60x60 is a remote concert, film, and dance series creating an environment of many different styles and approaches to contemporary music. With 60 pieces each 60 seconds long from different composers the concert brings a variety of sounds and creativity all put together in a one hour set. The Summit performance will consist of the 2009 60x60 International Film Mix featuring a wide range of new and experimental composers each one minuet long forming a one hour program. Robert Voisey founded Vox Novus in 2000. This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote their music. Vox Novus does this by the production of concerts, exposure on the Internet, and facilitating networking between professionals. Vox Novus promotes and produces contemporary music using repeatable methods and models that composers can take and use on their own. This way contemporary music can reach an ever wider audience thereby continuing the advancement of culture and art.

more information for 60X60 Composer List:
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/program/2009_International_Mix.htm

Patrick Liddell recently received this Doctor of Music at Northwestern
University in Music Composition. His primary instructors have been Jay Alan
Yim (Northwestern University, Evanston IL), Chris Mercer (Northwestern),
Peter McIlwain (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), and Steve
Heinemann (Bradley University, Peoria IL). His music has been performed by
Function Ensemble (London, UK), Monash Gamelan Ensemble (Melbourne), pLAy
Ensemble (Los Angeles, CA), Vox Novus (NYC, NY), Third Coast Percussion
Ensemble (Chicago, IL), and many other chamber and popular groups. His art
is a combination of music and video (video being the visual counterpart to
the temporality of sound), and in a postmodern idiom attempts to combine
popular, art, and world musics into a “unified disassociation”. His most
recent project, Arrow To The Sun, is a multi-dimensional fractal-art piece
that fuses music, video, taste, touch, smell, and thought to evoke an
anti-narrative of spiritual enlightenment.
more information for Patrick Liddell:
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Collaborations.htm

Outsound Presents, the home grown artist nonprofit collective of the
Bay-Area is excited to announce the lineup for the 9th Annual Outsound New
Music Summit, one of the most comprehensive experimental music festivals on
the West Coast with another unique roster of talent.
The festival seeks to build on its reputation for diverse and
critically-acclaimed performances with headliners that run the gamut from
the films of Martha Colburn, multi-phonic drummer Alex Cline, the siren
voices of Amy X Neuburg to the unabashed performance noise of Chen Santa
Maria.

The 9th Annual Outsound New Music Summit takes place July 18th through the
24th 2010 at the San Francisco Community Music Center, the Summit’s home for
the past three years.

Wednesday July 21: Blurred Lines
The internationally-exhibited 2009 60x60 Film Mix from Vox Novus, featuring
sixty local and international composers to sixty one-minute films by Patrick
Liddell, also experimental films by Martha Colburn, with a live score by
Thollem Mcdonas. Also,

The mission of Outsound Presents is to raise public awareness of avant-garde
and experimental music and sound art. All events and works supported by the
organization focus on the creation of experimental music, avant-garde
musical composition, found sound, improvisation, creative music, new music,
noise, musique concrète, minimalism, invented instruments, genre-bending
music, and sound that is sculptural or textural in nature. Outsound Presents
events also include film, dance, and intermedia works. Through its two year
around music series, its fledgling community education program OutSpoken,
and a palette of artist services, Outsound Presents connects audiences to
new work and the innovative artists creating it.
http://www.outsound.org

Every summer since 2002, the New Music Summit spends a week in July
showcasing some of the most innovative and pioneering new music that is
happening in California and beyond. At first a celebration of the eclectic
vanguard artists on the DIY Edgetone Records Label, the Summit now features
a broad range of artists from across the US, Europe, Australia and Japan. It
features world premieres and exclusive debuts, raging free improvisers to
microtonal composition to experimental electronics to harsh noise,
reflecting an incredible range of genre busting exploration and sonic
creativity. The Summit promotes intermedia, fostering cross-pollination
between disciplines of music, sound art, visual and media arts. It is
committed to bringing highly innovative music and art to a growing audience
seeking a new experience.

Full biographies of artists can be found at:
www.outsound.org/summit/index.html
Contact Rent Romus at 510.282.0145 or outsoundorg@yahoo.com