60x60
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60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic
or acousmatic
works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section of contemporary music. The 60x60 project was conceived and developed by the new music consortium, Vox Novus
and its founder, Robert Voisey
. Since the project's inception in 2003, the 60x60 project puts out a yearly call for submissions for recorded media 60 seconds or less in length (also known as signature works.)
There is a history of electroacoustic "shorts." In 1982, Elliott Sharp
created an album of shorts called "State of the Union" to accompany an issue of Zone Magazine. In the mid-1980s when the Association pour la création et recherches en électroacoustique de Québec (Acreq) launched an annual competition for "Electroclips", most pieces being between one and three minutes in duration. In the late 1980s, Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer of Montreal, commissioned 25 three-minute pieces for the "25 instantanés électroacoustiques", Électro Clips, published by empreinted DIGITALes in 1990, IMED 9004. In 1998, Larry Polansky
created "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" a double album of shorts based on an audio sound file from Chris Mann
.
60x60’s primary focus is to create an artistic representation of the electronic music being created in society today and to present that music to a large audience, "to represent diverse composers from all walks of life" Each 60x60 performance mix contains a wide variety of musical styles and aesthetics. "Founder Robert Voisey said the 60-centric format – inspired by other intermission-free performances in New York – is designed to retain audiences' attention. And through "60x60," he hopes to expose newcomers to electronic music."
More than 1000 composers have been included in the project. A few notable composers in the 60x60 project include: Liana Alexandra
, Ernst Bacon
, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
, Eve Beglarian
, Stephen Betts
, Colin Black
, James Brody
, George Brunner, Warren Burt
, Monique Buzzarté
, Christian Calon
, David Campbell
, Robert Carl
, Gustav Ciamaga
, :fr:Paul Clouvel, Noah Creshevsky
, Francis Dhomont
, Robert Dick
, Emma Lou Diemer
, Moritz Eggert
, Arne Eigenfeldt
, Karlheinz Essl
, David Gamper
, J. Ryan Garber
, Robert Gluck
, Daniel Goode
, David Gunn
, James Harley
, Richard Kostelanetz
, Gintas K
, Joan La Barbara
, Le Tuan Hung
, Mary Jane Leach
, John Link
, Guy Livingston
, Annea Lockwood
, Chris Mann
, Al Margolis
, Mike McFerron
, Diana McIntosh
, Christian McLeer
, David Morneau
, John Oliver
, Pauline Oliveros
, Marco Oppedisano
, Cezary Ostrowski
, Frank J. Oteri
, Robert W. Parker
, Maggi Payne
, Sarah Peebles
, Anne van Schothorst
, Daria Semegen
, Alex Shapiro
, Judith Shatin
, Alice Shields
, Juan Maria Solare
, Laurie Spiegel
, Allen Strange
, Barry Truax
, Eldad Tsabary
, Robert Voisey
, Patricia Walsh, Jane Wang
, and Rodney Waschka II
60x60 is a project in which promotes both established and emerging composers and artists alike. 60x60 is a platform for the contemporary composer to promote his or her career and expose their style and aesthetic to audiences around the world. Some of the emerging composers include: John Akins, Christopher Ariza, Jason Bolte Mikel Butler, Russel Cannon, Maurilio Cacciatore, Dan Sedgwick, Marji Gere, Nicholas Chase Brad Decker, Kevin Lewis Noah Meites, Mason Leiberman, Michael Pounds, Garry Wickliffe, Greg Yasinitsky Bruce Hamilton Aaron Krister Johnson, Mark Eden, Robert Fleisher
, Tova Kardonne Mason Leiberman. Molly Crain, Joey Perkins and Nadia Smith
A complete list of composers who participated in the 60x60 project can be found on the 60x60 website
The 60x60 project is more than just a single performance. It is a venue where a large community of composers and sound artists come together to present their music. Each year after the call for works a Radio Request Extravaganza is held. This is a radio show where any work submitted to the project may be requested for airplay. Afterwards, a selection panels finds 60 works for the 60x60 International mix for that year; when 60 composers of a particular region or style are found an alternate mix is created to represent them. When this happens the project presents the alternate mix as well as the International mix in its concert season. After the project has presented the audio mixes,usually presented with an analog clock, 60x60 collaborates with an artist in a different media. A second performance season is held promoting the multimedia collaboration. In conjunction to the performances of the project a CD is made each year to represent the submissions sent to the project.
60x60 has been presented in various types of venues throughout the world from concert halls to classrooms; from contemporary museums to art galleries; from projections on building walls to installations in storefront windows; from large public atriums to bars and nightclubs. 60x60 uses "guerrilla" production tactics to bring it to the broadest audience possible. Some notable venues include: the World Financial Center
Winter Garden Atrium
, Stratford Circus
, The Sheldon
the Essl Museum, the Kemper Museum, the Weisman Art Museum
, storefront window at chashama
, and Galapagos Art Space. 2010 sees the European debut of 60x60 Dance in London at Stratford Circus
.
Other performances include: A*Devantgarde festival, Arts NOW Series, eArts at Mansfield University, Electronic Music Midwest
(EMM) festival, International Electroacoustic Music Festival, EuCuE Free Play: Listening chamber, The Fresno New Music Festival, Kentucky New Music Festival, New Music Days festival, Outside the Box New Music Festival, Spark Festival, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Dance Parade
, Sedbergh Music Festival, Minifest
Embracing its vision to reach a diverse audience 60x60 has collaborated with artists outside the acoustic medium to create multimedia performances. 60x60 has collaborated with experimental film makers, photographers, improvisational videographers, sculptors, choreographers and dancers. Some of the artists the project has worked with include Adriana Pegorer, Erin Bomboy, Amiti Perry, Patrick Liddell
, Zlatko Ćosić
, Jeramy Zimmerman
, Gisela Gamper
, Shimpei Takeda
, and Nick Zedd
.
, and the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium
where it was described by the New York Times
as a "masterpiece of organization"
60x60 Dance embraces the same philosophy for its dance performances as it does with its music productions. It is specifically designed to promote and expose to audiences around the world to many different choreographers and dancers with the vast wealth of vary styles and aesthetics that present day dance has to offer. A few of the choreographers who have participated in 60x60 Dance include: Germaul Barnes
, Hettie Barnhill, Rob Bettmann, Mary Cochran, Tina Croll, Erin Jennings, Jason Dietz Marchant, Vivien Moore, Adriana Pegorer, Amiti Perry, Sasha Soreff
, Jessica Stack, Alicia Walsh, Rachel Wynne, Jeramy Zimmerman
as well as dance companies: Columbus Movement Movement, Midwest Dance Theater, First Dance Saint Louis, Kari James Dance Network, Stardance
, aTrek Dance Collective, and Ashleyliane Dance.
New York, New York; Martian Gardens
Radio Show on WMUA
Amherst, Massachusetts; Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar
on WGDR
Plainfield, Vermont; Foldover, on WOBC-FM Oberlin, Ohio; and Sculpted Word on WBAR in New York, New York.
ideology to grow and promote its mission to expose electroacoustic
music. When the project receives more than 60 compositions of a particular theme or from a particular region, the project creates a themed mix to be represent that subsection of its submissions. The project has created many different mixes besides its main "International Mix" which is a representative selection of the entire submissions made to the project for that year. Alternate Mixes created by the 60x60 project include: the Athena Mix, the Canada Mix, the UnTwelve Mix, the Pacific Rim Mix,
Midwest Minutes Mix,
New York Minutes Mix,
UK Mix,
Munich Mix.
