Vox Novus and Submissions to 60X60
Vox Novus is an organisation based in New York dedicated to producing and promoting new music. It currently has more than 100 composers who are members. One of the projects Vox Novus produces is "60X60", a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, each composition 60 seconds or less in duration. The project has so far received more than 1500 submissions from around the world. Three CDs have been thus far put out titled simply "2003", "2004" and "2005", featuring a selection of compositons from that year. There have been more than 70 performances around the world done in collaboration with artists from different disciplines in various cities as diverse as Chicago, Lille, Sydney and Bucharest. Some of the many notable artists involved include Noah Creshevsky, Annea Lockwood and Bob Gluck.
Vox Novus also does regional performances and mixes if it gets enough submissions from a single region. In order for there to be a New Zealand mix and hopefully a performance, the organisation has to receive at least 60 submissions from New Zealand. Submissions can be sent to:
Vox Novus is an organisation based in New York dedicated to producing and promoting new music. It currently has more than 100 composers who are members. One of the projects Vox Novus produces is "60X60", a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, each composition 60 seconds or less in duration. The project has so far received more than 1500 submissions from around the world. Three CDs have been thus far put out titled simply "2003", "2004" and "2005", featuring a selection of compositons from that year. There have been more than 70 performances around the world done in collaboration with artists from different disciplines in various cities as diverse as Chicago, Lille, Sydney and Bucharest. Some of the many notable artists involved include Noah Creshevsky, Annea Lockwood and Bob Gluck.
Vox Novus also does regional performances and mixes if it gets enough submissions from a single region. In order for there to be a New Zealand mix and hopefully a performance, the organisation has to receive at least 60 submissions from New Zealand. Submissions can be sent to:
c/o Robert Voisey
Radio City Station
P.O. Box 1607
NY, NY 10101
Remember each recording has to last 60 seconds. For more information on the project, check out the Vox Novus website: http://www.voxnovus.com/ . Also, yesterday I was on Concert FM's 'Upbeat' and talked with Eva Radich about the project and played some tracks off the CDs. A podcast will up on the website for 7 days:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/20080613
Remember each recording has to last 60 seconds. For more information on the project, check out the Vox Novus website: http://www.voxnovus.com/ . Also, yesterday I was on Concert FM's 'Upbeat' and talked with Eva Radich about the project and played some tracks off the CDs. A podcast will up on the website for 7 days:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/20080613
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A Call For Submissions - A Message From Zoe Drayton At Audio Foundation
Hey all,If you had a gripe about the non-academic experimental music world being under-represented on the NZ Geographic CD, here's your chance!
We've been funded for a compilation CD to be given away with February 2009 edition of The Wire magazine (subscribers only but that's still 9000 copies!).It'll also be included with the White Fungus (in New Zealand) issue around the same time.
The compilation is intended to be an overview of current NZ audio culture, including both emerging and established artists.
Rather than having one person responsible for curating the CD we've decided to open it out for submissions, then a panel of 3 or so people will pick the tracks and collate it into its final running order.We all know there's a boxset worth of people who should be on it but it's only a single CD and there will inevitably be some who feel overlooked by the end result. Hopefully the panel can be as fair and impartial as possible and still put together something with an overall sense of composition that's a nice overview of our collective musical worlds.
So get cracking and send in your tracks...Or more importantly, make us your best track ever!
Keep them around 3 or 4 minutes if you can.Naturally we don't want to compromise your musical decisions (this will be hard for some) but we also need to fit as many people on there as we can.
If you have anyone that you collaborate well with, and want to, then that gives us a chance to cover more ground.
Similarly, if you know of anyone this might not have reached, please forward it on to them.
All tracks need to be exclusive to the compilation and can't be registered with any publishing agencies (otherwise The Wire gets charged mechanical royalty fees) so a royalty waiver will need to be signed.
Tracks need to be sent to us by Sep 30th 2008 at the latest (earlier is better).The production and shipping are reliant on this date so we cannot accept any late submissions.
Please send your tracks to: The Audio Foundation
PO Box 68518,
Newton, Auckland.
