[Voxnovus] NM421> November 1, 2013 - Honoring Liana Alexandra - 8 Harps coming to NYC - 60x60 call for surround sound works

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VOX NOVUS NEWSLETTER - New Music for the 21st Century	

> REVIEW: Composer's Voice: Honoring Liana Alexandra	

> POSTCARD: Louie Louie	

Vox Novus Calendar	

> PERFORMANCE: 

THE CRANE HARP ENSEMBLE CELEBRATES ITS 15TH SEASON 
WITH FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME	

> PERFORMANCE: FIFTEEN MINUTE OF FAME WITH DAVID BOHN	

OPPORTUNITIES	

> 60x60 5.1 - Call for Works for 5.1 Surround Sound 	

> Fifteen Minutes of Fame - call for works for solo clarinet	

> Composer's voice - Call for scores for the Tom do Brasil Band 	

> Composer's Site - new opportunities	

> Composer's Site - expiring opportunities	

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Honoring Liana Alexandra

 Liana Alexandra
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REVIEW:


Composer's Voice: Honoring Liana Alexandra


Composer's Voice celebrates the spirit and talent of belated composer Liana
Alexandra (1947-2011) in conjunction with the Romanian Cultural Institute of
New York. Treasured in her home country of Romania and around the world,
this prolific artist enjoyed a career that encompassed lauded awards and
prestigious teaching and administrative positions. This concert - Honoring
Liana Alexandra - acts as a eulogy for composers and musicians to pay
tribute to their much-missed peer. 

15-Minutes-of-Fame features Wonki Lee on saxophones and Riko Higuma on
piano. Inspired by the life and works of Liana Alexandra, each work recalls
her prodigious talent. Georgiana Trandafir's piece showcases Lee playing
into the body of the piano, which creates a silvery halo, dappled by the
promise of a new beginning. Kala Pierson's muscular composition engages as a
punchy draught checkered with silences. Beginning as an elfin gambol, Mike
Perdue's piece veers into emphatic pounding accented with braying squeals.
Jose Mora-Jimenez crafts a highly spiced minute, dense with frenzied delight
that skids to an abrupt finish. Succumbing to the sweet savagery of
melancholia, Joshua Ransom's soundscape pensively swoops and scoops,
plumbing the sacred space of the heart. 

Evocative pieces by Wade Meyers, Ching-Chu Hu, David Heuser, Serban
Nichifor, Gordon Francis Blaney, Daniel Mihai, Scott Brickman, Andy Cohen,
Guido Busocoli, and Corina Alexandra Tirziman round out this very poignant
Fifteen-Minutes-Of-Fame. 

Longer compositions, also dedicated to Alexandra's memory, investigate grief
and its kin, memory and suffering. Cellist Jennifer Shaw renders each
composition with a well-mannered, filigreed delicacy. Douglas DaSilva
proffers "Liana," a subtle, finely hued work. Littered with sonic
refractions, it bends peppery plucks into blaring smears. Robert Voisey's
"Lament and Sorrow" captures the all-enveloping, visceral immediacy of
anguish. Designed for tape and cello, unearthly wails integrate with
breath-like stroking from the cello. It affects a listener kinetically,
cloaking the body in its pitched keening. Serban Nichifor, devoted husband
of Liana Alexandra, contributes "Old Mormon Songs."Burnished with a hearty
and pioneering spirit, it relates sonic stories of hardship, perseverance,
and divine intervention. 

The program opens and closes with the lifeblood of Liana Alexandra's
existence: her music. "Melody," for tenor saxophone and piano acts as a
dusky, meditative poem; it's a map of the inquisitive soul. In "Incantations
3," scraping shimmers of the cello stratify in chevrons over stuttering,
electronic blasts. The program closes with violinist Pauline Kim Harris
providing a scorching performance of "Quasi-Cadenza." Punctuated by thrusts
of silence, it revs to a fuchsia-colored dynamism: bristling, thorny, and
demanding in its insistence. 

