Rich Bitting: News

The 2nd Kentucky New Music Festival produced by the Central Kentucky Student
Chapter of SCI at the University of Kentucky is presenting 60x60 2008
Midwest Minutes which includes Coyote Faucet

If you will be in the Lexington, KY area this week (November 9-14) the
University of Kentucky and the Central Kentucky Student Chapter of SCI is presenting five concerts associated with the 2nd Kentucky New Music
Festival.

Concert 4: 60x60 2008 Midwest Minutes Electronic Music Concert
Thursday, November 13 at 6:00pm in the John Jacob Niles Gallery at the Fine Arts Library.

This electronic music concert features 60 one-minute works by 60 different composers played back to back for a one-hour concert. In addition to the music playback, there will be a center screen projecting a windows media player visualization, a side screen projecting the composer's biography and program notes for each piece, and a side screen displaying a clock to help the audience keep track of when one piece ends and another begins.

60x60 (2008 / Midwest Mix)
John Akins, Richard Arnest, Dwight Ashley, Elliott Bark, Richard Bitting,
Jason Bolte, James Brody, Nicolas Buron, Richard Campanelli, Russell Cannon,
Wei-Ling Chen, Da Jeong Choi, D. Travis Clem, Elliott Cooper Cole, John
Conley, John Consiglio, Ron Coulter, Joshua L. Crowe, Lucio E Cuellar,
Benjamin Dorfan, Mark Eden, Nathan Edwards, Victor Eijkhout, Mary Beth
Farmer, Marji Gere, Christopher Gorman, Alejandro Guerro, Richard Hall, Joe
Hasiewicz, Ted Hendry, Joel Hickman, Ben James, Lynn Job, Michael Khoury,
Peter Lawless, HyeKyung Lee, Elaine Lillios, Carolyn Major, Mike McFerron,
Brian McGeever, David D McIntire, Justin Merritt, David More, Jeff Morris,
Robert Musikantow, Rick Nance, Jason Ouimette, Joomi Park, Grant Pittman,
Paige Przybylski, Reconsiderate, Sean Richards, David Sartor, Dan Sedgwickd,
Rodrigo Sigal, Balie Todd, Brian Vlasak, Chad Wallin, Garry Wickliffe,
Heeyoung Yang, and Thomas Zalduendo

For more information:
http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Music/calendar/index.php
http://www.voxnovus.com/

Coyote Faucet has been included in the 2008 60 x 60 Midwest Mix.

"Coyote Faucet" is an acousmatic sound work created using the unique soundmark of the water faucet in the third floor painting studio in the old Art Academy of Cincinnati building in Eden Park. The accompaniment uses gated audio samples of an art student painting and cleaning brushes.

The 60x60 project has produced more than 20 different mixes highlighting the works of more than 1000 composers from around the world. Composers that have been included have ranged from every musical aesthetic, professional career stage, nationality, age, ethnicity, and gender. 60x60 uses a “guerrilla” style in producing and presenting itself. The project has been presented in as many different types of venues as it has in different countries around the world.

60x60 has been performed in concert halls, theater stages, night clubs, museums, art galleries, bars, store fronts, over the television, radio and Internet. The project has been mainly presented as an audio concert, but has also been presented as film, a live radio show, multimedia performance, multimedia media installation, a sound installation, and a dance performance.

For more information go to:
http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/

"Coyote Faucet" is included in the audio CD "Resonance of Place" available here:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/richbitting3

and on iTunes!

Can you believe it!
Two Radio Request Shows this weekend!

Radio show host Max Shea will be featuring the 60x60 Radio Request
Extravaganza on his show Martian Gardens at WMUA this Sunday July 20th at
9:30 PM

WMUA FM 91.1 - live over the airwaves
http://www.wmua.org/ - live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS - featuring the 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza
Sunday 21:30--24:00 EDT
July 20, 2008
9:30 PM - 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Host:Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/


Make requests to Martian Gardens
by calling 413-545-3691
or by email at
Robert.Voisey@gmail.com

YES!!! Another 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza

Thank you for your support during the last request show.
Tune in and call in to request your work to be played over WGDR and archived
on the Kalvos and Damian show on community radio from Goddard Collage in Plainfield, Vermont.

As before, composers, musicians, artists, and their fans will be calling in throughout the show to request to play submissions for this year's 60x60 project.

I have submitted 5 pieces for this year's 60 x 60 Project
1. Coyote Faucet
2. Entrances and Exits
3. It's Not Real
4. Needles
5. Shells

All of the above works are sampled on my Website --
www.richbitting.com

Kalvos and Damian are back!
Hosting another 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza!!!
Saturday July 19th, 2008 2:30-4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time
WGDR 91.1 FM - over the airwave
http://wgdr.org/ - over the Internet
Phone Request Line: 802-454-7762
Email requests to: robert.voisey@gmail.com

They will be giving preference to people who call in before email requests (There
are over 100 submissions this year to the project)!

The New York Times hailed "Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar continually
document the breadth and vivacity of American musical creativity in a way
that no concert promoter or station manager could possibly afford."

Kalvos and Damian have interviewed hundreds of composers and musicians; a
few include:
John Luther Adams, Laurie Anderson, Jon Appleton, Robert Ashley, Larry
Austin, Eve Beglarian, Rhys Chatham, David Del Tredeci, Charles Dodge,
Karlheinz Essl, Kyle Gann, Joan La Barbara, Pauline Oliveros, Frank Oteri,
John Oswald, Maggi Payne, Larry Polansky, Elliot Schwartz, Judith Shatin,
Laurie Spiegel, Pamela Z, Judith Lang Zaimont and many many others
(http://www.kalvos.org/cmpindx.html)

http://www.kalvos.org/upcoming.html
Links to Radio show promos
http://www.voxnovus.com/music/Promo_60x60-01-34secs-1.mp3
http://www.voxnovus.com/music/Promo_60x60-01-34secs-2.mp3
http://www.voxnovus.com/music/Promo_60x60-01-34secs-3.mp3

Many thanks for your continued support.

PLEASE TUNE IN and REQUEST MY MUSIC
at the fifth Radio Request Extravaganza on "Afternoon New Music,"
WKCR 89.9 FM in New York City.

Listen over the web at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Composers, musicians, artists, and their fans will be calling in throughout
the show to request to play submissions for this year's 60x60 project.

I have submitted 5 pieces for this year’s 60 x 60 Project
1. Coyote Faucet
2. Entrances and Exits
3. It’s Not Real
4. Needles
5. Shells

You can listen to samples of all of these pieces under "Music"


Please email or call in and request one of my 5 pieces. (Or all of them if you like).
Email: newmusic@wkcr.org
Listener Line: (212)854-9920

The show will be hosted by Justin Goncalves and Anne Cammon
on WKCR's
"Afternoon New Music."

60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza
WKCR 89.9 FM
Wednesday June 25th, 2008
3:00-6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (USA)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Thanks you for your continued support!




Just in case you want to tune in on the Internet outside Eastern Standard Time (USA) use the following link to find out when to listen:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

"Conifers", "Twelve Acousmatic Miniatures" and "The Resonance of
Place" are now available on iTunes™.

"Conifers, Soundtrack for a Soniferious Forest" is music from the
installation I completed in 1995. "Twelve Acousmatic Miniatures" is
the most recent work. "The Resonance of Place" is a compilation
including "The Breakfast Suite" and "Art Academy Fragments."

Give the samples a listen and let me know what you think.

"The Resonance of Place" is now available on CD Baby at:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/richbitting3

This CD contains two compositions - The "Breakfast Suite" (tracks 1 - 6) and "Art Academy Fragments" (tracks 7 - 15).

The "Breakfast Suite" is an exploration of the micro-acoustic sound world of some humble kitchen appliances

"Art Academy Fragments" are nine ambient compositions based on the sounds and acoustic space of the historic Art Academy of Cincinnati buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Conifers, Soundtrack for a Soniferous Forest" is now available on CD Baby.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/richbitting2

Conifers, is the ambient accompaniment to an art/sound installation of the same name.

"When stripped of all but its aural elements, Conifers becomes an installation piece for the mind. A lush ambient stroll through your own inner forest."
- Jamie Allen - THE Magazine

Art Academy Fragments
(see photo in photo gallery)

Nine ambient electronic audio compositions from field recordings of the Art Academy of Cincinnati's former Eden Park and Mount Adams campuses.

This is a composite image of the nine audio CDR covers that comprise the work - a ghost image of the old Art Academy of Cincinnati building in the background with a 2" x2" sonogram of the individual composition in the center.

Each CD is available individually and includes:
• Choice of cover art in slim CD case
• Audio CDR of all nine of the Art Academy Fragments - available soon on CD Baby.

This is an open edition; copies will remain available. CDRs are numbered left to right, top to bottom.

1. Chidlaw Ambience 4:24
2. Stairway Resonance 2:20
3. For Whom the Page Bell Rings 3:06
4. It’s Not Real 2:50
5. Coyote Faucet 1:18
6. Locker Copies 2:27
7. Senefelder’s Soundscape 3:18
8. Excessive Exuberance 2:00
9. Entrances and Exits 2:07

"Twelve Acousmatic Miniatures" is now available on CD Baby.
You can listen to audio clips and buy a copy here.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/richbitting