12.01 - CD release, Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century 11.30 - Gravity, New York Electronic Art Festival 11.29 - Gravity, Visual Sounds, Cologne 11.18 - JOFM, 1st Annual GLFF, NYC 11.09 - Phonography sessions, Erongaricuaro, Mexico 11.06 - Mis_ing #22, Visiones Sonoras, Mexico 10.15 - CD release, The Language Of 10.08 - Atlantic Center Reunion, NYC 10.05 - Autumnal, South Bronx Film Fest 09.23 - Radio Ghosts (install), Digital Art Weeks08, Zurich 09.01 - Commission, New Work for Organ 08.29 - Invited Artist, Music with a View, NYC 08.22 - Radio Ghosts (development), Philadelphia 08.09 - Miss_ng #22, Brooklyn Arts Coalition 07.12 - Phonography Sessions: Mexico City, Patzcuaro 07.07 - Artist Residency at CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico 06.01 - MATA Artist Commission, NYC 05.23 - Centro Cultural La Ibérica, Merida, Yucatan 05.05 - NYU New Music Ensemble, NYC 04.16 - Hifi New Music Festival, Brooklyn 04.01 - LOGO Channel, Best in Short Film: JO FM 03.10 - Commission for Guitar and Electronics, CMMAS 02.17 - Miss_ng #22, Best Experimental Film Award 02.15 - US Super8 Film Festival, Rutgers 02.01 - Radio Ghosts, Dramatists Guild of America, NYC 01.31 - Radio Ghosts, Philadelphia, PA
Mike Vernusky is a composer, performer, and sound artist. He writes music for concertized, theatrical, and filmic environments, primarily through the use of electronic media and live performance. His works encompass a textural palate that incorporates motion, statis, color, veil, and spectral space.
Vernusky won the Grand Prize in Music for the Digital Art Awards in Tokyo, and has since been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, June in Buffalo and El Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras. He has had performances all over the world.
Mike Vernusky holds degrees from Mercyhurst College and the University of Texas at Austin. His music is published on MIT Press, Capstone, Spectrum Press, and Quiet Design. He currently lives and works in Austin.
As a film composer, Mike Vernusky’s works have screened at over fifty film festivals around the globe including Tribeca, the Los Angeles IFF, Seoul Film Festival, SXSW, UN Conference in Rome, and Rotterdam IFF. His latest collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado, Episode #22: Mis_ing recently won Best Experimental Film at the 20th Annual Super 8 Film Festival.
His electro-theatre collaboration with playwright Greg Romero premiered in New York City as part of the Dramatists Guild of America. Their collaborative work RADIO GHOSTS is a multi-layered piece that combines live performance and sound, creating a real-time bending, performative conversation between what is live, composed, and what is beyond the imagination.
As a classical guitarist, Vernusky has collaborated with sound artists Cory Allen in Gentlemen of the Evening Sounds, and Sam Pluta in the duo Ready for Japan.
As a constant advocate of new music, Vernusky serves as founder of the record label Quiet Design. Currently celebrating their seventh release, the roster of composers consists of 21 artists from around the world.
