Recognition: 2007), Music Teachers National Association, Missouri Music Teachers Association (Missouri Composer of the Year: 2007), and International Society of Bassists Competition (First Prize, Media: 2005). | | Transferred was composed in honor of the one-year anniversary of Jay Batzner's Unsafe Bull Podcast. It is based on material Jay provided from a Mancala board game. |
| 54 ) | Driving my 1948 Limbo | Dennis Bathory-Kitsz |
| As part of the post-Fluxus generation of independent artists, Dennis
Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949) composes and advocates for the
presentation of nonpop. He has created nearly 1,000 works. Since 2005 he
has co-hosted the award-winning "Kalvos & Damian" radio show, and he created
the We Are All Mozart 'productivity' project, composing 100 works on
commission in 2007. His music includes uniquely designed electronic and
acoustic instruments; computer software/hardware; synthesizers, e-boxes,
electronic costumes, and the Rhythmatron; and extended voice performances.
He co-founded the Vermont Composers Consortium and the NonPop International
Network. |
| Driving My 1948 Limbo is a 48-tone etude that can also be performed live by
five keyboardists.
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| 55 ) | 180 | John Maycraft |
| John is a full time composer and musician living in the UK. He co writes commercially with Bernie Calvert (Hollies pop group). Their company is called Calmay.
John also owns another company called artguitar.co.uk The remit of this company is to explore the parameters of the guitar's sound.
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| The idea of this piece of music was to explore the effect of Echo on overdubbed guitars. Primarily influenced by minimalism, the guitars weave together to form a motif that changes sporadically. |
| 56 ) | Minute Distances | Mike McFerron | | "Mike McFerron is professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis University and he is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest (http://www.emmfestival.org). A past fellow the MacDowell Colony, June in Buffalo, and the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum, honors include, among others, first prize in the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition (2002), first prize in the CANTUS commissioning/residency program (2002), recipient of the 2005 CCF Abelson Vocal Music Commission, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "First Hearing" Program (2001). McFerron's music can be heard on numerous commercial CDs as well as on his website at http://www.bigcomposer.com.
" | | Minute Distances was composed in 2005 for the Vox Novus 60X60 project and is 59.721 seconds long. The structure of this work is based upon an iso-rhythm that reduces bit by bit during each repeat. The work was realized entirely using Csound, and it uses only samples of a marimba as its sound source. The marimba samples are at time slightly modified; however, throughout the work, the essense of the marimba remains. Minute Distances is representative of my interest in textural shape, spatialization, balancing macro and micro composition processes, and mono-thematicism. |
| 57 ) | Will the real Dalton Trumbo please stand up? | Steve Moshier |
| 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 which performs regularly in Southern California. |
| "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). |
| 58 ) | Play Maceo, Play (Drum & Mess Mix) | Ian Corbett |
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Dr. Ian Corbett is the Coordinator of the Audio Engineering Program, and Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Audio Recording at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He also owns and operates "off-beat-open-hats - recording and sound reinforcement", specializing in servicing the needs of classical and jazz ensembles in the Kansas City area. Ian's composition credentials include a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, a Fellowship Diploma from the London College of Music, and an M.M. degree from Emporia State University, KS. For more information please see www.offbeatopenhats.com.
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| Originally a movement from “Three Improvisatory Groovescapes for multi-channel surround sound and instrument”, the work was intended to explore particular aspects of the 360o soundstage. This stereo rehash, sped up, presents the grungy grooves as more drum & bass like, and is intended to be humorously entertaining.
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| 59 ) | Electric Trains | Rob Voisey | | “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. Composing electroacoustic and chamber music, his aesthetic oscillates from the ambient to the romantic. Rob Voisey embraces a variety of media for his compositions, and pioneers new venues to disseminate his music and reach audiences. | | "All aboard! Get ready for the ride."- Rob Voisey Vocals by Angela McGary |
| 60 ) | The Unbearable Being of Likeness | Doug Opel | | "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, and at venues in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada and 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.
" | | "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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