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Robert Voisey is a composer and producer 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...

and chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

. He founded 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...

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 present, to appear on the Internet. A producer of new music and multi-media concerts and events, Voisey is best known for producing the 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, which he started in 2003 in order to promote contemporary composers and their music. He is co-director of 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...

as well as vice president of programs for the Living Music Foundation.

Composer

Robert Voisey's compositions fall under a few definitive genres: neo-romantic, ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, mash-up

Mashup (music)

A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...

, text-sound, and dramatic

Dramatic

Dramatic may refer to:* Drama, a literary form involving parts for actors* Dramatic, a voice type classification in European classical music, describing a specific vocal weight and range at the lower end of a given voice part...

/operatic. His neo-romantic works tend to be chamber works for acoustic instruments while the other styles are electronic incorporating electronic playback of some form. Involved in various types of multimedia, Robert Voisey collaborates with video, dance, poetry, stage performers and others. He has written for film and theatrical stage performances.

Voisey's compositions have been performed A*Devantgarde festival, 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...

festival, the International Electroacoustic Festival at Brooklyn College, ÉuCuE xxvii festival, Digital Art Weeks, the Spark Festival, and the ThreeTwo festival, as well as the TRANSreveLATION concert, The Brick Elephant, Fine and Dandy, the August Art concert, the Composer's Voice Concert Series

Composer's Voice Concert Series

, and the 60x60

60x60

project. His work routinely receives airplay on WKCR

WKCR

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:...

's Arts & Answers and Art Wave radio programs as well as Max Shea's 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:* *...

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...

Neo-Romantic and chamber works

Rob Voisey’s romantic art songs “Dos Palabras” (translated directly from Spanish is "Two Words" which is an idiom

Idiom

Idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made...

meaning "I Love You". The text of the art songs are based on the work of Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the modernist period.-Life:Storni was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist living in Switzerland for a few years. There, Storni learned to speak Italian...

. It is a duet commissioned by Agueda Pages and has been premiered by her in New York City, Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

, Germany and Valencia, Spain. This song cycle has had several performances in New York City at Jan Hus Church at the Composer’s Voice Concert series; the Argentinean Consulate, and at Christ & St Stevens Church for the XL performance. “Dos Palabras” has also been performed in Barcelona, Spain.

"Poppetjie" a 10 minute opera of Voisey's was premiered at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

and presented by the Remarkable Theater Brigade’s Opera Shorts. “Poppetjie” is a story about a little girl who
projects her notions of marriage and relationships onto her doll and teddy bear. Poppetjie is an Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

word meaning "little doll."

Mashup/Sampling

Voisey's work 50 second miniature Oregon, was selected for Jon Nelson

Jon Nelson

Jon Nelson is a mashup artist and a radio show host for Some Assembly Required. "Jon Nelson, mashes music and found sound — from old movies, laugh tracks, the news — to make what he calls the audio dreamscape of the media age." Jon Nelson started Some Assembly Required in 1999 and has been...

's 50/50 project. The "50/50" CD release by Recombinations/mnartists 2010 with 49 other DJ’s composers, and sound artists. Inspired by this project Voisey continued this post-modern style creating other 50 second miniature he calls States. New York, another miniature, is part of the 60x60 (2010) International Mix and received debuts at London.’s 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....

as well as in St Louis and Japan. The works North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois all debuted in New York City on the Vox Novus “Club” concerts.

His work Shades of Forte was selected for Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest

as well as the Composer's Voice Concert Series

Composer's Voice Concert Series

and Fine and Dandy

Several of Rob Voisey's 60 second miniatures featuring samples and are examples of mash-ups were selected for 60x60 mixes including: Sullen, Electric Trains, Executive Decision, and We Are All 60x60.

TainTed T is a sample work dedicated to 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...

and written for a performance honoring his 60th birthday.

In 2005 Robert Voisey's work Bounce won best electroacoustic composition in Komposer Kombat The work is based on samples provided by 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...

which hosted the competition.