, the Order of Magnitude Mix (a special 10 hour installation mix of 60x60 containing 600 one minute works each by different composers and was named the Most Composers Programmed In A Single Show by The Universal Record Database) and the 2010 ICMC RED Mixes.
at Stony Brook University in 2010. ICMC 2010 was dubbed the "RED" edition as an acronym for research, education, and discovery and the 60x60 mixes were named shades of red to commemorate it. The "RED" Mixes are a special 60x60 project containing 6 different mixes with 360 different one-minute audio pieces by different composers. Each of the 6 different 1 hour 60x60 mixes are named a shade of red titling the mix: including the Burgundy Mix, Crimson Mix, Magenta Mix, Sanguine Mix, Scarlet Mix, and the Vermilion Mix. The 60x60 "RED" mixes have received close to 100 performances in around the world. Patrick Liddell
created video for all 6 hours of 360 degrees of 60x60.
in Western music and twelve tone music. Started in 2010 in collaboration with UnTwelve, the UnTwelve mix captures the work of composers in the same format as the classic 60x60 concert, however, the emphasis is on pieces whose pitch content is of interest in that it goes beyond the bounds of the traditional 12-tone equal tempered system. Aaron Kirster Johnson is the "macro-composer" or music coordinator of the 60x60 UnTwelve Mix and co-produced the mix with Robert Voisey
at Vox Novus
. was The UnTwelve mix had a proto-premiere in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 14, and the official premiere was April 27, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It has since had performances in Kansas City, Missouri (July 23, 2010), Charlestown, Massachusetts (June 9, 2010) and is slated to have a performance at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, on October 7, 2010 and a Chicago repeat performance on October 20, 2010, with video art by Patrick Liddell
.
as the macro-composer/music coordinator and co-producer. Two Canadian mixes were created in 2008: a concert version which was premiered at Concordia University
as part of the ÉuCuE performance series and a “SONUS Gallery” mix that was published in the CEC’s (Canadian Electroacoustic Community
) electronic journal of electroacoustics, eContact!
has created and "macro-composed" the most mixes and is responsible for the "main" annual 60x60 International mix since 2003. He has put together several other 60x60 mixes including: Pacific Rim mixes, Midwest mixes, New York Minutes Mix, Munich Mix, Evolution Mixes, the UK Mix, the Burgundy Mix, the Magenta Mix, the Sanguine Mix and the Scarlet Mix.
Several other composers have put together different mixes. Eldad Tsabary
has been responsible for putting together the Canadian Mixes as well as the Vermillion mix and the Order of Magnitude Mix. Aaron Kirster Johnson was responsible for the UnTwelve Mix and the Crimson Mix. Sabina Pena Young was responsible for putting together the Athena mix.
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
or acousmatic
Acousmatic
Acousmatic sound is sound one hears without seeing an originating cause. The word acousmatic, from the French acousmatique, is derived from ἀκουσματικοί akousmatikoi, a term used to refer to probationary pupils of the philosopher Pythagoras who, so that they might better concentrate on his...
works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section of contemporary music. The 60x60 project was conceived and developed by the new music consortium, Vox Novus
Vox Novus
Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
and its founder, Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
. Since the project's inception in 2003, the 60x60 project puts out a yearly call for submissions for recorded media 60 seconds or less in length (also known as signature works.)
There is a history of electroacoustic "shorts." In 1982, Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
created an album of shorts called "State of the Union" to accompany an issue of Zone Magazine. In the mid-1980s when the Association pour la création et recherches en électroacoustique de Québec (Acreq) launched an annual competition for "Electroclips", most pieces being between one and three minutes in duration. In the late 1980s, Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer of Montreal, commissioned 25 three-minute pieces for the "25 instantanés électroacoustiques", Électro Clips, published by empreinted DIGITALes in 1990, IMED 9004. In 1998, Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. He is a founding member and co-director of . He co-wrote HMSL with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom....
created "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" a double album of shorts based on an audio sound file from Chris Mann
Chris Mann
Chris Mann is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."...
.
Performance, Participants and Purpose
The performance of 60x60 consists of the 60 works played over loudspeakers in succession without pause for 1 hour. It is played in conjunction with a synchronized analog clock. Works less than 60 seconds are artistically placed within a minute timeframe; the rest of the minute is filled with silence until the next minute begins.60x60’s primary focus is to create an artistic representation of the electronic music being created in society today and to present that music to a large audience, "to represent diverse composers from all walks of life" Each 60x60 performance mix contains a wide variety of musical styles and aesthetics. "Founder Robert Voisey said the 60-centric format – inspired by other intermission-free performances in New York – is designed to retain audiences' attention. And through "60x60," he hopes to expose newcomers to electronic music."
More than 1000 composers have been included in the project. A few notable composers in the 60x60 project include: Liana Alexandra
Liana Alexandra
Liana Alexandra was a Romanian music educator and composer.-Biography:Liana Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the University of Music Ciprian Porumbescu, Bucharest. She received the "George Enescu" scholarship and took composition courses in 1974, 1978,...
, Ernst Bacon
Ernst Bacon
Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.-Biography:Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May...
, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) (pseudonyms: Dennis Bathory, Dennis Kitsz, Dennis J. Kitsz, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, Kalvos Gesamte, Grey Shadé, D.B...
, Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent...
, Stephen Betts
Stephen Betts
Stephen Betts, also known as L. Howard Hughes, was the keyboardist for the band the Associates. He also co wrote and co produced Peter Murphy's first solo album 'Should The World fail To Fall Apart'Betts is currently a member of Vachement Bath....
, Colin Black
Colin Black
Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer and sonic media arts practitioner and researcher. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia Award in the category of Best Radio Music — Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room .Black's commissions to create...
, James Brody
James Brody
James Brody was an American composer, born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Frank J. Oteri of the American Music Center's New Music Box called Brody "an important figure in the development of electronic music in the Midwest"....
, George Brunner, Warren Burt
Warren Burt
Warren Burt is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music...
, Monique Buzzarté
Monique Buzzarté
Monique Buzzarté is a composer, trombonist, and activist who coordinated a worldwide effort on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music , leading to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997.Specializing in contemporary music, she has commissioned works...
, Christian Calon
Christian Calon
Christian Calon is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Council, the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, and the Ministère des...
, David Campbell
David Campbell
-Politics:*David Campbell , Governor of Virginia*David Campbell *David Campbell , South Belfast M.P.*David Campbell , former New South Wales Transport Minister...
, Robert Carl
Robert Carl
Robert Carl is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.-Music:...
, Gustav Ciamaga
Gustav Ciamaga
Gustav Ciamaga was a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he was best known for his compositions of electronic music, although he produced several non-electronic works. His compositions have been...
, :fr:Paul Clouvel, Noah Creshevsky
Noah Creshevsky
-Biography:Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School, Creshevsky has lived and worked in New York since 1966. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for thirty-one years, serving as Director of the Brooklyn College Center...
, Francis Dhomont
Francis Dhomont
Francis Dhomont is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music.-Biography:He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger...
, Robert Dick
Robert Dick
Robert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...
, Emma Lou Diemer
Emma Lou Diemer
Emma Lou Diemer is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus , and electronic media...
, Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert is a German composer and pianist.- Life :Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt , at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München...
, Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne Eigenfeldt is a Canadian composer and creator of interactive and generative music systems based in Vancouver. Both his music and his research into intelligent systems have been presented internationally. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University...
, Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser and composition teacher.- Biography :Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included: composition , electro-acoustic music and double bass...
, David Gamper
David Gamper
David Gamper is an American composer He has been a member of Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening Band and the duo See Hear Now. -References:...
, J. Ryan Garber
J. Ryan Garber
J. Ryan Garber is an American composer of contemporary music.-Education:Prior to his extensive education in music, ryan Garber was raised by wolves in the icy tundras of the north pole. Garber began musical studies on the piano at age four. He subsequently became proficient on the bassoon and...
