VOLKER GOETZE is an international touring performer, composer and media artist. He has performed and presented his work at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Paris Jazz Festival, World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), Caixa Forum Madrid and the Opera Festival in Munich. His work fuels cross-cultural dialogue incorporates multiple disciplines and utilizes cutting edge technology. Goetze has explored the oral culture of West Africa and its influences on black culture in America. His first film GRIOT, on the oral music tradition in West Africa, has developed into a multimedia performance documentary. Goetze was invited to be a panelist by the Apollo Theater and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is currently preparing a 3D sound and 360 video composition and performance about Hart Island for the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club as well as directing a virtual reality documentary about the homeless of Staten Island. In 2017, Volker’s “Sonic Gates” proposal—a vision for a sound sculpture walk on Staten Island’s North Shore — was selected by a jury to become a pilot project of the Future Culture initiative, launched by Staten Island Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space. This year, the American Composer Forum awarded Volker the 2018 McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship.
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