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[60]Project

The 60' work was commissioned by the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and was created in the studios of INA-GRM, Paris. It has received performances in Denmark, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, and Holland, and is published on CD by empreintes DIGITALes. The work was nominated for the 2010 Qwartz Awards, Paris, in the Experimental Music Category. The research paper and studio residency for this project were supported by a £4,910 British Academy Travel Grant. The work celebrates the 60th anniversary of musique concrète and involves sound contributions from over 60 of the world’s leading sound artists. The project draws together noise artists, acousmatic composers and laptop improvisers, in which each was invited to contribute a sound phrase and then develop the sounds of any of the other participants. These materials were then mixed into a one-hour work at INA-GRM. The research underpinning the composition is outlined in the following article: Adkins, M., Gatt, M. (2009) ‘[60]Project: Conception, Composition and Archiving’ in Proceedings of the ICMC 2009, IMCA/Schulich Scohool of Music, McGill University, Montreal, pp.137-140. ISBN: 0-9713192-7-8. The paper has also been given at the New York City Electronic Music Festival 2009 (CUNY Graduate Centre); Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus; and The Institute of Sonology, Den Haag. The research explores notions of global virtual collaboration and authorship, as well as examining the perceived boundaries between musical genres. The [60]Project has also been used as one of three projects to illustrate techniques needed for management of digital music and its associated metadata. INA-GRM documented and archived the projects as part of a major pan-European digital archiving project (CASPAR).