, Robert Gluck
Robert Gluck
Robert Gluck is a pianist and composer whose repertoire spans jazz, live electronic music, and avant-garde concert music. Karl Ackermann , wrote of the latest of Gluck’s five recordings: “As a composer and player, Gluck ranks with the likes of Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor… Something Quiet is...
, Daniel Goode
Daniel Goode
Daniel Goode is an American composer and clarinetist.Daniel Goode was born in New York City. After graduating in 1957 from Oberlin College, he studied composition at Columbia University with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening, receiving an MA 1962...
, David Gunn
David Gunn (composer)
David Gunn is an American composer most notedly known for founding Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar. His performances on the Kalvos and Damian show ar indictive to his unorthodox and quirky composition aesthetic which he is known for...
, James Harley
James Harley
James Harley is a Canadian composer, author, and professor of music born in Vernon, British Columbia. His creative output consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, electroacoustic, and vocal music...
, Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz is an American artist, author and critic.He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz....
, Gintas K
Gintas K
Gintas K is a sound artist born in Lithuania in 1969 . He was the core member of the first Lithuanian industrial music group "Modus"...
, Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright...
, Le Tuan Hung
Le Tuan Hung
Le Tuan Hung is a Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist based in Australia. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled performer of the đàn tranh, a Vietnamese zither, he plays traditional...
, Mary Jane Leach
Mary Jane Leach
Mary Jane Leach is an American composer based in New York City. She has been a member of the Downtown Ensemble, composer in residence at Sankt Peter, Köln, and has recordings on XI, New World Records, and Lovely Music. In the late 1970s Leach composed mainly with tape, overdubbing her own playing...
, John Link
John Link
John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New MusicIn 2008 an excerpt of his work "Life Studies" was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike...
, Guy Livingston
Guy Livingston
Gideon E. "Guy" Livingston was an American food scientist who was responsible for founding Phi Tau Sigma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was also well known in food safety for foodservice establishments and for refrigerated foods shelf-life studies.-College career:A native of New...
, Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...
, Chris Mann
Chris Mann
Chris Mann is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."...
, Al Margolis
If, Bwana
-History:Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New Year's Day 1984. He has since earned an international reputation for his experimental noise music.-Recording history:...
, Mike McFerron
Mike McFerron
Mike McFerron is an American composer, currently serving as professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis University. McFerron is the recipient of several awards and residencies including: first prize in the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition , first prize in the CANTUS...
, Diana McIntosh
Diana McIntosh
Diana McIntosh is a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
, Christian McLeer
Christian McLeer
Christian McLeer, an American Composer is a graduate of the Juilliard Conservatory Pre-College, and Manhattan School of Music. At the age of fourteen he received his first major commission for the American Cancer Society for which he wrote and performed Hope in concert...
, David Morneau
David Morneau
David Morneau is an American composer. He is most noted for his work with the 60x365 project. 60x365 is a project where David Morneau blogged a 60 second composition once a day for an entire year. The 365 miniature compositions include ambient tracks, found sound, instrumental performances, and...
, John Oliver
John Oliver (composer)
John Oliver is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and conductor. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his music has been performed throughout North America and Europe...
, Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
, Marco Oppedisano
Marco Oppedisano
Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. Since 1999, his musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for...
, Cezary Ostrowski
Cezary Ostrowski
Cezary Maciej Ostrowski is a Polish composer, musician, songwriter, author, visual artist and journalist....
, Frank J. Oteri
Frank J. Oteri
Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...
, Robert W. Parker
Robert W. Parker
Robert W. Parker is an American composer, organist, and percussionist based in Southern California. He is best known for his sacred music and compositions for concert band...
, Maggi Payne
Maggi Payne
Maggi Payne is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals ....
, Sarah Peebles
Sarah Peebles
Sarah Peebles is an American-Canadian composer, improviser, and installation artist. She is one of the few non-Japanese performers of the shō, a traditional mouth organ used in gagaku, Japan's imperial court music...
, Anne van Schothorst
Anne van Schothorst
Anne van Schothorst is a Dutch harpist and composer.She plays the pedal harp, celtic harp and historical harps as well; an antique Erard harp and a Schwieso Grosjean ....
, Daria Semegen
Daria Semegen
Daria Semegen is an important contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments — her Jeux des quatres , for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano — she is best known as a "respected electronic composer."...
, Alex Shapiro
Alex Shapiro
Alex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often emphasizing strong pulse and rhythm...
, Judith Shatin
Judith Shatin
Judith Shatin is an American composer. Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia.She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music.-References:...
, Alice Shields
Alice Shields
Alice Shields is an American composer. She is a respected electronic composer particularly known for her work in opera....
, Juan Maria Solare
Juan María Solare
Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.-Education:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano , composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo...
, Laurie Spiegel
Laurie Spiegel
Laurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse...
, Allen Strange
Allen Strange
Allen Strange was an American composer. He authored two books, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls and Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism...
, Barry Truax
Barry Truax
Barry Truax is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes...
, Eldad Tsabary
Eldad Tsabary
Eldad Tsabary is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic and sound art...
, Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
, Patricia Walsh, Jane Wang
Jane Wang
Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a member of the Mobius Artists Group. Born in Oxford, England she now...
, and Rodney Waschka II
Rodney Waschka II
Rodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works.-Biography:Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and earned his doctorate at the University of North Texas...
60x60 is a project in which promotes both established and emerging composers and artists alike. 60x60 is a platform for the contemporary composer to promote his or her career and expose their style and aesthetic to audiences around the world. Some of the emerging composers include: John Akins, Christopher Ariza, Jason Bolte Mikel Butler, Russel Cannon, Maurilio Cacciatore, Dan Sedgwick, Marji Gere, Nicholas Chase Brad Decker, Kevin Lewis Noah Meites, Mason Leiberman, Michael Pounds, Garry Wickliffe, Greg Yasinitsky Bruce Hamilton Aaron Krister Johnson, Mark Eden, Robert Fleisher
Robert Fleisher
Robert Fleisher is a composer currently teaching at Northern Illinois University. The author of Twenty Israeli Composers, where he discusses with twenty Israeli composers about their inspirations, methods and cultural context in their work. He is also a contributing composer and essayist in...
, Tova Kardonne Mason Leiberman. Molly Crain, Joey Perkins and Nadia Smith
A complete list of composers who participated in the 60x60 project can be found on the 60x60 website
The 60x60 project is more than just a single performance. It is a venue where a large community of composers and sound artists come together to present their music. Each year after the call for works a Radio Request Extravaganza is held. This is a radio show where any work submitted to the project may be requested for airplay. Afterwards, a selection panels finds 60 works for the 60x60 International mix for that year; when 60 composers of a particular region or style are found an alternate mix is created to represent them. When this happens the project presents the alternate mix as well as the International mix in its concert season. After the project has presented the audio mixes,usually presented with an analog clock, 60x60 collaborates with an artist in a different media. A second performance season is held promoting the multimedia collaboration. In conjunction to the performances of the project a CD is made each year to represent the submissions sent to the project.
60x60 has been presented in various types of venues throughout the world from concert halls to classrooms; from contemporary museums to art galleries; from projections on building walls to installations in storefront windows; from large public atriums to bars and nightclubs. 60x60 uses "guerrilla" production tactics to bring it to the broadest audience possible. Some notable venues include: the World Financial Center
World Financial Center
The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings across West Street from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan in New York City, overlooking the Hudson River. This complex is home to offices of companies including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group, the Wall Street...
