60x60 360 degrees of 60x60 Home Mixes Events Composers Collaborations Audio/Video Press FAQs Call_for_Works Scarlet 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. Piece Name Composer 1 ) No Food or Drink Aloud Corinne Tuney 2 ) You've Got... 60 Seconds John Akins 3 ) ely vasar II Florian Vitez 4 ) The Night in Taiwan Yu-Ping Lin 5 ) After the Resolution Yota Kobayashi 6 ) first snow Monty Adkins 7 ) Tektykes Shani Aviram 8 ) Velocipedic Epidemic Michael Farley 9 ) Splinter Christopher Chandler 10 ) lofi order MONDUAL 11 ) Clinquant Blue Lin Culbertson 12 ) Hubble View Scott Peterson 13 ) Off Season Tony Saunders 14 ) vertical Elise Cumberland 15 ) Tree Growth Mark Ballora 16 ) Just a Minute Mark Zaki 17 ) Dark Wine Lee Noyes 18 ) Apparat Mathew Dalgleish 19 ) A Virgin Flight Min Eui Hong 20 ) Dream Away the Time (for a minute) Nicole Kim 21 ) Ecce Nox Tenebrarum Valerio Murat 22 ) wind Azumi Yokomizo 23 ) Revolution Devolution Sabrina Peña Young 24 ) One Minute Fast Jacob Alford 25 ) Variations of an Alien Drowning Clay Taylor 26 ) the conversation between the wind and the wave Hsin-Li Chen 27 ) Submerge En-Ning Tsai 28 ) March of the Krumerhorns John Biggs 29 ) Small Tree With Six Branches Michael Takezo Chinen 30 ) 60-Second Stress Test Jared Davison 31 ) Meme Principe 1: An Imitative Audio Mosaic Michael Casey 32 ) Sori Hee Young Cho 33 ) Computer Music Marty Meinerz 34 ) Civilization Shu-Cheng Wu 35 ) Fragmento de He Juan Escudero 36 ) Through the Looking Glass in One Minute Brent Ferguson 37 ) Pipa study Ming ying Chen 38 ) My Life Is Meticulously Random Jen-Kuang Chang 39 ) Flow (2009) Rui Ogawa 40 ) A Stanza Adrift Joyce Wai-chung Tang 41 ) Allegory60 Scot Gresham-Lancaster 42 ) OnePlusOne Thea Fahardian 43 ) Trip William 'Kwesi' Grant-Acquah 44 ) One-Five-Two-Zero-One-Zero Patrick Scott 45 ) Bend Unbend David Parfit 46 ) Black Lung Christian McLeer 47 ) Ghost Lineup (revised) Christopher Haworth 48 ) Radio Play George Brunner 49 ) Hoedown Jeff Fairbanks 50 ) zWTCI:1PBach Zachary Lovitch 51 ) hobnobber Bruce Hamilton 52 ) Cuckoo Momilani Ramstrum 53 ) Scavengers James O'Callaghan 54 ) Radio Piece #7 Daniel Steffey 55 ) little brother spinning Travis Elrott 56 ) Outside my front door Anton Killin 57 ) outside for a minute Aaron Acosta 58 ) Night Trip Thomas Gerwin 59 ) Une minute cinéma pour l’oreille Adrian Borza 60 ) The One Minute Piece That Took Me Ages To Do And Which Is Really Impressive for 60x60 Moritz Eggert Piece Name Bio(s) Program Note 1 ) No Food or Drink Aloud Corinne Tuney A born and raised Kentuckian, Corinne is a current student of History, Spanish, and Music at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Throughout her many studies, she stumbled upon a slight talent for creating weird music. Along with this newfound interest in Music Technology, Corinne also enjoys playing the Alto Saxophone. She left her musical instruments behind as she currently studies in Alcalá de Henares, Spain for a semester. She would like to thank professors, friends and family for helping her on the journey to become the Jack of all trades. In the Music Technology room at Transylvania University, there is one rule that must be followed: food and drink are not permitted. One day, while experimenting with synthesizers and theremins, a student decides to break this rule and quickly learns the consequences.... 2 ) You've Got... 60 Seconds John Akins John R. Akins, a Michigan native, received his BM in piano and theory/composition and MM in theory/composition from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (1961 & 1962), and a DMA in composition from the University of Texas, Austin (1971). He studied composition with Jack F. Kilpatrick at SMU and with Hunter Johnson and Kent Kennan at UT. He has taught at Southwestern Assemblies of God College, Texas Lutheran College, the University of Maine at Machias (1971-76), and since 1977 at Evangel University, Springfield, MO. He has had performances of his works in Michigan, Texas, Maine, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New Mexico, New York, Latvia, and at Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, including numerous regional conferences and one national conference of the Society of Composers (SCI), national and regional conferences of the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC) and the 2007 national conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Webpage link: http://www.evangel.edu/Directory/Bios/Index.asp?username=AkinsJ "You've Got... 60 Seconds" is a condensed adaptation of my 2 1/2 minute piece titled "Computerondo -- You've Got... to Be Kidding," in which I took .wav files associated with computers and the internet, such as the AOL "Welcome, you've got mail" and processed them with Sound Forge. The longer piece was composed from 2006-2008, and was selected for inclusion on a concert at the Region VI Society of Composers, Inc., annual conference in Huntsville, TX, in April 2008. That same year I received word from Vox Novus calling for composers to submit 60 second works for consideration for their concerts, so I then made the present condensation of the 2 1/2 minute piece, which was first used in the Midwest Mix that year. 3 ) ely vasar II Florian Vitez "Born on September 11, 1986 in Erlangen, Florian Vitez is engaged in music since his childhood. Beside a classic music education in piano and music theory, he has a passion for jazz. After his school leaving examination in 2006 he started to study Musicology and Music Technology at the University of Music Karlsruhe. He engages in live - electronics, filmmusic (e.g. the short film „Erste Beobachtung“ in 2008), theater music (in Februar 2009 the music for the world premiere of the theatre piece „Wild Werden.Ein Notstand“ by Stefan Nolte at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe) and multimedia productions. Furthermore he organizes and realizes different jazz projects as well as manifold other performances, like in Juli and August an exhibition of sonic art called „ton:art“ in Karlsruhe (for more information: www.ton-art-expo.de). During the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) in Porto in Juli 2009 an article written by Florian Vitez, Daniel Dominguez and Vincent Wikstro¨m about „New Tendencies in the Digital Music Instrument Design“ was published." "Ely Vasar II is a short collage based on 6 Samples. Falling nails, shutting refrigerator doors, drawers, sounds of a heater and a closet have been modified with MAX/MSP, Logic 8 and finalized with ProTools to create an energetic, haunting mix of almost raw and highly alienated sounds. Ely Vasar is a serial of miniature pieces, based on sampling every day sounds and lifting these sounds to a new level. Sounds we usually would not care of are in the spotlight of these pieces." 4 ) The Night in Taiwan Yu-Ping Lin Yu-Ping Lin, had a great interest in modern music. Now studying composition in Institute of Music, NCTU and working with Prof. Chao-Ming Tung. The Night in Taiwan - With a boisterous atmosphere, "The Night in Taiwan" describes crowd night markets in Taiwan on holidays. Night market is a place with peddlers which sell various foods or host different games. People in night markets create an interesting unique soundscape. I devised a melody with feeble noise suggesting orient culture as my prime motive. And the sound field design imitates the soundscape when I was passing through those enthusiastic peddlers. 