60x60 Press

Press Quotes

Take a look at what some of the press has been saying about 60x60 and its projects

"a masterpiece" - Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times
"one thing you can say for sure, it won't be boring." - Time Out London
"Expect it to stretch whatever boundaries you may not have thought you had."
- Jason Victor Serinus, Special to The Examiner
"a thoroughly enjoyable and original hour." - Paula Citron, Classical 96.3fm
"an artistic "10," unexpected, and rewarding beyond all imagining."
- Joseph Pehrson, New Music Connoisseur
"60x60 fills the stage with minute-long masterpieces"
- Lindsey Thomas, Village Voice,
"60 short pieces uninterrupted, for an hour total of some very weird and wonderful music"- Donald Munroe, Fresno Beehive
"sure to delight; or at least some of the pieces will tickle your fancy"
- Karen Moorman, Classical Voice of North Carolina

"short-lived, but supremely satisfying"
- Alison Sieloff, Riverfront Times

"a night of artistic hors d'oeuvres!"
- Stephan Paschalides, TRENDTREKKING
"60x60 Dance is a masterfully coordinated multimedia collaboration that features a surprising diversity of aesthetics."
- Chris Gibson, BroadwayWorld.com
"an eclectic and delightful stew of original music and choreography."
- Carl Glassman, Tribeca Trib
"if you have in any way ever loved dance, or music...
you owe it to yourself to check out 60x60"
- Eileen Elizabeth - iDANZ Critix Corner
"the planet's most coveted contemporary music events."
- Tobias Fischer, Tokafi
"tantalizing audio collage"
- Alexandra Jones, Classical Voice of North Carolina
"a musically eclectic mix of murmurs, melodies and motifs"
- Sophia Yan Oberlin Review
"a Whitman's sampler of the contemporary new music scene."
- Sound Sampler Greg Haymes Times Union
"It's like channel surfing through experimental music"
- Geeta Dayal, Village Voice
"The one unshakable rule: Nothing can last more than 60 seconds."
- Susan Reiter, NYPress
"60x60 Dance takes our technologically induced A.D.D. to the next level"
- Eudie Pak, Village Voice
"an exemplary job of forming a sonic tapestry comprised of extremely diverse material by extremely diverse composers."
- Matthew Dotson, SEAMUS Journal
"Carefully arranged... they are polished and cut rubies and diamonds, neatly packaged"
- Karen Moorman, Classical Voice of North Carolina
"le tout etant plus grand que la somme de ses parties, c'est vraiment le concept global qui retient l'attention."
- Rejean Beaucage, Circuit
"The idea - 60 new dance pieces are performed to 60 new pieces of music, each lasting no more than 60 seconds - is quite mad. But it's this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round"
- Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times New York Times
"Like that bag of M&M's you gobbled up while waiting your turn in the grocery line, the pieces presented during 60x60 Dance are short-lived, but supremely satisfying."
- Minute to Win It - Alison Sieloff, Riverfront Times 2011
"Exciting, fast-paced and packed with meaning like a haiku poem describes the "60x60 Dance" concert"
-'60x60 Dance' concert offers rapid-fire excitement - Andrew Haspenpflug
"The concept of 60x60 Dance is the brainchild of New York-based new music producer and presenter Rob Voisey. This is how it works. Voisey invited 60 international composers to create one minute of music each. Then in each city, 60 local choreographers create one minute of dance to each of the compositions. It turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable and original hour."
- 60x60 Dance Toronto - Reviewed by Paula Citron,Classical 96.3fm
Time Out London says: "Either a genius or crazy concept for a dance show, depending on how you look at it: 60 choreographers each create 60 seconds of movement to be performed in succession, making one hour of fast-changing, switched up dance ... if there's one thing you can say for sure, if won't be boring.
- LONDON 2012: TWO YEARS TO GO 60x60 Dance - Time Out London 2010
"60 one-minute films by Patrick Liddell, with music by 60 composers curated by Vox Novus. Expect it to stretch whatever boundaries you may not have thought you had."
-Outsound to showcase sonic mayhem - Jason Victor Serinus, Special to The Examiner, July 15, 2010
"'60x60 Dance' Is an Hour-Long Whirlwind of Performances There is no attention span too deficient, no mind too meandering to appreciate "60x60 Dance." ...The result is an eclectic and delightful stew of original music and choreography."