This concert accentuates that Liana Alexandra is a great talent who will be
sorely missed. Composer's Voice would like to thank to the Romanian Cultural
Institute of New York for their munificent support. 

 <http://erinbomboy.blogspot.com/> Erin Bomboy 

 <http://erinbomboy.blogspot.com/> Erin Bomboy 
http://erinbomboy.blogspot.com/ 



Louie Louie

 Louie Louie
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"Nobody move! Put up your hands. This is a stick-up!" snarled Louie
Lechapeau as he waved his pistol at the band members. Or rather, that's what
he meant to say. What the French Canadian really said was "Personne ne se
deplacent! Soulevez vos mains. C'est un hold-up!" Only the dancers Winken,
Blinken and Noddy - a.k.a. "the Fabulous McGillicuddy Sisters" - under-stood
what Louie was saying, and, hence, did what they were told. The drummer,
Clyde, who had befriended the French bookkeeper while a member of Moe's
Rumbleseat Orchestra, grasped about half of what Louie said, so he held up
one hand. Comprehending neither outburst nor gesture, the rest of the
bandsmen continued to play for another thirty seconds. Coincidentally, the
number was "Louie Louie," a song that had long annoyed Lechapeau. And when
the band reached the first chorus (at the 29-second mark), the would-be
robber could take no more and fired his pistol at Max, the clarinetist. By a
stroke of luck, the bullet entered the bell of the instrument, whizzed up
the barrel, and lodged in the reed. Max was flabbergasted, but undamaged.
The same could not be said for Holly, one of the singers, who shrieked in
panic before collapsing in a dead faint. However, the screech peaked at the
precise frequency at which glass shatters. Louie's gun was made of glass.
Worse (for him), it bore the consequences of the gunman's inattention to
hygiene, and a shard of the trigger that lodged in Louie's finger teemed
with a virulent strain of Southern Fried chicken pox. All in all, thought
Louie, as he beat a hasty retreat to where his getaway car should have still
been parked, it was a day he'd rather forget. 

 <http://www.davidgunn.org> David Gunn 

 <http://www.davidgunn.org> David Gunn
www.DavidGunn.org 



Upcoming Performances 

 Crane Harp Ensemble
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame


THE CRANE HARP ENSEMBLE CELEBRATES ITS 15TH SEASON WITH FIFTEEN MINUTES OF
FAME


The Crane Harp Ensemble celebrates its fifteenth season with four
performances of Fifteen Minutes of Fame on concert tour through New York
State from Potsdam to new York City. 

The Crane Harp Ensemble comprised of multiple harp players creates a unique
atmosphere by performing as harp duos, trios, quartets, and as a full
ensemble. It is a rare opportunity to see several harp players performing
together as an ensemble. This Composer's Voice concert is part of a New York
State tour which starts in Potsdam with a live video stream performance at
the Crane School of Music and ends in New York City. 

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute works by different composers
specifically written for The Crane Ensemble. The composers include: Erik
Branch, Inna Buganina, David Heinick, Elbert Liu, Martin Loridan, Roger May,
Buck McDaniel, Michael Mikulka, Akmal Parwez, Robert Percy, Edward
Ruchalski, Curtis Nathaniel Smith, Gregoria Karides Suchy, Christopher M.
Wicks, and Farcry C. Zuke. 

In addition to the Fifteen Minutes of Fame "suite", two other works featured
on this concert have been written for the Crane Harp Ensemble: Ryan Mix's
When/Where Lightning Strikes at the T and Two Brothers Dance in Spacetime:
Two Amalgamating Memories of Adolescence and their Art of Deliquescing
Entropy, and a newly-commissioned work by John Paul Brabant titled
Soliloquy. 

Also on this program are Domenick Argento's The Angel Israfil, Caroline
Lizotte's Raga, Gregoria Karides Suchy's Save, O Lord, Thy People and Sufjan
Steven's Chicago, arranged by ensemble member, Mikaela Davis. 