5 ) After the Resolution Yota Kobayashi "Yota Kobayashi (b. 1980, Nagoya, Japan) writes music that explores imaginary soundscape. Besides acousmatic pieces, his current compositional work focuses on an endeavour to create electroacoustic “tone poems” in his mixed works — the combination of live instruments and electronics creates abstract narratives, which sympathize with/object to/compliment/clash with one another. He studied music composition at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and Owen Underhil. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he works actively with film, dance, and theater productions. Among his award include Musica Nova (1st prizes in 2008 and 2009, Czech Republic), Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo (1st prize in 2010, Italy/France), Prix Jue de Temp/Times Play Awards (2nd prize 2009 and 3rd prize 2006, Canada)." This piece depicts a calm and gentle state of mind. 6 ) first snow (for lisa) Monty Adkins Following a beautiful choral concert in St Paul's Hall in Huddersfield conducted by a friend of mine, Lisa Colton, I went back to the studio to collect my bags. As I looked out of the studio window up to Castle Hill gentle snow was beginning to fall. The first of a very heavy winter. Inspired by the concert, I stayed in the studio a short while, watching the snow and made this short piece, dedicated to Lisa. 7 ) Tektykes Shani Aviram Shani Aviram is from Jerusalem, Israel and is a music composition student at Mills College. Tektykes is a playful manipulation of glass sounds. 8 ) Velocipedic Epidemic Michael Farley Since 2000, Michael Farley has been manipulating pre-existing sound and field recordings under the name the Beige Channel. As The Ephemera Design Firm, he incorporates live electric guitar with laptop for a more pop electronica sound. Caramel Snow is his project for more conventional Pop/Rock songwriting. His music has been released on Auricular, Chaotic System, Sound Works, Phonography.org, Throat, Bremsstrahlung, and his own Happy New Year Recordings, among others. His work has been included in broadcasts and exhibits of sound art in the US, the UK, and Europe. His CD, Plain Vanilla (2004) was described as “fascinating… hypnotic… an absorbing experiment,” by The Wire magazine. Autumn Rain in the Yard (2006) was called “an excellent work of careful micro-sounding crackles, static hiss and all sorts of granular synthesis… a highly fine work,” by Vital, and “strange, haunting…intriguing stuff,” by Paris Transatlantic. www.thebeigechannel.com "Velocipedic Epidemic"" My 2007 CD, AMUSANT!, utilized samples from LP's of 1970's soft rock ""classics."" For this 60X60 submission, I went into my archives of sounds collected for that CD that were never used, and found some fragments that might sound embarrassingly familiar were they not mangled beyond recognition." 9 ) Splinter Christopher Chandler Christopher Chandler is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Recent projects and awards include the choreography of his music by the University of Richmond's University Dancers, a commission for a cello and electronics work, and first prize in the Austin Peay State University Young Composer’s Competition for his piece the resonance after... His music has been performed by eighth blackbird and at the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Ball State New Music Festival, and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Christopher received his BA in music composition and theory from the University of Richmond where he studied with Benjamin Broening and served as the Music Technology Specialist from 2008-2009. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in music composition at Bowling Green State University where he is a teaching assistant in music technology and studying with Elainie Lillios and Marilyn Shrude. Splinters get under your skin and become a part of you for a brief moment. Through the juxtaposition of recorded sounds that creates an introspective space, this Splinter attempts to do the same, not at all like the often uncomfortable way the wooden ones do. 10 ) lofi order MONDUAL "MONDUAL Sair Sinan Kestelli and Tugrul V. Soylu started to make music at the band “ekoton” in 2007. At the end of 2008, Sair Sinan Kestelli and Tugrul V. Soylu decided to put their different instrumental backgrounds into “MONDUAL” to create a diverse soundscape at various genres of electronic music. MONDUAL explores wealthy possibilities offered by the digital platform and wanders around the fuzzy borders between electronic and acoustic domains. MONDUAL develops its own sound generation mechanisms and uses various kinds of controllers to actively integrate control mechanism into sound generation mechanism. Presentation of the outcomes is aimed to be a dynamic live performance, which would be consistent but unique each time it is experienced. ************************* SAIR SINAN KESTELLI Sair Sinan Kestelli composed various electroacoustic music pieces during his graduate studies at ITU Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM). These pieces were played/performed at various electroacoustic collectives and festivals in Istanbul, Ankara, Frankfurt and Lisbon. He also contributed to various performances of contemporary Dance Projects by TALDANS and performed in Istanbul, Paris, Bonn, Rotterdam and Nothingham as a musician. He still continues his works and pieces on various platforms focusing mainly on electroacoustic music, live electronics and interactive media. *************************** TUGRUL V. SOYLU Tugrul V. Soylu began to deal with music by playing percussion and flutes. During university studies, he performed live acoustic music for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream and for various dia performances. Then, his music interests have flown towards electronic music and started to play electronic drums and keyboards. He still continues his works on electronic music and live electronics pieces. " "Contrary to the highly appreciated hi-fi ones, lo-fi structures propose low resolution in terms of defined components and potential combinations. On the other hand, an order formed with these constrained components will definitely contain combinations that hi-fi structures are not likely to form. " 11 ) Clinquant Blue Lin Culbertson Musician and composer Lin Culbertson utilizes her time spent as an improviser to inform her sound work. Her compositions are comprised of synthesized sounds, field recordings, and conventional instruments, that are combined and controlled by semi-random systems. The influence of her graphic design background is evident in her use of graphic scores, video screen grabs, and visual translation software to include non-musical elements in the sound creation process. She is a founding member of the improvisational unit White Out and has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists such as Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, William Winant, Nels Cline, C Spencer Yeh, and Carlos Giffoni. Some of her recent work has been featured in the WPA New Media Series and Static: the online journal of the London Consortium. Clinquant Blue is a piece composed of several overlapping short melodic segments. These motifs interact and shift relationships through varying the durations of their looping lengths. Detuned autoharp and metallophone are employed to tarnish the sonic sheen of the electronic sounds with an unpolished patina that offsets the clinquant glimmer, making it sound a bit "blue". 