Ambient

Being a singer who is trained is using extended vocal techniques, Robert uses samples of his voice to create ambient

Ambient music

works. He has recorded and performed these works. One of his projects called Constellations uses these ambient gestures and electronic digitally manipulated vocal sample to create miniature which are layer together in a "moblie" fashion to create a larger sonic mix. Each miniature is named after a constellation and each mix is named after the venue or project for which it was commissioned. The Constellations TRANSreveLATION Mix" was the first mixed of this type and was followed by the EMM MIX, Composer's Voice Mix, No Extra Notes Mix, Das Punk and Krooner Mix

Robert Voisey’s suite of six movements, Constellations, was for fixed media and dancers. Each miniature—a genre in which Voisey excels as he is the creator of 60x60, a concert series devoted to music lasting sixty seconds—was vocally based. I caught spinets of raga and Middle Eastern influence with the embellishments. Though in six movements with an ever-so-slight pause in between each, the sounds remained similar throughout. At first I was nonplussed, but by the end was won over by the steadfastness and singularity of purpose and idea. The choreography was clever; white clad dancers used various light sources (hand-held light strands, single-bulb palm flashlights, and a Christmas light-wrapped dancer) to manipulate the darkness of the stage and hall according to each constellation’s implied persona. – Eclectic electronics By Lee Hartman KCMetropolis.org Tue, Oct 4, 2011

His two ambient works ripples in sand, Ursa Minor, Sagittarius were selected for 60x60 mixes. Sagittarius and 'Ursa Minor are a miniatures which are part of his Constellations project.

Lament and Loss was commissioned by Serban Nichifor

Serban Nichifor

Şerban Nichifor is an internationally prominent Romanian musician. He is Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest ; Member of UCMR , SABAM , ECPMN ; Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA MUSICA...

and dedicated to Nichifor's departed wife 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,...

and premiered on her memorial concert in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

, Romania.

In October 2010, Robert Voisey's piece, Flute Lust, had its world premier at Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest

, performed by flutist Rebecca Ashe. The festival was held at Lewis University

Lewis University

Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students...

in Romeoville, Illinois.

Robert Voisey's work is frequently performed in New York City on various concert programs including: 2nd Annual Composers Play Composers Marathon presented by COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE and Composer's Voice Concert Series

Composer's Voice Concert Series

by Vox Novus

Vox Novus

Text-sound

He collaborated with Anne Cammon in India Songs described as "acoustic meditations each gesture happens in its own envelope of light, each word falls on the air like a drop of honey or rain." This included performances at the Bowery Poetry Club

Bowery Poetry Club

The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002. Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan's East Village, the BPC provides a home base for established and upcoming artists...

, the Nuyorican

Nuyorican

Nuyorican is a portmanteau of the terms "New York" and "Puerto Rican" and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York State especially the New York City metropolitan area, or of their descendants...

, Cornelia Street Cafe

Cornelia Street Cafe

The Cornelia Street Cafe, in New York City's Greenwich Village, first opened its doors in July 1977. It quickly became a magnet for the artistic and highly creative folk who loved their art just off the beaten path. On any given night, one might hear writers, poets, or musicians, spilling their...

and Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me, a compilation CD of poets and music. Another collaboration, Living Apart was selected for Digital Art Weeks SOUNDSCAPE & HOERSPIEL 08 A Diamond in the Mud

Producer

Robert Voisey is regarded as having ambitious ideas not only for the dissemination of contemporary music and art performance but for the number of audience members interested in such productions, routinely bringing rarefied forms of artistic expression into the mainstream. Chris Pasles of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

listed him as one of the composers showing creativity in getting music heard.

60x60

One of Voisey’s most notable projects which he produces, and directs is 60x60

60x60

. Robert founded 60x60 in 2003 with it premier performance in New York City. 60x60 started as an electronic audio project presenting 60 recorded audio works by 60 different composers, each of the works 60 seconds or less in duration. The works are presented in sequence one after the other with each minute synchronized to an analog clock. Voisey describes 60x60: “Each work is a microcosm of the larger "marco-work". Because there are no pauses between works, each minute influences another. Some works complement each other while others contrast with their differing aesthetics and styles. The 60x60 performance hour is a representation of our community of artists as much as it is a representation of artistic ideas, styles, and aesthetics.”
“The project has grown exponentially and now regularly includes multiple mixes representing various geographic regions.”

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. 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."

“Part of the mission is to represent diverse composers from all walks of life,” said Robert Voisey, who was quoted at the debut of the 60x60 UnTwelve Mix for the Magical Musical Showcase series at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...

in Chicago, Illinois. “The point of the project is that it enables an audience to take in and enjoy a cross section of different approaches to new music within a reasonable duration. And the purpose of Robert Voisey is to promote new music ... “

A strong advocate for contemporary composition, Voisey finds innovative formats in which to produce and promote his music and the work of his colleagues. "His 60x60

60x60

project... brings packaged electroacoustic concerts to venues worldwide..." He is quoted as saying, "My belief is that there is a hungry audience out there waiting to be inspired and touched by the music and ideas that today's composer has to offer." 60x60 is a contemporary music project putting 60 one minute works together in a one hour performance. "The point of the project is that it enables an audience to take in and enjoy a cross section of different approaches to new music within a reasonable duration. And the purpose of Robert Voisey is to promote new music" 60x60 is "to represent diverse composers from all walks of life"

The project boasts producing over 30 different mixes and presenting more than 2000 composers from the thousands of submissions it receives from its call for works.

Robert Voisey designed 60x60 to be a telescopic project which can grow to fit the needs of a venue or satisfy the appetite of a curious audience. The project has spanned more than 20 countries on 6 continents and has been presented in many different multimedia incarnations including 60x60 Dance, 60x60 Video, and 60x60 Images.

60x60 Dance

In 2007, Robert Voisey began the 60x60 collaboration with dance. The first performance was held its premier at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in New York City. It also received a performance at Galapagos Art Space in D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn. Described as a “bold initiative” Of his 60x60 Dance collaboration with choreographer 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...

in 2008, Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times wrote:

The idea—60 new dance pieces are performed to 60 new pieces of music, each lasting no more than 60 seconds—is quite mad. But it's this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round, and so our thanks are due to the composer Robert Voisey, who first came up with the concept in 2003.

The November 14, 2008 performance at 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

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...

attracted upwards of 1500 audience members, a number which is considered unusually high in the contemporary music and dance world.

Since then 60x60 Dance has received International acclaim and has been presented in countries around the world. Rob Voisey presented 60x60 Dance at Stratford Circus

Stratford Circus

which was endorsed by the 2012 London Olympics for their Open Weekend. Time Out London says:

Either a genius or crazy concept for a dance show, depending on how you look at it: 60 choreographers each create 60 seconds of movement to be performed in succession, making one hour of fast-changing, switched up dance … there's one thing you can say for sure, it won't be boring.

In Toronto, 60x60 Dance “turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable and original hour”, claimed by Paula Citron from Classical 96.3 who continues to rave, “ All kinds of kudos to dance artist Vivien Moore who assigned the music to the choreographers, and shaped the show to have some kind of continuity. How she merged the various dancers, and figured out exits and entrances was miraculous. “

60x60 Dance premiered in St. Louis at MadArt Gallery, and has been returning yearly to 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,...

and has been presented on public television. "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, By Alison Sieloff

60x60 Video

In a colossal presenting endeavor, Robert Voisey produced a video collaboration with Patrick Liddell for 360 degrees of 60x60 containing 6 hours of video for each of the 6 RED Mixes of 360 degrees of 60x60 originally created for the 2010 ICMC.

Voisey presented 60x60 in collaboration with video artist Zlatko Cosic

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...

at the 2007 Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest

festival, about which SEAMUS Journal said that Voisey "did 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."

Orchestra 60x60

Robert Voisey is also co-directing an ambitious project with 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...

and 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...

called Orchestra 60x60. Orchestra 60x60 is a completely acoustic project written for orchestra which is based on the 60x60 concept, 60 one-minute orchestra works written by 60 different contemporary composers presented in a continuous hour performance. Orchestra 60x60 was first presented at the Conductors Guild Conference in 2009.

Other Projects

Through Vox Novus

Vox Novus

, Robert Voisey is the founder and producer of 60x60

60x60

, the Composer's Voice Concert Series

Composer's Voice Concert Series

, Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, XMV, and the American Composer Timeline. He is also the Organizational Advancement Director of the Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest

Festival since 2011.

