
To hear on Sunday 3 and 10 July 2011,
2 pm - 9 pm:
Timbre Wheel Timber Tongue
Version specially created for ohrenhoch (2011, Premiere)
by Juraj Kojs
Juraj Kojs on "Timbre Wheel Timber Tongue" [11']:
Timbre Wheel Timber Tongue is a composition for the Slovakian wooden noise makers and electronics. Rapkac (the noise maker) is an early percussive signal instrument preceding the bells.
The work explores the percussive qualities of the noise makers, their perpetual patterns, the way how their raw wood finish sounds when intimately rubbed, scratched and twirled.
Juraj Kojs
is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist, producer, and educator residing in the US. Kojs' compositions were recently featured at festivals and conferences in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Players who performed Kojs’ music include Tomoko Mukaiyama, Blair McMillen, Margaret Lancaster, Madeleine Shapiro, Laura Wilcox, Michael Straus, Susan Fancher, Eugen Prochac, Canticum Ostrava, Atticus Brass Quintet, IKTUS Percussion Quartet, The Quiet Music Ensemble, Ensemble s21, Cassatt String Quartet, The Now Ensemble and Yale Gamelan Suprabanggo.
His compositions received awards at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. Kojs has received commissions from The Quiet Music Ensemble, Miami Light Project and Meet the Composer. His research articles appeared in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity, Leonardo Music Journal, and Journal of New Music Research.
Kojs is the director of Foundation for Music Technologies (FETA) in Miami, FL where he has managed the monthly 12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art concert series. Kojs holds a PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from University of Virginia. Between September 2008 and May 2010, Kojs was a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale’s Department of Music. In the fall 2010, Juraj Kojs was a visiting lecturer at University of Virginia, teaching an undergraduate class in songwriting and graduate courses in enaction and composition.
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