Robert Voisey

TainTed T is a sample work dedicated to Noah Creshevsky and written for a performance at Klavierhaus in New York City honoring Creshevsky's 60th birthday.

Robert Voisey (born 1969) is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music.

He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the present, to appear on the Internet.

A producer of new music and multi-media concerts and events, Voisey is best known for producing the 60x60 project, which he started in 2003 in order to promote contemporary composers and their music.

He also founded and directs the Composer's Voice Concert Series as well as the chamber music project Fifteen Minutes of Fame as well as vice president of programs for the Living Music Foundation.

Robert Voisey's compositions fall under a few definitive genres: neo-romantic, ambient, mash-up, text-sound, and dramatic/operatic.

His neo-romantic works tend to be chamber works for acoustic instruments while the other styles are electronic incorporating electronic playback of some form.

Involved in various types of multimedia, Robert Voisey collaborates with video, dance, poetry, stage performers and others.

He has written for film and theatrical stage performances.

Voisey's compositions have been performed A*Devantgarde festival, Electronic Music Midwest festival, the International Electroacoustic Festival at Brooklyn College, ÉuCuE xxvii festival, Digital Art Weeks, the Spark Festival, and the ThreeTwo festival, as well as the TRANSreveLATION concert, the National University of Music in Bucharest The Brick Elephant, Fine and Dandy, the August Art concert, the Composer's Voice Concert Series, and the 60x60 project.

His work routinely receives airplay on WKCR's Arts & Answers and Art Wave radio programs as well as Max Shea's Martian Gardens on WMUA.

Robert Voisey was featured on RadioAscoli program Classica-E in Italy presented by radio host Daria Baiocch.

Voisey's piano solo work "persistence of melancholy" was presented at Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall by pianist Matthew McCright.

This work was also included on the album "Endurance" which features the same artist and program presented in that hall.

Rob Voisey’s romantic art songs "Dos Palabras" (Spanish for "Two Words", an idiom meaning "I Love You" [Spanish: Te quiero.]).

The text of the art songs are based on the work of Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni.

It is a duet commissioned by Agueda Pages and has been premiered by her in New York City, Bremen, Germany and Valencia, Spain.

This song cycle has had several performances in New York City at Jan Hus Church at the Composer’s Voice Concert series; the Argentinean Consulate, and at Christ & St Stevens Church for the XL performance.

"Dos Palabras" has also been performed in Barcelona, Spain.

"Poppetjie" a 10-minute opera of Voisey's was premiered at Carnegie Hall and presented by the Remarkable Theater Brigade’s Opera Shorts.

"Poppetjie" is a story about a little girl who projects her notions of marriage and relationships onto her doll and teddy bear.

Poppetjie is an Afrikaans word meaning "little doll."

Versatile in short form and miniatures Robert Voisey's chamber orchestra work "sic second chance" was a six-second work selected by Vine Orchestra for recording with 51 other six second miniatures.

He has also written the work "Music is Poetry in Motion" for high voice and instrument accompaniment.

He is both the composer and the author for the text of this short song cycle which contains: "blank pages," "flowing streams," "poetry gone," and "heavy clouds."

This work has received performances around the world including New York City, German and Bucharest.

Voisey's short work for flute solo "Before Corcovado," was selected for Fifteen Minutes of Fame and performed by Carolina Cavalcanti].

She premiered it in Buenos Aires and New York City.

In New York City, a reviewer explained, "avidly conveys feelings of anticipation experienced by pious travelers willing to ascend great heights by way of rail, road, and foot to pay their respects to the mammoth Christ the Redeemer statue."

His work "run rabbit run" was set to dance by the organization Vision of Sound, a collaborative project between composers and choreographers.

Voisey's work 50-second miniature Oregon, was selected for Jon Nelson's 50/50 project.

The "50/50" CD release by Recombinations/mnartists 2010 with 49 other DJ’s composers, and sound artists.

Inspired by this project Voisey continued this post-modern style creating other 50 second miniature he calls States.

New York, another miniature, is part of the 60x60 (2010) International Mix and received debuts at London.’s Stratford Circus as well as in St Louis and Japan.

The works North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois all debuted in New York City on the Vox Novus "Club" concerts.

His work Shades of Forte described as a "...imaginatively offbeat work..."

"...was woven from bursts of recorded music and sounds, striking out alone or overlapping, contrasting."

This composition was selected for Electronic Music Midwest as well as the Composer's Voice Concert Series and Fine and Dandy.

"I Want My Bottle" was commissioned for and performed at the EM-NY Festival, Electroacoustic Speakeasy and Burlesque Show and performed by Darlinda Just Darlinda.

Several of Rob Voisey's 60-second miniatures featuring samples and are examples of mash-ups were selected for 60x60 mixes including: Sullen, Electric Trains, Executive Decision, and We Are All 60x60.