Life

Beginning his college career as a double-major in computer science and mathematics and the son of two accountants, Voisey was an unlikely student of classical composition. He met his first composition teacher, Oded Zehavi, while taking a composition class for non-majors at Stony Brook University. Zehavi then invited him to join his fledgling composition program at Tel-Hai Academic College

Tel-Hai Academic College

Tel-Hai Academic College is a college located in Tel Hai in northern Israel, near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi and north of Kiryat Shmona.The college offers academic and continuing education programs for approximately 4,500 students, 70 percent of whom come from outside the Galilee. Minorities comprise...

in the Upper Galilee

Upper Galilee

The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit...

of Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Accepting the invitation, Voisey was soon heard on Kol Yisrael

Kol Yisrael

Kol Yisrael is Israel's public domestic and international radio service, operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.-History:...

Israel Radio and received his first contemporary performances at the College.

Voisey went on to study music in the Master's Program at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

with composers Noah Creshevsky

Noah Creshevsky

and George Brunner. Using his voice as a primary instrument, Voisey applied electronic techniques of sampling, digital processing and multi-track layering to his own work. Robert Voisey belonged to the Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Ensemble where his work was featured on three CDs and several concerts at the International Electroacoustic Festivals as well as composer concerts produced by the music department.

He left the program at Brooklyn College to strike out on his own as a composer with an entrepreneurial spirit. He founded Vox Novus

Vox Novus

and began, with a handful of friends, to produce intimate chamber concerts called the Composer's Voice Concert Series

Composer's Voice Concert Series

. This series has been housed in a range of venues in New York City including South Oxford Space in Brooklyn, The Gershwin Hotel, Under St. Mark’s Theater, Collective: Unconscious

Collective: Unconscious

Collective: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....

, Christ St. Stephen’s Church, and most recently Jan Hus Church.

As a performer, Voisey has sung and performed all over the world including venues such as the Tank, Cornelia Street Cafe

Cornelia Street Cafe

and Roulette

Roulette

Roulette is a casino game named after a French diminutive for little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even....

in New York City.

Robert Voisey is also a member of the ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (~CDZ) under the pseudonym, "Vox."
~CDZabu is a non-profit organization where its members collaborate online in order to create electronic music available on the World Wide Web.

Robert Voisey has also been featured and interviewed on No Extra Notes with Richard Zarou

Richard Zarou

Richard Zarou is a contemporary composer of concert and film music and the host of the new music podcast "No Extra Notes". Zarou is from Centreville, VA and completed his undergraduate studies at Shenandoah University in Virginia...

, Noizepunk & Das Krooner show #21 and 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...

#454 and Arts & Answers on WKCR

WKCR

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:...

FM NY.

Articles & Reviews

Eclectic electronics By Lee Hartman KCMetropolis.org Tue, Oct 4, 2011

60x60: netsuke for the musical mind By Richard Arnest Sounding Board

Sounding board

A 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

Robert Voisey – 50/50 by Jon Nelson

Jon Nelson

– Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required is a sound collage radio program in the United States, produced in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the first radio show known to focus exclusively on works of sample based music, and appropriation in audio art...

, Saturday, October 16, 2010

60x60 Dance Big Dance

No time to fool around: Robert Voisey and the "madness" of the 60X60 project By Tobias Fischer, White Fungus, Issue 11 – 2010

'Dance Around the Clock By Carl Glassman, The Tribeca Trib

The Tribeca Trib

The 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

You have one minute By David Cutler

David Cutler

David Matthew Cutler is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the economics department and in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, with a...

, The Savvy Musician, Helius Press, published October 26, 2009

Minute hand to sweep performers on, offstage By Amy Saunders The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch

The 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

"Rob Voisey: 60x60 Dance" By Suzanne Thorpe, Electronic Music Foundation

Electronic Music Foundation

Electronic 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 SULCAS

Roslyn Sulcas

Roslyn 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

Brant Lyon & Friends / Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me by JoAnne McFarland, NYC Big City Lit, Fall 2008

Arts Now! 60 X 60 2008 by Karen Moorman "Classical Voice in North Carolina", November 2008

Flash Dance Entertaining in a New York minute By Eudie Pak – Village Voice – Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008

"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

Los Angeles Times

", July 22, 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

North Texas Daily

The North Texas Daily, also known as the NT Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, published Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer. The Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday papers are broadsheets...

", 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. 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...

& John Schaefer, "Soundcheck

Soundcheck

A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance, when the performer and the sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to make sure that the sound in the venue's "Front Of House" and stage monitor sound...

