J u r a j Kojs

   
     
  making music with instruments, everyday objects, and technology  
     
                     

 

Juraj Kojs is a composer and performer from Slovakia. In May 2008, Juraj received his PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music. Beginning in July 2008, Juraj will join the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University as the Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art.

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 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
 
  • May 2008: "Augmenting Sonic Reality. Cyberinstruments Designed With Digital Waveguides" with Stefania Serafin will be published in Digital Creativity
  • July 6: visiting the Legoland in Billund, Denmark
  • July 7: working on a new project with S. Serafin in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • July 8-18: attending the composition workshop with S. Sciarrino, M. Reverdy and F. Nieder at Acanthes, Metz, France
  • July 19-25: taking on an artist residency at STEIM center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • August 6: performing at the Poetry, Art and Digital Music Evening with M. Kojsova and A. Ondrejkova in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia