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2013
March
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<http://vimeo.com/61586773> 60x60 Dance


60x60 Dance Toronto
March 11, 2013


Take a quick 20 second look of 60x60 Dance in Toronto last Sunday thanks to
Marvan Kwan who posted this on Vimeo:
<http://vimeo.com/61586773> http://vimeo.com/61586773

60x60 Dance links 60 composition/ dance works by 60 different composer/
choreographer pairs, each 60 seconds long, and presents them continuously in
a one-hour performance.

In this one-of-a-kind performance, each minute of the hour features a new
composer and a new choreographer. The 60x60 Dance collaboration has been
performed in more than 7 different cities in 3 different countries,
featuring more than 500 choreographers and thousands of dancers. 60x60 Dance
Toronto 2013 features all Canadian composers of every genre (from classical
to spoken word and everything in between) and choreographers from every
imaginable movement discipline (including mime, aerial dance, breakdancing,
Kurdish Folk dancing, Flamenco, Ballet, circus, stiltwalking, modern dance,
tap, and many more) Directed by the award-winning Viv Moore, and including
pieces by Toronto glitterati such as the Kaejas, Malgorzata Nowacka, and
Dave Wilson, this mind-expanding mix of concentrated, haiku-like musical and
dance statements span the ridiculous and the sublime in one continuous hour
of pure inspiration.

Monroe Golden - Alabama Places
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CD Review
Alabama Places
Monroe Golden


innova Recordings <http://www.innova.mu/albums/monroe-golden/alabama-places>



Ellen Tweiten, piano;
Kurt Carpenter, microtonal keyboard

Microtonal compositions can have a bewildering effect on listeners steeped
in the ubiquitous equal temperment. While I don't possess enough facility
with this technique to understand all the ratios fluently, I have always
been impressed with Monroe Golden's ability to merge and juxtapose various
tuning systems.

Monroe Golden <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic//Monroe_Golden.jpg>

Golden has an uncanny ability to make equal temperment seem instantly
"wrong" when put against his own homebrewed scales. Alabama Places, a
collection of a dozen of keyboard duets, pits the conventional piano against
a microtonal keyboard. Inspired by Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Golden
crafts twelve different 24-note scales for each work. In these pieces,
neither the piano nor the keyboard sound in or out of tune. Instead, Golden
merges his created system with legacy tuning to create more complex and
nuanced polyphony. Where the disc excels is in tracks such as "Iron Road"
and the five movements of "In Pell City" where the music contains a lot of
rhythmic and timbral space allowing each instrument to contribute to a
captivating chamber music/hyperinstrument texture. Golden changes the timbre
of the keyboard for each movement and tends to emphasize brighter and
piano-esque sounds over mellower bass and organ sounds. Overall the choices
and the variety of his synth are well managed and balanced. In some tracks,
the activity level becomes a bit too muddled to my ears and leaves me
feeling that the instruments were just nattering. When the keyboards are
allowed some space to breathe, Golden's strengths in balancing and
juxtaposing the instruments really shine. The CD contains a bonus track
accessible via computer of all five movements of "In Pell City" played
without pause and including Linda Frost speaking her poetry.



Announcements

Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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Selections for the
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame:
with Satoshi Okamoto and Pascual Martinez-Forteza

Satoshi_Okamoto <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Satoshi_Okamoto.jpg>
Pascual Martinez-Forteza
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This Fifteen Minutes of Fame includes pieces inspired by Japan and will be
featured on the annual Japanese concert Compsoer's Voice presents in New
York City. The Japanese theme could include pieces inspired by Japanese
musical or visual art works (either traditional or contemporary), short
arrangements of Japanese pieces, or pieces using technical elements found in
Japanese music. After receiving many submissions from around the globe, we
are proud to announce the composers selected for Fifteen Minutes of Fame
with Satoshi Okamoto and Pascual Martinez-Forteza.

The composers selected include:
Javier Martinez Campos, Fermino Gomes, Naifeh Harmon, Olga Harris, Steven
Kreamer, Peter Lam, Maureen Reyes Lavastida, John Mackay, Steven H.
Markowitz, Kevin McCarter, Kaori Nakano, Kala Pierson, Jamal Sameri, Leo
Soeda, and Christopher Wicks

You can find more out at:

<http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Satoshi_Okamoto_Pascua
l_Martinez-Forteza/>
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Satoshi_Okamoto_Pascual
_Martinez-Forteza/



The Sunken Cathedral

The Sunken Cathedral
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Claude Debussy initially wanted his tenth piano prelude, La cathedrale
engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), to be performed in a church at the bottom
of a lake or large pond. To prove that it could be done, Claude spent hours
practicing the piece underwater in a diving suit. Although he was able to
hit all of the right notes, the sheet music tended to drift away from him.
So he hired Mimi Dinklaker, a professional page-turner who owned a
Rouquayrol regulator, to ride herd on his music. But then he discovered his
piano was naturally buoyant; it wouldn't stay put underwater. And when he
lined the piano with cement blocks to keep it from floating to the surface,
it went sharply out of tune. "Estoy harto!" cried Debussy in Catalonian,
finally giving up on an in situ premiere. He did, however, pretend to play
it during the summer of 1912 when he was Sea World of Paris's Guest Artist.
<http://www.davidgunn.org> - David Gunn - www.davidgunn.org


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Upcomming Performances

Electronic Music Midwest <http://www.voxnovus.com/img/EMM_logo.jpg>


New Sounds Festival 2013
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
MIDWEST
MINI-FESTIVAL


Sunday
March 17, 2013
2:00pm, 5:00pm, and 8:00pm



Western Michigan University in collaboration with Fontana Chamber Arts is
presenting the New Sounds Festival 2013 . The festival, originally an annual
showcase concert for WMU composition students, continues to expand and
highlight some of the best contemporary music in the world.