Winter Garden Atrium
Winter Garden Atrium
The Winter Garden Atrium is a 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's World Financial Center. Originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, the Atrium houses various plants, trees and flowers, and shops...
, Stratford Circus
Stratford Circus
Stratford Circus is a contemporary performing arts venue in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It was designed by Levitt Bernstein architects and built with funding from the National Lottery....
, The Sheldon
The Sheldon
The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall,...
the Essl Museum, the Kemper Museum, the Weisman Art Museum
Weisman Art Museum
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry...
, storefront window at chashama
Chashama
Chashama is a non-profit organization that supports thriving cultural communities by transforming temporarily vacant properties into spaces where art can flourish...
, and Galapagos Art Space. 2010 sees the European debut of 60x60 Dance in London at Stratford Circus
Stratford Circus
Stratford Circus is a contemporary performing arts venue in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It was designed by Levitt Bernstein architects and built with funding from the National Lottery....
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Other performances include: A*Devantgarde festival, Arts NOW Series, eArts at Mansfield University, Electronic Music Midwest
Electronic Music Midwest
Electronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
(EMM) festival, International Electroacoustic Music Festival, EuCuE Free Play: Listening chamber, The Fresno New Music Festival, Kentucky New Music Festival, New Music Days festival, Outside the Box New Music Festival, Spark Festival, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Oklahoma Panhandle State University is a university in Goodwell, Oklahoma. OPSU is a baccalaureate degree granting institution. General governance of the institution is provided by the Board of Regents of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges...
Dance Parade
Dance parade
Dance parade is an annual parade and festival that showcases dance of all kinds as an expression of art and culture. It takes place in New York City each May, on the Saturday before Memorial Day....
, Sedbergh Music Festival, Minifest
Multimedia Collaboration
"Robert Voisey collected and culled 60 musical arrangements from many more submissions, all to inspire the performers and stimulate the audience." -Minute to Win It, Alison SieloffEmbracing its vision to reach a diverse audience 60x60 has collaborated with artists outside the acoustic medium to create multimedia performances. 60x60 has collaborated with experimental film makers, photographers, improvisational videographers, sculptors, choreographers and dancers. Some of the artists the project has worked with include Adriana Pegorer, Erin Bomboy, Amiti Perry, Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks ,Function Ensemble , Maurice , and the...
, Zlatko Ćosić
Zlatko Cosic
Zlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist., He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Zlatko Ćosić collaborated with the 60x60 project creating 180 videos which have been presented at the Spark Festival, French TNA TV, EMM Festival, LOOP...
, Jeramy Zimmerman
Jeramy Zimmerman
Jeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
, Gisela Gamper
Gisela Gamper
Gisela Gamper is an experimental photographer and videographer. Gisela Gamper performs using improvisational video in the multimedia duo, See Hear Now with her husband David Gamper. She collaborated with the 60x60 project in 2005. Gisela currently lives in New York City.-External links:* *...
, Shimpei Takeda
Shimpei Takeda
Shimpei Takeda has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. Takeda has been working primarily as a visual artist with photography and video...
, and Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
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60x60 Dance
60x60 Dance is a collaboration pairing the 60 audio works with 60 different dances. Exactly like the audio performances, the 60 dances are performed continuously back to back for an hour synchronized with an analog clock. While the music of 60x60 Dance can be from any of the 60x60 mixes, the dancers and choreographers are pooled from the local area where the performance is being held. This creates a "grassroots" touring show which is community based utilizing the dancers from the immediate region. 60x60 Dance has had performances at churches, performance art spaces, art galleries, dance clubs, theaters, The SheldonThe Sheldon
The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall,...
, and the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium
Winter Garden Atrium
The Winter Garden Atrium is a 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's World Financial Center. Originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, the Atrium houses various plants, trees and flowers, and shops...
where it was described by the New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
as a "masterpiece of organization"
- The first 60x60 Dance collaboration started in 2007 with a performance in Jan Hus Church and was directed with the choreographer Jeramy ZimmermanJeramy ZimmermanJeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
of in collaboration with Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
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- In 2009, 60x60 Dance had its debuts in Ohio, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Montreal.
- Choreographer Amiti Perry organized 60x60 Dance to Columbus, Ohio at the Wall Street dance club. This was the first time 60x60 Dance was performed outside of New York City. Some of the artists included Columbus Movement Movement, (cm2 – pronounced “cm squared”)
- In Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis, Missouri, Amiti Perry and Erin Bomboy organized dancers and debuted 60x60 dance in those cities in conjunction with Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
at Vox NovusVox NovusVox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
. In Kansas City 60x60 Dance was held the Electronic Music MidwestElectronic Music MidwestElectronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
Festival and the St. Louis performance was held at the MadArt Art Gallery in co-production with the New Music Circle. The Dance company MADCO supplied many of the choreographers for that performance.
- In 2010, Erin Bomboy known as one of "the brightest stars in the dance firmament" will return to St Louis for the second year in a row to bring 60x60 Dance to The SheldonThe SheldonThe Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall,...
for the American Arts Experience co-produced with HEARDing Cats CollectiveHEARDing Cats CollectiveHEARDing Cats Collective is a St Louis based organization dedicated to the promotion of artists founded by Rich O’Donnell and Anna Lum, Mike Murphy, and Ryan Harris in 2009. HEARDing Cats promotes and presents and wide variety of improvisation music, film, poetry, performance art, and dance...
underwritten by The Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation. This performance of 60x60 Dance was recorded by HEC-TV (Public Television in St Louis) and is archived on their website. One of the 60 choreographers included in the St Louis performance was St Louis native Hettie Barnhill a Broadway dancer in the show Fela!Fela!Fela! is a musical with a book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, based on music and lyrics by the late Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, with additional music by Aaron Johnson and Jordan Mclean and additional lyrics by Jim Lewis. It is based on events in the life of groundbreaking Nigerian composer and...
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- 2010 sees the European debut of 60x60 Dance in London on the July 24, 2010. Part of London’s Open Weekend and the Create 10 Festival, 60x60 Dance cannot be better placed than at Stratford CircusStratford CircusStratford Circus is a contemporary performing arts venue in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It was designed by Levitt Bernstein architects and built with funding from the National Lottery....
in StratfordStratford, LondonStratford is a place in the London Borough of Newham, England. It is located east northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically an agrarian settlement in the ancient parish of West Ham, which transformed into an industrial suburb...
– the heart of the developing London Olympic City, 60x60 Dance is fitting to celebrate the official two year countdown towards London 2012. East London Dance is joining forces with Vox NovusVox NovusVox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
, Artistic Director Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
, Dance Co-ordinator Adriana Pegorer and Producer Silke Arnold to introduce 60x60 Dance to London audiences. Over 200 choreographers from across the globe submitted to be selected for the London event including Tony Adigum, Colette Brandenburg, Chris Mathews and James Hewison. East London Dance is the natural partner to co-produce 60x60 Dance, having had a long and outstanding track record as the driving force in London’s dance industry of innovative, risk-taking and challenging concepts.
- 60x60 Dance also debuted in Toronto in 2010 at the Music Gallery. The 60 dances created by 60 choreographers was organized by Vivien Moore and co-produced by Tova Kardonne and Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
. The performance was hailed as "miraculous" and "thoroughly enjoyable" by Paula Citron.
- 60x60 Dance returns for its second year in the Dance Festival at Dance ParadeDance paradeDance parade is an annual parade and festival that showcases dance of all kinds as an expression of art and culture. It takes place in New York City each May, on the Saturday before Memorial Day....
