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VOX NOVUS NEWSLETTER - New Music for the 21st Century
> ATTENTION NEW MUSIC LOVERS AND SUPPORTERS!!!
> REVIEW: More is More by David Morneau
Vox Novus Calendar
> 60x60 Surround Sound Mix at Jack Straw Gallery
> Beginning with ONE - a New Endeavor from Vox Novus
OPPORTUNITIES
> 2014 AGBU Sayat Nova International Composition Competition
> 60x60 11th Annual Call for Works
> Composer Opportunites on Music Avatar
> Composer's Site - new opportunities
> Composer's Site - expiring opportunities
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ATTENTION COMPOSERS
AND
NEW MUSIC ENTHUSIASTS!!!
Support New Music!!!
ATTENTION COMPOSERS AND NEW MUSIC ENTHUSIASTS!!!
Vox Novus busy! And there is no sign of slowing down in the near future.
This week's newsletter is focusing on support. There are lots of pleas from
organizations and artists these days for support. All are worthwhile, but I
want to bring to your attention some WIN-WIN endeavors which need your
support. (And in turn will be supporting you!)
60x60
Later in the newsletter you will see an article by David Morneau about 60x60
and data about what it has done in the last 11 years. To sum up, the more a
composer participates and supports the more they benefit from the project.
Simple. Be active. Get more. I don't know a single new music project which
gives as much as you put into it. It is a rough environment, 60x60 makes it
easier.
What can you do to support?
Submit to 60x60. Yes, it really is that simple. Composers that submit reap
rewards. Those that submit and participate receive more rewards. You will
not find a more prosperous way to make 60 seconds of music.
What more?
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There is a radio station in Vermont which has been a HUGE supporter of
60x60. when I mean huge. I am talking the type of support that makes and
breaks projects. This radio station has easily presented 1000 composers from
60x60. Its time to help them out! The last day of the fund-drive is today.
<https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GoddardCollege/OnlineGiving.html> They
need help. They are looking for $5. Please give. They have given much to
60x60 over the last 10 years. And if you are reading this they most likely
played your work. Please give. You can visit them at www.wgdr.org You can
hear the 10 hour marathon Jim Cross did at WGDR for 60x60 Decade celebration
here: <http://www.wgdr.org/60x60-radio-extravaganza-archive/>
http://www.wgdr.org/60x60-radio-extravaganza-archive/
I know, it is tiring to see all the pleas for help. As director of Vox
Novus, I get many. I want to reiterate that this request for support is for
entities helping the community.
Did you see above that you can help by submitting works?
Vox Novus has more than 10 calls for works currently active! Submit! We have
several calls for 60x60, <http://www.60x60.com/submission/>
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, <http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/>
and a call for Sayat-Nova. <http://sayatnova.agbueurope.org> Being a
composer myself, I can tell you from the inside that every single call
currently out has a great success ratio! If you are looking to submit and
have a better than fair chance of your work to be selected and performed,
these calls for works are the ones to focus on. I can go on and on about
60x60 and Fifteen Minutes of Fame. And I will let David Morneau keep putting
out facts on how innovative these projects are, but I want you to focus on a
new Vox Novus endeavor: the 2014 Sayat-Nova competition with Music Avatar.
Music Avatar www.MusicAvatar.org is a new system to submit works online. It
is easy for composers to submit works to competition on the web quickly and
efficiently. It is also a fantastic way for organization to accept, process,
judge, and select works from composers. The process is easy, organized, and
very affordable. The goal is to make the submission process so effective and
reliable that it will be a beneficial process for everyone. (Hopefully
cutting down submission fees for composers and getting more opportunities
for composers to have their works performed.)
How can you help?
Submit to Sayat-Nova on Music Avatar.
This is our first endeavor with a client outside of Vox Novus projects and
we want to make a big splash. Sayat-Nova has 5 big prizes and no submission
fee. It is a WIN-WIN. I strongly urge you to submit to the competition.
