"My belief is that there is a hungry audience out there waiting to be inspired and touched by the music and ideas that today's composer has to offer; all we need to do is reach them."
– Robert Voisey

“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.

As a producer, Robert Voisey is regarded as having ambitious ideas for the dissemination of contemporary music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary composers. Through Vox Novus, Voisey has been a significant force in providing composers with opportunities to present themselves and their music throughout the world. A few of the projects he has initiated at the American Composer’s Timeline, the Composer’s Voice concert series and 60x60.

“The idea of commissioning sixty pieces each a minute long has elements of both ingenuity combined with madness: can a creative artist have anything serious to say in just one minute? Can a listener gain anything in such a short time span? The answer is yes if one may go by the individual contributions to 60x60” – Malcolm Miller, Music and Vision Daily

In 2003, Voisey called for 60 recorded works 60 seconds (or less) in length to be presented together in a continuous electronic playback performance that would be synchronized to an analog clock. The idea was to present to audiences the vast wealth of new music being created by composers in a concise and accessible format.

60x60 has received more than 3500 one minute submissions ranging from almost every type of musical style and genre. The submissions have come from more than 2500 composers, sound artists, bands, and musicians from more than 40 countries throughout the world.

In David Cutler's The Savvy Musician, Robert Voisey is described as "an artist who knows how to create opportunities where they don't exist"

60x60 was specifically designed to be a fast paced, heavy hitting, economical promotional project giving artists the opportunity to reach audiences worldwide. There have been over 200 performances of the 60x60 project in its various multi-media incarnations presented in a plethora of venues; from performance spaces to concert halls, from galleries to museums, from street windows to the walls of buildings, from churches to bars and nightclubs, 60x60 travels to the far reaches of the globe. The project has been to populous cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Mexico City, Berlin, Chicago, Miami, Munich, Taipei to less populous areas such as Presque Isle, Maine, Alberta, and New Zealand.

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.

An Express Without Any Delays

The first thing to be said about “60x60 Dance” is that it is a masterpiece of organization. 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, and so our thanks are due to the composer Robert Voisey, who first came up with the concept in 2003.” - By Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times

60x60 Dance has had over 15 performances in 3 countries. The project has presented the work of more than 500 choreographers and the performances of more than 100 dancers.

“Composer and electronic music impresario Robert Voisey devised the 60x60 concept so large numbers of composers could bring their work to audiences in a portable, palatable, and decidedly unconventional format. Since the series' inception in 2003, Vox Novus — Voisey's organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary composers and their work — has solicited 60x60 submissions by composers at all professional levels worldwide and presented its hour-long recordings at concerts in cities from Brooklyn to Bucharest. …This digitized, compartmentalized, sound-bite format is a tantalizing new way to experience widely varied and eclectic electronic music. And 60x60's longevity and international acclaim show that Vox Novus' innovative strategy to attract audiences and encourage composers has actually worked” - Alexandra Jones, Classical Voice of North Carolina

60x60 contains 60 works from 60 different artists. Each work is 60 seconds in duration and sequenced together to create a one hour performance. “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” -Malcolm Miller, Music & Vision

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 50 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.