. with Dance Coordinators Hettie Barnhill and Justine Linnehan Dance Parade is a yearly city-wide dance parade and dance festival in New York city whose mission is to promote dance as an expressive and unifying art form by showcasing all forms of dance. The 2011 performance of the 60x60 Dance will be specifically showcase aerial danceAerial Dance-Aerial dance:Aerial modern dance is a sub-genre of modern dance first recognized in the United States in the 1970s. The choreography incorporates an apparatus often attached to the ceiling, allowing performers to explore space in three-dimensions...
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- 60x60 Dance returned to The SheldonThe SheldonThe Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri was designed by noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering and built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall,...
in St Louis for the third time to be part of the annual American Arts Experience with Dance Coordinator Hettie Barnhill "It's the perfect mixture of improv and structure with the marriage of movement and music," Barnhill said.
- 60x60 Dance also performed for its second year in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania organized by Andy Haspenpflug where he comments, “60x60” is more than just a collection of short works played in succession, each work is a different piece, but they are put together by artists to create a macro composition for audiences to enjoy.”
60x60 Dance embraces the same philosophy for its dance performances as it does with its music productions. It is specifically designed to promote and expose to audiences around the world to many different choreographers and dancers with the vast wealth of vary styles and aesthetics that present day dance has to offer. A few of the choreographers who have participated in 60x60 Dance include: Germaul Barnes
Germaul Barnes
Germaul Barnes, is a choreographer-dancer raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Currently living in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder and artistic director of Viewsic Expressions, a dance organization dedicated to the development of local and international contemporary dancers. In 2003, Barnes received...
, Hettie Barnhill, Rob Bettmann, Mary Cochran, Tina Croll, Erin Jennings, Jason Dietz Marchant, Vivien Moore, Adriana Pegorer, Amiti Perry, Sasha Soreff
Sasha Soreff
Sasha Soreff, a New York City choreographer-dancer, is the Creative Director of the Sasha Soreff Dance Theater and a member of the Dance New Amsterdam faculty where she teaches modern dance. Born in Maine, she received her Bachelors of Arts degree summa cum laude from Barnard College in 1994...
, Jessica Stack, Alicia Walsh, Rachel Wynne, Jeramy Zimmerman
Jeramy Zimmerman
Jeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
as well as dance companies: Columbus Movement Movement, Midwest Dance Theater, First Dance Saint Louis, Kari James Dance Network, Stardance
Stardance
Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line...
, aTrek Dance Collective, and Ashleyliane Dance.
60x60 Video
60x60 Video is an hour of video which is synchronized to the audio mixes of 60x60. 60x60 Video has collaborated with video artists, experimental filmmakers, and VJ's to pair the 60 different audio compositions with video.- In 2010, Patrick LiddellPatrick LiddellPatrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks ,Function Ensemble , Maurice , and the...
returns to 60x60 to create video for 7 different 2010 mixes of the 60x60 project: the UnTwelve mix, Burgundy Mix, Crimson Mix, Magenta Mix, Sanguine mix, Scarlet mix, and the Vermillion mix. Liddell's collaboration with 60x60 has been screened at Bellingham's Minifest, and the 2010 Outsound New Music Summit where Jason Victor Serinus Special to The Examiner said, "Expect it to stretch whatever boundaries you may not have thought you had." - Also Gene Gort (media artist) and Ken Steen (composer/sound artist) New Media New Music New England created What If? 60x60x60 a video an online collaboration that randomly pairs 60 second audio works to 60 second videos. What if? 60x60x60 is a spin off multimedia project inspired by the 60x60 project.
- In 2009 The 60x60 project collaborated with Patrick Liddel to create the one hour video.
- The video collaboration between Zlatko CosicZlatko CosicZlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist., He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Zlatko Ćosić collaborated with the 60x60 project creating 180 videos which have been presented at the Spark Festival, French TNA TV, EMM Festival, LOOP...
and 60x60 has been performed and screened all over the world and has been described as "an exemplary job of forming a sonic tapestry extremely diverse material by extremely diverse composers. Sensitive video accompaniment by Zlatko Cosic also helped organize the concert into a more coherent whole." The video performances have taken many forms from traditional screenings at Alternative Film & Video Festival, XMV at Collective: UnconsciousCollective: UnconsciousCollective:Unconscious is a non-profit corporation, founded in New York City in 1994, and incorporated in 1995. Originally based on Ludlow Street on New York's Lower East Side, in 2004 it relocated to Tribeca until July 2008....
, to dynamic VJ performances where video was mixed live at Electronic Music MidwestElectronic Music MidwestElectronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
Festival, Webster University, St. Louis and St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis to a large video installation projected on the dance building at the Spark Festival to French TV on Elektra - Gisela GamperGisela GamperGisela Gamper is an experimental photographer and videographer. Gisela Gamper performs using improvisational video in the multimedia duo, See Hear Now with her husband David Gamper. She collaborated with the 60x60 project in 2005. Gisela currently lives in New York City.-External links:* *...
is a photographer and video improvisor who "captured" one of her improvisation for the 60x60 project in 2006. - In 2005, Shimpei TakedaShimpei TakedaShimpei Takeda has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. Takeda has been working primarily as a visual artist with photography and video...
, a Japanese photographer and experimental videographer collaborated with 60x60 - 60x60 began its video collaborations in 2004 with experimental filmmaker Nick ZeddNick ZeddNick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
which was performed in a series at One Arm Red and also had a screening in a New York City dance club called, The Lobby.
60x60 Images
60x60 Images is a 60x60 multimedia collaboration based on fine art works that are 60 centimeters in length and 60 centimeters in width and then paired with a 60 second audio work in an art installation or performance. the project first started in Teatro Nuovo Giovanni in Udine, Italy with an idea by Vittorio Vella, and Francesca Agostinelli and Taukay Edizioni Musicali The project has since be reproduced in Mexico and in Cincinnati, Ohio.Radio Request Extravaganza
In the beginning of each 60x60 concert season, the project holds a Radio Request Extravaganza. This is an all request radio show where composers and their fans call in to the hosting radio station request works that have been submitted to the 60x60 project that year. Different new music radio programs and radio stations host the Extravaganza. In the past the 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza has been hosted on the Afternoon New Music on WKCRWKCR
WKCR-FM is a radio station. Licensed to New York, New York, USA, it serves the New York area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Columbia University in New York.-History:...
New York, New York; Martian Gardens
Martian Gardens
Martian Gardens is a radio program playing contemporary new music hosted by Max Shea on WMUA Amherst, Massachusetts. Martian Gardens has also hosted the 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza in 2005 and 2008. -External links:* *...
Radio Show on WMUA
WMUA
WMUA is a student-run College radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, the station serves the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its signal is also received in southern New Hampshire and western Worcester County, Massachusetts...
Amherst, Massachusetts; Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar
Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar
Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar is a contemporary new music program hosted by Kalvos and Damian, the alter egos of the composers Dennis Bathory-Kitsz and David Gunn...
on WGDR
WGDR
WGDR is a noncommercial American radio station licensed to Plainfield, Vermont, serving central Vermont. WGDR, owned by Goddard College Corporation, is a hybrid college/community/public radio station, broadcasting a freeform format....
Plainfield, Vermont; Foldover, on WOBC-FM Oberlin, Ohio; and Sculpted Word on WBAR in New York, New York.
Alternate Mixes
The project uses grassrootsGrassroots
A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures...
ideology to grow and promote its mission to expose electroacoustic
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
music. When the project receives more than 60 compositions of a particular theme or from a particular region, the project creates a themed mix to be represent that subsection of its submissions. The project has created many different mixes besides its main "International Mix" which is a representative selection of the entire submissions made to the project for that year. Alternate Mixes created by the 60x60 project include: the Athena Mix, the Canada Mix, the UnTwelve Mix, the Pacific Rim Mix,
Midwest Minutes Mix,
New York Minutes Mix,
UK Mix,
Munich Mix.
