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 Circuit Bridges <http://www.voxnovus.com/img/Circuit_Bridges_logo.gif> 

Circuit Bridges concert 009: The Brooklyn Bridge

Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:30PM

October 23, 2014 (NEW YORK, NEW YORK) Circuit Bridges is collaborating with
Brooklyn College on a concert that spans the East River and presents a
diverse array of electroacoustic music by composers in and around New York
City. 

Brooklyn College is one of New York City's leading institutions in the
training of musicians, with a distinguished faculty of prominent performers,
composers, musicologists, theorists and music-education specialists.
Students and faculty participate in more than 150 public concerts on campus
every year, with a broad range of offerings, from jazz, chamber, choral and
contemporary music to operas and symphonies. The ranks of Brooklyn College's
many illustrious alumni include major contributors to music - from Broadway
pit musicians and music teachers in local schools, to studio-recording
musicians, music librarians, performers and composers for the New York City
Opera and the New York Philharmonic, musicologists, musicians for Jazz at
Lincoln Center, and McArthur Scholars. 

 George Brunner <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/George_Brunner.jpg> 

George Brunner is a composer and performer, researcher/writer, recording
engineer/producer and teacher. His music has been performed throughout the
United States, Europe, Asia and South America. Brunner has been
composer-in-residence in 1996, 1998, and 2001 at both EMS (Electroacoustic
Music Studios) and Kungliga Musikhogskolan (Royal College of Music) in
Stockholm. A recent recipient of research grants from the American
Scandinavian Foundation and the Svenska Institutet of Sweden, he is at
present writing a book on text sound composition and is considered an
authority on the subject. 

 Douglas Cohen <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Doug_Cohen.jpg> 

Douglas Cohen is undergraduate deputy director, Conservatory of Music;
associate director, Center for Computer Music; coordinator, Core Curriculum
1130; and director, Brooklyn College Composers' Forum. He is an intermedia
composer and often collaborator with film, performance and folk artists.
Cohen was an early advocate for digital media on the Internet. He organized
the NewMusNet Conference of Arts Wire with Pauline Oliveros and later served
as Arts Wire Systems coordinator. Cohen is a specialist in American
experimental music with particular attention to the work of John Cage,
Morton Feldman and Pauline Oliveros. He co-created and produced the
evening-length intermedia work "imusicircus" at Experimental Intermedia in
New York and LACE Gallery in Los Angeles (later with the California EAR Unit
at the L.A. County Museum of Art) as "City Circus" events for the John Cage
exhibition "Rolywholyover a Circus." 

 Doug Geers <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Doug_Geers.jpg> 

Doug Geers began composing music with computers shortly after his Dad
brought home an Atari 800 in 1983. Since then, he has used technology in
nearly all of his works, whether in the compositional process, as part of
their sonic realization, or both. He has created concert music,
installations, and large multimedia theater works. Reviewers have described
his music as "...glitchy... keening... scrabbling... contemplative" (New
York Times), "kaleidoscopic" (Washington Post), and "...Powerful..." (Neue
Zurcher Zeitung). Geers is an Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn
College, City University of New York. www.dgeers.com. 

 Maja Cerar <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Maja_Cerar.jpg> 

Maja Cerar, violin. Solo performances at the Davos "Young Artists in
Concert" Festival, Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival, ISCM World Music Days
(soloist in European premiere of John Zorn's concerto Contes de Fees), and
"American Mavericks" recital in Miller Theatre. Repertoire ranges from the
Baroque to the present and includes performances with dance (Merce
Cunningham Studio, Joyce SoHo), theater (Theater an der Sihl), and laptop
orchestra (Princeton). Multimedia works in collaboration with Liubo Borissov
featured at the 250th anniversary of Columbia University, the ICMC in
Barcelona and the opening of SIGGRAPH 2007. M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in
Historical Musicology at Columbia University. www.majacerar.com 

Nicholas R. Nelson, has been composing vocal, choral, orchestral and
experimental music since his early years, receiving his international
premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 1998. After moving to Brooklyn
to study at Brooklyn College and with Morton Subotnick and George Brunner,
Nick then joined the City University of New York Graduate Center as a
doctoral student, studying with Douglas Geers and Jason Eckardt, and remains
engaged as a lecturer in Music Technology at Brooklyn College. 

