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.
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- received the 2010 Commissioning Music/USA grant from Meet the Composer to compose the multidisciplinary work Touch Me Hear with A. Taran, choreography
- announced as one of the fetaured curators for the 2011 Interval Concert Series, MATA Foundation, New York City.
- 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.
- Recording, score, and documentation of At And Across to be released on Computer Music Journal DVD 2009 (CMJ 33:4).
- Article The Language of Action and Cyberaction-based Music: Theory and Practice is out at Journal of New Music Research. Download it here.
- 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.
- Concealed for flute and electronics published by SCI Journal of Music Scores
| News: Events 2010 |
- November 10-13: performs Revelations, Percussion Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN.
- September 22: Madeleine Shapiro premieres The Wetland for cello and electronics. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
- organizing 12 Nights III:CelloVoice. Featuring Madeleine Shapiro, cello. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
- September 19: Julia Carey performs VIII for grand piano. Juventas New Music Ensemble Concert Series, Killian Hall at MIT, Boston, MA.
- September 18: Julia Carey premieres VIII for grand piano. Juventas New Music Ensemble Concert Series, The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA.
- July 24: Víctor Béjar performs Aiael's Gold for tenor sax and electronics. Sound and Music Computing, Barcelona, Spain.
- July 17: organizing 12 Nights III:Haptic and Non-Tangible. Featuring Chikashi Miyama and Jorge Variego. J. Variego premieres Re-route for bass clarinet and electronics. GAB Gallery, Miami, FL.
- July 16: premiering Sounding Time program with SofIA, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL.
- June 12: organizing 12 Nights III: Miami Experimental. Featuring Fridamusiq and P-D-M-D. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
- June 1-5: rrrrr and E-clip-sing performed at International Computer Music Conference, NYC and Stony Brook University, NY.
- May 22: organizing 12 Nights III: From the Middle of the Earth to Carmen. Contemporary video works by contemporary composers. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
- May 7: performing with Paula Matthusen and Carl Testa at Uncertainty Music Series, Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT.
- April 29: Train60 at AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media, Hartford, CT.
- April 25: performing with Bill Solomon, Chris Cerrone, Adrian Knight, Anne Rhodes, Carl Testa, Anne La Berge, Scott Petersen and Brian Kane at Erector Square, New Haven, CT.
- April 24: performing with Chris Cerrone, Adrian Knight, Anne Rhodes, Carl Testa, Anne La Berge, Scott Petersen and Brian Kane at The Big Room, New Haven, CT.
- April 21: Margaret Lancaster and Yale Gamelan premiere Doorways for flute/piccolo and Javanese gamelan. Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- March 27: Susan Fancher performs Aiael's Gold at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYC.
- March 20: IKTUS Percussion Quartet performs Touch Music I, Issue Project Room, NYC.
- March 19: IKTUS Percussion Quartet premieres Touch Music I, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NYC.
- March 13: spinning the Russia project at the Wynwood Project Space, Miami, FL.
- 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 4-7: premieres of Neraissance: Muscle-powered Multimedia Art. Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Carnival Studio Theater. Miami, FL.
- March 3: Atticus Brass Quintet premiers Travnica I. Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- February 20: Michael Straus performs Aiael's Gold at CNMAT, University of California at Bekley.
- February 13: Michael Straus performs Aiael's Gold at Uncertainty Music Series, Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT.
- February 12: performing with Michael Straus, Andrew Greenwald, Richard Johnson, Paula Matthusen, Scott Petersen and Brian Kane at IBEAM, Brooklyn, NYC.
- February 6: organizing 12 Nights III: Michael Straus. New Music for saxophones, electronics and video. Michael premiers Aiael's Gold for tenor sax and electronics. Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
- January 23: organizing 12 Nights III: 60*60 Project, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL.
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