, the Order of Magnitude Mix (a special 10 hour installation mix of 60x60 containing 600 one minute works each by different composers and was named the Most Composers Programmed In A Single Show by The Universal Record Database) and the 2010 ICMC RED Mixes.
360 degrees of 60x60
360 degrees of 60x60 was a special project of 60x60 created specifically for the International Computer Music ConferenceInternational Computer Music Conference
The International Computer Music Conference is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association ....
at Stony Brook University in 2010. ICMC 2010 was dubbed the "RED" edition as an acronym for research, education, and discovery and the 60x60 mixes were named shades of red to commemorate it. The "RED" Mixes are a special 60x60 project containing 6 different mixes with 360 different one-minute audio pieces by different composers. Each of the 6 different 1 hour 60x60 mixes are named a shade of red titling the mix: including the Burgundy Mix, Crimson Mix, Magenta Mix, Sanguine Mix, Scarlet Mix, and the Vermilion Mix. The 60x60 "RED" mixes have received close to 100 performances in around the world. Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks ,Function Ensemble , Maurice , and the...
created video for all 6 hours of 360 degrees of 60x60.
The UnTwelve Mix
The 60x60 Untwelve Mix contains 60 second audio works with tonal systems that go beyond the traditional tonalityTonality
Tonality is a system of music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center", or tonic. The term tonalité originated with Alexandre-Étienne Choron and was borrowed by François-Joseph Fétis in 1840...
in Western music and twelve tone music. Started in 2010 in collaboration with UnTwelve, the UnTwelve mix captures the work of composers in the same format as the classic 60x60 concert, however, the emphasis is on pieces whose pitch content is of interest in that it goes beyond the bounds of the traditional 12-tone equal tempered system. Aaron Kirster Johnson is the "macro-composer" or music coordinator of the 60x60 UnTwelve Mix and co-produced the mix with Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
at Vox Novus
Vox Novus
Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
. was The UnTwelve mix had a proto-premiere in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 14, and the official premiere was April 27, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It has since had performances in Kansas City, Missouri (July 23, 2010), Charlestown, Massachusetts (June 9, 2010) and is slated to have a performance at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, on October 7, 2010 and a Chicago repeat performance on October 20, 2010, with video art by Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell
Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks ,Function Ensemble , Maurice , and the...
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Canada Mix
The 60x60 Canada mix contains works from composers from and currently living in Canada. The 60x60 Canada mix started in 2008 with Eldad TsabaryEldad Tsabary
Eldad Tsabary is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic and sound art...
as the macro-composer/music coordinator and co-producer. Two Canadian mixes were created in 2008: a concert version which was premiered at Concordia University
Concordia University
Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...
as part of the ÉuCuE performance series and a “SONUS Gallery” mix that was published in the CEC’s (Canadian Electroacoustic Community
Canadian Electroacoustic Community
Founded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
) electronic journal of electroacoustics, eContact!
Micro
60x60 is a collection of miniatures or "signature" works from 60 different composers/sound artists. Each work is 60 seconds (or less) in length and are sequenced in order to fit neatly within each minute of the hour; each new minute is a different piece from a different artist. 60x60 creates a unique challenge for the composer/sound artist to express themselves in the concise time frame of one minute. Besides that one restriction, artists are free and specifically encouraged to express themselves in any way that they wish.Macro
60x60 is much more than a collection of short works played one after another. The entire hour of 60 on-minute works is specifically curated or composed as a one hour long "macro-composition" containing the 60 works. All 60x60 mixes are put together by artists to create an artistic hour for audiences to enjoy. As the creator and leader of 60x60, Robert VoiseyRobert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
has created and "macro-composed" the most mixes and is responsible for the "main" annual 60x60 International mix since 2003. He has put together several other 60x60 mixes including: Pacific Rim mixes, Midwest mixes, New York Minutes Mix, Munich Mix, Evolution Mixes, the UK Mix, the Burgundy Mix, the Magenta Mix, the Sanguine Mix and the Scarlet Mix.
Several other composers have put together different mixes. Eldad Tsabary
Eldad Tsabary
Eldad Tsabary is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic and sound art...
has been responsible for putting together the Canadian Mixes as well as the Vermillion mix and the Order of Magnitude Mix. Aaron Kirster Johnson was responsible for the UnTwelve Mix and the Crimson Mix. Sabina Pena Young was responsible for putting together the Athena mix.
2011
- 60x60 Dance collaboration with Hettie Barnhill at the Sheldon Concert Hall for the American Arts Experience in St Louis, Missouri presented by Vox Novus and HEARDing Cats Collective sponsored by the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation
- 60x60 Dance collaboration at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
- 60x60 Dance collaboration with Justine Linnehan and Hettie Barnhill
- Creation of the 60x60 (Athena Mix)
- 60x60 premiers in Singapore; San Diego, California; Camden, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ohio; Huddersfield, United Kingdom; Teatro Español, Argentina; Humburg, Germany
2010
- A record setting 60x60 Dance and multimedia performance at the FOFA gallery of Concordia UniversityConcordia UniversityConcordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...
in MontrealMontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
during the Congress 2010 event. The 10-hour-long show set a world record for most composers (600) programmed in a single show - 60x60 Dance performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall for the American Arts Experience in St Louis, Missouri presented by Vox NovusVox NovusVox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
and HEARDing Cats CollectiveHEARDing Cats CollectiveHEARDing Cats Collective is a St Louis based organization dedicated to the promotion of artists founded by Rich O’Donnell and Anna Lum, Mike Murphy, and Ryan Harris in 2009. HEARDing Cats promotes and presents and wide variety of improvisation music, film, poetry, performance art, and dance...
sponsored by the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation - 60x60 Dance performance at Stratford CircusStratford CircusStratford Circus is a contemporary performing arts venue in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It was designed by Levitt Bernstein architects and built with funding from the National Lottery....
, London, England for its European debut in partnership with East London Dance and Vox NovusVox NovusVox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote... - 60x60 Dance performance in Dance ParadeDance paradeDance parade is an annual parade and festival that showcases dance of all kinds as an expression of art and culture. It takes place in New York City each May, on the Saturday before Memorial Day....
at Tompkins Square, New York City - 60x60 Dance performance at the Music Gallery in Toronto, Canada
- 60x60 Dance collaboration with Andy Hasenpflug and Slippery Rock University
- 60x60 Dance (Order of Magnitude Mix) – Montreal, Quebec Canada
- 60x60 Dance Collaboration with Stephanie Bernard
- 60x60 Dance collaboration with Caterina Bartha and Erin Bomboy
- 60x60 Dance Collaboration with Linda Pehrson and Composer Concordance
- 60x60 Premieres in Miami, Florida; Goodwell, Oklahoma; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Lancaster, United Kingdom; Carrboro, North Carolina; São Paulo, Brazil; Stanford, California; Berlin, Germany; Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania; Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Muncie, Indiana; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Taipei, Taiwan; Wellington, New Zealand; Hadley, Massachusetts; Lodève, France; Wolverhampton, England; Murray, Kentucky; Sedbergh, United Kingdom; Providence, Rhode Island; Maribor, Slovenia; Latina, Italy; Udine, Italy; Leipzig, Germany, Hartford, Connetticut; San Luis Potosí, México; Essen, Germany; Ibaraki, Japan; Tokyo, Japan
2009
- Debut of 60x60 Dance in St Louis, Missouri at Mad Art Gallery
- Debut of 60x60 Dance in Kansas City, Kansas at the Electronic Music MidwestElectronic Music MidwestElectronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
Festival - Debut of 60x60 Dance in Columbus, Ohio the first dance show outside of New York City
- Collaboration with videographer Patrick LiddellPatrick LiddellPatrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks ,Function Ensemble , Maurice , and the...
for 60x60 Video - Collaboration with choreographer Amiti Perry for 60x60 Dance
- 60x60 premiers in Regina, Canada; Nacogdoches, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Columbus, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; San Francisco, California
2008
- Collaboration with choreographer Jeramy ZimmermanJeramy ZimmermanJeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
for 60x60 Dance. - Debut of the 60x60 Dance with 60x60 (2008 International Mix) debuts at World Financial Center Winter Garden.