American composer Barry Sharp received his B.M. in Composition from Murray
State University, and is currently pursuing his M.A. at the University of
Iowa. His compositions exploit the gravity of a single note or notes to
bring about a variety of textures and atmospheres from which narrativity and
thematic materials arise. 

Dan Henry Bohler is a Norwegian composer, producer, performer and multimedia
designer. In addition to designing and composing for video games, Dan
recently produced, narrated and composed the music for an audiobook called
"The Easter-eggs" by Gabriel Scott. He created, directed and produced "The
Witness", an educational music video about the Holocaust featuring a
survivor of the concentration camps - used as important educational material
in Norway. 

 Myriam Bleau <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Myriam_Bleau.jpg> 

This concert includes an exciting performance by Myriam Bleau, presenting
her Soft Revolvers, a music performance for 4 spinning tops built with clear
acrylic. The motion data collected by sensors - placed inside the tops -
informs musical algorithms. Joel Gressel, presenting the sounds of classic
audio synthesis in More Serious, with a dance performance by Linda Pehrson.
Elevator Machine Room will perform Monkey Lab, an electroacoustic,
spoken-word opera about the folly of youth. New music by Barry Sharp and Ana
Paola Santillan Alcocer will also be heard. 

Ana Paola has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships including
the Fulbright Scholarship; the UNESCO---Aschberg Bursaries for Artists
Programme; resident composer at the VCCA. Her piece NEMESIS, was selected to
represent Mexico at the UNESCO 57th International Rostrum of Composers. She
holds the LTCL Licentiate in composition, with distinction, from TRINITY
COLLEGE LONDON and her Master of Music degree from Rice University. She is
pursuing a doctorate degree at McGill University. She has been performed by
such ensembles as th Duo Harpverk, The Het Trio, the Enso String Quartet,
Speculuum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble and Mexico's National
Symphony Orchestra. 

Joel Gressel received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in music
composition from Princeton University. He studied composition with Martin
Boykan and Milton Babbitt, and computer music with Godfrey Winham and J.K.
Randall. His computer music has been recorded on the Odyssey and CRI labels.
He currently lives in New York, working as a computer programmer,
maintaining and extending software that models tax-exempt housing-bond cash
flows. 

 Elevator Machine Room (EMR)
<http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/EMR_001.jpg> 

Elevator Machine Room is an idea born in a late night
stale-whiskey-and-cold-french-fry induced haze. It is manifested in the
performances of Robert Voisey and David Morneau. These composers work
together to create epic stories and soundscapes using little more than their
wits and computer savvy. Elevator Machine Room is unlike anything else
you've ever heard. There are no happy endings or intellectual ennui, only
cold-hard truth and sloppy electronic soundscapes. 

Founded in 2014 by Robert Voisey and under the artistic direction of David
Morneau and Melissa Grey, Circuit Bridges is dedicated to creating a
community for creators of electroacoustic music and strives to explore all
that is included, and currently being innovated, under the electroacoustic
umbrella, such as sonic art, radio art, glitch, circuit bending,
electronica, real-time improvisation, network performance, audiovisual
composition, mash-up, and data sonification. It's mission is to connect with
similar organizations from around the globe that foster and promote
innovative electroacoustic music and sound. Concerts feature local composers
and sound artists and those from visiting communities and immerse audiences
in the vast wealth of electroacoustic music being created today. 

Circuit Bridges: The Brooklyn Bridge Thursday, October 23, 2014. 7:30pm
Gallery MC 549 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 (ride the freight elevator to
the 8th floor) Admission $15 / $7 (students) www.GalleryMC.org 

For more information visit: www.CircuitBridges.com 

Upcoming Performances 

 Composer's Voice
<http://www.voxnovus.com/img/Composers_Voice_logo_2012.jpg>  Quartet: This
Side Up <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Quartet_This_Side_Up.jpg> 

