J u r a j Kojs

Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist and producer permanently residing in the US. Juraj's creative and research work reaches to the areas of music at the threshold of hearing, action-based acoustic and electroacoustic music, cyberinstruments created with physical modeling synthesis, tactile music, native instruments from central Europe, contemporary concert music, dance music, interactive audio-visual performance, muscle-powered multimedia, music with everyday objects and toys and graphic notation.

Juraj is a co-founder of Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA) and the ensemble SofIA: Sonorities of Interactive Acoustics. He organizes 12 Nights and Acoustica 21 concert series at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, Florida. Juraj holds a PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia. He had teaching appointments at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, Yale University and University of Virginia. Kojs currently teaches courses in the Audio Production Department at Ai Miami International University of Art and Design and University of Miami.

News: Events 2013

• June 30: Touch Me Hear. New York Electronic Art Festival. Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. NYC.

• June 21: performing Slovakia. 2013 Garden of Memory. Chapel of Chimes. Oakland, CA.

• June 14 and 15: Touch Me Hear. The Bridge. Miami, FL.

• May 31 and June 1: Touch Me Hear. Inkub8. Miami, FL.

• May 10: Ms. Warp. Laptop & Electronic Arts Ensemble. Wesleyan University, CT.

• April 21: Lissette Jimenez, voice and Jose Lopez, piano premiere The Harbingers of Light song cycle. The Deering Estate, Miami, FL.

• April 6: The Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Adventures of an Annihilated Mirror at Time Stands Still: Notation in Musical Practice Festival and Conference. Wesleyan University.

• April 3: presenting a talk at New York University.

• March 28: Maria Paulina Garcia perform In_still_ness. New Music Miami, CARTA Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami Beach, FL.

News: Events 2012

• November 26: Kyle Motle presentd To Where He Waited. Florida International University, Miami, FL.

• November 16: presenting a talk at University of Miami, FL.

• November 11: Campo de Interferencias features Yale. Madrid, Spain.

• October 19: presenting a talk at Florida International University, Miami, FL.

• October 19: Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble premieres Tatry, a piano quartet. Deering Estate, Miami, FL.

• October 18: The Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Adventures of an Annihilated Mirror at Dixon Place, NYC.

• October 13: The Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Adventures of an Annihilated Mirror at PAX, Miami, FL.

• October 12: The Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Adventures of an Annihilated Mirror at Cato Center for the Arts, Charleston, SC.

• September 22: performing On Silence: Hommage to Cage. University of Maine, Orono, ME.

• September 21: presenting a talk at University of Maine, Orono, ME.

• September 7: performing On Silence: Hommage to Cage. PAX, Miami, FL.

• September 5-8: co-organizing John Cage: A Centennial Celebration Miami with subtropics.org. Various venues in Miami, FL.

• August 16: organizing 12 Nights Miami. Screening of J. Greeson's documentary Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso of the Player Piano. Miami, FL.

• July 28: organizing 12 Nights Miami featuring Carlos Dominguez, Brian Del Toro and Kyle Motle. Miami, FL.

• July 26: video of Assasins for One Night screened at Miami Performance Festival, Miami, FL.

• June 25: performing On Silence: Hommage to Cage. Galeria P. M. Bohuna, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia.

• May 11: Vasko Dukovski performs Re-Route for bass clarinet and electronics. Music: Cognition, Technology, Society Conference. Cornell University.

• May 5: organizing the 12 Nights Miami featuring Carlos Dominguez and Symbiotic Simians. Co-produced with subtropics.org. Miami, FL.

• April 29: Jose Lopez performs In__still__ness for piano. Gallery 345, Toronto, Canada.

• April 29: performing The Harbingers, a new collaborative work with Kathryn Alexander and Margaret Lancaster. Williams College, MA.

• April 26: Madeleine Shapiro performs The Wetland for cello and electronics, The Tank, New York. Read the review in Seen and Heard International.

• April 22: Jose Lopez premieres In__still__ness for piano. Deering Estate, Miami, FL.

• April 21: January 20: organizing the 12 Nights Miami: Earth Night, featuring Adrian Knight, Laura Wilcox and William Jason Raynovich. Miami, FL.

• April 14: Fridamusiq premieres Cosmos (Turning travel dreams into reality.) for voice, flute and double bass. Vanguard Festival, Miami, FL.

• April 1: Madeleine Shapiro performs The Wetland for cello and electronics, Bates College, ME.

• March 30: Madeleine Shapiro performs The Wetland for cello and electronics, Bates College, ME.

• March 28: presenting a talk at Yale University, CT.

• March 27: performing On Silence: Hommage to Cage. Wesleyan University, CT.

• March 25: performing On Silence: Hommage to Cage. University of Miami, FL.

• March 02: premiering On Silence: Hommage to Cage. Issue Project Room, NYC.

• February 17: The Ensemble Pamplemousse premieres Adventures of an Annihilated Mirror at Issue Project Room, New York.

• February 3 and 4: Performing Slovakia at Festspiele, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• February 3: Anna Klett performs Re-Route for clarinet and electronics at Festspiele, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• January 20: organizing the opening concert of the fifth season for 12 Nights Miami, featuring Corey Dargel, Wil Smith and Tom Hamilton.