The COVID-19 pandemic has made online activity more crucial than ever before by hindering numerous live events, many concerts included. Now is the right time to strengthen the online presence of contemporary music!
The goal of the project is to foster presence and coverage of contemporary music online via social media. We should not bear with just being overshadowed by popular and commercial music. Instead, let’s tease and entertain an audience looking for a new musical experience into getting acquainted with the best contemporary music available.
We hope that our social media project will, in its small way, help to motivate accessible discussions online, keeping our community more engaged. We also hope that our Facebook Showcases will build bridges between different types of contemporary music, composed and performed in various regions of the World.
We look forward to making available internet wide all this exciting music and to nurturing a new audience for it!
– Irina Hasnas
[Ed. note: All ISCM Sections and Associate Member Organizations in good standing are invited to submit up to 6 works by composers in their region to be considered for inclusion in this newly launched ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series. There will be a new work posted every day during the first week of the launch and thereafter new works will be posted on an ongoing basis. Please come back to this site often to listen in as new works are added or to listen again to works that have already been posted. – FJO]
Karel Stulens: EXPIRED
Karel Stulens (b. 1997) is a Ghent-based composer of new arts and music. His works range fromorchestral and chamber works, mainly with performative and multi-media components, tointeractive video’s. Research and questions on stereotypes, traditionalism and institutionalmechanisms are his foundations of creating new work. Stules sees the concept of composing asworking with components: his work is…
Cathy Milliken: Piece 43 For Now
Cathy Milliken (b. 1956) is a Brisbane, Australia-born and Berlin, Germany-based international award-winning performer and composer known for her evocative instrumental and vocal works. She has composed for concert, opera, radio and film. Commissioners include Ensemble Modern, Remix Ensemble, Porto, London Sinfonietta, Arte, Southbank Centre London, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Staatsoper Berlin and Musica Viva of the…
Rodrigo Herrera Muñoz: Postre Colchaguino
Rodrigo Herrera Muñoz (b. 1981) studied composition at the Catholic University of Chile, being a student of Alejandro Guarello, Pablo Aranda, and Rafael Díaz. His works have been performed by the following groups: Symphony Orchestra of the University of La Serena, PUCV Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Universidad de Los Andes, Chilean Chamber Orchestra, Chilean Symphony Orchestra,…
Yeung Sin-tung Jessie: Dasein
Yeung Sin-tung Jessie is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), majoring in Music and minoring in Government and Public Administration and Theology. She previously studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was a student in its Junior Music Programme. Upon leaving Munsang College, she studied composition with Ms….
Claudia Molitor: Auricularis Superior, or let your ear muscles roam
Claudia Molitor (b. 1974) is a composer/artist whose work draws on traditions of music and sound art but also extends to video, performance and fine art practices. Exploring the relationships between listening and seeing as well as embracing collaboration as compositional practice is central to this work. Recent work includes Sonorama with Electra Productions, Turner Contemporary…
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is one of those composers in the world whose creative output has significantly changed the way we understand the nature of music. In 1976, he created a unique musical language called tintinnabuli, that has reached a vast audience of listeners and that has defined his work right up to today. There is…
Christopher Ming-kin Hung: Visual Reverberating
Christopher Ming-kin Hung (b. 1977) is a Hong Kong-based composer of over 70 works which are inspired by a fusion of Western and Eastern philosophical concepts. His compositions have been performed in over 20 countries in various contemporary music festivals, including the 2015 ISCM World Music Days in Slovenia, the 2016 Beijing Modern Music Festival…
Peco Chui: Fragrance
Peco Chui (b. 1978 in Hong Kong) graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in piano performance. He studied piano with celebrated performer Ms. Nancy Loo. A professional singer-songwriter, he has also written songs for well-known artists, such as Eason Chan, Pak Ho Chow, Alfred Hui, Kay Tse, Bibi Zhou, Cloud Wan,…
Igal Myrtenbaum: Comping the Empty Wheel
Dr. Igal Myrtenbaum is a composer, lecturer and educator. His work and passion ranges from synchronizing sounds to studying how people synchronize, through learning communities and multi-cultural environments. Composing both electronic and music for acoustic instruments, his projects and works are performed world-wide and he is giving lectures and clinics to a variety of audiences from…
Alice Ping Yee Ho: Begin
Alice Ping Yee Ho (b. 1960) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian composer acclaimed for her “distinctly individual”style and “organic flow of imagination”. She has written in many musical genres and received numerous national and international awards, including the 2016 Louis Applebaum Composers Award, the 2014 Prince Edward Island Symphony Composers Competition, the 2014 Kitchener Waterloo…