12 ) Hubble View Scott Peterson Scott Peterson is a composer, throat-singer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound-artist. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Studies (double bass) at the University of Calgary, Scott Peterson went on to study privately with John Patitucci in New York (2001) and attended the Banff Centre for Performing Arts (2004). In 2006, Scott created "Divine Light"- a sound installation and celebration of cosmic harmony (with financial assistance from the Toronto Arts Council). In 2008, Scott travelled to Tuva (Siberia, Russia) to study throat-singing with Tuvan masters. When we look at the stars, we look through time. (Mbira through moogerfooger cp251, low pass filter, ring modulator, korg kaoss pad) 13 ) Off Season Tony Saunders I am a visual artist and musician, currently completing the Master of Social Work program at Hunter College in New York City. I was drawn to this career several years ago as a result of working with adults with dementing illnesses (like Alzhiemer’s Disease). It is well-known that music and other forms of creative engagement are therapeutic for both patient and caregiver. Working with this and other populations has reaffirmed my art practice and helped me locate the values of joy and tenderness within the visual art and music I make. Off Season features a variety of synth voices that evoke dusty, forlorn memories of children’s games and festive gatherings. There is a use of microtonal tuning and a respectful nod to the great Harry Partch. 14 ) vertical Elise Cumberland Elise is always listening. Vertical is an exploration of upward musical motion as well as the audible phenomenon of beating that occurs when close notes are sounded simultaneously. 15 ) Tree Growth Mark Ballora Mark Ballora is associate professor of music technology at Penn State University, where he teaches courses in audio/music production, musical acoustics, history of electroacoustic music, and software programming for musicians. He studied theatre arts at UCLA, and composition and music technology at NYU and McGill University. He is author of the textbook Essentials of Music Technology (Prentice Hall, 2003), has written columns for Electronic Musician magazine, and has published articles describing sonification, which is the representation of scientific data sets through auditory displays (as opposed to visual displays). He has composed a number of works for the Errol Grimes Dance Company, and has written compositions that have been performed internationally at electronic and computer music conferences. His Web site is http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/Ballora/. “Tree Growth” is a time-lapse audio portrait of a tree's maturation over two millenia. Its “cantus firmus” is a sonification of a dataset consisting of annual ring thicknesses of an American Bristlecone Pine, spanning the years 1 to 1992 AD. Each year's ring thickness is mapped to pitch; we hear 33 years of growth every second. The sonification layered with wood-like sounds to create a variety of ambient washes. 16 ) Just a Minute Mark Zaki "Mark Zaki’s professional life began at age 12 as a classical violinist. Building on his many diverse interests, his eclectic career encompasses composition, performance, media technology and the digital arts. He currently teaches at Rutgers University where he is director of the Rutgers Electro-Acoustic Lab (REAL). He lives outside NYC with his wife, two daughters, three cats and a considerable amount of software. Mark has created a body of work that ranges from traditional chamber music to electroacoustic music, music for film and visual music. His credits include work on more than 50 films, television programs, theater productions and recordings for companies such as PBS, Paramount TV, Disney, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures, Sony/Classical, Chandos and Westwind Media. Recent projects include scores for the dramatic feature film The Eyes of van Gogh, and the Peabody award nominated documentary The Political Dr. Seuss for PBS. His film work also includes both onscreen and soundtrack performances in Lasse Hallstrom’s Casanova, the American release of Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service and Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva. His concert and electroacoustic music has been presented by the MIN Ensemblet (Norway), the Nash Ensemble of London, Speculum Musicae, the Boston and NYC Visual Music Marathons, the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, Third Practice, the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey Concert Series, the Comunidad Electroacoustica de Chile (Santiago), Festival Oude Muziek (Utrecht), Nashville SoundCrawl, the Not Still Art Festival (NYC), the International Computer Music Conference, Nuit Bleue (France), Electrolune (France), Primavera en La Habana (Cuba), Musica Nova (Prague), the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the SEAMUS National Conference, the Florida Electronic Music Festival, the NWEAMO Festival (San Diego), the New Music Miami ISCM Festival, the Cycle de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur (Paris), the Pulse Field International Exhibition of Sound Art (Atlanta), and on the Canadian Electroacoustic Community CD project DisContact! III. Mark includes among his teachers Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Charles Wuorinen and Arnold Steinhardt and has a Ph.D. degree in composition and music technology from Princeton University. He currently divides his time between New York City and Los Angeles. " Meaning is gleaned through thought, through the expressions of the world. Stop. Think. Express. 17 ) Dark Wine Lee Noyes Lee Noyes (b. 1977) is a Dunedin, New Zealand based improvising musician, teacher and collaborative artist. Dark Wine is a composition for electronically processed percussion and breath, produced specifically for the 60x60 event. 