Mike Vernusky
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Mike Vernusky is a composer, performer and record label owner. He writes music for concertized, theatrical, and filmic environments, primarily through the use of electronic media and live performance. His music has been described as "brash" by the New York Times and 'isolationist ambient' by Wire Magazine. In addition to having his works performed globally, Vernusky has made numerous speaking appearances about the urgency of artistic entrepreneurism including the EMS 2010 Festival in Shanghai and as a regular guest at El Centro Mexicano para la Musica y Artes Sonoras in Morelia, Mexico.
. Vernusky was also the recipient of the MATA Commission, where he collaborated with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado. Their cinematic installation work, The Hidden, premiered in New York City over the course of four nights of the 2009 MATA festival.
came together as co-owners and co-curators of the avant-garde record label Quiet Design
. The highly acclaimed label has released works by over 30 artists in 10 countries. Some notable Quiet Design artists are Tetuzi Akiyama
, Alvin Lucier
, Jandek
, Keith Rowe
, Sebastien Roux, Erdem Helvacioglu
, Duane Pitre, Yoshio Machida
, Kim Myhr, Mark Cetilia and Nick Hennies.
Awards and Commissions
Mike Vernusky received First Prize in electronic music at the Digital Art Awards in Tokyo in 2004. In 2008, Vernusky received a commission from El Centro Mexicano para la Musica y Artes Sonoras to write a new work for guitar and electronic sound. His work 'Nylah' for classical guitar was completed during a residency in Mexico and later featured on Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century, released on Quiet DesignQuiet Design
Quiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
. Vernusky was also the recipient of the MATA Commission, where he collaborated with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado. Their cinematic installation work, The Hidden, premiered in New York City over the course of four nights of the 2009 MATA festival.
Quiet Design
In 2007, Mike Vernusky and Cory AllenCory Allen (musician)
Cory Allen is a musician, composer, producer and record label owner. Music released under his own name is usually categorized as minimal and/or ambient electronic music and has been described as 'clever and intricate structures that will repay the careful ear'...
came together as co-owners and co-curators of the avant-garde record label Quiet Design
Quiet Design
Quiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
. The highly acclaimed label has released works by over 30 artists in 10 countries. Some notable Quiet Design artists are Tetuzi Akiyama
Tetuzi Akiyama
Tetuzi Akiyama is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, and instrument-maker.Akiyama formed the improvisation group Madhar in 1987, and the classical ensemble Hikyo String Quintet in 1994 . In 1995, Akiyama and Sugimoto formed a guitar duo, and played at venues in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit...
, Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...
, Jandek
Jandek
Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...
, Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
, Sebastien Roux, Erdem Helvacioglu
Erdem Helvacioglu
Erdem Helvacioglu is an electronic musician from Turkey. He has collaborated with artists Mick Karn, Kevin Moore, John Wilson, Kazuya Ishigami, and Saadet Turkoz. In addition to his work as an electronic musician, Erdem also composes music for theatre, film and multimedia productions, and produces...
, Duane Pitre, Yoshio Machida
Yoshio Machida
is an experimental musician, a steelpanist, composer, and visual artist.-Person:A member of ASCAP, Machida studied minimal art, music and film at the Tama Art University under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara and Kishio Suga...
, Kim Myhr, Mark Cetilia and Nick Hennies.
Discography
- Mike Vernusky, Music for Film and Electro-Theatre CD/Digital (2010, Quiet DesignQuiet DesignQuiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
) - Various, Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century CD/Digital (2009, Quiet DesignQuiet DesignQuiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
) - Various, Deep Wireless 6: Water, Air, Sound (2009, , New Adventures in Sound Art)
- Various, Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century CD/Digital (2007, Quiet DesignQuiet DesignQuiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
) - Various, Computer Music Journal: Sound and Video Anthology Vol. 31, 4 DVD/Digital (2007, MIT Press)
- Mike Vernusky, Blood that Sees the Light CD/Digital (2007, Quiet DesignQuiet DesignQuiet Design is an independent music and sound art label based in Austin,TX and founded in 2007. Owned and curated by composers Mike Vernusky and Cory Allen, Quiet Design has released work by over 30 artists from 10 countries...
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