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An American Composer in Rome: Executive summaries, plot synopses, speed dating, pecha My Six-week Fellowship at the kucha, sound bites, Wikipedia, American Academy and Sesame Street tell us all we need to know, and in very little In October 2009 I visited a friend in time. Since 2003, New York composer Rome and was immediately seduced Rob Voisey has given us a musical version with his by this great city. Shortly thereafter By 60x60 Project . I wrote a proposal to the American Andrea Composers Forum competition for a 60x60 is a growing series of hour-long mixes, each Clearfield William Penn Affiliated Fellowship at consisting of 60 recorded pieces lasting precisely the American Academy in Rome and 60 seconds by 60 different composers. 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From left: Adolphus Hailstork. Linda Kachelmeier, Marie Incontrera, Norman Mathews, McKnight Fellowship Updates Paul Rudoi, and Philip Brunelle Part two: on stage at Sundin Music ”Minnesota Woman” Project Essentially Choral readings Hall following the public read - ing session for this year’s David James Nielsen received a 2010 McKnight Visiting Composer the research about “The Minnesota Woman” was carried out by Essentially Choral provides an opportunity for emerging composers Essentially Choral . Fellowship in association with the American Composers Forum for his Nielsen at the Otter Tail County Historical Society with the support to develop their skills in writing for choral ensemble, either a cap - project entitled “The Minnesota Woman.” Coming from Los Angeles, from executive director Chris Schuelke.) pella or accompanied. Four emerging composers from New York heard their works rehearsed by the 32-voice VocalEssence Essentially Calif., David spent the months of September and October 2010, in and Minnesota were chosen to participate in this year’s Ensemble Singers, a professional mixed chorus. The four composers Choral Pelican Rapids and Fergus Falls, Minn. “The Minnesota Woman” With the background knowledge on “The Minnesota Woman,” Reading Session, an annual reading program co-sponsored by also attended mentoring sessions with VocalEssence Artistic Director project is a multi collabortive effort involving four project partners: the students at Pelican Rapids High School created a fictional VocalEssence and ACF. The composers and their pieces were: Philip Brunelle and internationally recognized composer Adolphus Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphony Pelican Rapids High Marie Incontrera the , story about how she came to acquire both the conch shell pen - (, N.Y.): “Little Orphant Annie” (string Hailstork . Essentially Choral culminated in a public reading session School White Earth Reservation Otter Tail County Linda Kachelmeier , The , and the dand and the antler dagger. Mr. Nielsen then took this story and quartet); (St. Paul, Minn.): “O Vos Omnes” of the four works at Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline Historical Society. Norman Mathews translated it into a three movement orchestral piece he com - (a cappella); (New York, N.Y.): “Sonnet No. 61” University in St. Paul, Minn. Essentially Choral is supported by a Paul Rudoi posed, which tells the story musically in a sonic tapestry of sound. (oboe and piano); and (Richfield, Minn.): “i carry your generous grant from the Jerome Foundation N The project consisted of students at Pelican Rapids High School heart with me” (a cappella). From February 17-19, the composers A 1

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s months later I met with (the other composer December 31, 2011. Check the Vox Novus website for details, A r p e When listening to any mix you realize that no one medium or dancers may seamlessly perform 60 dance pieces by 60 choreographers. (www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Front.htm). s in town) for coffee. We discussed the possibility of staging a live or to get on the mailing list r i o

60x60 l / p genre is preferred. Mathematically generated music, remixed works mixes have appeared in various incarnations in more than 60x60 Dance Dance

performance with 60-second visual segments to be created by Two performances will be in New York: M m a o using themes and motives recomposed from the composer’s own twenty countries, a vibrant testament to contemporary composition. Parade Galapagos dancers, artists, actors, and so on, using an existing mix. We (at Tompkins Square in New York City) and y / C J

work, and acousmatic or electroacoustic experiments are all accept - Art Academy of Cincinnati Art Space u n connected with the then applied (at D.U.M.B.O. – that’s “Down Under the Manhattan n a e c 60x60 60x60 i able. The project prefers short works created specifically for . actively promotes acousmatic music to audiences, venues for and received a small grant from a Cincinnati arts incubator, Bridge Overpass” for non-New Yorkers – in Brooklyn). 2 r 0 e ArtsWave Excerpts from larger works are strongly discouraged. and other artists worldwide. The project design permits a large 60x60 Dance with the Hearding 1