Let's show Sayat-Nova how strong the Vox Novus network is and get more great
opportunities like this available to us!
$5 donations? Submitting works not enough? What else can you do?
Attend concerts.
Yes, that is right. Attend your concerts and the concerts of your
colleagues.
This past weekend we had a Composer's Voice concert which featured Face the
Music and Quartet This Side UP. This is a youth program that is performing
only the works of living composers. In the audience there were composers
like Aaron Kernis, David Wolfson, Masatora Goya, Skip La Plante, Christian
McLeer, Douglas DaSilva, and me (Robert Voisey) But that wasn't enough! This
is a group specifically learning OUR music as standards and a way of life.
Besides supporting them everyway we possibly can we should be getting to
know them and introducing ourselves and our work to these wonderful players.
(Oh yes! And they were FABULOUS performers. It almost made me cry they were
so good!)
Vox Novus has many many concerts. More than most new music organizations.
The lifeblood of every concert performance is audience. Attending concerts
is supporting that you want new music heard. This past week there was
Circuit Bridges at EMM, 60x60 Dance in Toronto, Circuit Bridges in NYC,
Composer's Voice in NYC. We notice everyone who comes to support. And we
make special efforts to include those who make the effort.
Coming up we have 60x60 Surround Sound Mix, a concert called ONE in midtown
New York, Circuit Bridges at Brooklyn College, and another Composer's Voice!
Come support! Listen to some great music! Every time there is another
audience member we grow in strength as a new music community!
Wait! What is ONE did you say?
There is a new Vox Novus project called ONE. I don't want to give away too
much, but we are at it again! There is yet another new music project from
Vox Novus of energetic musicians looking to perform new music. This is the
beginning of a large endeavor to fund raise for a Vox Novus festival in 2016
for our 15th anniversary and to present the works of living composers.
So just to recap.
-Vox Novus needs your support!
-What can you do?
-Submit works to calls.
-Attend concerts.
-Donate $5 to WGDR
<https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GoddardCollege/OnlineGiving.html> or come
to ONE $10 admission.
-Promote the above!
That's it. Really simple. Not much. Big rewards. If everyone this newsletter
reach does one or two of the things above, it woudl be one of the strongest
new movements happening in the world. No joke. Its kind of crazy, but true.
WIN-WIN
That is our motto. Don't do this for us. Do it for yourself. Doing any of
the above: submit to calls, attend concerts, donate $5-$10, and promote by
passing this to all you know. Will get more performances of new music which
includes YOU.
I can't stress that enough. Helping Vox Novus will help you. We try to make
it easy, but we still need your support.
And we notice. We look at who submits, we see who promotes, we check web
stats, count audience attendance, donations, etc. We know it is important to
support those who put in the effort and help. Don't ever think your
contributions go un-noticed. There is a bunch going on, so sometimes we
can't express how much we appreciate our community, but we do. And we are
always open to comments and feedback.
Please support!
And just you wait! A very very exciting year is coming up! For all of us!
Because we are all in it together.
Upcoming Performances
60x60 Surround Sound Mix
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60x60 Surround Sound Mix at Jack Straw Gallery
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 at 7:00pm
60?60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded
electroacoustic works by 60 different composers, each piece a minute in
length or shorter. A unique collaboration between VoxNovus / Robert Voisey
and Harvestworks in New York City to create a 5.1 surround sound mix, this
60?60 presentation originally debuted on May 16th at Harvestworks in New
York City, and will be presented again at Jack Straw New Media Gallery in
Seattle, WA.
Every one-minute piece will be played continuously without pause in 5.1
surround sound. Each of the 60 pieces will begin precisely at the beginning
of the minute.
No charge for admission.
Vox Novus and Harvestworks invited 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. We received over 160
submissions, and present the finalists in an event at Harvestworks'
multichannel TEAMLab listening space.
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. A unique
collaboration between VoxNovus / Robert Voisey and Harvestworks in New York
City to create a 5.1 surround sound mix, this 60?60 presentation will be
premiered at Harvestworks' multichannel TEAMLab listening room. See the list
of works below!