Founded in 1999 under the direction of Dr. Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, Professor
of Harp and Music Theory at the Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam, the
ensemble enjoys playing new and unusual music for multiple harps.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/suchyjr/harp/craneharpens.html 

This year, the Crane Harp Ensemble is comprised of seven collegiate harp
majors: Katherine Berquist, Emily Chevrette, Mikaela Davis, Katherine
Federiconi, Gillian Macchia, Kelsey Munz and Anna Wiegandt. 

Composer's Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers
to express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice" created in their
compositions. The "Composer's Voice" concert series has presented over 100
concerts throughout the world premiering the works of thousands of living
composers. www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/ 


Performance Dates and Venues


November 5th at 7:30 pm 
Snell Hall
Crane School of Music
SUNY-Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 
Live video streaming accessed at 
http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming/index.cfm 

November 8th at 7:30 pm 
Brighton Town Hall Auditorium
2300 Elmwood Ave
Rochester, NY


November 9th at 2:30 pm
Calvary Methodist Church
15 Ridge Place
Latham, New York (Albany area)


Composer's Voice featuring the Crane Harp Ensemble
Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:00 pm
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
www.janhus.org
351 East 75th Street
New York, NY 10021-3798
FREE ADMISSION


Church of the Heavenly Rest, 
2 East 90th St.,(Fifth Ave at 90th St.) 
New York, NY
(reduced program)


 Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame with David Bohn


November 6th, 2013 - La Crosse, Wisconsin


David Bohn encores his Fifteen Minutes of Fame on November 6th at Christ
Episcopal Church in La Crosse as part of the 2013 La Crosse New Music
Festival. this fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute organ works wirtten
speciffically for organist and composer David Bohn. 

Composers selected for Fifteen Minutes of Fame with David Bohn include:
Daniel Arnold, Rodrigo Baggio, Pedro Bernardez, James Bohn, Erik Branch,
Scott Brickman, Fermino Gome, Stanley Hoffman, Dmitry Kitsenko, Bettie Ross,
Edward Ruchalski, Aurelio Scotto,l Juan Maria, Jean-Pierre, and Justin
Walker 

You can find more information here:
<http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/David_Bohn> 
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/David_Bohn 

Fifteen Minutes of Fame with David Bohn
November 6th, 2013 - 7:30 PM 
Christ Church, La Crosse
www.christchurchlacrosse.org/? Christ Episcopal Church
111 N 9th St (Ninth and Main)
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
FREE ADMISSION 



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Opportunities 

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60x60 CALL FOR WORKS


Call for Surround Sound Works: 60?60


Deadline: December 1, 2013


Vox Novus and Harvestworks are inviting composers and sound artists to
submit recorded works as 5.1 audio 60 seconds or less in length to be
included in a special 60?60 project collaboration in New York City. 

60?60 is calling for works one-minute in length for 5.1 audio playback. 

60?60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded pieces by
60 different composers, each piece a minute in length or shorter. This 60?60
call for works is a unique collaboration with Harvestworks in New York City
to create a 5.1 surround sound mix which will be premiered at Harvestworks
multichannel TEAMLab listening room in Spring 2014. 

Every one-minute piece selected will be played continuously without pause.
Each of the 60 pieces selected will begin precisely at the beginning of the
minute, this will mark the end of one piece and the beginning of another.
Works selected that are less than 60 seconds long will be "padded" with
silence either before, after, or surrounding the composition. Works may be
less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60 seconds. Please note
that the total duration of the work including silence may NOT exceed sixty
seconds. 

The 60?60 project's definition of a record work is as follows: any work
created as a musical composition which is captured on recorded media, which
does not require live performers for its production in broadcast at concert
halls, radio, multi-media, etc. Its creation can include but not limited to
acoustic instruments, voice, environmental sources, and computer (Sampling,
Max/MSP, Ableton Live, MIDI, C Sound, ProTools, etc.) 

All works submitted should be with the understanding that it is their
recording that is of prime importance and is what will be used to determine
its selection. Since this is a multichannel work, the panel will pay special
attention to the spatial aspects of your composition. 