18 ) Apparat Mathew Dalgleish Mathew Dalgleish is a media artist based in the UK, specializing in generative music and interactive media. He teaches music technology at the University of Wolverhampton, where is also also a PhD candidate, and is a visiting researcher at The Open University's Music Computing Lab. His interests include liveness in computer music, Improv, experimental film, and computers in music education. "Apparat applies a recurrent neural network, realised in the MaxMSP programming environment, to the control of an idealized physical model of a piano. The weightings of the connections in the neural net are influenced by a simple sensor input. Recalling Gehlhaar's Wege (1974) for amplified piano and two strings, the output from the model consists entirely of sympathetic resonances from the unplayed strings at the low end of the instrument, while chords are sounded only in the upper register. This gives the piece its characteristic rich, slowly-shifting timbre. As a generative system, Apparat produces different results each time it is played, and so the audio file presented here can be considered a snapshot of its working. " 19 ) A Virgin Flight Min Eui Hong Min Eui Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received degrees from the California Institute of the Arts in U.S.A. (M.F.A. in Composition - New Media). At present, he is working and studying new music and media arts with Prof. Younghi Pagh-Paan in the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany. His works were performed at the 23. European Media Art Festival 2010 in Germany, the International Conference “NIME 2009” in U.S.A., Donaueschinger Musiktage 2008 – The next Generation in Germany, the International Computer Music Conference 2007, 2008 in Denmark and United Kingdom as well as South Korea. Also, his piece(s) was named as a finalist at the “Eduardo Ocón” International Composition Competition 2010 in Spain, and were awarded a prize the Korea Computer Music Competition 2001 and the Ulsan University's Computer Music and Sound Contest 2000 in South Korea. He also won CalArts scholarship from the CalArts in U.S.A.. "A Virgin Flight (Korean; Cheoyeo-Bihang)" for electro-acoustic music is my fantasy about a bee flying around space. While I am observing the bees for a long time, I forgot actual bee’s sounds. However, I heard completely different sounds. It quotes Descartes like this “I forget, therefore I am”. In this piece, my experiences of the changes were realized from actual bee’s sounds into computer manipulating bee’s sounds. Also, the audible space is composed as a microcosm in which each smallest bee’s sound is a center. At the beginning of the piece, a bee appears, and then two, three – until millions of bee’s sounds as if a nuclear fission is vibrated. Now a climax is executed, a glissando is headed for gradually upward like a countdown for space explosion. 20 ) Dream Away the Time (for a minute) Nicole Kim Nicole Kim started her formal compositional studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2003. After completing her bachelor's degree in 2007, she moved to Japan upon receiving the Japanese government scholarship, in order to continue her studies in music with an emphasis on Asian traditional music at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her compositions have been selected for ICMC 2009 and other music festivals in the US. 'Dream Away the Time (for a minute)' is a composition inspired by a silent film 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1909) for Koto, a 13-stringed Japanese zither, inside the piano and computer. This piece is an attempt to cross many boundaries and to do away with some stereotypes especially with regard to music (for) film and film (for) music. One of many goals for this piece was to place the Koto in a fresh musical context, by avoiding, or in some instances, expanding on the instrument's traditional cliches. The piano is treated as a percussive instrument or rather an sound object as its strings are beaten with both the soft and wooden part of mallets, while its melodic side is brought out when it is plucked with Koto nails and strummed in glissandi. The computer processes and diffuses the sound of the instruments, in the backdrop of a soundscape created using the sound of the Koto. Originally composed for live performance with four speakers, 'Dream Away the Time (for a minute)' is a stereo version created for 60x60. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1909) Directed by Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton, USA (Courtesy of BFI Film Library) 21 ) Ecce Nox Tenebrarum Valerio Murat "Valerio Murat, born 1976 in Italy, studied Composition with Antonio Poce and Electronic music with Alessandro Cirpiani. He won several prizes, the Special Prize of the Giga-Hertz-Award (Germany 2009), IMEB Bourges (France 2006), Gaudeamus Prize 2002 (Netherlands), Reading Panel/Comité de Lecture IRCAM (France, 2007) among them. His pieces have been selected and performed also during the ICMC 2005 and 2006. Currently he is professor of Electronic and Computer music at the Conservatorium of Music ""A. Steffani"" in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. " """Ecce Nox Tenebrarum"" for viola sounds and electronics. A rapid shining sabre that cuts across the rarefied vibrations of the voice and the expanded atmospheres of the dreaming. " 22 ) wind Azumi Yokomizo Azumi Yokomizo is a composer. She was born in Saitama, Japan in 1987. She graduated from Shobi University in Japan and is currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Informatics for Arts. She is learning the composition skills for contemporary music and incorporate Max/MSP/Jitter into her work under Yuriko Kojima. She has been collaborating with dancers and players. She is a Roland Foundation's scholarship student of 2010. "Wind" expresses the wind that drifts with the current of air across our bodies. We can feel a variety of sounds, as the wind carries the smell of each passing season. 23 ) Revolution Devolution Sabrina Peña Young International composer Sabrina Peña Young has premiered her works at arts festivals including the Australasian Computer Music Conference, the Athena Music Festival, Turkey's Cinema for Peace, Electrolune (France), Voices on the Edge (China, Europe, USA), Vox Novus 60x60 , Art Basil Miami, the International Computer Music Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, the Beijing Conservatory , the NY International Independent Film Festival, Miramax's Project Greenlight, the Pulsefield International Exhibition of Sound Art, Primera en La Habana X (Cuba), Angel's Moving Image Festival (London), and numerous festivals throughout the United States.Young recently premiered her multimedia oratorio Creation, performed by the Millikin University Women's Chorus and Percussion Ensemble and directed by Michael Engelhardt. Young is the author of the Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today and has taught at Florida International University and Murray State University. "Did you vote? No resolution to the Revolution...Black, and white....and brown... evolution....economic confusion. Devolution. The ultimate conclusion?" 24 ) One Minute Fast Jacob Alford Jacob Alford is a Music major at Texas A&M University. This sketch was created as part of a larger project involving sounds recorded from a three-day long performance in which artist Paolo Piscitelli covered large objects with tape. The project culminated in the sculpture that was created during the performance and a multi-video installation. 