Every one-minute piece will be played continuously without pause. Each of
the 60 pieces will begin precisely at the beginning of the minute, this will
mark the end of one piece and the beginning of another.
Hans Tammen <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Hans_Tammen.jpg>
A word from the curator
Setting out to assemble one hour of music from the breathtaking range of
submissions we received, it became clear that I had to approach the task in
the same way I would create a composition. Does it have a beginning, middle
and end, and possibly multiple movements? Is it organized in a non-linear or
abstract way, perhaps by algorithmic means? (Organizing it in alphabetical
order would been a simple example of algorithmic organization.) Or could I
simply create sections by grouping all the pieces that are similar in style,
instrumentation (we got swamped with works using synthesis), or even the way
the composer handles spatialization?
5-1-surround-sound.svgI opted for a more traditional, narrative approach,
constructing the piece with a beginning and an end in mind. In fact, the
"bookends" were the first pieces I chose. I then squeezed several movements
in between those two bookends, some movements morphing smoothly into the
next, others sharply contrasting those before or after.
Finding the right combinations took time. Whether I was looking for contrast
or for a smooth transition, the ending of one piece determined what I was
looking for in the next piece. I have to admit that I cheated a few times
when it came to pieces that were shorter than 60 seconds. Instead of
starting at 0'00? and adding the silence at the end (as we announced we
would do), in some cases I added silence at the beginning to make the flow
to the next piece more organic and natural.
Sadly, I had to reject many a good work because it simply didn't fit between
other chosen pieces. I remember spending more than half an hour on one
single piece alone that I couldn't find a spot for. Though I liked it a lot,
however, it had a very peculiar beginning, that I was by no means able to
make work in conjunction with other pieces. However, since we would have had
to reject around 70 pieces anyway, I finally let it go.
Let's talk about numbers here. we received 160 submissions, around 30 we had
to reject because they didn't have anything to do with our call requesting
surround sound works. Robert & I divided the remaining 130 submissions into
approx. 40 "yes", 70 "maybe" and 20 "no" categories. As you can guess from
my earlier explanation, the finalists were chosen from all of those
categories, because they worked well within their surroundings (pun
intended).
So what do you hear during this one-hour show? There are the soft and almost
inaudible works, those that work more with pauses than with sounds. Field
recordings, voices singing or talking, acoustic instruments, electronics and
analog synthesis - the latter often frantic outbursts of sound mass. Some
works you can dance to, some you can sing to, many others not, although
that's up to you, of course. Some works will sound strangely familiar until
you realize they are a take on another famous work, I placed them in one of
the "surprise" spots. I don't like to be too serious, so there are a couple
of surprises in store for you, and maybe you can spot them when you attend
one of our presentations.
Since this exhibit is about multichannel sound, we chose a few works that
are exemplary in terms of spatialization of sounds, while most others employ
these means in a more subtle way. Everything you can do beyond stereo with
5.1 channels is there: 5.1, 5.0, 4.1 and 4.0. There is even a 3.1 work, it
does spatialization solely with the center and rear speakers.
If you are interested in artistic approaches to multichannel sound, come to
one of our "5.1 60?60? shows at some point, or listen to our Surround Sound
DVD (yes, we're producing a DVD from it). You get a good overview over the
various artistic approaches to multichannel sound. As long as it fits within
the 5.1 DVD standard: we can just drop the DVD in the mail in case you're
interested in hosting this show on the other side of the planet. Of course,
we need to discuss other things beforehand, but still - the whole show fits
on one DVD.