60?60 is a project of "signature works" and short works created specifically
for the 60?60 project. Excerpts of larger works are strongly discouraged.
Works generated from procedures (i.e. mathematical matrices, organizational
systems, or computer programs,) remixed works, or themes and motives
recomposed from other of the composer's own work are acceptable. The call is
open to composers of any nationality, age, or career stage. 

Deadline for 60 second compositions for 60?60 is December 1, 2013. 

There is no admission fee. 

Works selected for the 60?60 5.1 will be announced in January 2014. The 60
works selected will be announced on the Vox Novus newsletter NM421 as well
as the 60?60 and Harvestworks websites. 



Technical details:


1) Any work between Quad and 5.1 Surround is eligible: 4.0, 5.0, 4.1, or 5.1


5-1-surround-sound.svg2) Files have to be delivered as up to 6 individual
stems, or as an interleaved file. If you send individual stems, name them
according to the following conventions: L, R, C, Ls, Rs, Lfe or Sub. For
example, if you send a Quad piece, the labeling should be L, R, Ls, Rs. 

3) The audio quality should be 48 KHz, 16 or 24 Bit. Do not send compressed
formats. The work will be distributed on a video DVD, so if you send 44.1
KHz Sample Rate, we have to convert it to 48 KHz. 

4) Send the files through a delivery service such as YouSendIt, Dropbox,
Droplr, SendBigFiles - or include the links for downloading the materials
from your site. Include a text file with the title of the piece, name of the
composer, your email address, plus a descriptive text about your work and
bio. Please do not exceed 1000 characters. 

5) Send the materials to hanst at harvestworks.org. 

Any questions regarding the call for works can be addressed to:
Support at VoxNovus.com

Any questions regarding the technical aspects can be addressed to:
hanst at harvestworks.org 

 
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Click here for more details at Harvestworks 

 Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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 <http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/> 
Fifteen Minutes of Fame 

CALL FOR SCORES


Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: 
Daniel Sachs, piano 
Hommage a Ravel


Deadline: November 9, 2013


Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Daniel Sachs, piano to be premiered on March 9,
2014 for the Composer's Voice concert series at the Jan Hus Church in New
York City. The theme of this call is: Hommage a Ravel: Colors of sound and
popular/folk idoms for the 21st century 


Daniel Sachs, piano Born in Basel, Switzerland, Daniel Sachs earned his
first degree in piano performance in his home town followed by studies in
Paris, France, and Lubeck, Germany. In 2005, he completed his doctoral
degree in piano performance at the College-Conservatory of Music (University
of Cincinnati), where he studied with James Tocco. Mr. Sachs' performances
have brought him to venues such as the Fondation Gyorgy Cziffra in Senlis
(France), the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Musiksaal in Basel
and the Tonhalle Zurich, the Guest Artist Series at the College-Conservatory
of Music in Cincinnati, the University of Louisville and numerous other
venues including performances with members of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra. He performed with several orchestras and recorded solo works by
Chopin and Rachmaninoff for the Swiss Radio. He is a founding member of the
Mount St. Joseph Piano Trio and collaborates with his wife, soprano Rachel
Sachs. Daniel Sachs is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the
College of Mount St. Joseph, where he teaches Piano and Music Theory. He
lives in Lebanon, Ohio, with his wife, Rachel, and their three sons Samuel,
Gabriel, and Nathaniel. 

 <http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/#13-09-26> Click here for
more details 

 Composer's Voice
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 <http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/calls/> 
Composer's Voice 
CALL FOR SCORES


Call for scores for the
Tom do Brasil Band 


Deadline: April 18, 2014


Vox Novus is calling for short pieces (3-5 minutes) minute pieces composed
for electric-jazz guitar and piano to be premiered by Rodrigo Baggio, guitar
and Lis de Carvalho,piano)at the EMESP College of Music in collaboration
with Composer's Voice concert Series October 20, 2013 in Sao Paolo, Brazil 

Call for scores for the Tom do Brasil Band - Bb clarinet or bass clarinet;
guitar (electric jazz); double bass; and percussion 

Click here for more details
 <http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/calls/>
http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/calls/ 

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