25 ) Variations of an Alien Drowning Clay Taylor Clay Taylor is a music technology student at Texas A&M University. This work is a study in heavily-processed sounds and how they can become expressive and full of character despite how simple the original sound may have been. 26 ) the conversation between the wind and the wave Hsin-Li Chen Hsin-Li Chen. Born in 1985, Taiwan. Graduated from National Taipei University of Education in 2008, major in composition. Now, taking master degree of music in National Taipei University of Education, major in composition. " "This music is inspired by the beauty of the nature. The central idea of this composition is based on the simple, yet beautiful sound of the ocean waves. When traveling along the shore of Taiwan, the composer enjoyed sitting by the ocean, listening to the melody of the ocean, the wind, and the birds. She discovered the potential in the sound of nature: the sound of the ocean waves, which we usually take for granted, have its own rhythm, its own emotion and its own lively melody. By combining the nature sound and the synthesized sound, the composer present a simple natural melody in a different light. 27 ) Submerge En-Ning Tsai Tsai En-ning entered Shih-chien university music department at 2003. She won the second prize of the composed competition of Taipei city, 2006, and graduated with the first grade of vocal music. Under the backlash of nature and of wicked greed of humankind, the value of life become more and more struggling and perilous danger. Those simply good things gradually vanished day by day. 28 ) March of the Krumerhorns John Biggs John Biggs was born in Los Angeles in 1932. His father was organist Richard Keys Biggs, and his mother was singer Lucienne Gourdon. He was number 8 in a family of 11 children.. During his youth he received training in acting, singing, piano, bassoon, and violin, and was a member of his father’s church choir. As a performer, he founded the John Biggs Consort, which specialized in vocal chamber music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. As a composer, his output is varied, and includes chamber music, vocal music, choral music, orchestral music, and music for the stage. "As director of the John Biggs Consort, which specialized in music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, I often included krumhorns in our instrumentation. They are a double reed instrument where the reeds are sheltered within a cap, much like the chanter of a bag pipe. The wood body travels down, then bends back up in a crook (krumm), and looks like an upside down walking cane. Their tone might be likened to a raucous modern day oboe. They were popular from c.1400-1600 in Europe. The piece is for soprano, alto, tenor, & bass instruments plus voices, all performed by yours truly. " 29 ) Small Tree With Six Branches Michael Takezo Chinen michael chinen (*1982) is a programmer and musician. He studied composition & computer science at university of washington, seattle, electro-acoustic music at dartmouth college and was research student at tokyo denki university. lately he moved to berlin with the Fulbright research grant for wavefield synthesis at technische universität berlin. "This piece uses six stochastically generated binary trees to control the synthesis parameters of STK and handwritten instruments via several types of interpolation (linear/logarhythmic/sinusoidal/square). The trees create hierarchy and synchronicity between the instruments by sharing the nodes closer to the root of the tree up to a stochastic depth, producing in effect a three dimensional tree with six layers. Written in C++ and open-source. " 30 ) 60-Second Stress Test Jared Davison Jared Davison is an unconventional Canadian composer who uses field recordings and found sounds as his sonic prima materia. The auditory alchemy of fusing soundscapes that are geographically and chronologically distinct as well as envelope-pushing within narrowly defined parameters are staple features of his compositional technique. His sonic explorations of the infinitesimal infinite - the unseen and the unheard - are often imbued with unsettling, uncanny and eerie atmospheres. In his own words: ""My own work tends to be more poetic in that my field recordings are re-contextualized in order to emphasize and magnify moods and atmospheres barley hinted at in the original contextualized soundscapes."" Drawing inspiration from environmental psychology, and urban exploration/industrial archeology, Davison's work sometimes crosses the line into art activism; a social commentary on the ugliness of the world. That this ugliness is mutable is shown in his ability to re-frame his source material; a type of sonic recycling which allows for re-purposed experience. "60-Second Stress Test"" is an audio commentary which gives voice to the mental unease often quietly suffered by the modern office worker. It is a call for the reduction of noise pollution in the workplace and brings attention to the overlooked victims of hyperacusis. The sonic foundation for this piece is comprised of only two sounds: the clacking clatter of a computer keyboard and a panicked voice churning the phrase "I am slowly going crazy. 1-2-3-4-5-6-switch." In order to approximate the claustrophobic feel of auditory crowding, the percussive typing was painstakingly multi-tracked 60 times, creating a maelstrom of keyboard clamor while at the same time paying homage to the numeric essence of 60x60. 31 ) Meme Principe 1: An Imitative Audio Mosaic Michael Casey In 1746 Charles Batteaux introduced the idea of the Fine Arts being based on a single principle-- imitation of nature. In Même Principe, a natural scene recorded at Bangkok's Chaou Phraya river (consisting of a long-tail river boat worker singing while waiting for customers at the dock) is gradually replaced by audio mosaicing using sound particles varying in pitch, timbre, texture, and duration. For each grain in the original work, several new grains are chosen to replace it based on audio similarity to the original grain. At the end of the work, the natural scene re-emerges giving us an audible reference for the mosaic. 32 ) Sori Hee Young Cho Hee Young Cho majored in daegeum, a Korean traditional musical instrument, in both high school and university. She got a master’s degree in music after studying musical technology in Ewha Graduate School of Music in Modern Media, and is now a D.M.A. candidate in Dongguk University Graduate School of Digital Image & Contents. She is interested in musical works based on Korean traditional musical instruments and sounds. Sori means sound in Korean and also refers to pansori, one of the Korean traditional vocal songs. Sori is the work that reconstructs pansori sung by a woman and the sound of a Korean percussion buk (drum) by the granular synthesis technique. This work focuses on the variety and originality of human voices and the flow of sound. *This work is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2010-0000312). 33 ) Computer Music Marty Meinerz "I am currently a Game Audio student at Columbia College Chicago, and my works span from Sound Design to Sonic Arts to Instrumental Performance. " This segment was created using a PureData patch that randomizes audio playback, and a collection of sound effects from around the city of Chicago as well as household objects and a bass guitar. 