m . Other performances include 1 A number of composers to put representative samples of their Cats Collective in Saint Louis , and a new performance to What’s in the mix? music in front of audiences. I trace project success to the Ultimately we did not attract enough performance artists to debut in Berlin . The mixes are created from pieces submitted by composers and composers who form its collaborators, hosts, and director. The achieve critical mass. At Rob’s suggestion, we retargeted, and sound artists from around the world, selected by a jury for the grass-roots, all-volunteer philosophy translates into an eclectic produced an encore video presentation of 60x60 Images , with The large number of entries this year means the project will project. There is no entry fee, and there is no prize or other blend of styles, genres and aesthetics. The result: a representa - the consent of the venue and the funding source. feature a number of mixes. A new Athena mix with the work financial compensation. Entries are submitted electronically by a tive survey of today’s music on the cutting edge. of women composers and sound artists, joins this year’s given date for the following year. Each year the project produces 60x60 Images was a project by Vittorio Vella of Taukay Edizioni International, UK, and Evolution mixes. Other compilations are the signature International Mix. Depending on the entries, other If you can fill the unforgiving minute… Musicali in Udine, Italy, which paired the ICMC Crimson Mix under consideration as well. An entire new spinoff project is mixes may feature composers from Canada, or the Midwest, the As a composer, I find writing for 60x60 challenging and fun. (which happens to include my piece “Things Are Looking Up”) in the works: 60x60 Orchestra , which will feature 60” segments Pacific Rim or the UK. Special mixes have been created with Nothing else matches the tight requirement for concision. with an exhibit of 60 artworks 60x60 centimeters square. In performed by instruments in a seamless, hour-long piece. Then names such as UnTwelve, Order of Magnitude, Evolution, New York Sixty seconds is a very useful limit, since it can seem like forever October, 2010 this juried show was presented as part of the there is the new Vox Novus project based on 60” sound blocks Minutes, and the Munich Mix on Oppression and Totalitarianism . or like no time at all. The format makes a wonderful sketchpad TEM Contemporanea festival. written for specific artists … interesting … provocative … but for working out ideas. I never get over the temptation to tell a details on Fifteen Minutes of Fame will have to wait for What makes it tick? story in the compressed time. For example, I conceived one of The Art Academy of Cincinnati was enthusiastic about this idea another time. Richard Arnest lives and writes The constant is the clock. A 60x60 performance minimally requires a my submissions (“My Radiance Indwelling”, on the 2008 Midwest Minumental Exhibition, as a complement to its annual a show music in Cincinnati, Ohio. He CD player, a sound system, and an analog clock. A concert starts Mix) in a somewhat unusual circumstance: in the belly of an MRI 60x60 which features very small paintings and sculptures. A has contributed three (3) short with the clock at the top of the hour and continues without pause machine. To maintain calm in the face of incipient claustrophobia composition is, after all, the auditory equivalent of a small piece (60”) works to 60x60 N for the next 60 minutes. While the music stands on its own, per - I took a mental inventory of the loud, abrupt sounds around me. of visual art, and the images included in the TEM project were formances often involve additional artists. For example, a full cast of continued on next page small visual representations in various media.

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Society for New Music tively, to compose music and propose design interven - cappella or with piano accompaniment) that "speak to Eric Stokes Fund July 22, 2011 General Opportunities & New York Federation of Music Clubs tions for particular sites (from a given list), or to write the theme of Illuminations: The Return of Light to our Seeks project proposals for 1) new music about nature Trio Anima Mundi $$$ Seeks scores from young, emerging N.Y. State com - music based on architectural/spatial logic(s)." Students Lives." Cash prize, an archival recording of the pre - and the environment; 2) performances of Eric Stokes's Seeks unpublished, unperformed, unawarded scores for Here are the listings in the on-line Opportunities section of posers for chamber works for 1-7 performers, in any as well as professionals can enter. Teams will ntroduce miere performance on December 4, 2011, in compositions. Cash awards for selected projects that piano trio (piano, violin, cello) c. 6-10 minutes in dura - the Forum’s web site at press time. The symbol $$$ indi- combination of instruments, tape, and/or solo voices and perform their pieces on campus October 19 & 20, Minneapolis, plus possible commercial CD recording. will occur 12 months after September 1, 2011. tion (no electronics) for their second annual cates a competition or program that requires a fee for appli- (choral music will not be considered), for their 2011 2011, as part of the University's "Music in Architecture Eligibility are individuals, non-profits, based anywhere. Composition Prize. Cash award and premiere in cation or participation. The Forum endorses neither these Brian M. Israel Prize. The competition is open to any - Architecture in Music Symposium." June 10, 2011 Melbourne, Australia, possible recording and CD programs nor others that limit participation on the basis of composer currently living in New York state (students University of Missouri, Kansas City $$$ Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing) $$$ release May 20, 2011 age, sex, or other criteria. More detailed information on currently studying in N.Y. are eligible), born on or after Seeks composer registrants ages 14 and above for Seeks auditor applicants for their 2011 Beijing Atlantic Center for the Arts $$$ these and newly posted Opportunity listings at: May 1, 1981, whose music has not previously been per - their Summer Composition Workshop, June 17 - 24, International Composition Workshop to be held in July 25, 2011 www.composersforum.org/opportunities.cfm. formed by the Society. Cash awards, performances. Seeks applicants for associate artist residencies in 2011, group sessions and private lessons with profes - Beijing, July 18-30, 2011, "intensive two-week programs, OddMusic Urbana-Champaign $$$ Florida during October 10-30, 2011, with Roscoe sional composers from UMKC Conservatory. including individual lessons, composition seminars, facul - Seeks applicants to their first annual Xenharmonic May 6, 2011 April 22, 2011 Mitchell, composer/multi-instrumentalist, as resident ty lectures, conducting class and rehearsals, two culmi - Praxis Summer Camp, July 25-Aug. 5, 2011, at the The Boston Conservatory $$$ June 15, 2011 The Opera Company of Philadelphia master artist. nating concerts, to present works, exchange ideas, and Gesundheit! Institute, Hillsboro, W. Virginia. The camp Seeks applications from composition students ages Recital Music Choir $$$ explore creative notions and means." Seeks Philadelphia-resident U.S. composer applicants is billed as "a time and place for musicians to com - 15 -18 for their two-week High School Composition June 1, 2011 Seeks short, new choral settings (SATB choir and for their operatic Composer In Residence program, to pose, practice, and perform new and oddly-tuned Intensive, July 17 - 30, 2011. Students work with pri - organ or piano, with optional narrator, soprano soloist July 1, 2011 “provide a highly individualized professional develop - musics togethe. All self-described musicians with an vate composition teachers towards having a short per - American Choral Directors Association of Minn. & and trumpet) of three given texts (Rupert Brooke: Cantate Chamber Singers ment path for two of today’s most promising opera interest in alternative tuning systems are encouraged formable piece for string quartet. Each student will Minn. Music Educators Association "The Soldier" and "The Dead [Blow out, you bugles...]" Seeks unpublished, unperformed choral settings (read - composers, selected on a competitive basis during to attend, from curious beginners to seasoned veter -

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