Personae / Acknowledgments

Perspectives of New Music PERSONAE ALEKSANDRA VOJCIC earned a bachelors and a Masters in piano from The Juilliard School, Ph.D. in music theory from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a former faculty member at Juilliard and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As a pianist, Ms. Vojcic has been a soloist with the Belgrade Philharmonic, the National Repertory Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble, Colby Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, and the Josip Slavenski String Orchestra. New York venues have included Steinway Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation, Alice Tully Hall, and MoMa Summergarden. She has premiered many works and has presented lectures and published in the UK, Lithuania, Austria, and the United States. Her recordings include Heavenly Lullabies, and D'Divaz. Ms. Vojcic was featured in an award-winning Swiss documentary Yugodivas, and has appeared in broadcasts on WNYC, KAJX, PGP RTB. Her research interest include performance and analysis, rhythm and form, neo-medievalism, post-tonal repertoire, and Ars subtilior. ZEYNEP BULUT is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Music with an emphasis in Critical Studies/Experimental Practices. Prior to her doctoral studies, Bulut studied sociology (B.A.), opera, and visual arts (M.F.A.) in Istanbul, Turkey. Bulut's research investigates the physical and phenomenal emergence of the human voice, and its role in the constitution of the self. Since 2003, Bulut has presented papers in many academic conferences in the United States, Europe, Canada and Turkey, published scholarly articles, and composed and performed voice pieces for various concerts and exhibits. Her article "The Problem of Archiving Sound Works" appeared in UCLA's Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology in December 2005, and her other article, "Far-Fetched Bodies' Voices: The 'heart' of melodrama in Mauricio Kagel's Phonophonie," is forthcoming in Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Volume 5. ALEXANDRE POPOFF graduated in 2004 from Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle (ESPCI), Paris, a french graduate-level engineering school. He obtained at the same time a Masters degree in Organic Chemistry. He also obtained a Ph.D. in Nanosciences and Chemistry from the Jussieu University, Paris in 2007 . Now he is working as an engineer for Saint-Gobain, a private company for habitat and construction markets. Extra Personae curricular activities include violin and trombone playing, as well as research in music theory (research interests focus on time structures and extension of neo-Riemannian theories). JON HANSEN is currently pursuing a Masters degree from the University of Washington in Tuba Performance. An active tubist and composer based out of Seattle, he is also a recent graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music. His recent tuba studies have primarily been with Jim Self, Chris Olka, Sérgio Carolino, and Norm Pearson. WARREN BURT is a freelance composer, performer, video artist, instrument builder, and sound poet based in Australia. He recently finished up a three-year Australian Research Council PostDoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Wollongong and is currently seeking other professional engagements. More information about him and his work can be found at www.warrenburt.com. STUART PAUL DUNCAN studied composition with Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra, Roger Redgate, and Roderick Watkins. He completed his DMA in Composition at Cornell University in 2010 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theory at Yale University. His writings have appeared in Search: Journal for New Music and Culture, the conference proceedings of Beyond the Centres: Musical avant gardes since 1950, and the conference proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. DANIEL SIEPMANN is a graduate student in musicology and music theory at SUNY Stony Brook. His principle research interests include musical cognition, phenomenology, and the intersections between contemporary music, popular music, and continental philosophy. SAMUEL ADAMS (b. 1985) is an active composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He received a Bachelors from Stanford University, where he studied composition with Mark Applebaum and Erik Ulman, and electroacoustic music with Jean-Claude Risset and Christopher Chafe at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He recently completed...