I have to thank Robert Voisey for giving me the opportunity to curate a
multichannel 60?60 work for Vox Novus; our audio engineer Kevin Ramsay for
working hard on assembling and organizing all the works; Katie Sundsted
creating all the text materials; Matt Fidler to assemble the video that goes
along with the audio showing the titles of the work and composer's names;
and Nicholas Kiray for the logo. And of course, my most heartfelt thanks go
out to all the composers who submitted their works to us. It's them who made
this show interesting and inspiring. Hans Tammen, April 2014
Composers selected for the 60x60 Surround Sound Mix include:
Jeff Anderson, Daniel Bartos, Simon Belshaw, Jason Bolte, Mike Boyd, Andrei
Branea, Arnold Brooks, Steve Bull, Jeremy Van Buskirk, Alejandro Casales,
Ian Corbett, Douglas DaSilva, Jamez Dean, Blake Degraw, Rob Dietz, Lorenz
Erdmann, Bit.Seq~ (Fred Feeney), Josh Feldman, John Ferguson, Matt Fidler,
Tim Fodness, Enrico Francioni, Richard Garrett, Guiseppe Gavazza, Nate
Goossen, Scott Gresham-Lancaster, Jenn Grossman, Samuel Hertz, Jason
Hoffman, judsoN, Vivek Karun, John Kehoe, Andrew Levine, Jorg Lindenmaier,
Buddy Lorentz, Nicolas Marty, Mike McFerron, Claudi Meneghin, Tiago Morais,
Dafna Naphtali, Daniel Neumann, Serban Nichifor, Hull Pacific, Maggi Payne,
Chris Peck, Samuel Pellman, Patrick Pham, Julien Poidevin, Kevin Ramsay,
Cody Ranaldo, Steve Reinthal, Lorin Roser, Josh Simmons, Mary Simoni, David
Jason Snow, J Sohn, Yuri Spitsyn, Ariane St.Louis, Hans Tammen, Jamie Todd,
A. P. Vague, Robert Voisey, Jaeseong Wu, and Xo Xinh
For more information about Vox Novus, Harvestworks and the 60x60 concert
series, please visit the following:
<http://www.harvestworks.org/may-16-voxnovus-60x60-surround-sound-works/>
Click here to see more from Harvestworks
<http://www.60x60.com/> Click here to see more from www.60x60.com
60x60 Surrround Sound Mix Wednesday, October 29at 7:00pm Jack Straw New
Media Gallery 4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 FREE ADMISSION
ONE <http://www.voxnovus.com/img/ONE_logo.png>
Beginning with ONE - a New Endeavor from Vox Novus
Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 3:00 PM
Beginning with ONE is sponsored by SONY and Strings By Mail
This is the kick-off for a series of promotional concerts for the Vox Novus
festival in 2015. The event will present highlights of Vox Novus original
and innovative performance series: including 60x60, Composer's Voice,
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, Circuit Bridges and ONE.
Beginning with ONE presents world premieres by NYC based composers Margaret
Schedel, JP Redmond, and Douglas DaSilva. It showcases Lyra dancer Megan
Hornaday, violinist Eva Ingolf, composer/vocalist Robert Voisey, guitar &
cello of Duo Anova, violist Conway Kuo, guitarist Oren Fader, and special
performances by flautist Melanie Chirignan performing works by Atanas
Ourkouzounov, Jason Ulysses, Rain Worthington, Masatora Goya, Benjamin
Boone, and Joe Gianono.
You will have the opportunity to experience exciting works from the Vox
Novus archive including acoustic & electronic music and dance. Meet and chat
with performers, composers, and directors. Snack and drink will be served.
Kids are welcome and FREE!
There will be raffles during intermission. Thanks to the generous donations
from our sponsors. The prizes include video editing software and a special
music gift certificate.
For the last 14 years, Vox Novus has presented over 5000 works by living
composers at venues and festivals, including London's Open Weekend for 2012
Olympics at Stratford Circus, the Montreal Fringe Festivals, Carnegie Hall
and venues in more than 30 countries. Its mission is to make the cultural
world go around by presenting the wealth of new music to the masses
everywhere.
