From voisey-i at voxnovus.com Sat Sep 5 14:02:24 2009 From: voisey-i at voxnovus.com (Vox Novus List) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:02:24 -0400 Subject: [Voxnovus] 60x60 Dance in St Louis - November 8, 2009 7:30 P.M. at Mad Art Gallery Message-ID: <20090905180021.CF6E7D4C0E@qs281.pair.com> The New Music Circle, a long time support of Vox Novus and the 60x60 project is helping present the 60x60 Dance in St Louis. If you are near the area and haven't seen 60x60 yet, this is most definitely the show to see. And if you have seen 60x60 before, you know what a fun show it is... 60x60 Dance takes everything up a notch. Here the details: 60x60 Dance (2009) International Mix at Mad Art Gallery, St Louis, Missouri New Music Circle has announced its lineup of concerts for the 2009-10 season, which marks New Music Circle's 51st year of presenting contemporary and experimental music in St. Louis. This year's schedule once again has a number of multimedia events, mixing music with film, dance and spoken word performance. On Sunday, November 8, 2009 7:30 P.M. at Mad Art Gallery, New Music Circle in conjunction with Vox Novus will present 60x60 Dance featuring local dancers and choreographers from St. Louis including: Mary Ann Rund, Cecil Slaughter, Ashley Tate, and Beckah Voigt http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=42017 Sunday, November 8, 2009 7:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Mad Art Gallery 2727 S. 12th Street Saint Louis, Missouri Price: $15.00 admission $7.00 for students/artists Robert Voisey RobVoisey at VoxNovus.com 60x60 Director Living Music Foundation Vice President Founder of Vox Novus http://www.VoxNovus.com P.S. Stay tuned!!! We have more announcements coming your way about 60x60 Dance performances in Kansas City, Montreal, and Ohio From voisey-i at voxnovus.com Sat Sep 26 09:00:50 2009 From: voisey-i at voxnovus.com (Vox Novus List) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:00:50 -0400 Subject: [Voxnovus] 60x60 (2009 Concert Season), Composer's Voice, and Opera Shorts! Message-ID: <20090926130251.97B31D4C10@qs281.pair.com> 60x60 Concert Season starts! Composer?s Voice continues into the fall and Opera Shorts from me and the Remarkable Theater Brigade. And so it begins! There are going to be a lot of announcements for the next 3 months. We have over 15 shows planned for 60x60. 3 Composer?s Voice concerts. And a couple of my own special events I always try to keep announcements short and direct; however, for now they are going to be a dense with a couple of items so not to abuse the list with an email about every event. Summary: -Friday September 25, 2009 ? 60x60 Video (2009 International Mix) collaboration with Patrick Liddell has its private debut somewhere near the G20 conference -Saturday September 26th, 2009 ? 60x60 Dance Canada Mix Preview in Quebec presented by Violaine Morinville and Eldad Tsabary - Sunday September 27th, 2009 ? Composer?s Voice concert in New York City - Thursday October 1st ? Opera Shorts ? 10 minute Operas in Carnegie Hall New York City - Saturday October 3rd, 2009 ? 60x60 Dance (2009 International Mix) Wall Street Nightclub, Columbus, Ohio - Review of 60x60 Dance Friday September 25, 2009 ? 60x60 Video (2009 International Mix) So all this starts somewhere around the G20 conference in Pennsylvania, Friday September 25, 2009. 60x60 had a private screening of the 2009 International Mix with a video collaboration from Patrick Liddell. David Morneau and David Berlin presented this screening is in an effort to create a large interactive educational outreach program using 60x60. (Another new initiative for Vox Novus and the 60x60 project.) http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Collaborations.htm Saturday September 26th, 2009 ? 