34 ) Civilization Shu-Cheng Wu 35 ) Fragmento de He Juan Escudero Born in Hoyales (Burgos, Spain). After his formation in several centers and conservatories he studied composition with Francisco Guerrero in Madrid. Authors that have been also decisive are Ligeti, Berio and Ferneyhough. Besides, the Xenakis attitude and his first musical works were significant at the beginning but they were not sufficient, because a true interconnection between mathematics, physics and music can be produced only if scientific research and artistic creation coexist. Techniques of discrete geometry and formal grammars, that he has developed in a different context, have been guides of the formalization procedures. Harmonizations of aperiodic temporal sequences, in addition to other methods proposed in the field of stellar astronomy, have been on the basis of several instrumental and vocal works, and were later extended to the timbric domain in works for solo electronics or for several instrumental ensembles and computer where instrumental and temporal spectra interact. This fragment has been made with Csound and Mathematica. It is the result of a process of unfolding two series of non periodic temporal sequences into their (in-) harmonic fields. 36 ) Through the Looking Glass in One Minute Brent Ferguson Brent Alan Ferguson was born in Waco, Texas on August 8th, 1985 to Janet Jones and Ron Ferguson. He learned to play guitar at the age of 15, and entered the University of Texas at San Antonio after graduating from Ronald Reagan High School in 2003. In 2007, he earned the Reed Holmes Composition Award and a Bachelor’s degree in Music with a concentration of Composition. Brent currently attends and teaches a class at Texas State University-San Marcos in pursuit of a Master’s in Music degree with a Theory emphasis. He has presented at the Graduate Research Symposium at Texas State University-San Marcos, the Music and the Moving Image conference at New York University, and the IMS Study Group in Amsterdam in 2009. Brent won the Outstanding Graduate Student for the School of Music, and was nominated for the college award in the spring of 2010. This piece was written to explore the idea of writing a work for percussion, and transforming it by putting the sound through effects processors. The result was an atmospheric blend of ominous sounds, but with slightly definable marimba sequences. The form of the piece works as a mirror where the second half is a direct reflection of the first half. 37 ) Pipa study Ming ying Chen I am a sophomore undergraduate student at National Taipei University of Education in Taiwan. My major is musical composition and study computer music with Dr. Yu-chung Tseng. My computer music-The Gate of Void and Solid- and has been received and performed in 2009 International Workshop of Computer Music and Audio Technology(WOCMAT 2009) held in Taiwan. As the name expresses what you see, the music is by a variety of different types of birds' chirping composition, take advantage of the Time stretch, Doppler, filter, such as the pitch Bender and Audiomulch collage creation software. The true birds' chirping transforms adult and bird's two-part harmony, which is a very interesting comparison. 38 ) My Life Is Meticulously Random Jen-Kuang Chang 39 ) Flow (2009) Rui Ogawa 40 ) A Stanza Adrift Joyce Wai-chung Tang Joyce Wai-chung Tang was born in Hong Kong. She obtained master’s degrees in both composition and electro-acoustic music at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She graduated with a PhD in musicology at the University of Hong Kong. Her compositions have been performed throughout Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Many of her works have also been jury-selected for performance in major contemporary music festivals/conferences. She is currently a part-time faculty member of the Department of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University. A Stanza Adrift is a short piece for tape. The sound sources are largely from sampled percussion instruments and the piano. 41 ) Allegory60 Scot Gresham-Lancaster Scot Gresham-Lancaster (b. Redwood City, CA USA 1954) is a composer, performer, instrument builder and educator with over three decades of professional experience. He is dedicated to research and performance using the expanding capabilities of computer networks to create new environments for musical and cross discipline expression. As a member of the HUB, he is one of the early pioneers of "computer network" music which uses the behavior of interconnected music machines to create innovative ways for performers and computers to interact. He has recently performed in a series of "co-located" performances collaborating in real time with live and distant dancers, video artists and musicians in network based performances. For over two decades, he has worked with multimedia prototyping and user interface theory and its relationship to new markets as an independent consultant and at Interval Research, SEGA-USA, and Muse Comunications. http://scot.greshamlancaster.com "Allegory60" is an edited exceprt from an older larger piece entitled "Allegory of the Beached Whale". Both pieces have a conceptual link to the rhetorical question, " Are whale's beaching themselves in greater numbers because of the interaction with human generated changes in the state of the ecology of Earth's oceans?" 42 ) OnePlusOne Thea Fahardian Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. Her projects include electronic music, sound art, video, and performance. Thea's work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Salon Bruit in Berlin, and the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Thea studied Arabic classical music in New York City, San Francisco, and in Cairo. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College. In 2009, she was a lecturer in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A toothbrush attached to a rhinestone dildo vibrates against the bridge of a violin. The sounds are processed through a Max/MSP patch. Every performance is a unique and thrilling experience. 43 ) Trip William 'Kwesi' Grant-Acquah William Grant-Acquah is a senior at Lewis University studying Radio/TV broadcasting. Trip was written specifically for the Vox Novus 60x60 Project. This work uses one sample to create a monothematic composition. 44 ) One-Five-Two-Zero-One-Zero Patrick Scott Patrick Scott (Chicago, USA b. 1976) creates and adjusts sounds for a living and for art's sake. "One-Five-Two-Zero-One-Zero" is dedicated to the memory of a stray cat that didn't have a name but deserved a chance. Please support your local, no-kill animal shelter. 45 ) Bend Unbend David Parfit David holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Montana (2002) and an M.Music in music technology from New York University (2005). He studied digital signal processing and composition with Dr. Robert Rowe, Dr. Richard Boulanger, Dr. Charles Nichols, and Dr. Kenneth Peacock. Areas of interest include interactive audio and music for video games, acoustic modeling, and machine learning. As a composer, sound designer and mixing engineer, David owns and runs Seaside Sound in Victoria, British Columbia. Bend Unbend is the brief account of a distraught analog keyboard's attempt to overcome the circumventions and disruptions within his original electronic circuitry. 