Saturday, November 1, 2014 3:00pm-4:30pm
Basha Studio 34
45 East 34th Street Suite 3
New York, NY 10016
Ticket: $10 at the door
For any questions please contact Artistic Director Kenji Haba at:
habahabakenn at gmail.com
More information can be found at: <http://www.voxnovus.com/ONE/>
http://www.voxnovus.com/ONE/
Calendar
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60x60 Composers Statistics
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More is More 60x60 Mix Statistics
by David Morneau
This is my third installment in a series of graphs and analyses that explore
the impact of Vox Novus's projects over the past 15 years.
The first graph, showing an overview of composers submitting to 60x60 can be
found here:
http://www.voxnovus.com/NM421/issue/14-08-22.htm#stats.
The second graph, showing the reuse of pieces across 60x60 mixes is here:
http://www.voxnovus.com/NM421/issue/14-09-05.htm#stats.
Correction: In the first graph there is an error. By adding the wrong column
on my spreadsheet I reported the incorrect number of composers selected at
least one time. That number is actually 1441 (49% of the 2950 composers who
have submitted). I apologize for this error. Updated graphics have been
supplied and can be see here:
60x60 Composers Statistics
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Before we move on to 60x60 performance data I'd like to look at a different
configuration of the selected composer data. This chart shows the
distribution of composers by their number of compositions included in 60x60
and the number of mixes in which these compositions appear. The vertical
scale shows the number of compositions and the horizontal scale shows the
number of mixes. Dots appear at each intersection that corresponds to at
least one composer. The number next to each dot is the number of composers
at that point.
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60x60 Composers Statistics
For example, the dot at the intersection of (2,1) represents 304 composers.
Each of these composers has had one piece selected for 60x60, which has
appeared in two mixes. The dot at (15,9) represents a single composer with 9
pieces in 15 mixes. (Note that the green dots indicate single composers.)
Not surprisingly, most composers are represented in lower left of the graph.
<http://www.voxnovus.com/NM421/issue/stats/003_composers_distribution_2.png>
60x60 Composers Statistics
616 (43%) have only a single composition in a single mix. Refer to Graph 1
(Composers with only one piece, sorted by number of mixes). Of the 1441
total composers in the project, 1096 (76%) only have a single composition.
These are the composers on the bottom row of the distribution chart. If
you'll recall the first chart I posted back in August, most composers
submitting to 60x60 only apply one time. It's safe to assume that if more
composers applied more than once, the percentage with only one composition
would decrease.
Composers in the first three rows of the distribution chart, that is,
composers with three or less pieces in 60x60, represent 94% of the total
composers in the project. This is shown in Graph 2 (Composers sorted by
total number of pieces).
Looking at the columns of the distribution chart now, we can examine the
number of composers appearing in different numbers of mixes. Again, there
616 (43%) of composers in only one mix. (It's not possible to have multiple
pieces in a single mix, so this is not surprising). 364 (24%) of composers
appear in two mixes (column 2 of the chart). Take a look at Graph 3
(Composers sorted by total number of mixes). The distribution difference
between this and Graph 2 is stark. 91% of composers appear in 7 or less
mixes, where 94% of composers have only 3 or less pieces in 60x60.
Be careful to notice that this is not a complete overlap. Back on the
distribution chart we can see that some of the composers in the first 7
columns have more than 3 pieces (there are 26 composers in rows 4 and 5 that
overlap columns 4-7). There are also 14 composers in the first 3 rows that
are in columns 8+. The true overlap of composers with 3 or less pieces in 7
or less mixes is 1343 (93%)
Clearly the distribution chart does not provide a good visual representation
of the distribution of the composers, only the ratios of compositions to
mixes. What I do like about this chart is that it shows clearly the trend
towards using compositions repeatedly in the mixes. We saw this in the
previous charts that examined overlap between the mixes.
If each piece were only in a single mix, all points would be on a line that
extends from (1,1) at a 45 degree angle. What we have instead is a trend for
the points to lie to the right of this imaginary line. (Remember that they
will never be to the left because a mix will never contain the same
composition more than one time.) In fact, there are only 4 points on this
imaginary line. Graph 5 (Composers with an equal number of pieces and mixes)
shows the percentage of composers on this line. Only 46% have an equal
number of pieces and mixes. The other 775 (54%) composers have had their
pieces repeated in multiple mixes.