60x60 Dance (Canada Preview Mix) Next is a preview performance of the 60x60 Dance in Montreal ,Canada. Discussions with choreographers and presentation of excerpts of 60x60 will happen at Circuit-Est centre Chor?graphique presented by Violaine Morinville in collaboration with "the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Eldad Tsabary and Vox Novus". At 1 pm, "60 x 60": presentation, with 15 choreographers, an excerpt of this project by Robert Voisey, which brings together 60 choreographies created by as many choreographers to a 1 minute piece of music composed by the Canada Mix - musique, followed by a discussion with the organizers. Circuit-Est centre Chor?graphique, studio A 1881, rue St Andr? E. Ville-Marie Montreal, Quebec, Canada FREE ADMISSION http://www.journeesdelaculture.qc.ca/en/activite/presentation-d-extraits-de- 60-x-60-et-echanges-104/ Sunday September 27th, 2009 ? Composer?s Voice concert Vox Novus in collaboration with the Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Church is proud to present their monthly chamber concert series Sunday, September 27, at 1:00 featuring the works of Greg Bartholomew, SJ Pettersson, Christopher Bailey, Theo Loevendie and Moritz Eggert with performances by J.C. Dobrzelewski, Dr. Carl Cranmer, Laura Patterson, Kiersten Cunningham, Nolan Robertson, Jonathan Rose, Angela Karschney, Amanda Hick, Shiau-uen Ding, Christa M. Long and Beth Griffith. Greg Bartholomew won the 2006 Orpheus Music award for Beneath the Apple Tree for recorder and viola da gamba. The premiere of Moritz Eggert?s One Man Band 2 was called ?a fireworks of ideas and rhythmically complex episodes, a colourful and highly inspiring mixture made of sounds, noises and fun? by S?ddeutsche Zeitung. A native of Taiwan, pianist Shiau-uen Ding is a rising presence on the new and electro-acoustic music scenes. She was called a ?daredevil? by New York Times for her performance of Moritz Eggert?s H?mmerklavier III: One Man Band at Bang on a Can Marathon and ?a powerful force on the new music scene? by Array for her concert at Spark Festival in Minneapolis. Beth Griffith has appeared with Sequentia, Musikfabrik, Ensemble13, L?Art pour L?Art, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Paris Nouvel Orchestra Philharmonique and has worked with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Her one-hour, solo recording of Feldman?s ?Three Voices? was awarded the German Record Critics Prize. "Composer's Voice" concert series is an opportunity for contemporary composers to express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice" created in their compositions. Started in 2001, the ?Composer?s Voice? concert series is presenting its 41st concert Sunday September 27, 2009. Composer?s Voice concert Sunday September 27, 2009 Jan Hus Presbyterian Church 351 E 74th St New York, NY 10021-3798 www.janhus.org FREE ADMISSION http://www.voxnovus.com/ComposersVoice.htm Thursday October 1st, 2009? Opera Shorts at Carnegie Hall With Musical Directors Noby Ishida & Christian McLeer Thursday, October 1st we will present 10-minute operas at Weill-Carnegie Hall. Some of the composers writing for RTB include Seymour Barab, Tom Cipullo, Patrick Soluri, Rob Voisey, Anne Phillips, George Brunner, Ben Bierman and of course, Christian McLeer. Tickets start at $30. Go to carnegiehall.org, call CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800 or visit the Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. http://www.carnegiehall.org/textSite/box_office/events/evt_14299.html THE POEM THAT NOBODY HEARS by Ben Bierman directed by Josh Carr The opening scene finds Poet sitting by himself, busily writing away on a small scrap of paper. No one notices as he sings his poem-without-words to himself. A student enters the lounge and is gradually drawn in by the intense scribbling of Poet. FIGARO'S LAST HANGOVER by Patrick Soluri directed by Amy Axelson Figaro Montague is at a bar when a news flash announces that Earth will be hit by an asteroid in ten minutes. Waiting alone for the end, he sees his long lost love, Carmen Capulet. They embrace and sing of old times. But Figaro remembers how Carmen betrayed him and they fight. Carmen storms off and Figaro returns to his barstool. The asteroid arrives. TEMPO FUORI DEL TEMPO by Anne Dinsmore Phillips libretto by Marilynn Scott Murphy directed by Olga Shyp On her way to Rome a woman of a certain age and a beautiful young Italian man meet and connect in the air, high above the clouds. This