- Debut of the 60x60 Dance with 60x60 (Evolution Mix) debuts at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York.
- 60x60 Canada Mix created with Artistic Director Eldad TsabaryEldad TsabaryEldad Tsabary is a composer living in Montreal. He composes and performs in a variety of styles including contemporary, experimental, acousmatic and sound art...
- 60x60 (2007/2008) Pacific Rim Mix debuted in New Zealand
- 60x60 Premieres in Belgrade, Serbia; México; Nova Scotia, Canada; Toronto, Canada; New Zealand; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Oxford, England; Strasbourg, France
- 60x60 debut at Nuit Blanch (Toronto)
- 60x60 Video collaboration with Zlatko Cosic
2007
- Collaboration with video jockey and filmmaker Zlatko ĆosićZlatko CosicZlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist., He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Zlatko Ćosić collaborated with the 60x60 project creating 180 videos which have been presented at the Spark Festival, French TNA TV, EMM Festival, LOOP...
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityIllinois Wesleyan UniversityIllinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate university located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856...
, BloomingtonBloomington, IllinoisBloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States and the county seat. It is adjacent to Normal, Illinois, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...
, Illinois - Collaboration with video jockey and filmmaker Zlatko ĆosićZlatko CosicZlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist., He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Zlatko Ćosić collaborated with the 60x60 project creating 180 videos which have been presented at the Spark Festival, French TNA TV, EMM Festival, LOOP...
premiered at the 9th Electronic Music MidwestElectronic Music MidwestElectronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
in Kansas City, Kansas - Creation of 60x60 Dance with Jeramy ZimmermanJeramy ZimmermanJeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
a collaboration of 60 dances with 60 audio pieces. - Munich Mix created – Theme Mix on OppressionOppressionOppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. It can also be defined as an act or instance of oppressing, the state of being oppressed, and the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, and...
and TotalitarianismTotalitarianismTotalitarianism is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible...
premiered at the A*Devantgarde festival in MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany - 60x60 (2006 / Midwest Mix) performed at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityIllinois Wesleyan UniversityIllinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate university located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856...
, BloomingtonBloomington, IllinoisBloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States and the county seat. It is adjacent to Normal, Illinois, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...
, Illinois - 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza, Afternoon New Music, WKCRWKCRWKCR-FM is a radio station. Licensed to New York, New York, USA, it serves the New York area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Columbia University in New York.-History:...
New York, New York - First 60x60 Dance collaboration with Jeramy Zimmerman – New York City
- 60x60 premieres in Wayne, New Jersey; Allendale, Michigan; Denton, Texas; Lexington, Kentucky; Oberlin, Ohio; Bremen, Germany; Munich, Germany; Leeds, England; Galway City, Ireland; Raleigh, North Carolina; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; Orlando, Florida
2006
- UK Mix created – including works from the United Kingdom premiered at the Amadeus Centre in London, England
- New York Minute Mix created – Including works from New York premiered at Collective: Unconscious in New York, New York
- 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza, Afternoon New Music, WKCRWKCRWKCR-FM is a radio station. Licensed to New York, New York, USA, it serves the New York area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Columbia University in New York.-History:...
New York, New York - 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza, on Foldover, WOBC-FM Oberlin, Ohio
- Video Collaboration with photographer and improvisational videographer Gisela GamperGisela GamperGisela Gamper is an experimental photographer and videographer. Gisela Gamper performs using improvisational video in the multimedia duo, See Hear Now with her husband David Gamper. She collaborated with the 60x60 project in 2005. Gisela currently lives in New York City.-External links:* *...
premiered at S.U.N.Y. Albany in Albany, New York - 60x60 premiere in Gavle, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; Bainbridge Island, Washington
2005
- Midwest Minutes Mix created – including works from the American heartlandHeartland (United States)Heartland is an American term referring to states of the Union that – as in the words of one commentator – "don't touch an ocean," whether the Atlantic or Pacific...
at 7th EMM (Electronic Music MidwestElectronic Music MidwestElectronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...
) festival and Music Bytes at Lewis UniversityLewis UniversityLewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students... - 60x60 (2005 International Mix) Premiere in London, United Kingdom
- 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza, on Martian GardensMartian GardensMartian Gardens is a radio program playing contemporary new music hosted by Max Shea on WMUA Amherst, Massachusetts. Martian Gardens has also hosted the 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza in 2005 and 2008. -External links:* *...
Radio Show, WMUAWMUAWMUA is a student-run College radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, the station serves the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its signal is also received in southern New Hampshire and western Worcester County, Massachusetts...
Amherst, Massachusetts - 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza, on Kalvos & Damian New Music BazaarKalvos & Damian New Music BazaarKalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar is a contemporary new music program hosted by Kalvos and Damian, the alter egos of the composers Dennis Bathory-Kitsz and David Gunn...
, WGDRWGDRWGDR is a noncommercial American radio station licensed to Plainfield, Vermont, serving central Vermont. WGDR, owned by Goddard College Corporation, is a hybrid college/community/public radio station, broadcasting a freeform format....
Plainfield, Vermont - Multimedia Collaboration with experimental photographer and videographer Shimpei TakedaShimpei TakedaShimpei Takeda has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. Takeda has been working primarily as a visual artist with photography and video...
premiered at Collective: UnconsciousCollective: UnconsciousCollective:Unconscious is a non-profit corporation, founded in New York City in 1994, and incorporated in 1995. Originally based on Ludlow Street on New York's Lower East Side, in 2004 it relocated to Tribeca until July 2008....
in New York City, New York - 60x60 premiered in Klosterneuburg, Austria; West Hartford, Conneticut; London, United Kingdom; Lille, France; Kansas City, Kansas; Romeo, Illinois; Presque Isle, Maine; andMinneapolis, Minnesota.
- 60x60 (2003) CD Release on Capstone Records
- First 60x60 video screening in Weisman Museum
2004
- Pacific Rim Mix created – including the works from artists living in the Pacific RimPacific RimThe Pacific Rim refers to places around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The term "Pacific Basin" includes the Pacific Rim and islands in the Pacific Ocean...
premiered in Los Angeles, California - Radio Request Extravaganza, on Sculpted Word Radio Show, WBARWBARWBAR is the college radio station of Barnard College in New York City. Currently online-only, WBAR was developed as a freeform alternative to WKCR on the Columbia University campus. In addition to broadcasting an array of shows, WBAR hosts several shows per year in Morningside Heights, including...
New York, New York - May 13, 2004 – First performance of 60x60 in a dance club – New York City
- Collaboration with underground film maker Nick ZeddNick ZeddNick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
premiered at One Arm Red, in Brooklyn, New York - 60x60 premiered in Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; Birmingham, Alabama; Cedar City, Utah; and Istanbul, Turkey.
