A composer living in New York City, Rob Voisey primarily writes electronic and chamber music. His aesthetic style oscillates between ambient to romantic. His work is played throughout the world both in concert performance and radio airplay.
In 2010, Voisey’s 60 second miniatures, New York and Ursa Major are receiving performances worldwide in 60x60 in the project’s 2010 International Mix, UnTwelve Mix, and Sanguine Mix. The works have already been set to choreography as well as synchronized to abstract video and has received performances in New York, London, Chicago, Montreal, as well as many others.
“Dos Palabras”, an art song with a Spanish flavor has been receiving performances in New York City at the Composer’s Voice concert series and SALT artspace presented by Alphabet Soup. In 2009, “Dos Palabras” toured with the soprano Agueda Fernández Abad and have been performed in the Composer’s Voice concert, the Argentinean Consulate in New York City, and in Valencia, Spain.
His work “Mandala” a multi-media collaboration with Patrick Liddell was selected for performance at Electronic Music Midwest Festival.
In 2009, Rob Voisey received his Carnegie Hall debut with his 10 minute opera, "Poppetjie."
Involved in various types of multimedia, Robert Voisey collaborates with video, dance, poetry, stage performers and others. He has written for film and theatrical stage performances.
“With few opportunities and much competition, young composers show creativity in just getting heard.” And in Chris Pasles’s article in the Los Angeles Times, Robert Voisey is highlighted as one of those composers. The article "No time to fool around: Robert Voisey and the "madness" of the 60X60 project" was an interview describing Voisey and his 60x60 project in the 11th issue of White Fungus, an art magazine based in Taiwan. He was also described as "an artist who knows how to create opportunities where they don't exist" in David Cutler's The Savvy Musician, where Robert Voisey is highlighted. Voisey also received a performance of his work
As a presenter and producer of new music, Robert Voisey is the Artistic Director of the 60x60 project, Co-Director of the Composer’s Voice Concert series, Vice President of Programs for the Living Music Foundation, and Founder of Vox Novus. Producing and presenting over 100 concerts in more than 10 countries around the world, he seeks innovative and creative approaches to promote the music of today's composers.
Voisey is the Director of the 60x60 project, an annual event of worldwide concerts that highlights 60 composers who have composed works 60 seconds or less for an hour-long continuous concert. The "60x60" project started in 2003 and has created an annual yearly mix as well as alternate mixes such as the Pacific Rim Mix, Midwest Minute Mix, and others. Besides its annual world debut in New York City, in the project has received performances all over the United States and throughout the world including London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, Munich, Bucharest, Istanbul, St Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and many others. 60x60 has been included in several festivals including the A*DEvantgarde, DMRN(Digital Music Research Network Festival,) Electronic Midwest Music Festival, Fresno New Music Festival, Internation Electro-acoustic Festival at Brooklyn College and Spark,. This project represents a slice of the contemporary music scene as a showcase of music from composers around the world, writing today's music.
Voisey is also the Co-Director of the Composer's Voice concert series at Vox Novus. This series features and exposes emerging composers as well as accomplished underexposed composers from other regions. It is designed to display their compositional "voice" in a themed exposition dedicated specifically to promote their music. Since the start of his role as Director of the "Composer's Voice" concert series, he has organized and produced more than 20 concerts in New York City. Through this series he continues to empower composers to broaden their audience by creating a venue to have their music heard.
Voisey is the Vice-President of Programs at the Living Music Foundation. The Living Music Foundation's mission is the support of independent, professional and emerging composers and performers of post-modern art music in their struggle for the space and freedom of expression growing out of the need to relate to one's surroundings interactively. His role is to coordinate and raise funds for concert programs, including grant writing and project production.
Robert Voisey founded Vox Novus in 2000. This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote their music. Vox Novus does this by the production of concerts, exposure on the Internet, and facilitating networking between professionals.
Robert Voisey was also interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for its Sunday Entertainment Section, profiled on No Extra Notes with Richard Zarou, Arts Electric at the Electronic Music Foundation, Fly Global Music Culture’s web magazine, as well as being featured on the Arts & Answers on WKCR, Afternoon New Music on WKCR, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Baazaar, Noizepunk & Das Krooner show and Martian Gardens on WMUA. His work routinely receives airplay on WKCR's “Arts & Answers” and “Art Waves” radio programs in New York City as well as Max Shea's “Martian Gardens” on WMUA Amherst, Massachusetts.
He has been invited to speak about his own music, the 60x60 project, and the promotion of new music at the Stony Brook University, Concordia University, Duquesne University , University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Central Florida, University of California at Fresno. He has also presented and introduced the 60x60 project to audiences all over the world including Mills College (Oakland, California), the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida), Electronic Music Midwest festival (Kansas City, Kansas and Romeoville, Illinois), Adelphi University (Long Island, New York), A*DEvantgarde festival (Munich, Germany), Goldsmiths College (London, England), the Amadeus center (London, England), Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Oberlin, Ohio), State University of New York at Albany (Albany, New York), Lille Conservatory (Lille, France), University of Hartford, (West Hartford, Connecticut), William Paterson University (Wayne, New Jersey), CalArts (Valencia, California), Harbor College (Los Angeles, California), International Electroacoustic Festival (Brooklyn, New York), and Collective: Unconscious (New York).
Robert Voisey received his undergraduate degree from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook where he studied Computer Science Engineering, Mathematics, Studio Art and Music Performance. He earned a certificate of Composition at Tel Hai College in the Upper Galilee of Israel, where he studied with Oded Zehavi and Aiten Schteinberg. He also studied at C.U.N.Y. Brooklyn College where he studied with Noah Creshevsky and George Brunner.
Voisey's compositions have been performed at the A*Devantgarde festival, Electronic Music Midwest festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the International Electroacoustic Festival at Brooklyn College, ÉuCuE xxvii festival, Digital Art Weeks, the Spark Festival, and the ThreeTwo festival, as well as the TRANSreveLATION concert, The Brick Elephant, Fine and Dandy, the August Art concert, the Composer's Voice Concert Series, and the 60x60 project. His work routinely receives airplay on WKCR's Arts & Answers and Art Wave radio programs as well as Max Shea's Martian Gardens on WMUA.
Robert Voisey has also been featured and interviewed on Noizepunk & Das Krooner show #21 and Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar #454 and Arts & Answers on WKCR FM NY. Robert Voisey's work, "Bounce" won best electroacoustic composition in on the Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar Robert Voisey belonged to the Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Ensemble where his work was featured on three CDs and several concerts at the International Electroacoustic Festivals as well as composer concerts produced by the music department.
Robert Voisey is also a member of CDZabu (formerly known as
~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp) is an international collective of musicians who collaborate via the Internet. Pieces are composed sequentially, through the continual addition of musical strata by different participants of all stripes (academic, self-taught, electronica, rock, classical) who operate under mysterious pseudonyms. The pieces are then mixed and published for free on the collective's web site. Come visit and join the fun, new members are welcome! During the past year, Voisey has collaborated on more than 15 compositions, which are available for download over the Internet at the CDZabu website.
As a performer, Voisey has sung all over the world including venues such as Cornelia Street, Roulette, Under St Marks Theater, Composer’s Voice, SALT artspace in New York City.
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