46 ) Black Lung Christian McLeer Christian McLeer is artistic director and founder of Remarkable Theater Brigade (RTB), a company that creates and produces new musical works. His musical success began as a youth, winning piano competitions and commissions while still in high school. He received his first commission at the age of 14 for the American Cancer Society for which he wrote and performed HOPE, later included on the CD Encores 2 by the renowned pianist Anna Marie Bottazzi. He attended Julliard Pre-College and worked his way through Manhattan School of Music where he acquired his Bachelor’s degree, composing and performing professionally for classical, jazz and rock ensembles. 47 ) Ghost Lineup (revised) Christopher Haworth Christopher is an artist currently studying for his PhD at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Northern Ireland. He studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London, followed by postgraduate study in music at Goldsmiths College. His research focuses on the compositional deployment of psychoacoustic effects in spatial music, and the listening strategies involved when music rejects a narrative reading. Aside from his academic work he has released two albums for Sonic360 Records under the moniker ‘Littl Shyning Man’. He recently collaborated with artist Tim O’Riley on the AHRC funded research project ‘Accidental Journey’, providing a 118 minute soundtrack to a real-time 3D animation of a single orbit around the lunar surface. The piece uses algorithmically generated sound synthesis loosely based on Xenakis' Gendyn software, with a live overdub of no-input mixing board generated feedback and noise 48 ) Radio Play George Brunner George Brunner is a composer and performer, researcher/writer, recording engineer/producer and teacher. He is a recent recipient of a research grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation and the Svenska Institutet of Sweden. Brunner is the founder of the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music Ensemble, which produces an annual CD under his direction. He is the founder and coordinator of the biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College, New York City. 49 ) Hoedown Jeff Fairbanks Jeff Fairbanks composes for musicians and audio playback devices using computers. He lives in Maryland near Washington DC. 50 ) zWTCI:1PBach Zachary Lovitch Zachary is currently getting his master’s degree in music composition at California State University, Long Beach. His interests in music extend from the dissection, interpretation, and performance of pre-common practice early music (especially ars subtilior) to the analysis and synthesis of modern and avant-garde musics of the 20th and 21st centuries. His fields of study, as well as the majority of his compositional output, encompass modern and electronic music composition. This work is an exploration of a canonic mensuration process. It utilizes multiple, repeated segments of the first prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier that are time stretched at differing, related intervals until they synchronize with each other by the end of the piece. The process is further exemplified by the palindromically symmetrical nature of the arch form. 51 ) hobnobber Bruce Hamilton Bruce Hamilton composes and performs music in a variety of genres. He has performed as a percussionist, improviser, and electronic musician for over 20 years. His music is published by Non Sequitur Music and can be heard on the Albany, bhub, Capstone, Memex, and/OAR, Phill, SEAMUS, and Mark labels. A co-organzer of the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, Hamilton currently teaches composition, theory, and electroacoustic music at Western Washington University. hobnobber is a droll little piece that is primarily the result of improvisation in Max/MSP on sounds/patterns synthesized in Metasynth. The audio was further developed and processed in Digital Peformer. 52 ) Cuckoo Momilani Ramstrum MOMILANI RAMSTRUM is a composer, musicologist, opera singer, PD programmer, and interface designer. She performs at festivals and conferences improvising vocally with live electronics and a MIDI glove that she designed. Her compositions include "Romance with a Double Bass," for bass, narrator and animation, “Grass, Metal, Water,” for voice and dancers, and CyberLife an opera for ensemble, animation and electronic music. She documented and analyzed Manoury's electronic opera K.. in a DVD-ROM published by IRCAM entitled “From Kafka to K....”. She wrote a chapter in Simoni's Analyzing Electroacoustic Music, published by Routledge. Dr. Ramstrum is Associate Professor of Music and director of the theory program at Mesa College. In "Cuckoo" all sounds were created through vocal improvisation with real time looping. There are 13 tracks of sounds. One group of 8 tracks and another of 4 tracks loop from 1 to 5 seconds. On top of the looping tracks the composer adds another track of direct unprocessed sound. The computer was controlled by the use of a MIDI glove in real time. The MIDI glove was designed and created by the composer. 53 ) Scavengers James O'Callaghan James O'Callaghan is a composer, sound designer and multi-disciplinary artist. His music explores ideas of dialecticism, semantics, politics, technology, polystylism and alienation. Using techniques inspired by Brechtian theatre, Comics and Soviet Montage, he has developed a musical language characterized by juxtaposition and contrast. He is completing his undergraduate studies in composition at Simon Fraser University under Barry Truax. Scavengers is derived predominantly from field recordings made by myself on Gabriola Island, off the coast of British Columbia. During the pensive hours spent alone on the beach or in the forest with my microphones, I became fascinated with the behaviours of seagulls and crows; two of the most common and resilient birds around. These creatures displayed remarkable ingenuity and curiosity; in some ways they captured the spirit of the island. I hope that I have captured some of their cunning, violence, whimsy and charm in this piece. 54 ) Radio Piece #7 Daniel Steffey Daniel Steffey is an active composer and percussionist in the San Francisco Bay area. Currently attending Mills College for an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media, he studies composition with Roscoe Mitchell. Recently, Daniel composed music and did sound design for Helen Pau’s award winning play The Stone Wife. His composition Radio Piece #7 was chosen for the “60x60 Concert Series” to be performed at the 2010 International Computer Music Conference. He has also written music for experimental film artists such as Dale Springhetti, Eric Lowe, and Michael Valentin. Daniel received his BA in Music Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied percussion with Dean Gronemeier and Tim Jones. As a percussionist, he has performed extensively throughout the United States with groups such as the Iron Beats Drum and Dance Group, the Ragtime Rebels Marimba Band, and his psychedelic rock group Easysleeves. Daniel can also be found playing drums for recording artist Paula Frazer in her band Tarnation. "“Pieces for Radio” is a multi-movement work that explores the sounds of radio. All of the sounds heard throughout the work were recorded from a 1965 Model 1750, 17 transistor, multi-band radio. Each piece scrolls through the AM, FM, Shortwave, and VHF (Very High Frequency) bands of the radio to explore the unique textures “in between” stations. The result is seven movements composed of these sounds manipulated through the computer programs Audacity and Reason. Although these pieces form a cohesive work, they do not necessarily have to be played in any order, or in one sitting." 