Discography
- 60x60 (2006–2007) Vox Novus VN-002
- 60x60 (2004–2005) Vox Novus VN-001 – Album Nominated for Just Plain Folks Award (2009)
- 60x60 (2003) Capstone Records CPS-8744
Articles and reviews
- Minute to Win It. Alison Sieloff, Riverfront Times – September 2011
- 60x60: netsuke for the musical mind Richard Arnest Sounding BoardSounding boardA sound board, or soundboard, is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge. The resonant properties of the sound board and the interior of the instrument greatly increase loudness over the string alone.The sound board operates by the...
, Spring 2011 - 60x60 Dance Toronto Reviewed by Paula Citron, 96.3 FM
- NIU's Electroacoustic School of Music host mixes in 60 seconds Jerene-Elise, Northern Star – November 2, 2010
- Concert to present ‘Bits and Pieces of Electro-Acoustic Music from Everywhere,’ including NIU NIU Today
- Got a minute? Dance! Calvin Wilson. Post-Dispatch, Friday, October 1, 2010
- 60x60 Dance at The Sheldon in St Louis on HEC-TV – Interviews of cast and producers plus entire show.
- Interview with Hettie Barnhill on KPLR
- LONDON 2012: TWO YEARS TO GO 60x60 Dance Time Out London July 22–28, 2010
- The 60-second dance fest Lyndsey Winship Time Out London July 22–28, 2010
- Sixty seconds to make an impact University of BedfordshireUniversity of BedfordshireThe University of Bedfordshire is based in Luton and Bedford, the two largest towns in the English county of Bedfordshire. The university was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University on 1 August 2006 following approval by the Privy Council...
July 21, 2010 - 60 dances in 60 minutesBig Dance Wednesday July 21, 2010
- 60x60 Dance Big Dance
- 60x60 Dance Maximaliste! Réjean Beaucage, Musique May 27, 2010
- Microtonality in 60 seconds Brianna Wellen, The Columbia Chronicle published May 3, 2010
- '60x60 Dance' Is an Hour-Long Whirlwind of Performances Carl Glassman, The Tribeca TribThe Tribeca TribThe Tribeca Trib is a neighborhood free monthly newspaper at 401 Broadway in Tribeca, New York, New York.It covers the Manhattan neighborhoods of Battery Park and Tribeca...
published December 8, 2009 - 60x60: A Family Reunion Eileen Elizabeth, iDANZ,published November 24, 2009
- November 6, 2009 – New Music Circle Steve Potter, CityscapeCityscapeA cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and...
NPR St. Louis Public Radio published November 6, 2009 - SundayArts News Thirteen November 1, 2009
- Minute hand to sweep performers on, offstage Amy Saunders The Columbus DispatchThe Columbus DispatchThe Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since The Columbus Citizen-Journal stopped printing in 1985....
published Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Performance art for the sound-bite culture Lyndsey Teter, The Other PaperThe Other PaperThe Other Paper is an alternative weekly news publication servicing the Greater Columbus, Ohio area. It is distributed on Thursdays and contains primarily local news and other features such as concert and movie reviews, classified ads, and personals, all with a distinctly irreverent, humorous style...
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2009 - Omtumlande internationell timme By Camilla Dal, Gefle Dagblad, March 25, 2009
- Rob Voisey: 60x60 Dance By Suzanne Thorpe, Electronic Music FoundationElectronic Music FoundationElectronic Music Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 organization that produces events, publishes and disseminates media and information, and provides access to materials relevant to the history and creative potential of electronic music....
, December 21, 2008 - An Express Without Any Delays By ROSLYN SULCASRoslyn SulcasRoslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...
, New York Times, November 17, 2008 - http://annecammon.com/radio_showsInterview with Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
and Jeramy ZimmermanJeramy ZimmermanJeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
] By Anne Fiero, WKCRWKCRWKCR-FM is a radio station. Licensed to New York, New York, USA, it serves the New York area. The station is currently owned by Trustees of Columbia University in New York.-History:...
, New York, New York, November 13, 2008 - Just a Minute By Susan Yung, Thirteen WNET, SundayArts, November 11, 2008
- Live Stage: 60x60 Dance – New York , Helen Thorington Networked Music Review
- "November 6, 2008 Three Performance Studies Students Selected for 60x60: Midwest Minutes Program" College of Liberal Arts Texas A&M University
- "SFA composers receive honors" Sylvia Bierschenk, Stephen F. Austin State University, News Releases, November 4, 2008
- Arts Now! 60 X 60 2008 by Karen Moorman "Classical Voice in North Carolina", November 2008
- :"60x60: Wellington welcomes New Music's fastest-ticking clock" Tobias Fischer, Tokafi published 2008-09-01
- "Nouveautés en bref" – Réjean Beaucage, Circuit Volume 18 Numéro 1 (2008)
- Podcast Episode Summary Upbeat with Eva Radich Radio New Zealand, Friday, June 13, 2008
- 60x60 Video Collaboration with Zlatko Cosic Elektramusic, le magazine des musiques expérimentales June 12, 2008
- [ 60x60 2006–2007] Review by Stephen Eddins, All Music
- "Gone in 60 Minutes: Electronic Compositions Showcased at NC State University" – Alexandra Jones, "Classical Voice in North Carolina", October 1, 2007.
- "Time and Motion" – Anne Cammon , "Fly Global Music Culture", May 26, 2007
- "In Concert, 60 Times the Fun" – Sophia Yan, "Oberlin Review", April 27, 2007.
- "60x60 Project presents 60 composers in 60 minutes"- Rachel Slade, "North Texas Daily" February 28, 2007
- "Sound Sampler" – Greg Haymes, "Times Union", February 9, 2006.
- "Ingenuity and madness?" – Malcolm Miller, "Music & Vision Daily" December 24, 2005
- "From Irish Eyes to Short Attention Spans" -Frank J. OteriFrank J. OteriFrank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...
& John Schaefer, Soundcheck (WNYC)Soundcheck (WNYC)Soundcheck is a New York, United States, hour-long weekday afternoon talk radio program about music and the arts hosted by John Schaefer. It is produced by WNYC, New York Public Radio. The show airs at 2 p.m. EST on 93.9 FM in New York City...
, New York, March 17, 2005 - "Got a Minute? A Few Words on Music in 60 Seconds or Less" -Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
with additional reporting by Frank J. OteriFrank J. OteriFrank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...
, "NewMusicBoxNewMusicBoxNewMusicBox is an e-zine launched by the American Music Center on May 1, 1999. The magazine includes interviews and articles concerning American Contemporary Music, composers, improvisers, and musicians....
" May 1, 2004
External links
- Official website
- Vox Novus Official website of Vox NovusVox NovusVox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
- Robert Voisey Website of founder, Robert VoiseyRobert VoiseyRobert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
- Zlatko Ćosić Website of Zlatko ĆosićZlatko CosicZlatko Ćosić is an experimental filmmaker and video artist., He was born in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Zlatko Ćosić collaborated with the 60x60 project creating 180 videos which have been presented at the Spark Festival, French TNA TV, EMM Festival, LOOP...
- Shimpei Takeda Website of Shimpei TakedaShimpei TakedaShimpei Takeda has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. Takeda has been working primarily as a visual artist with photography and video...
- CatScratch Theatre Website of Jeramy ZimmermanJeramy ZimmermanJeramy Zimmerman is a founder and the director of CatScratch Theatre. CatScratch Theatre was founded in Washington DC in 2000 by Zimmerman, Krissie Marty, Jessica Hirst and Lisa Hetzel.A native of Kansas City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York...
Further reading
- Tsabary, Eldad. “[Sonus Gallery] 60x60 Canada 2008–09.” eContact! 11.2 — Figures canadiennes (2) / Canadian Figures (2) (July 2009). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
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