world was not meant for them. Theirs is "time out of time" Tempo Fuori del Tempo. ADRIFT by Christian McLeer directed by George Hogan The only survivors of a shipwreck are a deck hand and a passenger. Together they face the unrelenting sea. FIRE by Christian McLeer directed by Christian McLeer It gives me great pleasure to present the culmination of my years of research on primary pre-lingual primal linguistics and primal behavior, primarily of the prime region of SarcasMcStan. -Christian McLeer POPPETJIE by Rob Voisey directed by Olga Shyp A mother guides her daughter whose fantasies work their way in and out of her dreams. SAFARI by Seymour Barab directed by George Hogan Safari is extracted from a set of short, raunchy musicals under the title "In Questionable Taste." DELETE by George Brunner libretto by Deena Puffer directed by George Hogan Susie has decided to enter the curious world of Internet Dating. After some unexpected responses to her profile, she considers giving up until David writes to her inviting her to dinner. LUCY by Tom Cipullo directed by Amy Axelson Lucy (an elderly woman) is on the phone with her nephew. After the call ends, she receives an unusual visitor - a strange young man sitting on top of her television. GALLANTRY by Seymour Barab directed by George Hogan Gallantry is extracted from a set of short, raunchy musicals under the title "In Questionable Taste." And Last But by no means least Saturday October 3rd, 2009 ? 60x60 Dance -Wall Street Nightclub, Columbus, Ohio New York City based Vox Novus will team up with local choreographers to present 60x60 Dance, an exciting performance of contemporary music and dance unlike any you?ve seen before. 60x60 Dance takes 60 one-minute audio works (by 60 different composers) and pairs them with 60 new dances by different choreographers. The resulting collaborations are presented, without interruption, as a continuous one-hour performance synchronized to an on-stage analog clock. ?The first thing to be said about ?60x60 Dance? is that it is a masterpiece of organization. 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 ? An Express Without Any Delays By ROSLYN SULCAS, New York Times, November 17, 2008 Embracing a grassroots ideology, 60x60 Dance makes its debut in Ohio by recruiting local choreographers and dances for the performances. Participating choreographers will be assigned a piece from the current 60x60 International mix. 60x60 Dance in Columbus will present new dance by a diverse collection of central Ohio choreographers including a myriad of regional artists, students and teachers from the surrounding universities, and even choreographers returning to Ohio specially for this performance. Highlighted artists include: Michael Abbatiello, Claire Augustine, Lindsay N. Calvert, Noelle Chun, Jenai Cutcher, Meghan Durham/Merge Dance, Mariah Layne French, J.Lillian Gray, Sarah Hixon, Shawn Hove, Kristina Isabelle, Alejandra Jara, Amy Levin, Frances Lewis, CoCo Loupe, Sandra Mathern, Betsy Miller, Michael J. Morris, Eoin O?Brien, The Performance Improvisation Ensemble, Susan Van Pelt Petry, Paige Phillips, Megan Pitcher, Maree ReMalia, Karl Rogers, Kelsey Schafer, Alexis M. del Sol, Yu Xiao, Abigail Zbikowski 60x60 was originally conceived of as an electronic music project, collecting 60 second works by composers and sound artists from around the world. Since 2003, 60x60 has featured the work of more than 1200 composers in concerts spanning the globe. From the beginning 60x60 was a natural vehicle for collaborating with other art forms. Initially this included video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, 60x60 teamed up with choreographers and 60x60 Dance was born. Since then this unique collaboration has produced seven exciting shows, each featuring a different group of composers and choreographers. For the 2009-2010 season Vox Novus is taking 60x60 Dance on the road beginning in Ohio and continuing through Kansas City, St Louis, New York, and Montreal. 