Vox Novus
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Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey
in 2000
Vox Novus is most noted for its 60x60
project, the Composer's Voice Concert Series
, Fifteen Minutes of Fame music project, and the American Composer Timeline. Based In New York City, Vox Novus has produced and promoted more than 300 concerts in over 20 countries around the world. The organization boasts more than 200 composer members including notable composers: Beth Anderson
, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
, Jay Batzner
, Noah Creshevsky
, Emma Lou Diemer
, Dennis Eberhard
, David Gunn
, Jennifer Higdon
, Mary Jane Leach
, Mike McFerron
, David Morneau
, Maggi Payne
, Ruth Schonthal
, Laurie Spiegel
, Allen Strange
, and Augusta Read Thomas
.
is an artistic project contain 60 one minute art performances. The project commemorates its origins each year with producing an hour performance of electroacoustic
/acousmatic
music concert. 60x60 has been presented in venues and festivals throughout the world. Afterwards it collaborates with multimedia such as dance or video to produce a dynamic performance in its second season. 60x60 has been described as an "a masterpiece of organization"
is a chamber concert series that is produced primarily in New York City in conjunction with the Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
. Since 2001, the series has presented works from several notable composers performed by performance groups throughout the world.
. Artists who have participated in Fifteen Minutes of Fame include Shiau-uen Ding, Conway Kuo, Alyssa Reit, Zentripetal, Laura Jordan, and Sarah Carrier.
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...
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 their music. Vox Novus does this by the production of concerts, exposure on the Internet, and facilitating networking between professionals. Vox Novus promotes and produces contemporary music using repeatable methods and models that composers can take and use on their own. This way contemporary music can reach an ever wider audience thereby continuing the advancement of culture and art.
Vox Novus is most noted for its 60x60
60x60
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...
project, the Composer's Voice Concert Series
Composer's Voice Concert Series
The Composer's Voice Concert Series is a concert series in New York city performing contemporary chamber music. The series is produced by Vox Novus and was founded by the composer, Robert Voisey. "[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers...
, Fifteen Minutes of Fame music project, and the American Composer Timeline. Based In New York City, Vox Novus has produced and promoted more than 300 concerts in over 20 countries around the world. The organization boasts more than 200 composer members including notable composers: Beth Anderson
Beth Anderson
Beth Anderson is an American neo-romantic composer. She studied with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin, among others. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and grew up in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky...
, 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...
, Jay Batzner
Jay Batzner
J. C. Batzner is a composer primarily of electronic music and is a currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. Jay Batzner is also the programming director for Electronic Music Midwest He ran a daily podcast about miniatures He wrote the music for Carla Poindexter's Carnival Daring...
, 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...
, 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...
, Dennis Eberhard
Dennis Eberhard
Dennis Eberhard was an American composer. In his youth he was crippled by polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005...
, David Gunn
David Gunn
David Gunn may refer to:*David L. Gunn , American railroad administrator*David Gunn , American*David Gunn , military science fiction author*David Gunn , American...
, Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...
, 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...
, 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...
, 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...
, 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 ....
, Ruth Schonthal
Ruth Schonthal
Ruth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.-Early years:...
, 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...
, and Augusta Read Thomas
Augusta Read Thomas
Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...
.
60x60
60x6060x60
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...
is an artistic project contain 60 one minute art performances. The project commemorates its origins each year with producing an hour performance of 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...
/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...
music concert. 60x60 has been presented in venues and festivals throughout the world. Afterwards it collaborates with multimedia such as dance or video to produce a dynamic performance in its second season. 60x60 has been described as an "a masterpiece of organization"
Composer's Voice concert series
The Composer's Voice Concert SeriesComposer's Voice Concert Series
The Composer's Voice Concert Series is a concert series in New York city performing contemporary chamber music. The series is produced by Vox Novus and was founded by the composer, Robert Voisey. "[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers...
is a chamber concert series that is produced primarily in New York City in conjunction with the Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in New York City is a Presbyterian church.The church is named for Jan Hus, a Bohemian priest who was a religious thinker and reformer. The church is located at 351 East 74th Street, New York, New York, in Manhattan's Upper East Side, in the area that was once known as...
. Since 2001, the series has presented works from several notable composers performed by performance groups throughout the world.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a project of Vox Novus which is a collection of 15 one-minute acoustic miniatures. The 15 piece selections are composed for a specific artist or chamber ensemble and then debuted on the Composer's Voice Concert SeriesComposer's Voice Concert Series
The Composer's Voice Concert Series is a concert series in New York city performing contemporary chamber music. The series is produced by Vox Novus and was founded by the composer, Robert Voisey. "[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers...
. Artists who have participated in Fifteen Minutes of Fame include Shiau-uen Ding, Conway Kuo, Alyssa Reit, Zentripetal, Laura Jordan, and Sarah Carrier.
XMV eXperimental Music Video
XMV was and experimental music video night hosted in New York with Collective:UnconsciousAmerican Composer Timeline
Started in 2000, the American Composer Timeline was Vox Novus's first contemporary music initiative. Its purpose was to highlight the tradition of composition in the United States from it very first beginnings of the formation of the colonies until contemporary times. It boasts more than 1300 composer listings with links to their biographies and more detailed information.Articles & reviews
- Gone in 60 Minutes: Electronic Compositions Showcased at NC State University, Alexandra Jones , "Classical Voice in North Carolina", October 1, 2007.
- WRITERS' BLOCK, Chris Pasles, "Los Angeles Times", July 22, 2007
- Time and Motion, Anne Cammon, "Fly Global Music Culture", May 26, 2007
- 60x60 Project presents 60 composers in 60 minutes, Rachel Slade, "North Texas Daily" February 28, 2007 Accessed May 1, 2007
- October 20, 2002 Composer’s Voice Concert, John de Clef Pineiro, "New Music Connoisseur", March 2003 Vol.11 No.1