55 ) little brother spinning Travis Elrott Travis Ellrott has a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MM from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Currently he is at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, working towards a PhD under the guidance of Margaret Schedel, Daniel Weymouth, and Daria Semegen. His works have been featured in festivals in Poland, Greece, France, Canada, and the USA. In 2008, he was awarded the Bourges residence prize. This short excursion meshes together a San Diego train with my little brother playing his turntable in a Hollywood apartment. Somewhere in there is rain falling onto a metal pot in Soledad, California and some neat filtering/distortion effects. 56 ) Outside my front door Anton Killin Anton Killin is a Wellington-based musician and composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and mixed-media music. Outside my front door I hear the chirping of new born chicks, the distinctive call of Tuis - New Zealand's famous songbird, planes wizzing overhead, cars driving past, and the creaky gate next door slamming shut 57 ) outside for a minute Aaron Acosta Aaron Acosta is a graduate from the College of Santa Fe with a BA in Sound Design in Media in 2002. This is a Self Designed major that consists of studies in Theatre, Film, and Music. Sound helps us interpret the world in a unique way with frequency, amplitude and time: he chooses to explore these realms. He is involved with electro acoustic composition as well as more traditional composition and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Subscriber: Electronic Music Foundation. Member USITT & CITT. For more info, visit: www.aaronacosta.com or http://www.myspace.com/aaronacostamusic " “outside for a minute” starts with a recording of traffic and birds. These sounds were recorded outside my apartment at mid-day. I then use heavy noise filtering, time expansion, editing and granular synthesis to reveal the layers of sound that create the background noise I often ignore. 58 ) Night Trip Thomas Gerwin Sounds are beings. They were born, spend a discrete life span on distinct locations and then die. Most of them love to form social organisms. Thomas Gerwin is a classically educated composer and performer. He came into the field of electroacoustic music very early, later he intensively worked on soundscape composition. Today he composes radio art and concert performances – with and without traditional music instruments and creates sound and video installations for public spaces and festivals. He is founding director of „inter art project“, artistic director of „International Sound Art Festival Berlin“ and President of Berlin Society for New Music. With his ensembles “laut_bewegt”, “Welt am Draht” and “KlangBildEnsemble ad hoc”, as well as in his concert series "Klangwelten“ (in deep darkness) he performs object percussion, live electronics and acousmatic on a loudspeaker orchestra. He has won some national and international prizes and stipends, his works are released, publicly shown and performed worldwide. www.thomasgerwin.de " "Thomas Gerwin Night Trip (2009) Thomas Gerwin works in his radiophonic composition on the sounds of the night and musically investigates diverse facettes, figures and meanings of it. The piece was produced in several layers. It started with an electroaacoustic scene made of soundscape recordings. Then this was counterpointed live by a small percussion solo. Then this was remixed and parts of it were put into a sampler device. From this source the sounds then were played (using a keyboard and using a drum pad) and recorded again as a new layer of the little piece. Later on the different layers were mixed to todays form. This little piece opened a three hours radio concert at SWR 2 in Germany where the composer was using prerecorded material, live percussion and live electronics. The concert was broadcasted and presented as multichannel concert installation at the same time, where the public could move and take different positions during the event. All rights remain to the artist. 59 ) Une minute cinéma pour l’oreille Adrian Borza Adrian Borza is an active composer, music software developer, and teacher. While in Romania, he studied Music composition at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy. He was awarded a PhD in Music. While living in Canada, he has attended music programming courses at the University of Montreal. Currently, he is a tenured professor at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy. His music has been performed in concerts across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia such as Musica Viva Festival, JSEM/MSL Electroacoustic Festival, Outside the Box New Music Festival, Sonic Art Electroacoustic Music and Live Electronics Festival, Art of Sounds Festival, and ISCM World New Music Days. Natural sounds are put together to create a movie: city traffic, policemen whistling, engines starting, cars honking, engines restarting, people shouting, glass breaking, alarms beeping, crowds cheering, low growling, people screaming, and then a man’s voice, astonishing music, and a car door closing. Interest, acceptance, curiosity, uncertainty, fright, and surprise; it was all in your imagination. It is the power of the sound design. Une minute cinéma pour l’oreille (2008) is a puzzle of the everyday life. The acoustic sounds are partially detached from their original significance, in order to evoke intriguing stories and to suggest cinema images. 60 ) The One Minute Piece That Took Me Ages To Do And Which Is Really Impressive for 60x60 Moritz Eggert Moritz Eggert has covered all genres in his work - his oeuvre includes 9 operas as well as ballets and works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. He works as a performer (pianist, actor and singer) and conductor. His New Music Blog "Bad Blog Of Musick" is the most-visited German New Music Blog and has incited many controversial discussions about the state of Contemporary Music today. He also writes regularly for various print publications, is an avid boardgaming-podcaster and will be professor for composition at the University of Munich from winter semester 2010 on. His music is published by Sikorski, Hamburg. He lives with his wife and son in Munich. The One Minute Piece That Took Me Ages To Do And Which Is Really Impressive for 60x60 only uses natural sounds produced by the mouth of the composer without any electronic tinkering or modulation.