J u r a j Kojs

Juraj Kojs is a composer, performer, multimedia artist and producer from Slovakia currently 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, interactive audio-visual performance, muscle-powered multimedia, music with everyday objects and toys, graphic notation and genre bending.

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. 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 Department at Miami International University of Art and Design in Miami, FL.

News: Events 2012

• 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 Simbioric 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.

• December 1-3: organizing and producing The Street: Festival of Electronic Music, Art and Performance, Miami, FL.

• November 19: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV featuring Peter Lane and P-D-M-D.

• November 18: Laura Wilcox performs Lord That Giveth Strength for viola and electronics. Living Artist Concert Series "Voices through the Oceans", Deering Estate, Miami, FL.

• November 12: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV featuring Benoit Maubrey and James Fei.

• November 5: Performing Slovakia and Sleepless Muscles installation at Sleepless Night Miami, FL.

• October 13: Madeleine Shapiro performs The Wetland at The Tank, New York.

• September 29 and 30: Action-based music talk and masterclass. Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio, Dartmouth College.

• September 24: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Three of a Pair. Featuring Charles Norman Mason, Dorothy Hindman and Craig Hultgren. GAB Gallery, Miami, FL.

• August 20: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Exotic Strings and Electronics. Featuring David Mendoza, David Font-Navarrete and Jose Luis Rodríguez. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.

• July 10: performing with Artur Vidal and Miguel Angel Garcia at Cruce, Madrid, Spain.

• July 10: a talk at Menosuno, Madrid, Spain.

• July 3 and 10: Timbre Wheel Timbre Tongue (a version for stereo playback) performed at Ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen, Berlin, Germany.

• July 3: performing Water Music at Hommes, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

• July 2: Action-based notation talk and performance at Kulter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• June 30: performing with Anne La Berge and friends at OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• June 27: performing with Laura Mello at Beiroy, Berlin, Germany.

• May 14: opening of A Window: Riding Music and Light, Pedal Up and Air and On That Very Day. Two muscle-powered installations and a text installation. O-Cinema, Miami, FL (the exhibit runs until June 30).

• May 7: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Reel to Reel. Featuring Adrian Knight and Nicole Matinez. GAB Gallery, Miami, FL.

• May 5 and 6: Assassins for One Night; the new collaborative work with Alexey Taran and Bistoury Physical Theater company. Black Box Theater at Miami Dade County Auditorium. Miami, FL.

• April 30: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: SYCOM: Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts. GAB Gallery, Miami, FL.
• April 9: invited talk. The Greater Miami Youth Symphony, Miami, FL.

• April 8: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Acoustical Rendezvous. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.

• March 31: invited talk, Department of Music, Yale University.

• March 23: invited talk, New World School of Arts, Miami, FL.

• March 22: FIU Laptop & Electronic Arts Ensemble premieres Ms. Warp for laptop ensemble. New Music Miami Festival, FIU, Miami, FL.

• March 20: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Music for home-made electronics and gyroscopes. Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL.

• March 11: Juraj Kojs performs Pastoral Care for Slovakian fujara and electronics. Subtropics Festival, Miami, FL.

• March 8: Pastoral Care included in Musica Slovaca III: Fragments of Memory Devoted to Fujara program. On-line live concert.

• March 5: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: On Structure. GAB Gallery, Miami, FL.

• February 18-20: Assassins for the Night; a scene for the new collaborative work with Alexey Taran and Bistoury Physical Theater company. 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, NYC.

• February 11: organzing 12 Nights Miami IV: Spirits, Mercury and Computer Music. Harold Golen Gallery. Miami, FL.

• January 20: Madeleine Shapiro performs The Wetland for cello and electronics. SEAMUS 2011 conference, University of Miami, Miami, FL.

• January 13: Juraj Kojs curates the MATA Interval Concert Series and performs At and Across for Slovakian sheep bells and cyberbells. Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY.