Composer Robert Voisey uses crowdsourcing to create innovative new works with the Vox Novus 60x60 Project. Vox Novus: http://www.60x60.com/ Sabrina Pena Young sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com WATCH THE FULL VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJ9b3CYsqs Crowdsourced Opera? Machinima Musicals? Telematic Performances? The 21st Century composer explores new technology to create innovative works in this EXCITING short documentary by futurist filmmaker and award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young. Works of Pauline Oliveros, Alex Shapiro , Robert Voisey and 60x60, Lee Scott's The Village Opera, Opera by You, Eric Whitacre, and More. OFFICIAL COMPOSER WEBSITE: http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/ ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: https://www.scribd.com/doc/262447249/Music-Documentary-The-Opera-Heard-Round-the-World-Internet-Collaboration-and-the-21st-Century-Composer-Documentary-TRANSCRIPT WATCH LIBERTARIA: The Virtual Opera https://www.youtube....

What is Atonal Music? Music Theory in a Nutshell The atonal system was a large break from the traditions of before. Western music first began with simple intervals in the time of Pythagorus . This system marked intervals like a unison and an octave as the most tonal and pleasing to the ear. In the middle ages, musicians used church modes . Monks even attributed certain religious qualities to specific music intervals like the fourth. In the Baroque Era , composers began to use what is now considered major and minor scales which escalated into the mathematical perfection or Mozart . True Western harmony was born. The 20th century saw a break from traditional Western harmony. When Arnold Schoenberg experimented with atonality, he developed a complex musical and mathematical system. Essentially, a composer would arrange the twelve notes of a scale in a specific row, and then compose using those rows (in that order alone) to eliminate any sense of tonality. Eventually compos...