J u r a j Kojs

   
     
  making music with instruments, everyday objects, and technology  
     
           
 

 

Juraj Kojs is a composer, performer, multimedia artist and producer from Slovakia. In May 2008, Juraj received his PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia. From September 2008 until June 2010, Juraj joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University as the Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art. Juraj is currently a visiting lecturer at University of Virginia' McIntire Department of Music, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in music.

Juraj's research and music areas of interest include cyberinstruments by physical modeling synthesis, everyday objects, Slovak folk music instruments, sounds on the threshold of hearing, and interactive electroacoustic composition.

Juraj is a cofounder of Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA) and the ensemble SofIA: Sonorities of Interactive Acoustics. He organizes 12 Nights, a monthly series of Computer Music and Art at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, Florida.

 

 
News: Media
Favorite Sites
 
  • received the 2010 Commissioning Music/USA grant from Meet the Composer to compose the multidisciplinary work Touch Me Hear with A. Taran, choreography
  • Miami New Times presents Neraissance: Muscle-powered Multimedia Art the Best of Award 2010 for Art Performance. Read more here. Here are some quotes: "If energy could be seen and heard, it would look and sound like those 20 minutes..." (Miami New Times Blog) and "...striking and unforgettable" (Miami New Times).
  • Train60 on What If? New Media New Music New England.
  • Train60 to be included on FEASt Appetizers CD. Miami, Fl.
  • DVD release of Matthew Burtner's Signal Ruins (Juraj performing the piano part) on EcoSono Records.
News: Events 2010
  • March 10: organizing 12 Nights III: Out in the Air. FLEA, Paula Matthusen and Juraj Kojs. In front of the American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL.
  • March 3: Atticus Brass Quintet premiers Travnica I. Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

 

 

 

 

Mariana Kojsova

 

Harold Golen Gallery

 

 

Kike Pinto and Taki: Andean Amazonian Music Museum

 

Spencer Topel

 

Paula Matthusen

 

Michael Straus

Henry Vega

Kasia Glowicka

Jasmine Kastel