60x60 Dance Saturday, October 3, 2009 Two performances starting 7:30 PM and 9:00 PM Wallstreet Nightclub 144 N. Wall Street Columbus, Ohio $5 Admission (18 and over only) Composers in the 2009 International Mix include: Aaron Acosta, Aart Uunivers, Christopher Ariza, Dwight Ashley, Adam Basanta, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Jay Batzner, Benjamin Boone, Justin H Brierley, Halsey Burgund, Hermes Camacho, Danny Clay, David Congo, Alvin Curan, Matthew Dotson, Mark Eden, Morgan Fisher, Enrico Francioni, Kraig Grady, Cem Guney, Richard Hall, Yoko Honda, Masaaki Iseki, Lynn Job, Aaron Krister Johnson, Bernadette Johnson, Timo Kahlen, Tova Kardonne, Michiko Kawagoe, Antom Killin, HyeKyung Lee, Brian Lindgren, Pasquale Mainolfi, John Maycraft, Angela McGary, Leslie Melcher, Polly Moller, Josue Moreno, David Morneau, Peter Mottram, Alexander Mouton, Paul Oehlers, Doug Opel, Christophe Petchanatz, Kala Pierson, Gene Pritsker, Robert Ratcliffe, Philip Schesslar, Matt Schickele, Les Scott, Diana Simpson, Steven Snowden, Jorge Sosa, Laurie Spiegel, Patrica Walsh, Jane Wang, Andrew Weathers, Andrew Willingham, Gregory Yasinitsky, and Natal Zaks Whew! What an announcement. Are you here? Did you get through all of it? One more thing. 60x60 Dance got a glowing review in New York City?s New Music Connoisseur where it was described by Joeseph Pehrson as ?without a doubt, [60x60 Dance] was and atristic?10,? unexpected, an rewarding beyond all imaginining.? So here is the deal . if you got to the end of this announcement let me know and I will give the first 5 people who respond one of our classic first time release of the 60x60 CD on Capstone Records to you FREE. Robert Voisey RobVoisey at VoxNovus.com 60x60 Director Living Music Foundation Vice President Founder of Vox Novus http://www.VoxNovus.com From voisey-i at voxnovus.com Mon Sep 28 08:42:32 2009 From: voisey-i at voxnovus.com (Vox Novus List) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:42:32 -0400 Subject: [Voxnovus] Call for Scores - Composer's Voice concert series Message-ID: <20090928124231.E71B1D4C10@qs281.pair.com> We had a great show at Composer's Voice this past weekend with fabulous performances from Carl Cranmer, Kiersten Cunningham, Shiau-uen Ding, J. C. Dobrzelewski, tBeth Griffith, Amanda Hick, Angela Karschney, Laura Patterson, Nolan Robertson, and Jonathan Rose. The Composer's Voice series is already booked out until April of 2010, so if you are in the neighborhood during the last Sunday of the month, come check us out! Meanwhile, for April of 2010 Rebecca Ashe a flutist from Kansas City will be putting together a concert of new works. If you are interested the call is below: Call for Scores For Performance at Composer's Voice Concert Sunday April 25, 2010 at 1pm At Jan Hus Church 351 East 74th Street New York, NY Work Specifications: Solo Flute Solo Piccolo Flute and Electronics Piccolo and Electronics Pieces must not exceed 5 minutes Programming: Selected pieces will be performed by Rebecca Ashe on the April 25th Composer's Voice Program. Eligibility: Any Living Composer, any age, any nationality Deadline: Scores must be received no later than January 15th, 2010. Composers whose works are selected will be notified by the 15th of February. Formatting: PDF or Sibelius 4 Please, include all tape parts in an MP3 format Notes should be large enough to read Please, send performance instructions Please, send scores to my email address: asherebecca at hotmail.com About me: I am open to exploring most everything compositionally and performance-wise, though it must make sense to the work as a whole. Musically, I am very open. My tastes range from Electronica (Bjork et al), folk (American and Eastern European Gypsy are favorites), Classical (I am a huge fan of Perotin, Josquin, Boulez, Elliot Carter, and Arvo Part), and jazz - swing and blues are my favorites. Flutist, Rebecca Ashe, earned her Bachelor degree in Applied Music (flute) at the Eastman School of Music. She earned both her Master of Musical Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Missouri -Kansas City. An advocate of new music, she recently collaborated with three composers to premiere three new pieces. A recording project for the pieces is underway, with a release expected in 2009 under Centaur.