The festival will include 3 concerts for the ELECTRONIC MUSIC MIDWEST
MINI-FESTIVAL. Electronic Music Midwest is dedicated to programming of a
wide variety of electroacoustic music and providing the highest quality
performance of electronic media. This annual festival consists of
approximately nine short concerts (about 1 hour in length) over the course
of a weekend in Autumn. The goal is to bring together vibrant and
interesting artists of all forms, give them a vehicle for their expressions,
and a place for them to share ideas with others.

This year's festival also includes the renowned new music collective
International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E.); a mini-festival featuring 20
guest artists presenting new multimedia works; guest composer Kyong Mee
Choi; New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither; and an exciting
collaboration with Fontana Chamber Arts, featuring a WMU faculty ensemble
conducted by School of Music director, David Colson. For more information
visit wmich.edu/music/composition/New-Sounds-Festival/NSF.html and
fontanachamberarts.org.

Sunday March 17, 2013
Three concerts:
2:00pm, 5:00pm, and 8:00pm
ELECTRONIC MUSIC MIDWEST
MINI-FESTIVAL
Dalton Center Multimedia Room
School of Music
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
FREE ADMISSION




Opportunities

Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame

CALL FOR WORKS


Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
honoring
Eugene Van Itterbeek


Deadline March 22, 2013

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<http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Violetta_Stefanescu.jpg>

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute soprano and piano duets composed for
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame honoring Eugene Van Itterbeek to be performed by
Georgeta Stoleriu, soprano and Violetta Stefanescu, piano at the Romanian
Athenaeum Bucharest, Romania. The music and lyrics will be based on a poem
of Eugene Van Itterbeek, "BIENTOT"

<http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/#13-03-22> Click here for
more details

Composer's Voice
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Composer's Voice

CALL FOR WORKS

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Calling for three-minute solo cello works


Vox Novus is calling for three-minute solo cello pieces composed to be
premiered by Suzanne Mueller 3:00 Sunday, July 28, 2013 in a collaboration
between Composer's Voice and the Summer Sundays Concert Series at Old
Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, NY. This concert celebrates Suzanne's 10
years as Summer Artist-in-Residence at the Gardens. The theme of this call
is "Decade". Suzanne will be selecting 5 pieces to be premiered on this
concert. The three-minute pieces are to be written specifically for this
project, which will be performed by Suzanne Mueller.

Composers are urged to go to http://suzannemuellercellist.com to learn more
about Suzanne, hear recordings and see videos to give them a sense of her
strengths and affinities.


For more information, visit:
<http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/calls/>
http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/calls/

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International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition Committee

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 10:31 AM PST

Web site:
http://iadcc.kr/iadcc/eng/app1_eng.htm
Expiration of Opportunity:
Fri, 2013-03-29
Entry Fee:
25.00
Currency:
Euro (EUR)

1st Round

1) Application Deadline: postmarked by March 29, 2013 (Fri)

2) Submissions

a. Application form (1 copy)
- Submit accordingto the form provided by the homepage or steering committee
in Seoul, Korea.
b. Composition (1 Work, Free composition)
- Approximately 5-20 min., In accord with the styles and genres recommended
Information B above. 6 copies (A4 size)

[Guideline]
(1) Vocal Works
- All vocals both religious and secular are acceptable.
- Performance type (solo, duet, choral) is not restricted.

Published date:
17 Jan 2013

read more
<http://composerssite.com/content/international-anton%C3%ADn-dvo%C5%99%C3%A1
k-composition-competition-committee>


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Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:57 AM PST

Web site:
http://www.speech.kth.se/smac-smc-2013/SMC2013_CallForMusic.pdf
Expiration of Opportunity:
Fri, 2013-03-29
Entry Fee:
0.00

Sound Science, Sound Experience
Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013 will be jointly hosted by the
Sound and Music Computing Research Group at the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) and The Department of Composition, Conducting and Music
Theory at The Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm. KTH is responsible
for the scientific part and KMH will host the musical parts.
Call for Music
Based on this year's theme Sound Science, Sound Experience three
approaches to the call for music are proposed. The first focuses on the
voice,

Published date:
10 Jan 2013

read more
<http://composerssite.com/content/sound-and-music-computing-conference-2013>



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The Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 05:46 PM PDT

Web site:
http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/pellicciotti/
Expiration of Opportunity:
Fri, 2013-03-29
Entry Fee:
0.00
Currency:
U.S. Dollar (USD)

The Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize was founded by Dr. Gary
C. Jaquay to honor his life partner Domenic J. Pellicciotti, an ardent fan
of opera. The award seeks to encourage and acknowledge the creation of new
opera works that explore, within a broad range of possible expressions and
representations, themes related to tolerance, inclusion and/or the
celebration of diversity within an inclusive community.

The prize will be awarded every four years beginning in 2014 ($20,000.00 in
total prize money)
Deadline for submission: March 29, 2013

2013 Call for Scores

Published date:
7 Jul 2012

read more
<http://composerssite.com/content/domenic-j-pellicciotti-opera-composition-p
rize>


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