Composer's Voice presents Face the Music 

Sunday, October 262th, 2014 at 1:00 PM

This Sunday Composer's Voice presents Face the Music's Quartet: This side UP

Quartet: This Side Up is a string quartet consisting of four Face the Music
string players, mentored by the Kronos Quartet as part of the Kronos at
Kaufman program. Formed in September 2013, the quartet has played repertoire
such as Ljova's Ori's Fearful Symmetry at the National Opera Center, for the
release of the composer's album No Refund on Flowers, Philip Glass' String
Quartet No. 2 at Spectrum, Gregor Hubner's String Quartet No. 3 at Drom,
Paris Lavidis' Swan Boulevard in a quartet masterclass with David
Harrington, Elena Kats Chernin's Fast Blue Village at St. Barnabas Church,
Francis Schwartz's Cannibal Caliban at Queens Museum, and Salvado Briseno's
El Sinaloense at Carnegie Hall, which they performed alongside the Kronos
quartet. FACE THE MUSIC 

Face the Music is the only teen ensemble in the U.S. dedicated to the
creation and performance of music by living composers. In residence at
Kaufman Music Center, the 170+-member Face the Music has taken its place as
a full-fledged player in New York City's vibrant contemporary classical
scene, rapidly becoming what Allan Kozinn of the New York Times has called
"a force in the New York new-music world." Highlights of the 2013-14 season
included a performance with Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall, a four-concert
series at the Queens Museum of Art and participation in the 2014 New York
Philharmonic Biennial as well as collaborations with the avant-garde
composer-performer collective thingNY, chamber-punk-jazz ensemble Gutbucket
and the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble. In honor of Black History Month, they
performed Haitian-American violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain's
immersive, multi-media piece Human Songs and Stories at Bronx Museum of the
Arts. 

The Composer's Voice Concert Series is a collaboration between Vox Novus and
Jan Hus Church. Performances are short chamber concerts held at Jan Hus
Church and are an opportunity for contemporary composers to express their
aesthetic and personal voice. 

Composer's Voice concert with Face the Music Sunday, October 26th at 1:00 PM
Jan Hus Church 351 East 74th Street (between First and Second Avenues) New
York, New York 10021 FREE ADMISSION 

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2014 AGBU Sayat Nova International
Composition Competition 

 <http://sayatnova2014eng.agbueurope.org/dev/index.php>  

AGBU is deploying efforts to attract the interest of young composers to
classical music and the traditional Armenian repertoire. If the encounter
between classical musicians, of written tradition, and traditional
musicians, of oral tradition, is sometimes difficult, it is all the more
richer. Together they create the musical heritage of tomorrow. 

Hence, the idea of the Sayat Nova composition competition is born, combining
modernism, tradition and Armenian inspiration. It aims to discover talented
young composers, help them financially, record their works, and diffuse
them. 

When it was first introduced in 2006, the Sayat Nova Composition Competition
proved to be a laboratory of creativity. Amidst festivities for AGBU's
centennial, a panel of expert judges reviewed an impressive range of
submissions. On December 9, 2006, it ultimately granted Artur Akshelyan with
the first prize. That night, Akshelyan's piece was brought to life by the
Armenian Diaspora Chamber Orchestra through a memorable performance in the
Salon Opera at the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris. 

The 2012 AGBU Sayat Nova International Composition Competition was a great
success as evidenced by the 22 candidates participating from around the
world. Two young composers were distinguished: Tomas Berreiro, Mexican, was
granted the 2nd Prize for his work The Death of the Nightingale and Ernest
Dulgaryan, Armenian, the 3rd prize for Whispers. In addition to the Sayat
Nova competition prize, Tomas Barreiro was awarded the Special Prize
"Carnegie Hall" by the jury. As such, his composition was interpreted during
the AGBU - NYSEC Annual Concert in December 2013 in the prestigious New York
concert hall. 

Contest participation conditions: 

The 2014 Sayat Nova competition candidates will have to compose for a
chamber ensemble consisting of 3 (three) instrumentalists (piano, cello and
duduk) and a woman's voice, mezzo- soprano register (spoken or sung). 

The duration of the piece must be within 7-10 minutes. 

The piece must include one quotation, in any form, from a text of Daniel
Varoujan in Armenian or translated into a Western language (i.e. English,
German, French, Italian, Spanish or Russian). 

The deadline for submission of works is no later than 28 November 2014. 

See more at:
http://sayatnova2014eng.agbueurope.org
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