Getting a piece selected for 60x60 means that you have a good chance of
being in more than one mix. Submitting more frequently just increases the
likelihood of being in multiple mixes. This is a project that really
benefits composers. I haven't looked at the numbers for other long-running
new music projects, but anecdotally it seems safe to say that no other
project gets as much mileage out of as much music as 60x60 does. Next time,
we'll look at the performance data for 60x60, which will reinforce this
point even more.
If you haven't submitted yet this year, there's still plenty of opportunity
to participate in 60x60. You can find the calls here www.60x60.com/calls.
<http://www.60x60.com/calls>
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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
<http://sayatnova2014eng.agbueurope.org/dev/index.php>
This concert is being featured on
Music Avatar <http://www.MusicAvatar.org> !
Music Avatar is a great new way to upload works for composer opportunities
hassle free!
You will be able to submit, update, and modify your submission all the way
up to the deadline date of the opportunity.
Take a look at this opportunity and more at:
www.MusicAvatar.org
60x60
11th Annual
Call for Works
<http://www.60x60.com/calls/>
60x60 11th Annual International Mix
60x60 is calling for works for its 11th performance season!
Vox Novus is inviting composers/sound artists to submit recorded works 60
seconds or less in length to be included in its 11th annual 60x60 project.
60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour
concert.
60x60 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.
Highlighting the work of a great many composers, 60x60 testifies to the
vibrancy of contemporary composition by present a diverse array of styles,
aesthetics, and techniques being used today.
60x60 mixes have received more than 350 performances in more than 30
countries including venues such as the Winter Garden Atrium at the World
Financial Center, Stratford Circus for Opening Day Festival for the 2012
London Olympics, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. 60x60
collaborates with multimedia including dance, video, art, and sculpture.
60x60 Dance was described by the New York Times as "...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..."
During the concert 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. There will be no pause between the pieces. Works may
be less than 60 seconds in length, but may not exceed 60 seconds. Works
selected that are less than 60 seconds long will be "padded" with silence
either before, after, or surrounding the composition. Please note that the
total duration of the work including silence may NOT exceed sixty seconds.
The 60x60 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, 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.
60x60 is a project of "signature works" and short works created specifically
for the 60x60 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.
In addition to the 60x60 International Mix, Vox Novus is planning to create
several alternate mixes to the 11th call for works. Planned themed mixes
include the Wave Farm Mix, BPM Mix, Death Mix, Latin Mix, and more. All
works submitted to alternate mixes will be considered for the 60x60
International Mix. (Works need to be submitted to the various alternate
mixes directly to be considered for the mix concerned.)
The call is open to composers of any nationality, age, or career stage.
Deadline for 60 second compositions for 60x60 is November 30th, 2014.
There is no admission fee.
Audio submissions must be in either AIFF or WAV file format.
Multiple submissions are accepted from a single composer/sound artist.
All submissions must be uploaded online at: www.MusicAvatar.org DO NOT EMAIL
AUDIO FILES!
All submissions must be uploaded by November 30th, 2014 - 12:00 Midnight
(local time)
Works selected for the 11th Annual 60x60 project will be announced on the
Vox Novus newsletter NM421: http://www.NM421.com
Any questions regarding the call for works can be addressed to:
Support at VoxNovus.com More information can be found at: www.60x60.com
60x60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded pieces by
60 different artists, each piece a minute in length or shorter. 60x60 has
been presented in many performance formats including TV shows, radio shows,
multimedia and multidisciplinary events, as well as published several albums
of works. Since 2003, 60x60 has received thousands of submissions from over
30 countries. Highlighting the work of a great many artists and composers,
60x60 testifies to the vibrancy of contemporary composition by presenting a
diverse array of styles, aesthetics, and techniques being used today
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