- '60x60 Dance' Is an Hour-Long Whirlwind of Performances - Carl Glassman, Tribeca Trib, December 8, 2009
"This program, without a doubt, was and artistic "10," unexpected, and rewarding beyond all imagining."
- When 60 seconds becomes and Eternity - Joseph Pehrson, New Music Connoisseur 2009
"if you have in any way ever loved dance, or music... you owe it to yourself to check out 60x60 [Dance]"
- Dance Review: 60X60, A New Family Reunion - Dance Review by Eileen Elizabeth - iDANZ Critix Corner, Thursday, November 19, 2009
"the concept is simple: A large analog clock keeps time as a full cast of dancers move in and out to seamlessly perform 60 dance pieces by 60 different composers-each lasting only 60 seconds."
- Performance art for the sound-bite culture - By Lyndsey Teter - The Other Paper Published: Thursday, October 1, 2009
"Robert Voisey, composer and Artistic Director of the 60x60 project, did an exemplary job of forming a sonic tapestry comprised of extremely diverse material by extremely diverse composers. Sensitive video accompaniment by Zlatko Cosic also helped organize the concert into a more coherent whole."
- Matthew Dotson - SEAMUS Journal today (Vol 20, no 1. Spring 2009)
"The idea - 60 new dance pieces are performed to 60 new pieces of music, each lasting no more than 60 seconds - is quite mad. But it's this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round"
- An Express Without Any Delays By ROSLYN SULCAS, New York Times, November 17, 2008
"Some names are familiar ... while most are not, but therein lies a big attraction-discovery."
- Just a Minute! by Susan Yung, Sunday Arts at thirteen WNET, November 11, 2008
"exhilarating reminder of all the artists who toil in obscurity"
- The New Yorker, November 17, 2008
"The one unshakable rule: Nothing can last more than 60 seconds."
-ARTS BRIEF: A NEW YORK MINUTE By Susan Reiter, NYPress November 12, 2008
"60x60 Dance takes our technologically induced A.D.D. to the next level"
- Flash Dance Entertaining in a New York minute By Eudie Pak, Village Voice, November 8, 2008,
"Carefully arranged by Voisey, they are polished and cut rubies and diamonds, neatly packaged on a recorded disc"
- Arts Now! 60 X 60 2008 By Karen Moorman, September 11, 2008
"le tout etant plus grand que la somme de ses parties, c'est vraiment le concept global qui retient l'attention."
- Nouveautes en bref Rejean Beaucage Circuit 2008
"Do this once, and you've still got fourteen minutes of fame left."
- Asymmetry Music Magazine
"We live in a compressed world. Executive summaries, plot synopses, speed dating, pecha kucha, sound bites,Wikipedia, and Sesame Street tell us all we need to know, and in very little time. Since 2003, NewYork composer Rob Voisey has given us a musical version with his 60x60 Project. ... 60x60 is not about scores, but about recordings. The submissions are the music; definitive, in final form - trapped, as it were, in amber. ... The project design permits a large number of composers to put representative samples of their music in front of audiences. I trace project success to the composers who form its collaborators, hosts, and director. The grass-roots, all-volunteer philosophy translates into an eclectic blend of styles, genres and aesthetics. The result: a representative survey of today's music on the cutting edge."

"The word 'viral,' comes to mind as a trendy but disquietingly accurate image for Robert Voisey's infectious enthusiasm. He is always ready to mutate and reinfect the process as indicated to maintain the highest degree of project fever - and yes, it is spreading."
-60x60: netsuke for the musical mind - By Richard Arnest, Sounding Board Spring 2011
"The idea of commissioning sixty pieces each a minute long has elements of both ingenuity combined with madness: ... A minute can be ample time to express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds, or it can be a constraint which forces an artist to isolate what is the most important element of a work. The point of the project is that it enables an audience to take in and enjoy a cross section of different approaches to new music within a reasonable duration. And the purpose of Robert Voisey is to promote new music"
- December 24, 2005 - Malcolm Miller, London UK

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60x60 is a project of Vox Novus
60x60 was created and founded by Robert Voisey to inspire, produce, promote, and disseminate the vast aesthetics and styles of contemporary composers being written by today's living composers.
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