An evening featuring live music, hors d'oeuvres, cocktails and silent auction to benefit Urban Gateways.

Friday, November 12, 2010, 6-9pm

Please visit the Urban Gateways website for more information or to buy tickets: www.urbangateways.org/3walls/

Christopher Preissing and Kotoka Suzuki present an installation and performance comprised of 60 sonic works, each being one-minute long, by 60 sound artists from across the globe. 

Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7-9pm

60x60 is produced by Vox Novus, an organization in New York dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music. This presentation of 60x60 premiered in New York in June, presented by Vox Novus director Robert Voisey.

This version of 60x60, called 360 degrees of 60x60, is sponsored in part by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) – www.computermusic.org. The works included in the mix were created specifically for the 2010 ICMC RED Edition (International Computer Music Conference) presented by Stony Brook University in New York City and Stony Brook. Six 60x60 mixes featuring 360 pieces from different composers throughout the world will presented during the conference and at remote concerts around the globe.

The 6 different mixes are all named a different shade of red to honor the RED edition of ICMC: 60x60 Burgundy mix, Crimson mix, Magenta mix, Sanguine mix, Scarlet mix, and Vermilion mix. Each mix is one hour long and contains different composers totaling to 360 different works each by different composers from many different countries around the world.

Check out this mix's lineup! 

ABOUT THE VIDEO ARTIST

Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. His music/video is a postmodern blend of 'art' and 'popular' styles, with strong hints of electronic, ethnic, video game, experimental, and film music. His YouTube project "Video Room 1000" has received over one million views and has been featured on a host of viral websites. Patrick recently completed the video for Vox Novus's "360 degrees of 60x60", a six-hour video installation featuring the works of 360 different composers; each hour of the video revisits the same source material but manipulated to uniquely accompany the music playing. He regularly performs live and improvised video with many groups in the Chicago area, as well as his own video/music/art under the moniker [ontologist]. Please discover more at: www.ontologist.us.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Composer, improviser and sound artist Christopher Preissing earned DMA and MM degrees from the University of Illinois in Urbana where he studied with Herbert Brün, Salvatore Martirano, and William Brooks. Composer-in-residence at Beloit College, guest composer at The Latin American Music Center (Indiana University), resident artist at the Ragdale Foundation and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and twice associate artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Christopher has received additional awards and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Meet the Composer, Illinois Arts Council, Arts Midwest, American Composers Forum, Ruthmere Foundation, and Chicago Composers Forum. In 2009 he received a travel grant from Partners of the Americas to present his music in São Paulo, Brazil. His recent eight-channel, evening-length score and performance for The Waking Room was called “an overwhelming, layered barrage of found and manipulated sounds” (See Chicago Dance), and a “brilliant…sound-crazy score…that might best be described as John Cage on steroids.” (Chicago Tribune) His music embraces a process-oriented approach that, while supporting specific themes and ideas, focuses on the gathering of materials and collaborators, and the subsequent discovery of relationships among them. His dissertation, Intermedial Relationships Among Component Arts in Combined Art Works, embodies his ongoing research in this area.

Kotoka Suzuki is a composer of instrumental and electro-acoustical music, large multi-media production works, and music for dance and film.  She has produced several collaborative audio-visual works with artists in Germany, Canada, and the U.S.  Her works have been performed at numerous international festivals and venues such as Inventionen, The Stone, MATA, Ultraschall, ISCM World Music Days, Klangwerktage Hamburg, and ICMC, by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Continuum, Pacifica Quartet, Earplay Ensemble, and Nouvel Ensemble Modern (Montréal). Among her awards include George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Künsterporgramm, Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition Prize in multimedia category, and Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts.  Suzuki received a D.M.A. degree in composition at Stanford University, where she studied with Jonathan Harvey (to whom she submitted her Doctoral thesis).  She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago since 2004.