", WNYC

WNYC

WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...

, New York, March 17, 2005

"Got a Minute? A Few Words on Music in 60 Seconds or Less",
Robert Voisey with additional reporting by Frank J. Oteri

Frank J. Oteri

, "NewMusicBox

NewMusicBox

NewMusicBox 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

Interviews

60x60 Dance at The Sheldon in St Louis on HEC-TV – Interviews of cast and producers plus entire show. October 2010
No time to fool around: Robert Voisey and the "madness" of the 60X60 project By Tobias Fischer, White Fungus, Issue 11 – 2010
November 6, 2009 – New Music Circle By Steve Potter
Steve Potter
Steve Potter is a former footballer. He made 118 appearances as a goalkeeper for Swansea City between 1974 and 1978 before moving to Bridgend Town in July 1978. He subsequently emigrated to Australia.- External links :*...

, Cityscape
Cityscape
A 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
Interview with Robert Voisey on No Extra Notes by Richard Zarou
Richard Zarou
Richard Zarou is a contemporary composer of concert and film music and the host of the new music podcast "No Extra Notes". Zarou is from Centreville, VA and completed his undergraduate studies at Shenandoah University in Virginia...

August 9, 2009
Arts & Answers on WKCR FM NY interviews Robert Voisey and Jeramy Zimmerman, November 13, 2008
Noizepunk & Das Krooner show #21 Noizepunk & Das Krooner interviews Robert Voisey about his 60x60 project and a new work Constellations, July 14, 2007
Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar show No. 523, BoRenGurka 120x100 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...

, June 11, 2005
Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar show No. 454, The Catafalque of Valentines 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...

, February 14, 2004

Discography

Oregon, "50/50" Recombinations/mnartists 2010
Sagittarius, 60x60 (2006–2007) Vox Novus VN-002 released 2008
India Songs, "Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me" LOGOchrysalis Productions 2008
tongues, 60x60 (2004–2005) Vox Novus VN-001 released 2007
ripples in sand, 60x60 (2003) Capstone Records CPS-8744 released 2005
Mission: MARS, "BC Sound Serum", Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Ensemble released 2004
Hourglass: Base, "BCMix", Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Ensemble released 2003
Lullaby, Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Ensemble released 2000
Vol XXIV – From The Outskirts of The Milky Way – March 2007 – ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp(~CDZ)

– featuring the collaboration of Marsmalade, Angry Jane, JS, Martouk, Vox (a.k.a. Robert Voisey), Exorziser

[1] enceladus groove, [2] spelun king, [3] the folk , [4] polynesian escape, [5] dark oasis, [6] sitzprobe

Vol XXI – Haute cuisine – November 2006 – ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp(~CDZ)

– featuring the collaboration of e-plastic, Snvl, Intentolla, eze, Vox (a.k.a. Robert Voisey)

[1] next door marmalade,[2] love me blender, [3] in memoriam of dishwasher sprites, [4] mario cleaning dishes, [5] undead steak

Vol XVIII – The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement – August 2006 – ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp(~CDZ)

– featuring the collaboration of Snvl, Dr Chnolles, b.p.-y.m., Mike V + Vox Novus

Vox Novus

: Rob Voisey, Greg Bartholomew, Antonino Cuscina, Larry Gaab, David Morneau, David Newby, John Saylor, 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...

[1] vogel's private hell, [2] da vinci downtown, [3] not asleep yet, [4] mr. glitch meets glitchbot, [5] dr. turbano, [6] urba lulkanto, [7] voltaire's underwear, [8] deep drag gone, [9] synq, [10] descent into chaos, [11] better late than never, [12] spidered sidewalks of glam, [13] do you dream in black and white?

Vol IX – Live in Kansas City – September 2005 – ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp(~CDZ)

– featuring the collaboration of M. Velouté, e-plastic, Snvl, Pablo, Fred, Don Malone (EMM

Electronic Music Midwest

– Roosevelt University, Illinois), Greg Dixon (EMM

Electronic Music Midwest

), Robert Voisey (EMM

Electronic Music Midwest

– Vox Novus

Vox Novus

)

[1] Midwest, [2] elevator, [3] october, [4] existence, [5] hotels, [6] parallel audience, [7] mtv prairie, [8] longhorn steakhouse

External links

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